5-Day Hanoi & Halong Bay Cruise

Hanoi - The capital of Vietnam
Widely acknowledged as one of the loveliest cities in Asia, this one-thousand-year old city offer you its unique images that totally different from other Asian cities. Hanoi still retains a small-town provincial charm and unique intermingle with a French legacy wide, tree-lined boulevards, parks, grand villas and an artistic, café society.

Halong Bay - World Natural Heritage
Located in the Gulf of Tonkin in the northeast of Vietnam, Halong Bay boasts a magnificent scenery and covers an area of 43,400 ha and including over 1600 islands and islets, most of which are uninhabited and unaffected by humans, it forms a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars and is an ideal model of a mature Karst landscape developed during a warm and wet tropical climate. The property’s exceptional scenic beauty is complemented by its great biological interest.

Day 1. Welcome to Hanoi | Overnight: Hanoi 

Warm welcome upon your arrival in Noi Bai International Airport - Hanoi. Meet your driver at the airport for a transfer to your hotel located in the Hanoi downtown. Check in. Free. At leisure.
You may want to explore the city of Hanoi on your own with the below places of interesting

Dong Xuan Market 

Dong Xuan market - Hanoi

Hanoi’s biggest marketplace, is a cavernous building full of tiny aisles. Built by the French at the end of the 19th century, the covered market today has stalls selling anything from household items and food, to clothes and shoes. The building features five arched roofs and covers more than 6,500 square meters (1.6 acres) of space. 

Cyclo ( Trishaw) Ride

Cyclo (Trishaw) ride - Hanoi

One of the best way to explore the Hanoi Old Quarter to take a cyclo ride around the Old Quarter to explore the exciting local daily life of Hanoians. 

Water Puppet Show

Water puppet - Hanoi

 Enjoy water puppet show – a Vietnamese unique art performance of life of Vietnamese farmers, communal entertainment or historical legends.

Hanoi night market

Day 2. Group Tour - Hanoi Sightseeing | B - L | Overnight: Hanoi
Available on Mon, Wed & Fri
7.45 – 8.15. Pick up at your hotel and start explore Hanoi city including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts and One Pillar Pagoda.  Continue to visit Tran Quoc Pagoda located on the bank of the West lake. Lunch at local restaurant. Then visit Bat Trang pottery village.

Ho Chi Minh President's Mausoleum

Available on Sun, Tue, Thu & Sat
7.45 – 8.15. Pick up at your hotel and start explore Hanoi city including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts and One Pillar Pagoda. Continue to visit Tran Quoc Pagoda located on the bank of the West lake. Lunch at local restaurant. Continue to visit the Ethnology Museum, Literature Temple. Take you past Hoan Kiem Lake to see the peaceful waters, and the beauty of Ngoc Son temple and explore the Hanoi’s Old Quarter.

Tran Quoc pagoda - Hanoi

Day 3. Shulle Bus Hanoi - Halong Bay | B - L - D  | Overnight: Traditional Junk

Halong Bay Natural World Heritage

After breakfast, meet your guide and driver at your hotel at 7.30 AM - 8.30 AM. Start a 3.5 hrs drive Halong Bay. Welcome on board. Lunch is servced while cruising in the magnificent Halong Bay. The junk stop at the Van Gia floating fishing village where you may take rowing boat or kayak to visit the village.

Boat trip to floating fishing village - Halong Bay 

Continue cruising to explore the bay and visit the Halong Pearl Farm village. Enjoy some swimming if weather permit. Time to relax on the sundeck before joining a cooking class and practice some Vietnamese traditional dishes. Enjoying dinner and join some evening entertainments on board or do squid fishing.

Day 4. Shuttle Bus Halong Bay - Hanoi | B - L  | Overnight: Hanoi

Halong Majestic Cruise

Early bird with exercises with Tai chi on the sundeck and sunrise over the bay. After breakfast you visit the Sung Sot Cave, one of the most beautiful cave of the bay. Enjoy the beautiful scenery while the junk cruising back to shore. Join the bus for transfer back to Hanoi around 16.00

Day 5. Departure Hanoi | B
Enjoy your free time at your hotel or you can do your last minute souvenir shopping before transfer to airport for your flight home. Have a good journey. Thanks for joining us.

What’s Included
Private airport pick-up & drop off
Shuttle bus by A/C transportation
Pick-up & drop off at your hotel in the Hanoi Old Quarter.
Group tour with E.S.Guide as mentioned
Halong Bay Cruise 2D1N
Meal as mentioned | B: breakfast | L : Lunch | D: Dinner
Hotel accommodation with daily breakfast – Shared in double room
Bottle of water on coach
24/7 hotline support

What’ Excluded
International  flights
Domestic flight
Travel insurance
Beverages
Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
Peak season or Public holidays surcharge if any