Exciting trip in the North of Vietnam

Vietnam Great Tours driver and tour guide will welcome you with the VIETNAM GREAT TOUR LOGO & your name on signboard at the airport and drive you to the hotel.
Tonight your guide will take you on a culinary adventure, sampling street food in the Old Quarter. It’s a great opportunity to try all those weird and wonderful foods you see but just aren’t sure what they are! Start your Hanoi Street Eats tour at Bia Hoi corner to try the local brew, a draft beer that traces its roots to Eastern Europe. Do as the locals do and pull up a stool and enjoy a drink while watching the world go by.
Continue through the old quarter’s narrow streets as your guide points out a range of tasty noodles, breads and snacks. End the night with dessert from Hanoi’s best-known ice-cream parlour before getting a good night’s rest.

Great Tours’ bus and guide pick you up and then transfer to Ha Giang, though Son Nam District of Tuyen Quang province. Enjoy natural landscape and green fields, palm hill and villages. Passing Tuyen Quang town, you can visit village of black Tay minority. Arrive Ha Giang town in the late afternoon, prepare everything for the next day.

After breakfast, depart to Dong Van via Quan Ba. Stop in Quan Ba pass “the Paradise door” where the view is superb, with green valleys and rows of identical hills and mountains. (The Quan Ba Sunday morning markets are one of the most important and interesting meeting places). In this region you find the White H’mong, the Red Dzao and Tay … who live only in the villages around Quan Ba District.
Lunch in Yen Minh . After bidding farewell, we take time to conquer the Ma Pi Leng Pass is considered like the most spectacular mountain pass in Vietnam, from there we can see and enjoy a beautiful sunset over the Nho Que River.
Drive some more minutes and reach Dong Van Town. Check in hotel and free at leisure.

Get up early morning walk to Dong Van market (if it is on Sunday it is really festival with colorful costume of ethnic minority buy and sell local products that cannot be found elsewhere). Breakfast with sticky rice, one of specialty we will continue our trip. Scenery will wake you up. You will be surprised when visiting these remote areas, we will witness how hard the local people struggle with their environment for their survival and development.
Living conditions are extremely harsh, there is barely any arable land within the Rocky Mountains and the people survive on a diet of corn, which is about the only crop able to grow in the rocky soil. Even through this hardship, the local people are very friendly, simple yet develop a strong attachment to other people. They are the soul of this remote area.
We will stop to visit the H’Mong King Palace, built in 1900; Vuong Chi Duc was recognized King of H’mong tribes by French colonialists and then Lo Lo minority village. Lunch en route in Yen Minh town and then transfer back to Ha Giang for overnight

Sunday you can visit the Bac Ha local markets, the largest and most colorful market in the area..
Bac Ha Market is in Bac Ha District and belong to Lao Cai Province, 80 km from Sapa town and over one hour by car. Bac Ha is one of the biggest Market on Sapa and open on Sunday only. It’s not only the trading center but it’s also the place for couples, friends and relatives. At this market every thing on sales: Pig, dog, cat, houses… so it make this market hotter on Sunday.
If your travel date is not in Sunday, you will transfer to Sapa town. We will take you to Silver Waterfall, the highest in Vietnam with a 300m drop. An ascent to the base of the waterfall will enable you to explore the surrounding landscape. This is a famous spot and is regularly visited by monks to pray. Continuing our journey, we will drive a further 3km to Tram Ton Pass, the highest road in Vietnam at approximately 2000m above sea level. At this height you will feel a drop in temperature but the views are truly stunning, and you will have the opportunity to stretch your legs, explore and take photographs. A further 3km drive will take you to the start point of your next walk, a descent through the jungle to the Love Waterfall & Golden Stream. This area is known for cardamom crops, used for medicine, cooking and a significant source of income for the minority people.

After breakafe, we begin our trek upwards to Xa Xang Village passing several corn fields towards to Hau Thao Village on the top of the mountain.
From there, you will have a stunning view over the valley and the surrounding mountains and explore their daily life and mystery cultures. This is really an authentic area and non-touristy villages.
After lunch, we will commence our tour downhill to Lao Chai where you can learn how the fabric for the traditional Hmong clothes is made, then will walk to the home stay in Ta Van Muong Village. An amazing view of Muong Hoa valley (a biggest and most beautiful valley for rice terrace fields in Vietnam ), hunting unique pictures, enjoy fresh air on high mountain.
If you like you can help to prepare the dinner together with the Hmong family you stay with.

Have a breakfast with local people and enjoy marvel at the breathtaking scenery morning. Trekking to Giang Ta Chai village to visit Red Dzao, you will explore the life of ethnic minorities, admire the spectacular natural scenery with the terraced rice fields, the natural beauty of mountain. At the end of day, take a car back to Sapa Town. You will have free time for shopping before taking a bus back to Hanoi.

After breakfast you will have over 3 hours drive along the country side of the Red River Delta to the UNESCO world’s heritage site of Halong Bay.

Arrive at the waiting lounge at Tuan Chau International Marina port, you will be transferred by speed boat from Tuan Chau port to Gia Luan port to board the cruise.
Lunch is ready to be served while the moves to Lan Ha bay. Admire the beauty of the majestic limestone mountains emerging from the emerald blue sea.
In the afternoon, you will visit Dark and Bright Cave, border of Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay by bamboo boat rowed through some floating houses where they are feeding fishes, clams and oysters. You also can explore this area in your own way by kayaking (depending on weather conditions). After rowing boat trip, you have a chance to swim in the green emerald and cool water before cruising to the boat to sleeping area.
After a relaxing time, you are welcomed to our demonstration with Vietnamese tradition liquor tasting and learn how to make the tradition cuisines made by fishmen. Enjoy a delicious dinner at the restaurant before immersing yourself in music, enjoy a drink from the bar or relax on the Sundeck and admire the view of Lan Ha bay at night or manually catch the fresh squid or simply take a rest and watch Ha Long bay from the balcony in your room.

In the early morning, welcome the energetic new day with Vietnamese Martial Class – Vovinam activity or Taichi class on the deck and watch the sunrise.
After a light breakfast, you will join the tour of Cat Ba World Biosphere. Enjoy a buffet brunch at the restaurant while the cruise goes back to the dock.
Your cruise will end at noon and you will be met by your guide & driver for the trip back to Hanoi.

It is your own time today. At leisure for relaxation or shopping until your guide come and transfer you to the airport for your departure flight.