5 Days 4 Nights Halong to Ninh Binh and Hanoi Private Tour

Day 1: Noi Bai airport - Halong

1. Noibai Airport Transfers
   4h
   Welcome to Vietnam! Upon arrival in Hanoi, you will be met by your guide for a private transfer to the hotel in Halong for check-in.
2. Hạ Long Bay
   4h
   If the time permits, you will be transferred to Halong city to visit Quang Ninh Museum and Hon Gai market.

Day 2: Day cruise in Halong - Hanoi

1. Hạ Long Bay
   9h
   After enjoy breakfast at hotel, you will be transferred to the pier to take a sharing boat trip for a 4 or 6 -hours on the emerald green waters of Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage. Discover the mystical scenery of Halong Bay, where thousands of limestone islands just out of the emerald sea in bizarre shapes and surrounded by colourful floating villages to create a truly breathtaking destination. Enjoy a fresh seafood lunch on junk while it’s cruising. Late afternoon, you will come back Hanoi for check in your hotel and relax in the evening.

Day 3: Amazing Landscapes in Ninh Binh

1. Hoa Lu Temples of the Dinh & le Dynasties
   4h · Admission ticket included
   This morning, enjoy a 1-hour 45-minute drive to Ninh Binh province. Hoa Lu was the former capital of Vietnam more than one thousand years ago.
2. Tam Cốc-Bich Dộng
   5h · Admission ticket included
   Option 1: Tam Coc - Bich Dong
   
   Lunch is served at a local restaurant before you will be rowed in a sampan along a peaceful stream to admire views of majestic limestone cliffs, mysterious caves and immense rice fields. On the way back, get off your boat for a leisured walk around Thai Vi temple. The villagers built Thai Vi temple to remember the Kings of Tran Dynasty. It is also home of the bell casted since 1689. Continue visiting Bich Dong (emerald-like grotto) near there, you get to the top of the Upper pagoda and your eyes catch the overall panorama of the paddy fields between Truong Yen Mountain. This grotto is known as "the most beautiful cave in Vietnam". A scene of the popular French movie “Indochine” had been completed here in 1991. You will leave for Hanoi late afternoon.
3. Trang An Grottoes
   5h · Admission ticket included
   Option 2: Trang An
   
   After lunch, depart to visit Trang An Landscape Complex, take a boat trip to visit cave complex: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Nau Ruou in mystery and wildness, see the scenery of mountain and rivers Halong Bay on the land of Ninh Binh. Finish tour, drive back to Hanoi and drop off at your hotel.

Day 4: Hanoi city & street food tour

1. Hanoi
   8h
   You will meet your guide around 07:30am and head towards Hoan Kiem Lake. After visiting the Ngoc Son Temple, you will visit a traditional, local and charming coffee place and try Vietnam’s local coffee: Cà phê sữa đá (Iced coffee) and if you feel more adventurous, you can also try the ‘Egg coffee’! After our coffee, you will continue walking and we will stop in a street food place, where you will try the delicious ‘bánh mì’ –typical baguette sandwich filled in with a variety of things! Next, you will visit Hoa Lo Prison, where Vietnamese as well as American and French prisoners of war used to be imprisoned.
   At noon, you will stop at a ‘Bún Chả’ restaurant, where you will try Hanoi’s specialty. Continue visiting the Temple of Literature, built in 1076 -Vietnam’s first university. Your last stop of the day, you will take a walking tour of Hanoi’s Old Quarter. After a long day, you will finish with evening beers at the typical and well known Bia Hoi, where you will taste local draft beer.

Day 5: Hanoi Departure

1. Hanoi
   4h
   Today, you are free at leisure until our driver transfer you to the airport for your flight to go home.
   End of all services.

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels