NORTHERN VIETNAM FAMILY PACKAGE DEAL

Vietnam xin chao! Warmly welcome your family at Noi Bai International Airport by Viet Prestige Travel’s guide and driver. Transfer to your hotel for check in and take some refreshment. Stay overnight in Hanoi.

• On the 2^nd day of Northern Vietnam Family Package Deal, your family will have a full day discovering the historic Hanoi Capital – the city of French colonial architecture, peaceful lakes and oriental pagodas and temples
• Visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and “House on stilt” at the same area with the Presidential Palace and the famous One Pillar Pagoda (Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on every Monday and Friday).
• Next, we will also make a visit to the Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, which is now dedicated to Confucian worship.
• In the afternoon, head to the interesting Ethnology Museum, which features well-presented tribal art, artefacts and everyday objects of 54 officially recognized ethinic groups of Vietnam, gathered from across the nation, and examples of traditional village houses.
• Hop on a cyclo tour around the unique Old Quarter of Hanoi for about 1 hour
• Our foodie tour will start with the most fascinating authentic local street food of Hanoi like draught beer, local bread with BBQ pork, sticky rice (Optional Bun Cha), Green Papaya with beef salad and Egg Coffee…
• Transfer to the train station to take the night train to Lao Cai, overnight on train

• Transfer from the the train station to Sapa, which will take about 1.5 hours. Freshen up and have breakfast at a local restaurant.
• Take a short drive to Lao Chai, a village of Black Hmong ethnic people and start our trek across hill tribe villages and rice terraced fields.
• Discover local people’s daily lives and how they make their traditional clothes, handicraft, indigo…
• Walk to Ta Van, home of Giay people and enjoy a delightful lunch with a local family in one of the beautiful traditional houses located on their rice paddy fields.
• Rejoin our car and drive back to your hotel.
• Overnight in Sapa

• Leave Sapa early by 8:00 am and depart for Bac Ha market, which is about 100 km from Sapa. This market, open every Sunday, is mainly the trading place of H’mong ethnic group
• Lunch at a local restaurant in Bac Ha
• Drive to Ban Pho village where you can take a short walk around the village where Flower Hmong, Tay and Nung minorities live
• Take a joining limousine at 3:00 PM and drive about 6 hours back to Hanoi, reach your hotel at around 9:00 PM
• Stay overnight in Hanoi

Sunday is the common trading day of many tribes in the Northwest of Vietnam, Bac Ha is one of them. The market is filled with colors of different ethnic minorities coming from different villages and their trading activities are so vibrant, lasting from early morning till midday, from the hand-made fabrics to the dogs and buffalos.

• Depart for Ninh Binh, 100 km south east of Hanoi, it will take you about 2 hours driving there
• Our first stop will be The Dinh & Le Temple, built to show the greatfulness of Vietnamese people to 2 kings: Dinh Bo Linh and Le Dai Hanh
• Enjoy a delicious lunch with specialties of Ninh Binh at a local restaurant.
• Take a sampan boat trip, follow the calming and meandering waterways to amazing caves in Tam Coc, which is often referred to as Halong Bay on land. Contemplating photogenic green karst formations rising from the emerald water
• Transfer to Mua Cave and take 500 steps up to mountains. The hiking is not so easy but worth your conquering efforts for impressive panoramic view of Tam Coc, Trang An & Ninh Binh city when you reach the top point of Mua mountains.
• Drive to your hotel in Ninh Binh and stay overnight in Ninh Binh

• You will be picked up from your hotel in Ninh Binh and head to Halong Bay
• Warmly welcomed on board by smiling crew staff then take a hearty lunch while the cruise sails among mesmerizing evergreen karst to the heart of the World Heritage Halong Bay
• Visit tranquil Viet Hai village, experience riding bike around the small village and have the chance to meet and get to know about the local people there
• Back on board and enjoy a sunset party from the sundeck, contemplating the most magnificent moments on the wonder bay, when the sun goes down to the ocean

• Commence the day early in the morning with a Tai Chi Class or just simply sit back, take a morning coffee and enjoy the sunrise on the bay
• Explore Luon Cave (Tunnel Cave) – a must-see destination. Family members can choose either fun kayaking or sitting on a small bamboo boat.
• Check out and have a brunch while the cruise sails back to the port, crossing craggy karst towers of Halong Bay
• Transfer back to Hanoi and stay overnight in Hanoi

After breakfast, free and relax on your own leisure until being picked up by our driver and transferred to the airport for your departure flight back home. Northern Vietnam Family Package Deal ends here. It’s time to say goodbye, Viet Prestige Travel would like to thank you for traveling with us and warmly welcome your family to come again in the future!