Day 1: Hanoi
Airport pickup by private car. Arrive at the hotel, check in, discover the Hanoi Old Quarter then watch the Puppet Show. Stay in 1st night hotel
Day 2: Hanoi City Tour
07:15 – 07:45 Pick you up from your hotel or private address to travel around Hanoi.
08:00 Explore the local market and learn about Vietnamese culture by observing the daily lives of local people.
08:30 Visit a Hanoi icon in all senses: the Long Bien Bridge, formerly known as the Paul Doumer Bridge.
09:00 Visit the Mausoleum and the stilt house garden, the final resting place of the Vietnam national hero, President Ho Chi Minh.
Leave the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and then come to visit the Temple of Literature.
12:00 – 13:30 Enjoy a special lunch with the local cuisine
14:00 Visit the Museum of Vietnamese Ethnology.
15:30 Leave the Museum of Vietnamese Ethnology; a limousine bus will take you to the Hoa Lo Prison Relic, one of the five scariest places in Southeast Asia.
17:00 Explore the Old Quarter in 1 hour
18:00 – 18:30 Drop-off at your hotel or private address in Hanoi. Trip ends.
Day 3: Halong Bay Tour
Be ready at the lobby by 8 am-8h15am for pick up to Halong Bay. Enjoy a day in Iris Cruise. Come back to Hanoi at 16:30.
Stay 1 night at Le Chanvre Hotel
Day 4: Ninh Bình (Mua Cave- Tam Coc- Hoa Lu)
07:15 – 07:45 Pick-up from your hotel or private address in Hanoi Old Quarter and departure to Ninh Binh.
09:30 -10:00 Arrive at Hang Mua, “Mua Cave” one of the most alluring places to get the panorama view in Ninh Binh.
11:00 – 11:30 Take a bike and start riding around the village to explore the gorgeous rice fields surrounded by limestone mountains with a unique route and visit a local family in the Tam Coc area.
12:30 Enjoy a special lunch prepared with the traditional cuisine
14:00 After the lunch break, continue your trip with a sampan rowed by a local for about 1.5 hours to explore Tam Coc “Halong Bay on the land”.
16:30 Arrive in Hoa Lu, the ancient capital of Vietnam in the 10th century, and visit the temple of King Dinh.
17.30 Leave Ninh Binh and drive straight back to Hanoi.
19:00 – 19:30 Arrive in Hanoi, and we will drop you off at your hotel or private address in the Hanoi Old Quarter. Trip ends.
Day 5: Check out and depart from the hotel
