08:00    Pick up at your hotel and take a short drive to Ky Son Village that is around 50Km from Hanoi city center. On the way, we stop to visit Tay Phuong Pagoda – one of the oldest pagodas in the North with beautiful and charming architecture.
10:00     Arrive at Moon Garden Home stay in Ky Son village. Welcome drink with local fresh green tea. Free time for discovering Moon garden Home stay and Ky Son village by yourself (local market, kindergarten)
11:00     Cooking class
12:30     Lunch
13:30     Hand Spa- Enjoy having your fingers dipped in a fragrant lime bowl and the traditional herbal hand massage. Then, free time for relaxing or further conversation with the host family about local snacks, sharing cultures, and learning about traditional customs. If you want to learn Vietnamese, one of the family members can teach you.  
15:00     You can have choice of a short ride of 6 km or a long ride of 12 km round trip:

Short ride: Take a bicycle ride to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son, Van Minh, and Cham farming communities to and stop at any home you like for a cup of tea. Visit the kindergarten (if open). Chat with local people about their daily life and farming. You can help with plowing or making rice beds, transplanting seedlings, harvesting rice (or cassava, corn, sweet potatoes...) depending on the harvest season.

Long ride: Take a bicycle ride with local guide to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son, Van Minh, and Cham farming communities, Duong Lam ancient village and visit Mia Pagoda, Mong Phu Communal House... Then bike ride back along the ritual paths of Thang thac village to discover the Ngo Quyen tomb, Phung Hung temple.

18:00     Return to the Moon Garden for happy hour.  While waiting for your steam bath to be prepared, you can enjoy our local drink and taste some of the local products such as maize, sweet potato, cassava, peanuts… (depending on season) or some traditional desserts.
18:30     Traditional, refreshing steam bath with fragrant herbs (Lemon grass, pomelo leaves, holy basil leaves).
19:15     Observe the evening Buddha worship.
19:30     Dinner; Then, enjoy your foot bath in warm water with ginger, salt and mugwort medicinal herbs before bedtime, which brings you a deeper sleep.

7:00     Joining Yijinjing traditional exercises
7:30     Breakfast.
8:30     Free time: You can make yourself at home relaxing on the hammock in our garden, taking pictures with Vietnamese traditional clothes, chatting with people, or further discovery of the Ky Son village and the surrounding area.
10:00     Leave Ky Son for one of the most beautiful rides in your Vietnam adventure tour through amazing terraced rice fields. The first part to Nghia Lo passes through stunning mountainous landscape, featuring with fertile hilly area covered with green tea plantations, the mountains get higher and higher. Along the way you can see thick forests cover high mountains. Spending time walking through a narrow and long valley, we meet three tribal setting their villages in different ways which reveal their traditional customs and living style.

From Nghia Lo, we head for the second part to Tu Le and Mu Cang Chai. The road ride today offers a lot of time exploring the area for real mountainous life of the local ethnic minority people. Fancy a trekking tour along a trail which connect villages to villages, meeting different tribal people such as White Thai, Black Zao, Red H’mong…who seem very surprise, staring at you for the first moment and turn out very friendly and inviting you to their homes in which you will be hosted with tea or home made wine.

Overnight in Mu Cang Chai.

A wonderful morning starts with breakfast and a cup of tea or coffee in the paradise of rice terraces.

8h30: You depart to visit terraced fields are recorded as national heritage. We will go about 12km to reach the point of walking. All the beautiful things of Mu Cang Chai are waiting for you at the top, after a 1 hour climb we go through the Hmong people where you will meet innocent children, met hardworking women , All will welcome you with a friendly smile, in this village you can visit the traditional home of the indigenous people and learn the customs. You continue on the trail until you see the whole terraced fields that have been recorded as national heritage. This beautiful place has been CNtraveler magazine rated as the theater of golden rice.

Then, we will visit La Pan Tan village located on the top of the hill where you can see the beautiful terraces.

Around noon, drive to Sapa and visit the picturesque "Heaven Gate" and Silver Waterfall on the way.

Check in on arrival. Overnight in Sapa.

After our breakfast, there’s more time to look around and experience life in Ta Van. We then, continue our trekking in the valley through a bamboo village, stopping for a picnic lunch at an appropriate spot along the way, this is a local food shop at the food of a waterfall and the famous ratan bridge.

After lunch, we head up the side of the valley to the main a small village of the Dzao people called Giang Ta Chai, learn about the local life, then back to the ratan bridge and go up to the main road where the car picks up us to Bac Ha to overnight because we will visit Bac Ha ethnic market on Sunday early morning (the next day).

From Sapa to Bac Ha: more than 90km. If you stay in Sapa, you can miss many interesting things in Bac Ha ethnic market because the local minorities often go to the market very soon from 5:00am.

This late afternoon, we will bring you to visit Ban Pho village where you can take a short walk around the village where Flower Hmong, Tay and Nung minorities live.Enjoy an hour long horse carting trip from Ban Pho village to Na Hoi village.

Then back to your hotel for overnight.

After having breakfast, we will visit Bac Ha ethnic market – the most interesting ethnic market in Sapa are and open on Sundays only. The markets in the Northern Vietnam are always the colorful meeting places for the hill tribes, spotlight for any Sapa Tours and of course, your unique Vietnam Tours experience. 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.

We wake up early today to experience the real life of ethnic minority, they trek to the market to buy their local products.

The market was very crowded, local products for sale or barter are carried on horseback. You will have 2 - 3 hours to explore the markets, enjoy the atmosphere and have fun trying out your trading skills with the friendly local people.

After having lunch, we will drive to Ha Giang. Arrival Ha Giang in the late afternoon, we will check in at Ha Giang resort

Overnight in Ha Giang

After breakfast, we head toward the most remote part of the north.  Northern Ha Giang Province has some of the most picturesque and varied scenery.  Our drive will take us over high passes and we can view deep valleys along the entire journey.  We’ll stop along the way at The Vuong Palace, the beauty of Chinese-style architecture.  This was the seat of government for the Hmong during the first Indochina war.

Overnight in Dong Van and take a walk around the town to the old streets.

After having breakfast at hotel, we start our trip at 7:30am today to visit Nho Que River by boat trip.

From Dong Van, we drive 10 minutes to get Ta Lang village, stop there then take “xeom” to get the pier of Nho Que River (20 minutes).

Nestled between the mountain of northeast of Vietnam, Nho Que River winding like green thread shimmering north from heaven. The length of 192 km, the river engraved name on 46 km across the strip of land in Vietnam, and flows through the rocky sloping limestone mountain of the global geological park system Dong Van stone. The Nho Que river carries a beautiful turquoise blue color. That shines through the bright green patches of the forest almost all seasons of the year (except the rain season from Apr till Sep).

The best time to see the river is from October till March the next year, especially Feb and March when the Bombaxceiba flowers in full bloom.

After 1 hour boat trip along the river and visit Tu San alley, we will take “xeom” to get back the car.

Optional: if you prefer to do kayaking, it is also a good idea.

Have lunch at local restaurant in Dong Van.

After lunch, we will drive to Ma Pi Leng for trekking in 1-2 hours. We will stop at Ma Pi Leng museum then start to trek through a small road. The trekking route is fabulous for anyone who loves nature and taking photos. Climb up to the nice view point on the top of mountain to see the sunset and take beautiful photos of Nho Que river. You will have the opportunity to meet ethnic children playing along the way, the hardworking women growing maize in the fields or grazing buffaloes and goats. After more than 1 hour for trekking, we will meet the car on the main road. Get on the car and back hotel for overnight in Dong Van.

Breakfast at hotel and walk around to visit Dong Van town to see the local people go to market and work on the farm before drive to Bao Lac.

Arrival Bao Lac around noon. Lunch at local restaurant.

After lunch - drive to Ba Be - visit local small villages on the way.

Arrival Ba Be - check in homestay and dinner with the host.

Overnight in Ba Be.

Today, we will enjoy the boat trip 5 hours on Ba Be Lake.

Arrive at Ba Be Lake. The atmosphere here was something magical and fantastic, perfect retreat for the soul.

We spend the whole afternoon exploring the lake. This is a spectacular boat trip on the lake. We stroll along the riverfront, visit some lovely villages and hike the upper reaches of the lake, in an area marked by massive limestone cliffs and mountains.

Then, we will bring you to Cao Bang for overnight. You can stay at hotel or homestay (on your request).

Overnight in Cao Bang.

Today, we drive to Ban Gioc Waterfall, a very scenic spot directly on the border with China. Half the pleasure of the visit to Vietnam’s largest waterfall is walking across rice paddy fields to reach the base of the falls. On the way back, we may have time to stop at several giant irrigation water - wheels that lies along the road overlooking villages. We also visit to Nguom Ngao Cave which is so natural and spectacular.

We return Cao Bang and stretch your legs with a walk to the market nearby. We make a climb to the War Memorial with an overview of the town.

Have dinner at and overnight in Cao Bang.

After breakfast, we say goodbye the host and walk to the main road where we take our car drive to Dong Khe then heading for Lang Son (the border town had been all destroyed during the recent Sino – Vietnamese war, but was rebuilt to become an important trade center in north-eastern region). We can make some breaks en routes as you wish to visit hill tribe villages and take pictures.

Finally, stop at Bac Son town for overnight. In the late afternoon, take a short walk around the town for discovering the daily life of local people.

We start at 06.30 A.M for the 4 hour drive (170 km) beautiful roads, which offer plenty of chances for taking photos of Vietnamese farmers tilling the vast green paddy fields. Our destination is Halong bay – the most famous World Heritage Site in Vietnam, famous for its beautiful seascape, thousands of spectacular islands and islets jutting out from the sea, amazing caves with marvelous stalagmites and stalactites in different sizes and shapes.

11:30 – 12:00 Upon arrival, you'll be welcomed on board our luxury junk and treated with wine and fresh local seafood. As our junk gliding further into the tranquility of Ha Long Bay amid the towering mountain cliffs and on the emerald green water, you'll have relaxing time combining the fine tastes of the wine and the freshness of Ha Long Bay. During the cruise, we'll stop some times for visiting the amazing Sung Sot cave and the Ti Top white sand beach before anchoring for the night.

Overnight on board the junk in the wild of Halong Bay.

It is said that your Vietnam Tours will not be complete without a tour to Halong Bay and spending one night on romantic Halong Cruise. People describe Halong Bay as majestic and mysterious, inspiring and imperious and words alone cannot do justice to the natural wonder that is Halong Bay, a priceless collection of unfinished sculptures hewn from the hand of nature.

After breakfast, we'll take a little sampan to visit a secret lagoon of Ha Long Bay while the surrounding mountains are just waking up. After that our cruise takes us further into the Bay of Bai Tu Long traveling past the Human Head Island, the Turtle Island, and the Duck Islet... to the studio site where the famous Indochine film was shot. Around noon, our junk travels back to the harbor, pick up and continue drive to Ninh Binh with charming beauty of limestone mountains, rivers, and caves.

Arrive in Ninh Binh, check-in your hotel and overnight in Ninh Binh.

8:30AM: We pick you up at your hotel to visit highlights of Ninh Binh province. We first visit Mua Cave, the most beautiful place to view in Ninh Binh, which is considered as “miniature Great Wall” of Vietnam, hiking to the peak of Mua cave, you will see whole Tam Coc landscape and Ninh Binh city.

You have lunch at our local restaurant to try special delicious local Ninh Binh cuisine and then take a rest for 20 minutes before visiting next destination.

Join the boat trip in Tam Coc to see natural and amazing scenery of this landscape with 3 magical grottos: Hang Ca (First Grotto), Hang Hai (Second Grotto), Hang Ba (Third Grotto). Especially rowing boat through Ngo Dong river to see rice field is a awesome experience.

You can feel the deeply pure atmosphere with special smell of fresh rivers water and cool air from karst mountains when reaching each of the 3 caves in turns.

We then visit Bich Dong pagoda before transferring to Hanoi airport for your next destination.