DETAIL ITINERARY

Day 01: Welcome to Hanoi (X/X/X)

Our driver will pick up you at Noi Bai Airport and transfer you to the hotel.

Check in at 2:00PM

Free time

Overnight in Hanoi

Day 02: Hanoi City Tour (B/L)

Have breakfast at the hotel

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 6^th 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 (15^thJune -15^thAugust) 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

Overnight in Hanoi

Day 03: Pick up at bus station – Sapa – Cat Cat Village (B/L/D)

Have breakfast at the hotel

6:00: Take a taxi or grab from your hotel to the bus station at 160 Tran Quang Khai street (on your own expenses)

6:30: Get on sleeping bus and depart to Sapa.

7:30 – 11:45: Following the Highway to Lao Cai city with the comfort break

11:45 – 13.15: Bus on the mountain road approaching to Sapa Town. On the way you can see beautiful view, the valley with terraces field.

13:15 – 13:30: Arrive Sapa Town with colorful traditional costumes of H’mong, Dzao, Tay ethnic People.

– Welcome drink and itinerary briefing

– Enjoy the lunch with local Vietnamese dishes, check-in procedures

14:30: A short walking to Cat Cat village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and is located near the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of Fansipan Peak. Our local guide will show you the daily life activities of the locals, trekking down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built a Hydraulic Power Station, short time for photo with bridge and the waterfall then you will trekking up hill to get back to Sapa with very beautiful scenery in the late afternoon. Driver picks up back to Sapa

Trekking distance is about 2.5 kms and it lasts for 2 hours

16.30: Come back to Sapa Town. Have dinner and overnight in hotel with night activities.

Overnight in Sapa

Day 04: Sapa – Fansipan Mountain – Back to Hanoi (B/L)

Have breackfast at hotel

8:00: After breakfast in hotel, driver & tour guide take you to Cable Car Station and spend 20 minutes with cable car to enjoy the spectacular scenery.

9:00: Reach the altitute of 2800 meters, you have a good time to see the view and take photos, visit pagoda the spiritual destinations and  trek up to 600 steps you will reach the peak of Fansipan – the Roof of Indochina. (Spend about 1,5 hours for hiking and taking photos)

11:30: Coming back to Cable Car Station and return to Sapa town.

12:00 – 13:00: Back to hotel, check out and have lunch, time at leisure on your own.

13:30: Meet all group members and get ready bus station for back Hanoi.

14:00: Get on bus to go back to Hanoi with two comfort breaks.

20:30 – 21:00: Drop off at the bus station. Take a grab or taxi back to the hotel (on your own)

Free time to explore the city

Overnight in Hanoi

Day 05: Departure (B)

Breakfast at the hotel

Check out at the hotel

Then driver will pick you up at the hotel and transfer to the Noi Bai International Airport.

Services end!