Northern Vietnam Honeymoon Tour 11 Days

Day 1: Arrive – Hanoi

Today you will take your flight to Hanoi, starting your sweet honeymoon in Vietnam. Upon arrival to Noi Bai Airport, our guide and private car will greet you with beautiful bunch of flower and take you to the hotel.

Check in your hotel in Hanoi. A deluxe room with Roses, Candles, Chocolate and a bottle of wine will be ready for your romantic and cozy stay at the hotel.

In the afternoon, our guide will take you for the orientation walk in Hanoi Old Quarter before the beautiful welcome dinner for two in Wild Lotus Restaurant, one of the most high end restaurants in the city.

• Meal: Dinner
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 2: Hanoi City Tour

Morning start our tour to discover Hanoi, a peaceful city with beautiful trees and lakes, the city has thousand years of history and culture.

We will have the first impression of the city by authentic Cyclo ride from your hotel to Hanoi Old Quarter – where you can experience the real daily life activities of local people in the oldest area of Hanoi.

Then you will ride by the French Quarter along wide and green typical French boulevard that can explain to you why this city so called “Paris of the East” before visiting Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum – the symbol of the country and Presidential Palace, Presidential Garden, his House on Stilts and One Pillar Pagoda.

After that, visit Temple of Literature – the central of culture of Hanoi that worship to Literature – the only subject for student to study in the feudal system just hundred years ago and Confucius.

At lunch, enjoy the typical and authentic cuisine at Season of Hanoi Restaurant.

Afternoon visit Ethnology Museum in which you can study the great outline of 54 ethics people living in Vietnam. This museum is the only one in Vietnam that many artifacts display in there still exist in the life of local people but not extinct like most of the museums, that will create very good reflection about the life, culture, customs, religions and costumes of Vietnamese people.

Back to the center of the city for the short walk to discover the Old Quarter. Your tour will be concluded with great experience of Water Puppet show – the unique art of Vietnamese people from Red River Delta. Dinner at Indochine Restaurant.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 3: Free Day in Hanoi

Today you will have the whole day at leisure to enjoy you stay at the hotel, shopping in Hanoi Old Quarter or together discovering Hanoi.

After late check out at the hotel in the evening, enjoy dinner in Wild Rice Restaurant before transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai, starting your trip to Sapa. You will have very romantic night on two berth compartment on the night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai.

• Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
• Accommodation: Overnight train to Lao Cai.

Day 4: Lao Cai – Sapa

Arriving in Lao Cai early in the morning, you will be greeted by guide and driver in the private car and take an hour drive to Sapa – the town with four seasons in a day.

Arrive to your hotel in Sapa with special room for honeymoon. It was ready with roses, candle, chocolate and bottle of wine, sweetening your honeymoon. Enjoy breakfast in very cozy atmosphere at the hotel then take some time to refresh before joining us for an orientation walk around the town of Sapa. It is said that you will find four seasons in a day here, but Sapa is normally seen in a thin mist.

The private lunch for two people will be served at Hoa Sua restaurant.

In the afternoon, after having sometime for resting, we will take you for the short trip driving to Tram Ton Pass, the highest section over the Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range. It is compared to “The Gate to Heaven”. Here you admire the grandiose mountainous view of the North West of Vietnam, enjoy the moment of two of you in the spectacular nature. A photo for souvenir should not be missed!

On the way back to Sapa, we stop to visit Thac Bac – Silver Waterfall, one of the most popular tourist attractions of the neighborhood.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

Day 5: Sapa Tour

This morning, we have chance to explore the villages of different ethnic groups around Sapa. First, we take very beautiful drive from Sapa to the villages along the valley of Muong Hoa. The scenery like a painting of Mother Nature with the fields on the terrace, waterfall on the hill side, the green of the vegetation, a winding stream down below and the air is so fresh and pure. Here and there appear some H’mong girls with a basket on their back, strolling to the market to trade their domestic products.

Our first stop is at Y Linh Ho – village of the H’mong people. It is said that H’mong was one of the first immigrants to this area and famous for their hand weaving and terrace rice field in Sapa. Take a beautiful trek to Lao Chai – the other village of H’Mong people then hike to the village of Ta Van of the Giay people via the terraces and the trails, experience the diversity of hill tribe people there.

After that, you will be transferred back to Sapa by car for lunch at Cha Pa restaurant.

The rest of the day is on your own arrangements. You can choose to do some shopping in town, or you should not miss the visit up to Ham Rong Mountain where you can admire the view of Fansipan, “the roof-top of South East Asia” as well as the romantic view of the whole town in the mist.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

Day 6: Sapa – Topas Ecolodge Resort

You have the whole morning to relax and discover Sapa together on your own or enjoy the comfortable and cozy atmosphere in Victoria Hotel. A swimming in heated swimming pool or a massage in the hotel also can make you feel so refresh.

Check out Victoria Hotel before noon and enjoy lunch at Gecko Restaurant.

After lunch, drive to Ecolodge Resort, very impressive and romantic resort above Muong Hoa Valley. From the lodge there are breathtaking views across the scenic valleys below, which are home to villages of the Tay and Red Dao minorities. You will have great time to relax and recover in white stone bungalow; it was built based on ecological principles. You will have full day to enjoy your stay in this resort, so quiet and calm, totally pure atmosphere.

After beautiful buffet dinner, you can be back to your private bungalow. You will be totally refresh when wake up in the next morning.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Stay at Topas Ecolodge

Day 7: Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi

The morning is at leisure. You can spend time in the resort or take a short hike to the area around the resort. After lunch at the resort, check out and drive back to Sapa. On the way drive to Lao Cai, you will take another escorted tour to Ta Phin – the village of the Red Dao. In the evening, take the overnight train back to Hanoi on the two berth compartment.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 8: Hanoi – Halong Bay

Arrive at Hanoi station in early morning. Our guide and private luxury car will take you to visit the Flower Market – the unique market in Hanoi then take a walk around Hoan Kiem Lake – where you can join to hundred of local people doing Taichi there.

After having breakfast in the local restaurant, take a four hours drive through Red River Delta to Halong Bay, one of 7 natural wonders of the world.

Upon arrival to Halong, you will be greeting by cruise manager, welcome on board and set sail through bay while lunch is served. A special room for honeymooner with roses, candles, chocolate and wine is ready for you on the junk. Passage into the magical bay, where thousands of sculpted limestone islands rise from the waves like dragons’ teeth, it will be great experiences for you to admire the breathtaking nature of Halong Bay.

After lunch and cruising around the most beautiful part of Halong Bay, you will have a chance to take a short trek to a nearby summit for a panoramic view of the bay, go swimming on a quite beach or sunbathing on the sundeck.

Later afternoon, visit an interesting fishing village with opportunity to interact with fish men who have been living in the bay for almost three generations.

At sunset time, kayak or simply take a bamboo row boat to discover a water tunnel with many coral reefs in a scenic lagoon. Back on board, enjoy cocktails while watching sunset before dinner served on Junk. It can be one of the most beautiful moments for two of you on this honeymoon trip.

At night, enjoy the romantic and peaceful time in the cozy and romantic room for honeymooners on the junk.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Overnight on the junk

Day 9: Halong Bay

After breakfast, our junk will take you to the bay’s most untouched areas. It will be the best time for two of you spend time together in the great nature of the bay, discovering Ha Long Bay from distance to the detail. You either can enjoy swimming on quiet beaches, visiting water tunnels, fishing villages or kayaking. This is the best way to see and feel Halong Bay in the most close and detail way.

Lunch served on board by your private chef or you even can spend time together in the secluded beach, cook for each other barbecue seafood lunch on the charcoal kitchen.

In the afternoon, back to your familiar and comfortable room on the junk to enjoy very romantic and peaceful time on Halong Bay.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• Accommodation: Overnight on the junk

Day 10: Halong Bay – Hanoi

In the morning, you will greet the day with an opportunity to view the sunrise over the bay, hand in hand between outstanding natures and totally peaceful with pure fresh air. After breakfast, visit beautiful limestone grotto, one of the most spectacular masterpiece of mother of nature in the bay then back to the boat for a final glimpse of the Halong Bay while cruising back to the dock.

On the way back to Hanoi, visit Tho Ha – the famous village of terracotta products before 20th century. Discover village through narrow and zigzag alleys with the old houses had been constructed from broken part of terracotta from the past. Walking over village cemetery to the dike, where you can see the village from distance over the beautiful lake.

Drive back to Hanoi. The rest of the day is free at leisure.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 11: Hanoi – Departure

Morning is free at leisure at hotel till your departure time to the airport to flight home. End of 11-Day Northern Vietnam Honeymoon Package Tour.

• Meals: Breakfast