Hanoi - Halong Bay - Hoa Lu - Tam Coc (SIC 05)

HANOI-HALONG BAY - OVERNIGHT ON CRUISE - HOA LU & TAM COC

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ITINERARY BRIEF

* Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

* Day 2: Hanoi - Halong Bay - Overnight on Cruise (B, L, D)

* Day 3: Halong Bay - Hanoi (B, L)
* Day 4: Hanoi - Hoa Lu & Tam Coc (B, L)
* Day 5: Hanoi - Departure (B)

ITINERARY IN DETAIL

DAY 1: ARRIVE HANOI

Arrival at Noi Bai Airport, you will be warmly welcomed and transferred to hotel by driver (No Guide) with signboard, check in, relax (the room may not be available until 14:00 PM).

Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: None

Included: No tour guide, private transfer

DAY 2: HANOI - HALONG BAY - ON BOARD (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel, 08:00AM, cruise’s staff (no private guide) will pick up and transfer by shuttle bus of cruise to Halong Bay. From Hanoi, head east for more than 3 hours to Halong Bay, the pride of the Gulf of Tonkin, a Natural World Heritage as designated by UNESCO in 1994. The road will pass by the Red River delta with green paddy fields and rural villages, where hard-work farmers are busy with their farming jobs, plough buffaloes or planting seedling. Upon arrival in Halong, we’ll take a big boat to cruise the Bay to discover the magnificent beauty of this “Descending-dragon” bay, created by thousands odd-shaped limestone rocks and karst grottoes. After a lunch of fresh seafood on board, we can visit the Surprising Grotto, stop for swimming or kayaking, passing floating villages and approach islets to enjoy their beauty in close distance. Back to the boat for dinner late afternoon. Evening attend activities on the boat or relax at your own leisure.

Overnight on Halong Bay

Note: Program may differ slightly base on cruise ships. I will update exactly itinerary of cruise when tour is confirmed, and cruise is selected.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Shared tour guide, shared transfer

DAY 3: HALONG BAY – HANOI (B, L)

Breakfast on boat, The Vietnamese call the “East Sea” by a point-oriented name “Eastern Sea”, so you may guess how miraculous it is seeing the sunrise over the islets of the Bay. The boat will take us to go about marvelous areas, where almost each islet has its own name, adopting its shape or reminiscent, including the Fisherman’s Head, Turtle, the Sail, the Incense Burner Rock, the cute Sea Dog Rock or Cock Fighting Rocks and so on. Lunch on boat.

Check out and get back to the shore and transfer to Hanoi.

Upon arrival Hanoi at 16:00pm – 17:00pm, you will check in hotel & free leisure.

Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, lunch

Included: Shared tour guide, shared transfer

DAY 4: HANOI - HOA LU & TAM COC - HANOI (B, L)

Have breakfast at the hotel.

This morning, we pick you up at your hotel, departure for Hoa Lu & Tam Coc, enjoying the beautiful sceneries of the rural areas on the way

Once arriving in Ninh Binh province, the guide takes you to visit Hoa Lu - the Ancient Royal capital of Viet Nam. We will visit Dinh king temple and Le king temple.

In the 10th century, finding out the heroic histories of this two Kings in Chinese Wars. After that, we go to Tam Coc (10 km far from Hoa Lu).

Have lunch at local restaurant.

After lunch you will get on bamboo boat - rowed by the local people - in Small River to visit Tam Coc (three caves) on the way. You pass through three enormous caves that provide a brief respite from the intense summer sun. It takes approximately two hours to go up and down the river and along the way, you witness local fisher folk, village life along the river and, of course, the striking limestone karst formations that Tam Coc is famous for.

At about 16.00: We take the car back Hanoi.

Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, lunch

Included: Shared tour guide, shared transfer

DAY 5: HANOI - DEPARTURE (B)

After breakfast, free leisure until driver (No Guide) pick up you and transfer to the airport for your departure flight.

Say goodbye Vietnam.
Thank you for traveling with us.   

Meals: Breakfast

Included: No tour guide, private transfer