Day 1: Noi Bai Airport – Hanoi City – Quang Phu Cau Insence Stick Village (B, L)

00h45: Our private car pick you up from Noi Bai airport according your flight time table, then transferring you go to your hotel in Hanoi. Early-check in your hotel in Hanoi. Free time to relax.

7h10 Breakfast is service at your hotel.

10h30: Our tour guide and car/ minivan will pick you up from your hotel, transfer you go to visit Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son temple, Joseph Church and Dong Xuan market.

12h30: Get on your car/ minivan go to the restaurant for having lunch.

After having lunch, you will leave Hanoi to visit You’ll Quang Phu Cau Insence Making village. Upon Quang Phu Cau village, we will start the walking tour around the village, see how the local people making the incense including bamboo chopping, dipping the sticks in dye, creation of incense paste and dry the incense in the sun... talk to the locals to know about the history of making incense of the village. You are free to walk around the village to take photos of incense bundles, incense making process...

17h00: Keep going to visit and shopping at royal park mall.

19h30 - 18h40: Drop you off your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter. You will have free time to relax and visit Hanoi city. Sleep at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 2: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu – Tam Coc/ Trang An – Mua Cave (B, L)

7h00: Breakfast is service at your hotel

7h50 - 8h00: The luxury van/ limousine bus will pick you up at your hotel in Ha Noi Old Quarter to departure for Hoa Lu. It’s take more or less 2,0 hours to go Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh with a short break about 20 minutes on the half way.

10h30 - 10h40: You will reach to Hoa Lu ancient capital of Vietnam. You will visit Dinh King temple and Le King temple in the 10th centery, finding out the heroic histories of this two kings in Chinese Wars.                                                       

11h50 - 12h00: Get on the luxury van/ limousine bus go to the local restaurant for having a lunch with Vietnamese cuisine.

13h00 - 13h05: Get on the luxury van/ limousine bus continue going to Tam Coc wharf, take the sampan go along the Ngo Dong river to visit Tam Coc (three different caves) Or Get on the luxury van/ limousine bus continue going to Trang An wharf, take the sampan go along the Trang An stream to visit Trang An cave complex.

15h00 - 15h05: Biking tour around Tam Coc Area (Optional)

15h30 - 15h35: Keep going to visit Mua cave. The place attracts visitors with it’s many interesting stories. In here you can see all the way to Tam Coc, enjoy a stunning panoramic view of the countryside and Ngo Dong river.

16h45 - 17h00: Get on the luxury van/ limousine bus go back to your hotel in Hanoi.

19h00 – 19h30: Drop you off your hotel in Hanoi. Free time to relax and visit Hanoi. Sleep at your hotel in Hanoi.

Day 3: Hanoi City (B, L)

7h10 Breakfast is service at your hotel.

8h00 – 8h30: The bus will pick you up from your hotel, start the tour by visiting the Ho Chi Minh Complex, which includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum - the final resting place of the beloved national hero, Uncle Ho - and President Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt house where he lived off and on from 1958 to 1969. Enjoy the architectural and historical aspects of Uncle Ho's final resting-palace lying to one side of the Mausoleum is the One Pillar Pagoda, built by King Ly Thai To in 1049 the structure has become an important symbol for the people of Hanoi. After that, you’ll have a chance to explore the Tran Quoc Pagoda on the shore of west lake. From there, it’s onto the Temple of Literature, which was Viet Nam’s first university and is dedicated to Confucius.

12h30: You have lunch at a restaurant with local Vietnamese traditional Cuisines.

13h30: You’ll visit Hoan Kiem Lake, the heart and soul of Hanoi. Finally, You’ll stop in at Museum of Ethnology. Located west of the city centre, this museum offers informative and well-documented display on the country’s 54 ethnic groups, include elaborate and colorful hill-tribe costumes, weaving designs, musical instruments, fishing implements, work tools and other functional objects. The display continues on to the garden outside with fascinating examples of minority housing from the King’s to the ones of the ethnic groups in Central Highlands.

15h00: Keep going to visit Hoa Lo prision, the prison was built by French, from 1886 to 1901, when Vietnam was still a part of French Indochina. The French called the prison Mai Son Centrale. The prison was called " A Hell on Earth" and now the prison is like a war museum for those who want to understand more about the war against France of Vietnamese people.

16h30 - 17h00: Drop you off your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter. You will have free time to relax and visit Hanoi city. Sleep at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 4: Hanoi City – Halong Bay (B,L,D)

7h30: Breakfast is service at your hotel, then checking out your your hotel.

8h00 – 8h30: Our tourist bus/ limousine bus will pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter to departure for Halong Bay. Enjoy the peaceful scenery as we travel through the countryside, farmlands and Red River delta. You will have a short break on the half way.

11h45 – 12h00: Arriving Tuan Chau marina, transferred to our luxury cruise.

12h45 – 13h00: Welcome aboard the cruise. Refresh with our welcome drink. Meet the captain, crew in the cruise briefing, safety instruction.

13h00 – 13h15: A special lunch in Vietnamese cuisine of fresh seafood and an assortment of appetizing favorites are served while sailing through Islets of Con Vit.

16h00: The Cruise sails through Lan Ha Bay. The area is surrounding of extraordinary limestone karsts landscapes. We progress to Ong Cam Area/ Tra Bau Area of Lan Ha Bay- a separate part of Ha Long Bay. This is a quiet tourist paradise in Vietnam, enjoy kayaking and/or enjoy swimming in the crystal-clear waters of the Bay.

17h30: Back to our luxury Cruise, drop anchor for staying overnight. Enjoy cooking demonstration (teaching you how to make our speciality, Spring rolls) and the complimentary Sunset Party on the sundeck with local wine and fresh fruit.

19h00: Dinner is served in the restaurant. Enjoy delicious local food prepared and served for you by our wonderful onboard catering staff. After dinner, retiring to your cabin or join the fishing excursion, watch a movie, have a drink at the bar, wifi access or play exciting games. Overnight on board.

Day 5: Halong Bay – Hanoi (B,L)

06h00: Enjoy sunrise and admire the never-ending miraculous scenery of the Bay.

06h30: Light breakfast, coffee and tea served.

07h15: Visit Dark & Bright Cave and islets by local rowing boats which is a wild and mysterious beauty in the middle of the World Heritage.

09h15: Back to our luxury Cruise, relax before checking out.

10h00: Lunch is served on board.

11h00 – 11h10: Cruise are landing Halong Bay harbor, tourist say goodbye to our tour guide -  sailors and finish the cruise.

11h00 – 11h30: Get on your tourist bus/ limousine bus leave Ha long back to Hanoi.

15h00 – 15h30: Drop you off at your hotel in Hanoi. Check in your hotel. Free time to relax and visit Hanoi. Sleep at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 6: Hanoi Free Time – Noi Bai airport (B)

On this day, after having breakfast, you will have free time to visit Hanoi city, shopping at the local market to buy the gifts for your family and your friend. Come back your hotel, get back your luggage, get on your private car go to the airport to catch your flight back home.

End the tour!

Have a great trip with Asian Discovery Travel!