You will be welcomed by a warm driver at Noi Bai International Airport and transferred to hotel in Old Quarter. The rest of the day is free on your own and relax at the hotel.
Please note:
– Check in time is 14.00
– Can be arranged early check in with additional cost.

Meals: No
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

07.45 – 08.30: You will be picked up from your hotel in Ha Noi Old Quarter. Then we will head to Ha Long Bay. You may enjoy the landscape of the Red River Delta along the way

11.30: Upon arriving in our lobby in Tuan Chau Marina, you may take a short stretch while our staff arranges all registration with the local government.

12.00 – 12.30: The cruise captain and staff will welcome you onboard after a short tender transfer. While enjoying a refreshing welcome drink, a short cruise briefing and safety instructions will be given.

12.30 – 13.00: The voyages to Ha Long Bay – one of the New Seven Nature Wonders of the World. Lunch is served on board while the cruise passes via amazing limestone karst formations that rise up out of the sea in an impressive manner.

14.00 – 14.30: You will leave the cruise to explore Sung Sot Cave (also known as Surprise/ Amazing Cave), one of the biggest and most beautiful caves in Ha Long Bay.

15.00: Returning to cruise, the trip will continue to Ti Top Island. Here, you can watch the magnificent view over either the Gulf of Tonkin or swim in the emerald green and cool water.

17.00: After a long day, this is the ideal time to enjoy energizing drinks and snacks by joining ‘Happy Hour’ or Cooking Class on the sundeck

19.30: Sumptuous Dinner is served. Enjoy delicious local food prepared and served for you by our wonderful onboard catering staff.

20.30: After dinner, various activities including karaoke, and squid fishing are organized. Or you can just laze around with exhilarating drinks from our bar. The rest of the day is spent at your leisure.

Distance Hanoi – Ha Long: 180 kilometers (~3 hours)

Note: Itinerary/ activities may be changed due to the weather or other reasons.

Please note: It is an overnight cruise, please check out of your hotel room, you can leave your big luggage at the hotel lobby or bring all with you. Please also prepare some Vietnam Dong cash in case you need to use at the stop over.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight on board

06.15 – 07.00: Breakfast is served. It can be a great idea to enjoy the meal with the magnificent view of the sunrise in Ha Long Bay.

8.00 -9.30: The cruise gets closer to the center of the Natural Preservation Area. Join our guide on a short trip to Luon Cave. This magic work of nature shows you the formation of karst mountains. You can discover this time masterpiece by kayaking on your own. If you are lucky, you can catch great photos with mischievous monkeys jigging up and down around the cliffs.

9.30: Crew welcomes you back on board and it is time for checking out.

10.00: Whilst cruising back, delightful lunch will be served.

11.35: We return to the quayside in the south of the bay, where our visitors disembark in Tuan Chau Marina. And leave for Ha Noi on our shuttle.

15.30 – 16.00: You will get back to your hotel in Ha Noi Old Quarter

* Because of cruising conditions, the program may be changed slightly due to specific weather or tide conditions without a prior notice to visitors. Wi-Fi is available although internet connectivity is limited due to the geography of the bay.

Leisure till the train departs, we will arrange car to drop you off at the train station. Take the night train to Sapa.

21.00pm: Take a night train to Sapa- stay overnight on the train

*Distance Hanoi – Ha Long: 180 kilometers/2.5 – 3 hours

**Please note that the schedule can be changed without prior notice depending on the weather and policies of Ha Long Bay board of management.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Overnight on train

Our driver will welcome you at Lao Cai train station exit with a placard showing Sapa O’Chau logo and your name. It will be a scenic 38 km drive uphill to Sapa. You will alight at Sapa O’Chau café where you can take a shower, rest and have breakfast (cost of breakfast is not included). We will leave around 9 am to start this 6th days trip around Northeast of Vietnam. During the journey from Sapa to Bac Ha, you will have many opportunities to take pictures of the scenery. When we arrive at Bac Ha, we will have dinner around 6 pm at a local Hmong homestay. Here we will spend a night interacting with the host.

Meals: No
Accommodation: Overnight in homestay

After a good night of rest, we will have breakfast around 7 am at a local restaurant. If it is a Sunday, we will get to enjoy a visit to the local market which only opens on Sunday. Bac Ha offers a less busy atmosphere then Sapa so you will fully enjoy the market. If it is not a market day, we will go to a village called Ban Pho located on a mountain cliff where many different minorities live. The main ethnic minority is the Flower Hmong people. It will be a great opportunity for you to interact with different ethnic minorities.

We will leave Bac Ha around 10 am to drive to Xin Man town. Along the way, you will have many opportunities to take pictures of the scenery.

Around 12 pm, we will have lunch at Xin Man before continuing to Ha Giang. During the drive, we will have the chance to see beautiful rice terraces, waterfalls and the Heaven’s Gate as well as various ethnic minorities.

We will spend the night at a Hotel situated 3 km from Ha Giang.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Overnight in homestay/ hotel

We will have breakfast around 7 am and leave at 9 am for Quan Ba. There we will have an amazing view of the Quan Ba Mountain also known as Fairy Bosom Mountain because of its shape. Here you can take spectacular landscape pictures.

We will have lunch at a local restaurant in Quang Ba. After lunch, we will visit Lung Tam where we will learn about Hmong handicrafts. The craftswomen will demonstrate the techniques of hemp weaving and other traditional handicraft.

After this educational segment, we will continue to scenic Yen Minh. We will enjoy a sumptuous dinner at a local restaurant in Yen Minh and have a good rest at the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight in homestay/ hotel

We will have breakfast at a local restaurant and leave for Lung Cu around 9am. We will get to visit the local market if it is the day of the opened week. Alternatively, we can admire the scenery of the Lunarscape and the corn fields.

We will move on to visit the small remote village of the Hoa people. Very few tourists visit this village so you will have a more meaningful interaction with the Hoa people.

Following that, we will visit the Vuong Palace in Dong Van. It was once the capital-house of the Hmong ethnic people under the feudal regime and the palace of the Vuong family who once ruled a vast area of the region.

We will have lunch at a local restaurant and then climb up Lung Cu peak, the northeast point of Vietnam. This flag tower stands at 1,600 m above sea level. We will return to Dong Van to have dinner at a local restaurant and rest for the night at the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight in homestay/ hotel

We will have breakfast at the homestay and go for a boat ride on Ba Be Lake. We will spend one and a half hour on the boat visiting mysterious caves such as the Puong caves.

We will take the boat back to shore to visit the famous “Fairy Pond”. We will return to the homestay for lunch. There will be a delicious spread of local food. After lunch, we will drive back to Hanoi at around 6 pm. This concludes our 6 days trip in Northeast Vietnam.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Overnight in Hanoi

Today, you will take the flight back home as per your schedule. Please provide us with your departure time, we will arrange a car to the Noi Bai International airport for you.

Check in time: 14.00pm and check out time: 12.00pm

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: No

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