Tour Ho Chi Minh City | Hanoi | Lao Cai | Sapa | Trang An | Bai Dinh | Ha Long

05:00: Výlet A Travel tour guide picks up the group at Tan Son Nhat airport to check in for the flight to Hanoi. Arrive at Noi Bai airport, the tour guide picks up the car and takes the group to Sapa.

11:30: The grouphas lunch in Lao Cai.

Afternoon:

• You are free to visit and take pictures at the Vietnam - China friendship milestone, a milestone with extremely special historical significance, which was started in 2001 and inaugurated in 2002. The milestone weighs 1 ton, marking a historical location where our ancestors sacrificed their blood and bones from the 19th century to the present to preserve for future generations.
• Shop for souvenirs and electronics at Coc Leu Market Lao Cai (if the group still has time). This is the largest market in Lao Cai province as well as the Northwestern provinces in general, because Coc Leu Market imports goods directly at the border gate, so the goods here are extremely diverse and rich...

15:00: Then depart to Sapa check in and rest.

Evening: You will have dinner at the restaurant. After dinner, visitors can stroll along the small streets of Sapa to feel like they are lost in a European city, with rows of ancient pine trees, houses roofed with Pơ mu wood...  

The group stays overnight in Sapa.

Morning: The group has breakfast, then sets off to conquer Fansipan peak - The roof of Indochina at an altitude of 3,143m above sea level. Passing the central flower garden, you will stop to take photos.

• You will continue to take the cable car to the top of Fansipan with the following records: The longest 3-wire cable car in the world 6292.5m, the cable car with the largest difference between the arrival and departure stations 1,410m and the safest 3-wire cable car in the world. You will take the cable car up to an altitude of about 2,900m. The group walked to Thanh Van Dac Lo and Bich Van Thien Tu to offer incense at an altitude of 3037m.  (Self-funded)

Alternative option to Fansipan (from January 8 to February 8, 2024 - Cable car stops operating for maintenance):

• Conquer O Quy Ho Pass - 1 of the four great mountain passes in the northern region.
• Visit Dragon Cloud Glass Bridge tourist area to experience the unique glass bridge in Sapa. Enjoy admiring the beauty and majesty of Hoang Lien Son range. (Not including Dragon Cloud Glass Bridge ticket). 

Noon: The group moves down to the cable car station, the car and tour guide take the group to the restaurant for lunch.

Afternoon: The car and tour guide take you to Cat Cat village, start the journey to explore the village

• Visit Cat Cat - Sin Chai village of the H'mong people. You will visit and learn about the unique, simple and rustic customs and practices of the ethnic minorities. Cat Cat Village not only attracts tourists by its wild and lyrical natural scenery but also by the unique and diverse traditional cultural features of the Mong ethnic group.
• Visit Cat Cat Waterfall and the hydroelectric plant built by the French in the early 20th century, have fun and take souvenir photos.
• Stone Church - the most intact architectural mark of the French remaining in Sa Pa. This church is located right in the center of Sapa tourist town. In front is a large stadium. Every day, ethnic people gather here to buy, sell and exchange goods. This is also the place where every Saturday, the sound of the flute calls for friends of young couples in the love market full of ethnic culture and the breath of the Northwest mountains and forests. 

Evening: The group has dinner on their own enjoying highland cuisine: bamboo rice, grilled chicken, thang co, corn wine... at Sapa night market. 

The group stays overnight in Sapa.

Morning: You will have breakfast and check out of the hotel, then the car will take you back to Hanoi.

The group will have lunch in Phu Tho.

Afternoon: The car will take you back to Hanoi, you will visit:

• Tran Quoc Pagoda - The oldest Tran Bac Pagoda in Vietnam, 1,500 years old, located on the sacred Quy island peninsula with legends and myths about West Lake and Truc Bach Lake.
• Hoan Kiem Lake - Known as the heart of the capital Hanoi, is a favorite destination for tourists from all over the world bearing precious historical and cultural values.

Next, the delegation visited the Presidential Palace historical relic complex. With the architectural complexes:

• Ba Dinh Square - is a special relic, this place also records many important marks in Vietnamese history. Any child of Vietnam must surely know Ba Dinh Square. The place has recorded the heroic traces of the Vietnamese people after many years of colonial rule. It was also here that our great leader Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, giving birth to Vietnam.
• Ho Chi Minh Museum - Located in an area with many relics such as: President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, Presidential Palace Relic Site, One Pillar Pagoda... forming a complex of special relics.
• The simple stilt house in the middle of Hanoi is where Uncle Ho lived and worked the longest during his revolutionary career.
• One Pillar Pagoda (Mat Pagoda) - a pagoda with unique architecture, with only 1 room built on a stone pillar in the middle of Linh Chieu Lake...

Evening: You will have dinner enjoying Hanoi cuisine Interior: West Lake shrimp cake, fish cake... check in hotel to rest.

The group stays overnight in Hanoi.

Morning: You will have breakfast and check out of the hotel. The car and tour guide will take you to visit Uncle Ho's Mausoleum. Continuing the journey, the group departs for Ninh Binh. Arriving in Ninh Binh, you will pray to Buddha at:  

• Bai Dinh Pagoda (including shuttle bus to the pagoda), the largest pagoda in Vietnam with 500 La Han statues, the largest bronze Buddha statue in Vietnam, 10m high and weighing 100 tons.
• Have lunch with specialties of Com Chay and mountain goat from Ninh Binh.

Afternoon: You will visit Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex – A heritage recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage, helping Vietnam enter the list of 30 mixed World Heritages for the first time. Take a boat down the winding Sao Khe River between the rice fields, where limestone ranges, valleys and rivers intertwine to create a magical, mysterious space. You will take a boat to visit Shine Cave, Dark Cave, Wine Making Cave...

16:00: You will leave Ninh Binh and follow National Highway 10 to Ha Long. On the way, you will feel and explore the typical life and landscape of the Northern Delta with peaceful countryside scenes through the provinces of Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, and Hai Phong.

19:00: Arrive in Ha Long, check in, rest, and have dinner at the restaurant.

Evening: You are free to stroll around Royal Park along Bai Chay beach, go shopping at the bustling Ha Long Night Market with typical Ha Long products, go up Bai Chay bridge - the longest cable-stayed bridge in Vietnam to see Ha Long at night.

The group stays overnight in Ha Long. 

Morning: You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.

The group arrives at Tuan Chau wharf to start the journey to visit the World Natural Heritage in Vietnam, with famous attractions:

• Visit Thien Cung Cave located on Dau Go Island (southwest of Ha Long Bay) at an altitude of about 25m above sea level, about 4km from the tourist port. The cave is nearly 10,000m2 wide with a complex structure, surrounded on all sides by very high walls and stalactites and stalagmites with many strange shapes.
• Admiring the Fishing Village tourists are easily attracted by the beauty of boats, bamboo boats moored in front of the house, houses tied together to protect against storms.

Noon: The group has lunch on the cruise, then continues to visit:

• Admiring Dinh Huong Islet, the giant Dinh Huong Islet in the middle of the ocean is a very sacred image of Ha Long, the towering incense burner placed between the vast sky and the immense river is for worshiping the land and sky, expressing the spirit of drinking water and remembering its source of all the people of Vietnam to the sages who have contributed to protecting the country and thank the legendary dragon mother - the mascot who has contributed greatly to helping our people fight against foreign invaders.
• See Turtle Island, Stone Dog Island, Fighting Cock Island...

Afternoon: The ship arrives at the dock, the car takes the group back to Hanoi, on the way the group stops to visit and shop for green bean cakes in Hai Duong.

The group arrives at Noi Bai. The tour guide completes the procedures for the group to board the flight back to Ho Chi Minh City. Says goodbye to the group and ends the 5N4D tour of the North.