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 – Ninh Bình – Ha Noi (B, L, D)
Breakfast at
hotel.
08:00 go to Ninh Bình. Ninh Binh – calls Halong
bay on the land, is home to many historical and cultural relics, as well as
amazing landscapes for customers to discover. You will get to uncover the
cultural and natural wonders of this Vietnamese gem. Arrive at Ninh Binh, you
take the sampan to discover Thung Nắng. After then, you visit Hoa Lu – the Ancient
Capital. Head back to Ha Noi at late afternoon. 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.