4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS HANOI – HALONG

8:00 - 8:30: Get pick-up from your hotel by our friendly guide and start exploring Hanoi City 08:45: Arrive at Tran Quoc Pagoda located in West Lake. Founded in the 6th century,It is the oldest pagoda in Hanoi . 09:30: Visit the Ho Chi Minh complex, where you view the embalmed body of President Ho Chi Minh then stroll through the garden to see two houses where he lived and worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where the Godess of Mercy is worships– It is a unique pagoda in the world 11:15: Visit the Vietnam Museum Ethnology to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living throughout Vietnam. Special Note:If the Museum of Ethnolog closed on Mondays we will visit the Women's Museum instead . 12:45: Enjoy lunch at our restaurant and Vietnamese cuisine with eight delicious dishes. 14:00 - 14:15: Continue to visit the Temple of Literature –Vietnam’s First University, established in the 11th century 15:15: Depart for the Hoa Lo Prison Museum, originally used by French colonists in Indochina to detain political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam to hold U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this period, it was famously referred to by American POWs as the “Hanoi Hilton.” 16:15 – 16:30: The tour finishes. Return to the hotel. Notes: • Optional Cyclo Ride/ Puppet Show can be arranged at the end of the tour (surcharge: USD 5 per person). • Visitors are required to dress modestly, covering shoulders and knees, when visiting the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, temples, and pagodas. • Children under 3 years old are not permitted to enter the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. • The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is closed on Monday and Friday mornings, and annually from 5 September to 31 October. • The itinerary may be adjusted due to weather conditions. • Bat Trang Pottery Village will be visited on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (without the Ethnology Museum). The Ethnology Museum will be visited on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (without Bat Trang Pottery Village). Meal: Breakfast, Lunch Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

8:00 - 08:45 - Our bus and tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and travel via the new expressway to Tuan Chau Island, Ha Long City, with a short rest stop along the way. 12:00 – Arrive at Tuan Chau Harbor, welcome aboard, and receive a safety briefing. Cruise will take you on a 5 hours journey via 2 day-sleeper boat along the day cruise route which renowned for its striking limestone formations , passages uninhabited islets and uniquely shaped rock outcrops have been given imaginative names by the locals, due to their perceived shapes, including Fighting Chicken, while enjoying a Vietnamese mouth-watering lunch on the boat. 13:45 – Arrive at Bo Hon archipelago, you will visit Surprising Cave to see a lot of stalagmites and stalactites with different shapes of sea life, than go kayaking or bamboo boat in Luon Cave to discover the beautiful lagoon. Visit Titov Island with sandy beach adjacent to the towering limestone mountain with excellent backdrop of the bay, and climb up Titop Peak for a panoramic view of the bay like paradise. 16:30 – Return to the Cruises for Afternoon Tea and cruising back toward Tuan Chau harbor. There is plenty of time for sunbathing on upper deck among world-iconic natural scenery. 18:00 – Disembark for a bus ride back on the new expressway to Hanoi. 21:00 – Drop off at your hotel /stay, Trip ends. Meal: Breakfast, Lunch Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

You are free at leisure before being transferred by our driver to Noi Bai International Airport for your departure flight . Meal: Breakfast