08 Days in the Northern Vietnam

Welcome to Hanoi, Vietnam. BB Travel’s tour guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Hanoi.

8.00- 8.30: Get picked up by our friendly guide and start to explore Hanoi City
08.45: Arrive at Tran Quoc Pagoda located on Golden Fish IsLand in West Lake. It is the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.
09.30: Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969.
Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Godess of Mercy – It is the most unique padoga in the world
➢ Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…
➢ Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
➢ Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed at least 2 months (15thJune -15thAugust) for the annual maintaining but still can take picture Mausoleum and visit around that area
11.15: Visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam
Special Note : we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays
12.45: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine with 8 delicious dishes.
14.00-14.15 : Continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century
15.15: Leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the “Hanoi Hilton
16.15 -16.30: Tour finishes. Back to hotel

07:30 – 08:00 – Our guide will meet you at your hotel/stay and start 110km modern Busjourney through verdant landscape of country side. Short-brake en route.
10:30 – Visit Hoa Lu Ancient Citadel with Dinh King Temple and Le King Temple dating back to the 17th Century.
12:00 – Enjoy the lunch at our restaurant with the great local cuisines.
13:30 – Leave for the Trang An Grottoes, an out-standing natural beauty of
majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometer rise dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountain are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous fresh water ponds, and jungle.
Embark on a traditional sampan gently roweddown the exquisite river through
numerous caves: Lam Cave, Vang Cave, Dai Cave, Thanh Truot Cave,…and Cao Sơn Temple, Suoi Tien Temple, Vu Lam Temple…
15:30 – Arrive Mua Cave and start an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa Long mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with specious view of the nature.
17:15 – Return to our bus and then come back to Ha Noi
19:30 – Drop you off at your hotel/stay. Trip ends.

Breakfast at the hotel & check out hotel.
08h00, we depart for Halong Bay. The 3.5 hours journey takes us through the rich farmlands of the Red River Delta. Upon arrival at Tuan Chau Wharf, transfer by tender to our overnight cruise.
12h00 – 12h15: Embark at Hon Gai International harbor.
12h30 – 13h00: Embark on the boat. Enjoy welcome drink as Cruise Manager gives you a brief overview of the itinerary and important safety guideline. Check in your cabin.
13h30 – 14h30: Have lunch while cruising to magnificent Bai Tu Long Bay; Start sailing among famous Islets of Bai Tu Long Bay, the wildest beauty with the panoramic natural views.
15h00 – 16h30: Visit and explore the well-hidden Co Cave (known as Thien Canh Son Cave) where you can hiking to the middle of the mountain to see the wild and mysterious beautiful cave, contemplate numerous sparkling stalactites appear like ‘hanging lamps’ inside the Cave. (No swimming).
Return to the boat for relaxing.
17h45 – 19h00: Attend our chef’s cooking demonstration and try your skills in the art of traditional Vietnamese cooking (spring roll).
19h00 – 21h00: Dinner is served in the restaurant. You can enjoy the charm of Bai Tu Long Bay at night.
21h00 – 22h00: Enjoy evening activities (Squid Fishing, Movie Night, Board Games, Massage & Spa services) or relax at the leisure. Overnight on board.

06h30 – 07h00: Welcome a new day with an amazing dawn on Bai Tu Long Bay. Refresh your body and soul with a Tai-chi session on the sundeck.
07h00 – 07h30: Catch the morning view of seascape while enjoying the breakfast with cookies and tea, café in the restaurant.
07h30 – 08h30: Visit Vung Vieng fishing village – the famous fishing farm by bamboo boat and discover life of local people living on the surface of Halong Bay. (No swimming).
08h30 – 9h30: Pack up the luggage and check out of the cabin.
09h30 – 10h40: Enjoy the brunch in the restaurant while cruising back to harbor.
11h00: Disembark from the cruise, transfer to Hanoi.

6.00– 6H30: Pick up from your hotel/stay, get on a big bus and depart for Sapa Town.
9.30: Follow the highway to Lao Cai city with the first comfort break
11.00: Second comfort break at Lao Cai city before approaching Sapa
13.00 APM: We will pick you up from the bus office in Sapa and transfer by car to the hotel for having lunch, checking in.
14h30PM: Our tour guide takes you for a trek to Cát Cát village. We gonna go for 3km down hill to see stunning and beautiful moutains, local family with fabrics and wearing. Then we keep trekking down hill that can see an amazing warterfall ranked on a stream. We will also have chance to see building-hysdro power plant was built by the French befor. And nowadays, people hold on
some performances of local dance and sing.
17PM: We trek in 1 hour up hill to Sapa and enjoy the views along the way back
19PM: Have dinner at the hotel and go for a walk at night in Sapa town.

7:00 AM : Have breakfast
8 AM: We pick you up by a Van /car to Sunworld Fansipan Legend relic. We walk in 5 minutes to the station and check in on the cabin of cable car. It takes us 20 minutes to go along up hill to the second station. You would have 2 options to go up to the peak of Fansipan wich is walking in over 600 steps or mountain train. The best views of mountains in Vietnam is appeared affer you
are on the roof of Indochina.
11.30 AM: We gonna pick you up from the car parking and come back the hotel for lunch, checking out. We arrange to take you by car to the bus for the way back to Ha Noi by bus in the afternoon.
Arrive in Ha Noi about 8pm.

You are free until transfer to the airport for departure flight. End of service!