Vietnam Culture 9 days 8 nights

BRIEF ITINEARY:
Day 1: Arrival Hanoi
Day 2: Ha Noi - Mai Chau
Day 3: Mai Chau - Son La
Day 4: Son La - Dien Bien Phu
Day 5: Dien Bien Phu - Muong Lay
Day 6: Muong Lay - Sa Pa
Day 7: Sa Pa Trekking
Day 8: Sa Pa - Train to Ha Noi
Day 9: Ha Noiarrival and departure

DETAIL ITINEARY: 

Day 1: Arrive in Hanoi
Arrive at NoiBai Airport. You will be welcomed & picked up by Indochina Vision Co’s guide then transferring to a hotel in Hanoi. Check-in registration. Enjoy welcome dinner at local restaurant. Relax and stay overnight at hotel.
Meal: Welcome Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
 
Day 2: Ha Noi - Mai Chau
Mai Chau, the heart of a beautiful valley that is a world away from the hustle and bustle of Hanoi. The modern village is an unappealing sprawl, but as you emerge on the rice fields and rural living it is transformed into a real paradise. It’s a stunning area, and most people here are ethnic White Thai who stay in hatched-roof stilted houses on split bamboo floors and will be wonderful experience for your Vietnam Tours.
8h00 pick up at your hotel in Hanoi we will be driving our own way through villages, valleys of Ha Tay and HoaBinh province. Lunch break in HoaBinh town, visit HoaBinh Hydro power, the biggest one in Viet Nam, then continuethe road up hills to Kun pass that offering spectacular views over the valleys and mountains. Arrive in Lac village of the Thai people in Mai Chau. Check in a still house then take a short walk around. After dinner, you can have chance to join the traditional dance of the White Thai people, taste Ruou Can - the special wine of the local made from rice and a kind of tree leaves.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Home-stay in Mai Chau
 
Day 3: Mai Chau - Son La
After breakfast, we drive to Son La, a stop in Moc Chau with hundreds of giant grass farm for cows, you will know why this is the biggest milk centre in Vietnam, continue driving to Son La and enjoy the view of the Northern mountains, arrive in Son La at noon, check in hotel before visit “Son La prison" in the French war. Walk around the town in Son La.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Son La
 
Day 4: Son La - Dien Bien Phu
Drive to Dien Bien Phu. Visit very primitive village of the Black Thai village that you can see the very basic conditions of life. Continue to biggest daily hill tribe market in ThuanChau, see different ethnic groups, local fruits, food, but it will be much more beautiful experience when reaching to the top of historical and amazing PhaDinPass, time for photos and stories especially about the French war, Visit another Green H’Mong village right there. Lunch in Tuan Giao. Continue our drive to Dien Bien.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Dien Bien
 
Day 5: Dien Bien Phu - Muong Lay
Morning visit of the museum and sites of Dien Bien Phu. Drive to Lai Chau, visit a village of the Black Dao People, if lucky, you will see an art of hair make-up of the old ladies-really something to admire, walk along Da River before getting to your hotel that located in very lovely quiet town.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Muong Lay
 
Day 6: Muong Lay - Sa Pa
Drive to Sa Pa, during your way, you will see many different ethnic villages of the Lao, Lu, Black Dao, Tien Dao, Day, Red H’mong before driving up to the highest pass in Vietnam-Hoang Lien Son. Stop over on top that called “Heaven Gate” for a wonderful view down to amazing valley and Fanxipan-the highest mount in Indochina (Roof of Vietnam). You also visit “Silver Waterfall”-the nicest one in the area before getting to your hotel in Sapa.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
 
Day 7: Sa Pa (Lao Chai - Ta Van)
Sapa is the Queen of the Mountains, overlooking a beautiful valley, lofty mountains towering over the town on all sides. Sapa is gateway to another world of mysterious minority cultures and luscious landscapes. After breakfast, we will do one of the most beautiful Sapa Tours by driving to visit Lao Chai and Ta Van village of the Black H'Mong and the Day people where you can enjoy fresh air, amazing scenery of the imposing mountain range, trek down world's most beautiful terraced rice fields, visit some local family on the way and learn unique culture and life of these ethnic groups. Back to Sapa by private car, free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
 
Day 8: Sa Pa - Train to Ha Noi
The markets in the Northern Vietnam are always the colorful meeting places for the hill tribes. Minority people come down from the mountains to sell their products, or just for catching up on the latest news, gossip, drinking away troubles or seeking for lover. In the morning, drive to visit one of the areas weekly markets;
Market days:
Can Cau Market - Saturdays
Bac Ha Market or Muong Hum Market or MuongKhuong Market - Sundays
Cao Son Market - Wednesdays
Lung KhauNhin Market - Thursdays
Coc Ly Market - Tuesdays
In the late afternoon, your Sapa tour guide and driver transfer you back to Lao Cai to catch the night train back to Hanoi. We hope that you have enjoyed your Sapa Tours with us. We say goodbye with sincere thanks and looking forward to welcoming you again for your coming Vietnam Tours and Sapa Tours.
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: On Deluxe Train
 
Day 9: Ha Noi arrival and departure
Arrival Hanoi early morning, your hotel is prepared for early check in, have shower and breakfast. Free at leisure till transfer to the airport for your next flight.
Meal: Breakfast

RATE:  This rates are quoted in US$ per person

Categories	From 1st Jan to 31st Dec 2016
	2pax	4pax	6-8 pax	Single Supplement
Superior (3*)	919	842	634	240
Child from 4 – 10 years old	75%

 
Trip Included:

• Pick up & drop off at the places
• Accommodation at hotels/home-stay as indicated in program
• Meals as indicated in program
• Private A/C car transferring during the trip
• All admission cost at places mentioned in itinerary
• Professional English speaking tour guide at places
• Deluxe train Lao Cai – Hanoi – 4 berth, A/C, Wooden Cabin inside, soft sleeper.
• Mineral Water

 
Trip Excluded:

• Visa application fee to Vietnam
• Personal expenses and Insurance
• Other meals and drinks
• Airport tax
• Tips and Gratuities