Arrival in Noi Bai airport. Welcome to Hanoi city – the capital of Vietnam. On the way to the hotel, you will listen to a brief introduction on Hanoi, a traditional and cultural city, has thousand years of history. Transfer to hotel for rest time.

Overnight in Hanoi

Distance: Noi Bai airport – Hanoi Centre: 30km   → 45 minutes transfer

The capital city of Hanoi is often referred to as the ‘Paris of the Orient’. Today you will have a full day tour of this historic city full of charming lakes, parks and shaded boulevards. Your first stop will be the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (closed on every Monday, Friday morning and every afternoon) where the father of modern day Vietnam. Visit sites including the Stilt House, Presidential Palace and One Pillar Pagoda. Then drive to the Temple of Literature,

Have lunch and continue visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

Following is Hanoi 'Hilton' Prison. The prison's displays focus on the sufferings of Vietnamese revolutionaries who were confined (and sometimes executed) here when the French were the masters of Vietnam in the early part of the 20th century. End of the day will enjoy Water Puppet Performance.

Overnight in Hanoi

Have breakfast at your hotel and then depart early for the Mai Chau area, southwest of Hanoi. Shortly after leaving the city behind, the scenery starts to take on an altogether different look with endless stretches of farmland and hills and mountains looming in the distance.

Arrive in Mai Chau and fuel up with lunch at a local restaurant before beginning the first trek. Depart on foot for Pom Coong, a village inhabited by the White Thai minority people. Enjoy a warm welcome by the hospitable locals and get a taste for their culture with a local meal and traditional dance performance. Then continue to transfer to Pu Luong, on the way you will have the chance to see the breathtaking mountain with panoramic views of the whole valley. Take some time to explore the beautiful retreat, with its captivating panoramic views and tranquil setting.

Check-in and overnight.

Overnight at Pu Luong  

Distance:

Hanoi – Mai Chau (Pom Coong): 150km / 93.21 miles → 4-hour transfer
Treeking in Pom Coong: 2.5 hour, Difficulty: Easy.
Mai Chau (Pom Coong) – Pu Luong Retreat: 54km /33.55 miles → 2-hour transfer

Take a short ride from the retreat to Dong Dien village, visit the most beautiful valley in Puluong.
On the way, you will have the opportunity to admire the immense terraced fields, if you are lucky to go in the rice season, you will admire the iridescent rice fields and majestic mountains.
Visitors walk on a winding trail, enjoy the natural landscape both majestic and unspoiled and poetic villages to come to Kho Muong village, which is likened to "Hidden Village", the village is nestled in a forest. A small valley, surrounded  by high mountains, the village has been inhabited for generations by more than 50 households, the people here still retain the traditional culture passed down for hundreds of years by their forefathers. surname. We will have lunch on the way at a Thai family (pay on spot).

After lunch, you will then walk out of Kho Muong Village following the road to Bang village, through the village, hidden trail and beside of rice terrace field and come back to your accommodation.

Overnight at Pu Luong  
Trekking distance: around 10 – 12 km. If you can not trek for long distance, you can book local motorbike (you will seat behind driver and wear the helmet). Based on spot around 150,000 VND (= 6 USD/way/pax
from hotel to Kho Muong or Kho Muong to hotel)

Morning travel to Ninh Binh for visit Nature Reserve of Van Long, en route to take photographs of a suspension bridge over the Cham River, where you begin your walk in search of stunning water wheels. Get up close to each wheel and discover how water is moved from river to handmade bamboo aqueducts via simple constructions of all sizes.
After lunch Van Long, we arrive at the Nature Reserve of Van Long after two hours drive (about 135km), we get on a bamboo rowboat as soon as we arrive for a boat trip rowing along this beautiful wetland of Van Long, enjoying spectacular scenery surrounded by rice paddies, lotus pond and towering limestone mountain peaks.

Overnight at resort in Ninh Binh

We depart for Ha Long Bay going through the scenic countryside. The wondrous Ha Long Bay is truly one of Vietnam's most impressive scenic sights. This exciting cruise will provide us a fantastic view of the
picturesque scenery blending with the sky and some 3,000 limestone islands rising amazingly from the clear and emerald water. The limestone karsts formations are littered with beaches, grottoes and beautiful caves.

Overnight on cruise

Note: the itinerary of Halong will be changed based on which cruise you choose and depending on the weather without prior notice

Overnight on cruise.
Distance:   Ninh Binh - Halong: 190km: 3 hours 45 minutes transfer

Have breakfast at your hotel then your free time until check out and transfer you to the airport to get your onward flight (Check out time 12:00)