Best of Northern Vietnam Tour 5 Days - 40% off
Note: This tour can be customized to meet your own needs.
Departure date: On your request
Day 1 Hanoi Arrival - Hanoi city tour & street food tour
Day 2 Hanoi - Halong Bay - Overnight on cruise
Day 3 Halong Bay - Ninh Binh
Day 4 Hoa Lu - Trang An Day Tour - Drive to Hanoi
Day 5 Hanoi - Departure
Day 1 Hanoi Arrival - Hanoi city tour & street food tour
Welcome to Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital. Upon arrival, our tour guide & driver from Cyclo Travel Vietnam will greet you at the airport, then transfer you to the city for city tour & street food tour. You will visit the main attractions of Hanoi such as: Temple of Literature (first national university of Vietnam), Ho Chi Minh mausoleum & one-pillar pagoda, Army museum to learn more about Vietnamese against outside enemies history. For lunch, you will make some walking tour to taste the best authentic local street foods of Hanoian: Pho (beef/ chicken noodle), Bun Cha (grilled pork with noodle), Banh Mi (Vietnamese bread), Vietnamese coffee + Egg coffee + Coconut coffee, Hanoi beer. Take a visit to Hanoi train village, sitting on a chair in the middle of the rail tracks & have a cup of tea should be a unique experience when you are in Hanoi. Enjoy the water puppet show - a unique Vietnamese Art form hailing from Southeast Asia’s wet-rice culture before going to your hotel for check-in. Overnight in Hanoi
Today includes: Hotel in Hanoi, tour guide, car with driver, street foods for lunch, all entrance fees, water puppet show tickets, drinking water on tour
Today excludes: Breakfast/dinner, personal expenses
Day 2 Hanoi - Halong Bay - Overnight on cruise
Today, after breakfast & check-out the hotel, you will be picked up by the cruise bus for a 3,5 hour drive to Halong Bay. Board your cruise at noon and check-in your cabin. Enjoy your lunch while cruising along the bay, visiting one of the most amazing caves in the bay. Have dinner & overnight on cruise in Halong.
Today includes: Overnight cruise in Halong Bay, breakfast/lunch/dinner, all entrance fees, tour guide on cruise, cruise transfer, drinking water
Today excludes: Drinks, personal expenses
Day 3 Halong Bay - Ninh Binh
Today, wake up early in the morning for Tai Chi exercise, enjoy your breakfast & kayaking in the bay. Return to your cabin to refresh up. Heading back to the harbor. Get the transfer to Tam Coc, Ninh Binh. Check-in your hotel. Overnight in Ninh Binh
Today includes: Hotel in Ninh Binh, breakfast/brunch, kayaking, tour guide on cruise, transfer, drinking water
Today excludes: Dinner, drinks, personal expenses
Day 4 Hoa Lu - Trang An Day Tour - Drive to Hanoi
Today, after breakfast & check-out the hotel, meet your tour guide & driver & take the amazing boat trip to visit Trang An grottoes which is a gathering of 31 valleys, 50 cross-water caves, and home to 600 kinds of flora and over 200 kinds of fauna, many of them in the Red Book of Vietnam. While rowing through Trang An grotto in the quiet, fresh air of the highlands, with only the sound of birds and the oars stirring the clear water and surrounded by magnificent forested mountains upon which graze white goats, visitors enjoy a heaven on earth.
Then drive to Hoa Lu to visit the temples dedicated to Emperor Dinh Tien Hoang of the Dinh Dynasty (968-80), and Emperor Le Dai Hanh of the Le Dynasty (980-1009). The ancient Hoa Lu Citadel (most of which has since been ruined) once covered an area of three square kilometres. Have lunch in a local restaurant before returning back to Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi
Today includes: Hotel in Hanoi, breakfast/lunch, tour guide, car with driver, all entrance fees, sampan trip, drinking water on tour
Today excludes: Dinner, personal expenses
Day 5 Hanoi - Departure
Today after having breakfast & checking out of the hotel, it depends on your flight home time so you can take the rest of this day for local shopping at Dong Xuan market (note: night market is held every weekend’s night on Friday/Saturday/Sunday) or visiting Bat Trang pottery making village (about 13 km from Hanoi). Then get the private transfer back to the airport to catch your flight home. End of our services! See you on your next trip!
Today includes: Breakfast, tour guide, carwith driver, drinking water on tour
Today excludes: Hotel, lunch/dinner, other drinks, personal expenses
All accommodations with daily breakfasts
Overnight cruise in Halong
Car with driver
Tour guide
All entrance fees + activities + boat trip
Meals mentioned in the itinerary
Drinking water on tour
International flights
Travel insurance
Vietnam Visa stamp fee
Meals not mentioned in the itinerary
Drinks
Personal expenses