The scenic North east discovery ( 9 days 8 nites)

Upon your arrival, you will be warm welcomed by our guide at Noi Bai airport and then transfer to your hotel. After refreshment and relax, you will discover the Old Quarter of Hanoi with one hour cyclo tours. Stop at Hoan Kiem Lake to visit Ngoc Son Temple before enjoying Water puppets show at Thang Long Theater. Overnight in hotel in Hanoi.

After breakfast, we will depart for your overland journey to the North East of Vietnam. The trip take you through beaufiul vistas of the countryside of Northern delta as you see rice field, tea hill and people do farming works. Your will visit Thai Nguyen Ethnology Museum on the way to learn more about the cultures of the various ethnic minority groups of Vietnam. Afterwards, we continue our journey to Ba Be Lake with lunch en route. Arriving Ba Be by mid afternoon, we will check in guest house and then go for walk to experience the peace and tranquility of the unspoiled tropical jungle, emerald waters, limestone mountains . Overnight at Ba Be National Park Guest House (simple accommodation).

Today, enjoy a boat trip downstream the Nang River into Ba Be Lake. Discover Ba Be National Park. Visit the Puong Cave and get off the beaten track to the scenic Dau Dang waterfalls. After a picnic lunch, continue your boat trip to a Tay village. Visit the village and share the daily activities with the Tay people. Overnight in homstay of Tay ethnic minorities people in the village (simple stilt house accommodation).

Depart for Cao Bang. Admire spectacular mountain landscape with terraced rice fields and minority ethnic villages dotting the hillsides. After lunch in Cao Bang, drive to Pac Bo Cave – the former headquarters of the Vietnamese revolutionaries. Here, Ho Chi Minh used to live in a cave nearby a beautiful stream in early 1941, when he re-entered Vietnam after 30 years of living abroad in search for ways to liberate the nation from French colonialism. Accommodation at Thanh Loan Hotel (simple accommodation).

After breakfast, we drive to visit the Nguom Ngao Cave, a big and yet unexplored cave with extraordinary natural stalactites (please wear appropriate shoes and shorts, since you most likely will get wet). Continue to Ban Doc Waterfall, which shares the river border with China. Picnic lunch, then return to Cao Bang. .

Today’s journey leads to Lang Son to visit the Ky Lua market as well as sites of local legends. Visit the Tam Thanh and Nhi Thanh Pagodas situated in grottoes. Accommodation at Hoa Sim Hotel (simple accommodation).

Depart for Halong Bay and experience an overnight trip on a traditional wooden junk. Halong Bay, deservedly listed as a world heritage area of outstanding natural beauty, means “dragon descending to the sea” in Vietnamese. This unbelievably picturesque bay has more than 3,000 limestone islets rising from the emerald waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, many of them containing beautiful grottoes. Some of the tiny islands have beaches, as well as grottoes, sparsely vegetated slopes and weird wind- blown rock formations created in the limestone. Enjoy the boat ride wending your way through the mystical limestone casts jutting from the sea. Swimming, weather permitting. Lunch and dinner with fresh seafood onboard.
Accommodation aboard a Traditional Junk.

Continue exploring Halong Bay. Enjoy breathtaking hours cruising through this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Disembark at around 11:00 hrs and return to Hanoi. Rest of the day at leisure in Hanoi for own exploration of the city.
Accommodation at hotel in Hanoi.

Morning at leisure until check-out before 12:00 hrs and transfer to to Hanoi / Noi Bai International Airport.