Day 1: Pickup from the airport to Tirant hotel. Check in at Tirant hotel.
Day 2: Ninh Binh one day trip.
08.00 - Our guide will meet you at Tirant hotel and start 110km modern bus-journey through verdant landscape of country side. 10:00 – Arrive Glimmering Bai Dinh.
12:00 – Enjoy the lunch at our restaurant with the great local cuisines.
13:30 – Leave for the Trang An Grottoes, an out-standing natural beauty of majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometer rise dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountain are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous fresh water ponds, and jungle.
Embark on a traditional sampan gently roweddown the exquisite river through numerous caves: Lam Cave, Vạng Cave, Đại Cave, Thánh Trượt Cave,…and Cao Sơn Temple, Suối Tiên Temple, Vũ Lâm Temple…
15:30 – Arrive Mua Cave and start an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa Long mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with specious view of the nature.
17:30 – Come back to Ha Noi.
19:00 – Drop you off at Tirant hotel. Trip ends.
Stay at Tirant hotel.
Day 3: Hanoi - Halong bay, Stay over night on the boat.
10:00 – 12:00: Check in at the cruiseLounge
12:00 – 12:30: Passengers are transferred to the Cruise and a short welcoming briefing will be held at the Piano Lounge or at the restaurant, whilst you are sipping our special welcome drink.
12:45 – 14:00: Savor a buffet lunch whilst enjoying the majestic views of the World Natural Wonder, Halong Bay limestone islets.
14:30 – 15:30: Your first excursion is a visit to Luon Cave – one of the most unique caves in Halong Bay featuring the self-contained lake inside a closed arch-shaped mountain, where you can experience sitting on a bamboo boat rowed by a local or Kayaking*.
16:00 – 17:00: Visit Titov Island – a splendid destination encompassing a crescent moon-shaped beach, where you can immerse yourself in the turquoise water and climb to the top of the Island beholding the breathtaking 360o view of the bay.
17:30 – 18:30: At sundown the cruise will anchor overnight.
This is the perfect time for you to enjoy cooking class or Happy Hour* and Canapes at the Piano Lounge or on the Sundeck (depends on weather conditions) and live music at the Piano Lounge before dinner and guaranteed to whet the appetite.
19:00: Savor a delicious dinner with Chef’s special menu at the restaurant.
(Dress code: formal/semi formal/smart casual)
After dinner, indulge in drinks* and enjoy live music from Midnight Buzz Band at the Piano Lounge from 20:30 – 22:30 (except Tuesday), squid fishing, a spa treatment at Atelier de Beauté Spa*, or movies at your cabin.
Day 04:
6:30 – 7:00: Start your day with a Taichi session on the sundeck or at the Piano Lounge (depends on weather conditions).
7:00 – 7:30: Enjoy light breakfast with coffee, tea, and freshly baked pastries at the Piano Lounge.
7:30 – 8:20: Explore Sung Sot Cave – the largest and most magnificent cave in the bay featuring marvelous and mysterious thousand-year-old stalactites in a variety of unique forms.
8:30 – 9:30: Full breakfast is served at the restaurant.
9:30 – 9:45: Bill settlement and check-out at the reception at the first deck.
10:15 – 10:30: Disembark at the Halong International Cruise Port.
Arrive Tirant hotel at 3:00 Pm.
Tãi will pickup to go to train station at 7:30 pm.
Arrive Lao cai train station at 6:00 next day.
Day 5: 6.00 : Pick up at Lao Cai Station to Sapa by local bus. Have breakfast at hotel and prepare light pack for the long trek of 9 kms.
9.00: A short drive to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain then trek to Ta Van village – home of Dzay ethnic people.
Trekking distance is about 9 kms and it lasts for 4 hours.
12.30: Enjoy lunch at the vigglage with local people.
14.00 – 15.00: Car pick up from Ta Van village to the hotel and check in hotel.
Evening Have dinner at the restaurant and overnight in Vista Sapa hotel with 1 single room.
Day 6: Y Linh Ho- Lao Chai- Ta Van village.
After breakfast at the hotel,check out hotel.
9.00AM Meet up your local guide at the hotel and start trekking. The first part is on the road but we soon turn to the right and walk on a small path down the valley to Y Linh Ho village settled down by the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H’mong village of Lao Chai. Black H’mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. They are proud of their culture and keep their traditions and way of living. They have their own language and wear traditional indigo blue clothing. The H’mong peoples have just recently changed their living way from sifting style into the sedentary one. So there are still a lot traces of the past time can be seen: rudimentary houses, stone wall around homes…
After that you continue to Ta Van village (1.200m) to visit Zay people. Zay is a fairly small minority group of about 38.000 people who live mainly in the mountains in Northwest Vietnam. The development has meant that some of their old customs have been lost but many women still wear traditional shirts with a purple, blue or green color. The Zay houses are build of wood and bamboo with a clay floor.
After trip, you come back at the hotel for pickup by limousine to HaNoi.
Arrivel HaNoi at 20:00.
Stay at Tirant hotel.
Day 7: Private car from the hotel to the aiport. Finish trip.
