Vietnam Adventure Tour 14 Days

Day 1: Arrival at Hanoi (D, GP)

Arriving at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, you’ll be met and driven to your hotel. You’ll have time to relax before a ‘Welcome’ dinner at a restaurant in a restored French colonial building.

Day 2: Hanoi city tour by motorbike and street food (B, L, G)

You’ll have the whole day to explore Vietnam’s capital city on the back of a motorbike. You will visit the Temple of Literature, Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum Complex, the bustling Old Quarter.

The day also includes a ‘Street Life’ experience, also on the back of a motorbike. A street food brunch is included – take your pick from traditional Hanoi Pho (beef noodle soup), Nom (green papaya salad with seasoned beef), Banh Goi (pillow-shaped rice pastry with minced pork and mushroom), Banh Cuon (hot rice paper with pork and fried onion) or Bun Cha (fresh noodle with grilled pork).

In the evening, you’ll have tickets for a performance of traditional Water Puppetry. You’ll spend the night in Hanoi.

Day 3: Hanoi/Ha Long kayaking (B, L, D, G)

After an early breakfast, you’ll leave for Ha Long Bay, one of the most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Areas where you’ll board a wooden junk built from the model of the old Vietnamese court vessels. The cruising route will take you to the busy World Heritage area and then to some of the less well-known grottoes and caves. Meals will be provided on board with fresh seafood mainly. You will spend the night in a twin or double cabin with an en suite toilet and shower.

Day 4: Ha Long/Hanoi/Lao Cai (Brunch, G)

You’ll spend the morning cruising Ha Long Bay, followed by lunch just before docking around noon and leaving for Hanoi. In the evening, your car will arrive to take you to Hanoi railway station in time to board the overnight sleeper to Lao Cai.

Day 5: Lao Cai/Ethnic Market/Sapa (B, L, G)

Arriving in Sapa in the early morning, you’ll be met and taken to visit an ethnic marketfrequented by ethnic minority peoples. After a picnic lunch, you’ll continue your journey into the mountains to Sapa. The rest of the day will be free to explore the town. You’ll spend the night in a Sapa hotel with good mountain views.

Day 6: Sapa/Su Pan/Thanh Phu/Sin Chai (B, L, D, G)

After breakfast, you'll mount a mountain bike to explore Sapa valley. You’ll cycle down a winding road running along the Muong Hoa valley, home to Black Hmong, Giay and Red Dao minorities. The bike ride today will be around 40km with 5.5 hours and 1 hour for lunch. You will have dinner in a local house and stay overnight in a bamboo hut.

Day 7: Sin Chai/Nam Nhiu/My Son/Ban Ho/Sapa/Lao Cai (B, L, G)

Today’s ride will be a little softer. You’ll pass villages and stop at a local school. You’ll also be able to meet members of the Xa Pho people, one of the smallest ethnic groups unique to the northern highlands. From there you’ll pass Thanh Phu and continue to Ban Ho where lunch will provided in a local house. The bike ride today will be around 20 km with 4 hours biking and 1 hour for lunch.

In the mid-afternoon, you will be transferred back to Sapa for refresh and then later to Lao Cai before boarding the overnight train back to Hanoi.

Day 8: Hanoi/Nha Trang (B, DP)

Arriving in Hanoi in the early morning, you will be met and transferred to your hotel for breakfast and refresh. You will be free until your car arrives to take you to Noi Bai airport to board the noon flight to Nha Trang. On arrival, you’ll find a car and driver waiting to take you to your hotel, which will overlook the Bay. You’ll spend the night in Nha Trang.

Day 9: Full day private boat trip in Nha Trang (B, L, G)

After breakfast, a car will arrive to take you to board a boat for a whole-day cruise to some of the small islands in the bay including Mun Island, Tam Island, Tri Nguyen Aquarium on Mieu Island.

Get back to the mainland in the late afternoon, you will be driven to your hotel where you will spend the night.

Day 10: Nha Trang/Whale Island (B, L, D)

In the morning, the Whale Island Resort minibus will carry you to Ninh Hoa where you’ll board a speedboat to spend 4 nights on the island.

Day 11 to Day 13: Whale Island free (B, L, D each day)

Your time will be on your own!

Day 14: Whale Island/Nha Trang/Ho Chi Minh City departure (B, DP)

Your time will be free until your car arrives to take you back to the mainland and then to the airport in Nha Trang for your flight to Ho Chi Minh City in good time to connect your departure flight. Tour ends.