IMPRESS VIETNAM AND LAOS 7 DAYS 6 NIGHTS (HANOI AND LUANG PRABANG)

Breakfast at the hotel, do check out.

08:00 - 08:45: Pick up at your hotel (in Hanoi Old Quarter area only) and depart for Ha Long City.

12:30 - On arrival at the pier, you will board your Ha Long Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by professional and friendly crew.

13:00 - Check-in cabin and enjoy specially prepared lunch while cruising through the most beautiful parts of the magical bay with thousands of amazing limestone islands emerging from emerald water. Sailing with Ha Long Cruise in a very tranquil route, exploring the exotic beauty of the legendary Bay, a feeling in paradise will come to you.

14:30 - Keep cruising to the most beautiful parts of Halong Bay. This is the best time to relax after lunch and enjoy your privacy, capturing stunning photos of the legendary bay.

15:30 - Small tender brings you to visit Titop island, hiking to the top of the island from where tourists can capture a panoramic view of Halong Bay.

16:30 - Kayaking & swimming

18:00 - Join the sunset party on the sundeck in a warm and romantic atmosphere, make friends with other members in the group, enjoy fresh local fruit, listen to soft, light music, and wear traditional costumes for kings, queens and mandarins.

19:00 - Enjoy the special dinner cooked by our professional chef.

20:30 - The moment you choose your own way to relax after dinner, listening to music, singing karaoke, relaxing on the sundeck, squid fishing available for entertainment during the night time.

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06:00 – Take photos of sunrise, morning exercise with our Tai Chi master, a perfect healthy way to start a new day.

07:00 – Enjoy your breakfast, coffee, tea, and fruits.

07:45 – Visit Surprising Cave – the most beautiful one in Halong Bay.

09:00 – Back to Ha Long Cruise for check-out. Keep cruising towards Ha Long Bay, passing by hundreds of islands and islets with different shapes depending on your imagination.

10:00 – Cooking class opened right on the cruise.

11:00 – Farewell lunch served on the cruise before you arrive at the harbor.

12:30 – Get on the bus to Hanoi. 

15:30- come back to Ha Noi.

07:40 - 08:30 Meet your tour guide at suggested places around Hanoi Old Quarter.

Depart for Ninh Binh province (90 km south of Hanoi). Have a break 20 minutes en-route to free your legs.

Arrive at Hoa Lu, which was once depicted the ancient capital of Viet Nam, settling up in the 10th century. 

Visit temples of two dynasties of Dinh and Le with a very unique architectures in the old time. 

Learn about ancient culture through an excavation of vestiges of Royal Palaces ground dated 10th century. 

12:30 Arrive Tam Coc. Relax and enjoy lunch in a nice restaurant nearby.

- Board the sampan boats in Tam Coc going along river among the villages, mountains and rice fields. Passing through 3 caves "Hang Ca - First cave, Hang Hai - Second cave, Hang Ba - Third cave" to get a wonderful feeling. Boat returns to the dock for bus drive back to Hanoi. 

18:00 Arrive in Hanoi. 

Overnight in Hanoi 

Breakast at your hotel. 

7:00 Have a breakfast at your hotel 

7:40 - 8:30 Meet your tour guide .

Start the trip with Tran Quoc pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake. 

Visit Ho Chi Minh’s complex, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father; his house-on-stil and One pillar pagoda – modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi.

Arrive Ethnology museum to learn about cultures of 54 ethnic groups living in Vietnam.

13:00 Have a rest and enjoy lunch in a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter.

The driver picks you up at the airport to take to Luang Prabang 

Arrival  Luangprabang Airport, you will met and transferred to your hotel check in. 

Overnight in Luang Prabang.

Notes: 

- Recommend flight time after 17:30 PM. 

Flights exclude in the tour price. If you need a support to book flight, kindly contact us [email protected]

Breakfast at the hotel, we will first embark on the leisurelycruiseupstream on theMekong River, which also gives us a breathtaking viewof the tranquil countryside, before reaching the mysteriousPak OuCaves, a 16th century cave monastery filled with thousands of Buddhaimages, which locates 25 Kilometers North of Luang Prabang in thelimestone cliffs overlooking the Mekong River.En route, you will stop atBan Muang Keo, a well-known village for itstraditional Lao rice whisky distilling. You will arrive back in LuangPrabang.On arrival back in the city, visit the oldWat Sene, and the nearbymagnificentWat Xiengthonga superb piece of Lao temple architecture,which presents a sweeping two-tiered roof and ornate mosaicsincluding a beautiful ‘tree of life ‘glass montage on the rear temple wall.If time permits, we will drive out of the city to visitBan Xangkhong, theThai Lue village, which is famous for its arts and crafts. We also visit thenearby village ofBan Xienglekspecializing in making the traditional Saapape

Overnight in Luang PrabangTip: If you are fond of various ethnic cultures, you can visitTraditional Artand Ethnology Center(closed on Monday).

Wake up as the sun rises, we will prepare to join the most sacredtradition of Laos, the daily morning alms giving, which dates to the 14thcentury. More than 200 Buddhist monks depart from various temple togather their daily meal from the faithful residents sitting quietly on thestreets.We then visit the temporary morning market near the former RoyalPalace. Just set on the ground, the local people come here to barter theirday’s catch from rice, to vegetable, to fish, or chicken.After breakfast at the hotel, we visit the city’s oldest temple ofWatSene, and the nearby the magnificentWat Xiengthongwith its roofssweeping low to the ground, which represents classical Laotianarchitecture.From there, we transfer directly to the beautifulKuang Si waterfallswhich is the biggest in the Luang Prabang area with three tiers leadingto a 50-metre drop into spectacular azure pools before flowingdownstream. The pools also make greatswimming holes and are verypopular with both tourists and localsIf you wish, take a short visit to theBear Rescue Center, which houses acouple of dozen animals rescued from the hands of poachers andtraffickers.

We then transfer out to the airport totake the departure flight.

End of  tour!