Group : Mr. Claudio Nardoni
Travel Date: 31/12/2010
Travel Style: Classic Travel and Local Life
Tour Detail
Day 01: Welcome to Hanoi
Fly to Hanoi. Upon arrival to the airport, you well be met by our guide and transfer to you hotel.
Day 2: Hanoi free – night train for Lao Cai (B /L/-)
All day free and check-out at 12h00.
In the evening transfer by taxi and drive to Hanoi Station to take the train to Lao Cai.
At night you will take the night train to Lao Cai.
Day 3: Lao Cai – Bac Ha Market – Sapa (B/L/-)
Morning:
Being on an early drive to Coc Ly, which is 130 km far from Sapa, you would walk through colorful market of hill tribe people such as: Flower Hmong, Phu La and Dao Tuyen, … who gather there for goods’ exchange.
Afternoon:
After lunch, you keep moving by car to Trung Do and have a short trek of around 4km for Tay people’s village visiting. Then you get on boat of nearly 1.5 hours up the Chay river for experiencing the magnificent sights of natural caves and the Raining waterfalls. Your driver would wait for you at Bao Nhai – the boating stop to take you back to Lao Cai ‘s Tran Hung Dao temple, the long live banian tree, the 12 zodiac-signs park, and the Chinese Vietnamese borderline. After all, you have time for freshing up at the hotel before moving to train station for overnight train back to Hanoi.
Note: The sample itinerary for Bac Ha on Sunday: depend on your departure. You could visit:
- Coc Ly market: Tuesday
- Cao Son market: Wednesday
- Lung Khau Nhin: Thursday
- Can Cau: Saturday
Day 4 : Trekking at Sapa: Ta Phin – Lao Chai – Ta Van Village – Train to Hanoi (B/L/-)
Breakfast at hotel.
Your guide would wait to see you to start the trekking along the vast Muong Hoa valley with terraced fields lying on, heading to Lao Chai and Ta Van villages of H’mong and Tay people. Here, there are 3 options for you: the soft trek (at only 3 km), medium trek (around 6 km) or long trek (nearly 12 km). For each, you would have chance to imbue the well-preserved unique culture and traditions of the north ethnic minorities. The visit Ta Phin Village. Free dinner and accomodation in hotel.
Day 5: Sapa – Son La (B/L/-)
Departure from Sapa and the road whitewalls between gorgeous mountain landscapes and across lush highlands inhabited by Thai Neri and White H’mong Neri; after about 200 kilometers you reach Son La which is considered as a Thai place leader. Certainly along the way there are opportunities to take pictures for the photo and meet tribe people, dining down the street in the local restaurant.
Overnight stay in hotel “simple and comfortable”.
Day 6: Son La – Mai Chau (B/L/D)
After breakfast in hotel, departure for Mai Chau, along the road, visit the H’Mong Neri and Tai Neri villages.
Arrival at Mai Chau, relaxes in Tai White’s home. After lunch, you continue to visit Poomcong, Lac Village … by bike
Stroll to discover the surrounding White Thai villages. The traditional dance show is the perfect occasion to taste the “Can”, a rice wine made of fermented sticky rice.
Day 7: Mai Chau – Ninh Binh (B/L/-)
In the morning return to Hoa Binh and visit a H’Mong village, located in the hills adjacent to the city. So continue south-east for Ninh Binh, crossing perhaps the most spectacular scenery in northern Vietnam: green rice fields, surrounded by tall karst hills covered with vegetation, intense colors, unmarked agricultural villages for centuries. Here is a good part of the western collective imagination on Vietnam.
Arrival to Van Long for lunch and cruise (2 hours) by Sampa boat in Tam Coc. Continue for Ninh Binh, arrival in the evening and accommodation at hotel.
Day 8: Ninh Binh – Hanoi (B/L/-)
Breakfast at the hotel.
On the morning view of the Catholic Cathedral of Phat Diem, the most important of northern Vietnam. Built between 1879 and 1899 by Father Tran Luoc (named) Father Sei, according to a typical Vietnamese custom that replaces the name with a number) in an absolutely unique stalk, in which elements of Chinese temple architecture blend with other Catholics and of Dinosaurs. Syncretism finds one of its greatest expressions in the portal, where the symbols of good fortune Vietnamese are alongside the statues of angels, saints, and episodes of Christ’s life.
Ninh Binh returns to lunch and visit Hoa Lu (visit the two dynastic temples), where two of the first emperors Viet, Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Danh Hanh are buried. Built in the first decades after 1,000 and restored under the Nguyen Dynasty, temples strike for their sobriety, far away from Hué’s mausoleum pump.
Day 9: Hanoi – Son Dong – Hanoi (B/L/-)
Breakfast and departure for Bac Giang and Son Dong where we meet two children.
Return to Hanoi in the afternoon.
Day 10: Hanoi – Danang – Hoi An (B/-/-)
Welcome from the Taxi (without the guide) for transfer to Aeroport to take Flight to Danang. Arrival and reception from the driver for transfer to Hoi An. At night in the hotel.
Day 11: Hoi An (B/-/-)
Leisure on Cua Dai Beach – Hoi An. Free meals. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 12: Hoi An – Free time (B/-/-)
Breakfast at hotel.
Free time on Cua Dai Beach. Free meals. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 13: Hoi An – Free time (B/-/-)
Breakfast at the hotel.
Welcome from the driver for the transfer for the flight. Arrival and reception by taxi (reserved service) to go to the hotel.
Day 14: Hoi An – Hanoi (B/-/-)
Breakfast at Hotel and transfer to Chezlinhlinh House.
Dinner with Thuy & Lam and family.
Hot pot dinner at Chezlinlinh’s home.
Day 15: Hanoi – Flight to Italia (B/-/-)
Transfer to airport taxi for Flight to Milan.