Vietnam train tour begins from Ho Chi Minh city

Vietnam train tour begins from Ho Chi Minh city. Traveling by train is the most safest transport in Vietnam. You can move easily for looking these beautiful landscapes

Day 1 : Ho Chi Minh - day train to Nha Trang:

• Morning, our driver pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Sai Gon railway station for boarding the day train SE8 to Nha Trang (09.00am – 16.30pm). The trip takes more than seven hours but the beautiful landscapes along the way is worth to spending such as fruit farms, salt made farms, fish villages, shrimp villages, amazing beaches… Arrive to the train station.


• Pick up and transfer to your hotel.


• Meals on guest’s account.


• Overnight in Nha Trang.

 Day 2 : Nha Trang city (B/L/_)

• Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel. Start your city tour by visiting the National Oceanographic Institute, where performances various sea creatures. It was built at the begin of the century by French.


• Visit Bao Dai Villa, it was built on the hill and surrounded by the poetic scenery.


• Visit Long Son pagoda with the white huge Buhhda statue on the top of Trai Thuy hill, Ponagar tower a typical historic building of Cham people, Chong Ptomontory which is a beautiful sightseeing.


• Have lunch and relax. Then you will soak and relax in Thap Ba Hot Mineral Spring Center (pay ticket which enjoy Mud Bath for yourself)


• Shopping at Dam Market. Then you have a chance to listen about Nha Trang history at The Second of April Square, take photo with Tram Huong Tower and Opera House. Take an over view of Nha Trang city from the hight of Tram Huong Tower.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight in Nha Trang.

Day 3: Nha Trang Islands (B/L/_)

•  Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30am, pick up at the hotel, transfer to Cau Da port.


• 09h00: Boat trip to visit Nha Trang Bay, you can see the great landscape of over 19 islands on Nha Trang Bay.


• 10h00: Visit Hon Mun Conserve Sea Creatures Zone. To explore the ocean bed, MunIsland is one of the best places for diving. You will have an opportunity to see and touch numerous sea creatures and colorful fish, admire the coral reefs as well as


• 12h00:  Boat trip to Mot Island, having lunch on the boat. Enjoy the exchange relations music with many people come from many countries. Enjoy the fruits and wine (free of charge)


• 13h30:  Boat trip to Tranh Island or Mot island for enjoying water sports such as: Jetski, parasailing, volley-ball….


• 15h00: Boat trip to Tri Nguyen Aquarium, visiting life of marine creatures under the water from many beatiful tanks, view the floating fish farm.


• 16h00:  Back to Cau Da port. Return to Nha Trang.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight in Nha Trang.

Day 4: Nha Trang & departure

• Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel.


• Transfer to the train station or the airport for your next destination.

Include:

• Private car/van/minibus for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program


• Train ticket:  Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang (4 pax/ cabin)


• Cold mineral water and cool tissue on car


• English speaking tour guide


• Private boat trips in Nha Trang


• All entrance fees


• Meals as indicated in the tour program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)


• Hotel accommodation based on two people share a double/ twin room.

Exclude:

• International flight to/from Vietnam


• International airport tax


• Vietnamese entry visa


• Early check in and late check out at these hotel


• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expenses

Note:

• Tailor Vietnam train tour begins from Ho Chi Minh city  is available on request


• The tour price is applied for a group 9 people

BacHa & Cocly - Special markets & Boat trip

BacHa & Cocly - special markets & boat trip

• Beautiful and colorful Sunday and Tuesday Market of the hill tribal peoples living around Coc Ly Commune and the northern region of Bac Ha District with festival atmosphere. Meeting to hill tribal peoples such as: Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Tay, Nung..., who go to the market in their bast traditional costume not only for shopping but mainly for socializing.


• Magnificient and stunning landscapes of the mountainous region in the far-north and Chay River Massif.

Day 1: Hanoi - Laocai

• 20 : 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi railway station for boarding the Express Train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper wooden cabin.

Day 2: (Sunday): Lao Cai – Bac Ha market – Sapa ( B/ L/ D) 

• Picked up at Laocai Railway Station then drive to BacHa market. The beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill - tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting BanPho village. Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai.


• Reach Sapa late in the afternoon.


• Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town


• Three stars hotel standard:  Royal View Sapa hotel


• Address: 34 Cau May St - Sapa - Lao Cai

 
Day 3: (Monday): Sapa – Ban Ho – Sapa ( B/ L/ D)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Start your trip buy take a jeep to Supan village and trek down to Ban Ho village. Have luch at the village then a short walk to visit the village of the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Back to Sapa.


• Dinner at the local restaurant.


• Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town


• Three stars hotel standard:  Royal View Sapa hotel


• Address: 34 Cau May St - Sapa - Lao Cai

 Day 4: (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly market – Lao Cai ( B/ L/ D )

• Breakfast at the hotel then leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung).


• The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (TrungDo village) by the river.


• After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnigh on the A/c soft sleeper cabin. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM.


• The end of tour.

Include:

• Pick ups, transfer & sightseeing as per program by A/c private Russian jeep or minibus


• Full meals as per the tour program (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)


• English speaking guide


• Entrance fees


• Mineral water on bus


• Accommodation based on Twin/double room share


• Train tickets: Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning 4 pax / cabin)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expense


• Single supplement (US$42 per person)

Note:

• Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...

Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour

Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour, Joining some thousands tribal peoples from different ethnic groups in their colorful traditional costumes who gather at regional markets for their most important event of the week, you will quickly absorbed by festive atmosphere and understand the important role of these markets in spiritual life of local ethnic peoples. This is a can-not-be-missed experience offered by our Sapa Market Excursions which are made for those who are interested in discovering new cultures and especially for photo hunters.Get started: (Thursday) Hanoi - Laocai

 

• 20:00 pm - Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi railway station to board the express train to Laocai.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 1 (Friday) Sapa Town's Highlights -  Ta Phin Village (B/L/D)

• Meet your Sapa tour guide and driver upon your arrival to Lao Cai Station. Transfer uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountains to Sapa with some stop for over viewing of stunning valleys and terraced rice fields along the way.


• After Breakfast your guide will show you around for a brief introduction of this charming town. At the market, ethnic minority people of different groups wearing their traditional costumes made by themselves comes every day selling local products includes vegetable, bamboo shoot, mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs...there are chances to get intact and taking photos. Later you will follow the footsteps uphill to the top of Ham Rong Mountain for over viewing beautiful scenery of the town and surrounding area, paying visit to an orchard garden and a mini museum which tells you a lot about ethnic minority people living in Sa Pa and the northwest region.


• After Lunch, transfer 14km to the center of Ta Phin valley, then you will enjoy an easy walk following village path, paying visit to some H'mong hamlets scattering from the bottom of the valley to higher mountain slopes. From high elevation, great view of the valley stretching under your foot. Continue your walk to the Red Zao village in which you will meet groups of women making handicrafts includes embroidered clothes, handbags...


• Transfer back to Sa Pa in late afternoon and the rest hours is at your leisure.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 2 (Saturday) Tribal Village Exploration in Muong Hoa Valley (B/L/D)

• Today you will spend the whole day exploring the spectacular Muong Hoa. A Jeep will take us out of the town, following the only road built on the side of a mountain range, looking down the valley, over viewing magnificent landscapes composed of high mountains, deep valleys, and stream of water winding, waterfalls and terraced rice paddies...Many time, leaving the main road, you will visit tribal villages such as Ta Van of the Zay, Su Pan of the Black H'mong, Ban Ho of the Tay...there are chances for meeting and contacting locals at home and at works. We leave Ban Ho in late afternoon for a drive back to Sapa.


• Evening is at your leisure.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 3 (Sunday) Full day joining the famous Bac Ha Market (B/L/D)

• Every day always begins very early in Vietnam. Especially on Sunday in Bac Ha. You will be waken up, having Breakfast and check out your hotel early before seven.


• Leaving Sapa at 07.00 for a transfer 3 hours down hill to Lao Cai and later uphill to Bac Ha. As you get close to The market, you will see lot of Flower H'mong with their horses loading with selling's along the way. Arriving at the most crowded time of the market you will join some thousands local tribal peoples such as Flower H'mong, Tay, Zao and Phu La who are in their colorful traditional dresses shoping, talking, enjoying food...The most colorful part is clothes section while the most interesting ones probably the food stalls and animal market. Be noted that the small animals such as chicken, piggy... are sold in narrow ground at the main market place but buffaloes, horses market lies about 3 hundred meters away near the main motor way.


• Some hours getting excited with the market activities and festive atmosphere, Lunch will be served in a local restaurant with set menu and you may try H'mong home made corn wine.


• Afternoon will be highlighted with a short walk around Ban Pho Village of the Flower H'mong and Tay peoples which includes some small hamlets set amongst lush plump gardens, terraced paddies and mountain back drops for a local breath. Then transfer to Laocai station for boarding the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.


• End of Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour.

Include:

• Train tickets King Express/Livitrans train Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi, soft sleeper, wooden cabin with A/C.


• All meals as mentioned in the tour program ( B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)


• All entrance fees


• Hotel pick up and transfer as tour program


• English speaking tour guide/ French Guide


• Accommodation (2 nights at three stars hotel: Paradise Sapa hotel, Bamboo Sapa hotel, Royal View hotel...)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Single supplement


• Personal expense

Vietnam train tour begins from Ha Noi capital

Day 1 : Ha Noi – Ninh Binh  - Tam Coc – Bai Dinh pagoda (L)

• Morning, our driver pick you up at your hotel and transfer to the railway station for boarding the day train SE7 to Ninh Binh (06.15am – 08.29am). You have chances to view the landscapes along the railway sides in early morning. Arrive to the train station. Meeting your tour guide and driver. Start your sightseeing for a visit and offered incense at Bai Dinh pagoda. This is a complex of temples known for many Vietnam record are established as the largest temple area, the largest bronze Buddha statue, the temple has many statues and most Arhat most Bodhi.


• Proceed to Tam Coc, we take sampans to visit Tam Coc, which is literally known “ Three Caves” First Cave is the longest one which is considered a real rainbow in the water in the morning time stretching on both sides of the Ngo Dong River. The quiet movements of the oars create a sort of musical rhythm inside the cave. As the boat leaves the cave, you can see what seems to be an old man with a white breard fishing, fairy flying in the clouds, peasants collecting fuel and a group of white goats grazing on the hills. Then we move to the Second Cave and the Third Cave.


• Transfer to your hotel.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ninh Binh.

 Day 2: Trang An – Dong Hoi (B/_/_)

• Following breakfast at your hotel. Meeting your tour guide at 7.00am at your hotel for visit Trang An. Trang An is an area of ​​our country, clouds swirled. The bottom blue water reflecting the cliffs on route. It has 31 lakes, lagoons unconnected by 48 caves have been discovered in caves through which water 2km long as Dia Linh cave, Sinh Duoc cave,  May cave... Transfer to the train station for boarding the day train SE 5 to Dong Hoi (11.17am – 19.10pm).


• Pick up and transfer to your hotel.


• Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Dong Hoi.

Day 3: Dong Hoi – Phong Nha caves – Paradise caves – Hue city (B/L/_)

• At 7.30am, Meeting our tour guide and drive at your hotel. Proceed to Phong Nha cave, you will take a boat along Son River pass through river and forest to Phong Nha Caves and enjoy the wonderful sights of this cave. You will stop to visit Cung Dinh cave, Tien Cave and Bi Ky Cave with beautiful limestone formations.


• Then driven to Paradise cave which is about 30 minutes driving from Phong Nha caves. you will have a chance to see Paradise Cave which is a dry cave and appreciated the most stunning cave in Phong Nha Caves System because of its size and unique making a deep impression for the visitors. After going 2000 meters on transferring by golf car through the old forest with many kinds of valuable and rare of plants you will have an opportunity to discover the Cave with its great structure and the stalactites and stalagmites inside. All these are the creations of nature, only the 1100 meters wooden pathway through the cave was man - made. You will leave more 2 hours to explore the cave. Proceed to Hue city by car. Arrival to the city around 6.00pm.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hue.

Day 4: Hue city (B/L/_)

• Have breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00am, our guide and driver pick up you at your hotel and then take a full day to discover Hue: visit Emperor Minh Mang's Mausoleum, Emperor Khai Dinh's Mausoleum, Performing Programs of VO KINH VAN AN - Vietnam Traditional Kungfu and Emperor Tu Duc’s Mausoleums. Stop on the way to see how conical hats and incense sticks are made.


• Lunch at a local restaurant.


• In the afternoon, visit Imperial capital during Nguyen Dynasty and the seven – storey Thien Mu Pagoda on the riverbank. Return by boat on the gentle Perfume River and do not miss the sunset on the river.


• You will come back your hotel.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hue.

 Day 5: Hue & departure (B)

• Having breakfast at your hotel. Free until transfer to the train station or the airport for your next destination.


• See you next Vietnam train tour

Include:

• Private car/van/minibus for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program


• Train ticket:  Ha Noi – Ninh Binh (soft seat)


• Train ticket: Ninh Binh – Dong Hoi (soft berth)


• Cold mineral water and cool tissue on car


• English speaking tour guide


• Private sampan in Tam Coc, Trang An, Phong Nha cave


• Private boat trips in Hue


• All entrance fees


• Meals as indicated in the tour program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)


• Hotel accommodation based on two people share a double/ twin room.

Exclude:

• International flight to/from Vietnam


• International airport tax


• Vietnamese entry visa


• Early check in and late checkout at these hotels


• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expense.

Note:

• Tailor Vietnam train tour begins from Ha Noi capital is available on request