Day 1: Hanoi city tour (L,D)
Getting started from your hotel at 8.30 AM, driving to visit Ho Chi Minh complex, including Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – the final resting place of the Vietnamese great father or uncle Ho, President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt House – where he lived on and off from 1958 to 1969, the next place to move to is One Pillar Pagoda – a group of structures consisting of a pagoda and a tower built in the middle of a square lake.
Leave One Pillar Pagoda and transfer to West Lake, visit Tran Quoc pagoda. Having lunch.
PM: After lunch, you will be transferred to visit the Temple of literature. Continue to visit Museum of Ethnology – the most interesting museum in Hanoi with many different things relating the 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups. After that, you will visit Hoan Kiem lake (Restore Sword Lake). The last place of the tour is taking a walk for few minutes to visit The old quarter of Hanoi, and coming back hotel at 5.30 PM
Day 2: Hanoi - Hoa Lu - Phat Diem - Tam Coc (B,LD)
Depart for HoaLu (Ninh Binh), enjoying the rural scenery along the road. Visit HoaLu old citadel and Phat Diem stone church.
In the afternoon, take a rowing boat along the tiny canal among the rice fields to visit Tam Coc (Three Grottoes). 16h00. Tour ends. Overnight at Thuy Anh hotel.
Day 3: Ninh Binh - Halong bay (B,L,D)
After breakfast at hotel, we start our 4-hours drive to Halong City stopping on the way for some refreshments and local hospitality. Upon arrival at Halong City, we transfer to our boat for a cruise in the stunning Halong Bay. Sea food lunch will be served on board.
After lunch we will have opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful caves of Halong, Surprise Cave. From here we take our boats to the Ti Top Beach, where we can have a swim or climb up to the top of the island for outstanding panoramic view of the Bay. Stay overnight on board.
Day 4: Ha Long Bay – Hanoi (B,L)
Following breakfast this morning, we kayak around Luon Cave before returning to Halong Bay harbor for luch, and then we meet with our vehicle for the 3hour drive back to Hanoi.
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