Day
1: Arrive at Ha Noi –Meet and greet the local guide. Have a breakfast @ Phở restaurant near
by the airport. Transfer to Ha Noi for city tour. Ha Noi Old quarter, Hoan Kiem lake, Ngoc Son
temple, The Huc Bridge and Tháp Bút (Pen Tower) and have 1 hour rickshaw
(cyclo) to explore the old quarter. Enjoy egg coffee. Lunch and Dinner at local restaurants. Overnight in Ha Noi.
Day 2: Ha Noi city (B, L, D)
Breakfast at hotel.
Heading South of Hanoi by coach, new discovery of tradition
craftsmanship in the Red River Delta at Phuc
Am village where there’re many businesses privately set up that carrying on
the spiritual products of making votive offerings.
The village is busiest during the full moon in July (lunar calendar) and prior to Tết
Festivals. In the old days, traditional offerings of joss paper goods such aspaper servants, horses
were popular.
However, they slowly have fallen out of used and
bereplaced with modern items like luxury cars, big
villas, fancy mopeds, to paperiPads and iPhones, “Hell bank notes” that
imitate US and EU currency, credit cards, ortradition “ghost money” found in Chinese communities are in demand of
modern markets, some places evengot creative with business cards that included email address and mobile
numbers of SteveJobs so that their deceased in the other world
could contact the Apple’s CEO for anytroubles with their devices. Back to downtown of City Capital, another great
experience in this morning will be a visit an old apartment in the old French
building to understand the local life of Ha Noi people in 70-80s.
In the afternoon, we continue to Back to downtown of City Capital,
another great experience in this morning will be at the beautiful Temple of Literature, built in honor of
the Chinese philosopher Kungfutse. A well-preserved gem. The temple complex was
Vietnam's first university for sons of the country's elite. Today, it is no
longer actively used as an educational institution, but you can still meet young
students who come before or after their exams, as it is said to be lucky when
rubbing one of the turtles on his head. Enjoy the water puppet show. Overnight in Ha Noi.
Day 3: Ha Noi - Ha Long –
cruise 7 hours with lunch – Ha Noi (B, L, D)
06:00 Leave Ha Noi to
Ha Long. Arrive at Ha Long around 08:45.
09:00 Take a cruise trip. Light breakfast on cruise. Discover
Halong bay 7 hours. Lunch on cruise. 16:00 back to land and head back to Ha
Noi. Diner and overnight in Ha Noi.
Day 4:
Ha Noi - departure (B, L, D)
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit to Đồng Xuân
market – one of largest market in Ha Noi for seeing the colorful of local life,
next place isHoa Lo prison - was called Ha Noi Hiton, Ho Chi Minh ‘s house and the one Pillar
pagoda. We also see the sanctuary One-pillar Pagoda, shaped like a lotus flower rising from the Sea
of Sorrow, which has great symbolic significance for the Vietnamese as it is
built in honor of the Goddess of Mercy.
Let walk to the
nearby central lake Hoan Kiem, beautiful surrounding and good atmosphere, where
the locals meet from early morning to late evening, doing morning gymnastics
and tai-chi, philosophized and read… Spend the rest of the day exploring the
charming old quarter on your own or walk with the tour guide. Dinner and leave Ha Noi to Noi Bai airport.
Check in the airplane. End of services.