Northern Vietnam Odyssey Tour

Up on arrival in Hanoi, we will be greeted at the airport and transferred to hotel in Hanoi. We check in hotel and relaxing until enjoy welcome dinner at the local restaurant in Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi.

We will visit Ho Chi Minh complex with Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, The Presidential Palace, One Pillar Pagoda and outside Ho Chi Minh Museum; the Temple of Literature then we stop for our lunch at a local fine restaurant. This afternoon, we visit the Ethnology Museum, West Lake area with Quan Thanh Temple and Tran Quoc Pagoda, Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake. We have one hour traveling around the Ancient city to see the daily Life of Hanoian by cyclo and one more hour to watch The Water Puppet show in the Theater on the bank of Hoan
Kiem Lake. Overnight in Hanoi.

In the morning, start a 125km drive through rural northern Vietnam to the site of Vietnam's first capital, Hoa Lu. After visiting the two remaining sanctuaries of the ancient citadel, take a sampan on a river through the rice paddies to the grottoes of the sacred Tam Coc Caves. Enormous limestone karsts jut out from the green rice fields giving rise to this place's other name, 'Halong on Land'. After lunch at local restaurant visit to Bich Dong Pagoda before back to Ha Noi. Overnight in Hanoi.

This morning we will depart from Hanoi at 8.00am for more than 3 hour driving through the Red River Delta to Ha Long City. On the way, we will stop for refreshments and a chance to buy hand made souvenirs at a handicraft center run to raise money for disabled people in Sao Do town, Hai Duong Province. Upon arriving in Ha Long city we'll embark on the calm waters of Ha Long Bay to explore the Bay with thousands of lime-stone mountains and grotto caves. After Lunch on boat, we will transfer to Cat Ba Island. Arriving Cat Ba island, the local car will transfer us to the hotel. Check in and relax. Overnight in Cat Ba Island.

Following breakfast at the hotel we visit the Cat Ba National Park to visit the old Military Hospital cave that was used by the North Vietnamese Army during the American war. We will return to Cat Ba Township before boarding the one-hour hydrofoil back to Vietnam's third largest city, Hai Phong.
Arriving in Hai Phong we transfer to our waiting vehicle for the two hour drive back to Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi

In the morning, we depart from Hanoi for our first stop at Van Phuc, a silk weaving village. We will walk around to see the traditional methods by which the families produce such beautiful silk, with the chance to buy some if you wish. Following that, we visit the Thay (Master) Pagoda and hear the story about the fabulous way Buddhism is practiced. Leaving here, we drive to the famous Tay Phuong Pagoda where many Ahats statues are still maintained. These are considered the best examples of wood carved statues from the old days, in all Vietnam. Then we are back to Hanoi for our lunch.
In the afternoon, we are free at leisure for shopping in the Old Quarter Hanoi.
Overnight in Hanoi.

Free time until transfer you to the airport to catch your flight back home.