DAY 1: ARRIVAL HANOI - LAO CAI (D)
Our guide will meet you at Noi Bai Airport and the tour starts. Ride around Hanoi Old Quarter of 36 streets, visit Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake. You are then attending the Water Puppets show. Enjoy welcome dinner at local restaurant before taking night train to Lao Cai.
DAY 2: SAPA (B)
You will arrive at Lao Cai at around 6.00am. Short car trip to Sapa town about 40km from Lao Cai. Breakfast at local restaurant before check in. Relax or optional visit in the morning.
In the afternoon, take a 2km trek to Cat Cat Village, home of H’mong Ethnics. Meet & talk with locals to learn more about their daily life. Then continue the ride to Tafin village (12km from Sapa) home to the Red Dzao minority. Visit Tafin Cave, Tafin handicraft shops and explore the daily life of Red Dzao. Here you have good choice to buy woven and textile brocades, which are hand made by ethnic people. Visit a small hamlet of Black H'mong people here too. Overnight in Sapa.
DAY 3: SAPA (B/D)
After breakfast we check out and leave your luggage at hotel, then taking a drive to Lao Chai - Ta Van villages, Home of Dzay and Black Mong hill tribes. While trekking around the village, meeting and talking with local hill tribes to learn more about their daily life, customs and traditional habits. Optional visit around Sapa town or take a rest before taking car trip back to Lao Cai train station. Have dinner at local restaurant before getting on night train to Hanoi.
DAY 4: HANOI - HALONG BAY (B/L)
Arrive in Hanoi very early in the morning (05:30am). Our car will pick you up from the Train Station. After breakfast at a local restaurant, our car continue take you to Halong Bay. Upon arrival, embark on a boat for a cruise majestic HaLong bay. Enjoy beautiful landscape of HaLong Bay, naturally formed by islands and islets, explore natural caves or sunbathing. Enjoy lunch on board. Return to Hanoi in the lat afternoon. Overnight in Hanoi.
DAY 5: HANOI (B/L)
After breakfast at hotel, you will visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, HIS Residence, One-Pillar pagoda, Tran Quoc pagoda. After lunch, continue to visit Hanoi Hilton prison and Van Mieu - the first university of Vietnam or free time for shopping before drive to Noi Bai Airport for flight back home or explore South of Vietnam. | 
