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Monday, March 28, 2011

FANSIPAN ADVENTURE (5 DAYS / 5 NIGHTS)

Are you interested in adventure trekking? If you are, this tour is a big challenge for you. Try your best to climb to the highest peak of the Indochina. From here you will have a great view over the Sapa town.

Detail Itinerary

Day 1: Night train Hanoi to Lao Cai.
We pick you up from your hotel at around 20:00 and transfer to the train station. Night train (soft sleeper, A/C) to Lao Cai. The night train leaves at 21:10

Day 2: Lao Cai - Sapa.
You arrive at Lao Cai train station early in the morning, from where you will be picked up and have a shared bus transfer to Sapa (35 km - about 1 hour drive). Check-in at Cat Cat Hotel. The guide will provide you with more information about the Fansipan trek. The rest of the day is at your own leisure and free exploration. Stay the night in Sapa at Cat Cat Hotel.

Day 3: Fansipan Trekking. Start at 09:00 you travel by car toward the Silver Waterfall where you will be able to take a short walk to visit and take photos. You will then be driven further to Heaven Gate, the highest peak of the roads in Vietnam. From there you can see Fansipan - the highest peak of the Indochina mountains and enjoy stunning views. The trek will be relatively soft until lunch time. After a couple of hours hiking, you will have a break at a nice spot in the forest and enjoy a good picnic lunch. With new energy you start ascending as well as descending towards the camp-site. En route you have many opportunities to enjoy the scenery and magnificent view to Sapa area and beautiful landscapes of Lai Chau province. You will reach the camp-site at 2900m in the late afternoon. Now it is time to relax and enjoy a well-prepared dinner.
(L, D)

Day 4: Fansipan Trekking.After having breakfast, you continue climbing to the top, where you can celebrate your victory. From there, you can enjoy the best views of the beautiful nature. You will then start descending. You stop on the way for picnic lunch. After lunch, you continue a tough trek, which is all the way down hill through the rain-forest. This part requires a great concentration to step on step trail until you meet the camp-site at 2.700m. Here you spend another night in tent.
(B, L, D)

Day 5: Fansipan Trekking. Night train to Hanoi.
After a long sleep, you get up in the fresh air of the wild nature. Before heading back to civilization. You trek down hill through the well-protected forest and after a couple of hours hiking, you stop for picnic lunch. You will then keep descending toward Sin Chai village views and beautiful surroundings. You stop at the village for a while before returning to Sapa town by car. Here you have time to have a shower, relax and celebrate your achievement.
In the afternoon, the bus takes you to Lao Cai train station to catch the night train back to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi next morning.
The tour ends at the Hanoi train station!
(B, L)

(B: breakfast, L: lunch, D: dinner)

How you stay overnight:
Ø 2 nights on train Hanoi - Lao Cai – Hanoi
Ø 1 night in Cat Cat Hotel, Sapa.
Ø 2 nights in tent on the trek.

What to bring:
Ø Good trekking boots
Ø Rainwear
Ø 2 sets of clothes
Ø A warm fleece in the winter
Ø Drinking bottle
Ø Flash light
Ø Medicine for personal use
Ø Warm sleeping bag. The temperature can drop down to 0 degrees during winter time. (You can borrow a sleeping bag for free but we recommend you bring your own).

Including:
- Transportation from Hanoi - Sapa - Hanoi and Sapa - Tram Ton - Sin Chai - Sapa;
- Public shared bus Lao Cai - Sapa - Lao Cai;
- Entrance and permit fees
- Accommodation as mentioned above;
- Mattress, sleeping bag, camping tent, medical kit;
- Meals as mentioned above;
- English-speaking guide;
- Porters (carrying the camping equipments and food).
Note: You have to carry your personal belongings yourself.

Excluding: Insurance, personal expenses and tips to the tour guide.

CUC PHUONG NATIONAL PARK (1 DAY)

The trip to Cuc Phuong National Park is impressive to people who want to see the real nature. You will have a chance to visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Center where the rare primates of Vietnam are reared and rescued.

Detail Itinerary

At 08:00 pick up from hotel and transfer to Cuc Phuong National Park (140km South – West of Hanoi). Visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Center where the rare primates of Vietnam are reared and rescued, the Ancient grotto. Then trekking through the dense, grass jungle valley to the giant ancient tree where enjoy the beauty of fauna and flora.
Return to Hanoi in late afternoon.
Tour ends at your hotel.

Including: Private transfer, English-speaking tour guide, lunch and entrance fees.

Excluding: Insurance, drinks, personal expenses and tips to the tour guide.

CUC PHUONG NATIONAL PARK - VAN LONG - KENH GA PRIVATE TOUR (2 DAYS/1 NIGHT)

Pick you up at your hotel and then travel to Cuc Phuong National Park (140km). Upon arrival, visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Central where the rare primates of Vietnam are reared and rescued, the Ancient grotto.

Detail Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi – Cuc Phuong National Park – Ninh Binh Town (-, L, D)
Pick you up at your hotel and then travel to Cuc Phuong National Park (140km). Upon arrival, visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Central where the rare primates of Vietnam are reared and rescued, the Ancient grotto. Then trekking through the dense, grass jungle valley to the giant ancient tree where enjoy the beauty of fauna and flora.Transfer to Ninh Binh town. O/N in Ninh Binh.

Day 2: Ninh Binh Town - Van Long Village - Kenh Ga hot spring - Hanoi (B, L,-)
Transfer to Van Long. Arrive in Van Long village. After lunch in Van Long, visit Trinh Cave with its perfect smooth, rock formation and then exploring Kenh Ga hot spring, enjoying Kenh Ga’s natural beauty then road trip back to Hanoi.

Including: Private transfer, English-speaking tour guide, hotel in Ninh Binh, entrance fees, food as mentioned.

Excluding: Insurance, drinks, personal expenses and tips to the tour guide.

CAT TIEN NATIONAL PARK PRIVATE TOUR (2 DAYS/1 NIGHT)

Returning to the nature, this tour gives you an opportunity to admire an impressive national park in the Southern Vietnam.

Detail Itinerary

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – Cat Tien National Park ( L,D)
In the morning: We leave Ho Chi Minh city for a 4 hour driving trip to Nam Cat Tien National Park. Lunch at a local restaurant. Free for leisure then check in a hotel.
In the afternoon: We walk 6 km covering the route of Dalbergia bariensis, Afzelia xylocarpa, Cycas rumphi, Tetrameles nudiflora, Largerstromia ovalfolia ect… then Ben Cu waterfall. Dinner at local restaurant. At 19:00 we get on a Jeep for the Safari night tour in the jungle.
Overnight in the hotel of the park.
Day 2: Cat Tien National Park – Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
Having breakfast at a local restaurant. Cycling 14km through Heavenly Waterfall, Dung Waterfall, BangLang Forest, Botanical Garden. Lunch at local restaurant. Hotel check out then drive back to Ho Chi Minh City. Arrival at Ho Chi Minh City at 17:00. End of the service.
(B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)
Including:
- Accommodation in shared twin rooms (local hotel of the National Park)
- Private transportation
- English - speaking guide.
- Entrances fees + sightseeing as indicated.
- Meals as specified in the program. (Vietnamese food)
- Mineral water is available on coach (2 bottles/pax/day)

Excluding: Drinks, Tipping, personal expenses and meals not mentioned in the program.

CAO DAI TEMPLE - CU CHI TUNNELS GROUP TOUR (1 DAY)

This tour give you a chance to admire the famous construction and attend the monk prayer session to witness the daily mass held by the Cao Dai followers, visit a heroic district for its role in the anti – American war in Vietnam.

Detail Itinerary

In the morning: Pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Cao Dai Temple (99km), is considered one of the most striking structures in all of Asia. Arrive in Cao Dai Temple. Admire the construction between 1933 and 1955 and attend the monk prayer session to witness the daily mass held by the Cao Dai followers.

In the afternoon: Take a bus to visit Cu Chi Tunnels, is considered a heroic district for its role in the anti – American war in Vietnam. Explore the destruction, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines. Then return to Ho Chi Minh City.

Price: 18 USD/person

Including: Transportation, English-speaking tour guide

Excluding: Food and entrance fee.

BIKING TO EXPLORE THE REAL VIETNAM (1 DAY)

You will enjoy with the beautiful sight-seeings, get out of the noisy and crowded city life, see any green fields, farmers on working in countryside in Vietnam which you haven't seen before in your home.

Detail Itinerary

The first ever countryside tour

If you go to Vietnam and don’t visit the countryside, you’ll miss half of your Vietnam trip. Riding through typical Vietnamese villageside that never saw tourists before, enjoying picturesque landscape, talking, staying with farmers in their house will help you a real impression of Vietnam landscape and Vietnamese people: beautiful emotional, simple and hospitable.
Onbike Tour has 2 destinations at the province of different characters:
Hatay tour brings you to a countryside which might be the last remaining Vietnamese village not affected by the world outside: bamboo scenes, hilly rice terrace, silent, melancholical life, simple, natural and hospitable local farmers. Hatay also has some of the most impressive pagodas in Vietnam.
Bacninh Tour takes you to the weathiest province in North Vietnam. You will see there vivid field working scenes and meet with hardworking farmers. A ferry trip brings you to the riverside with great mulberry fields like nowhere else in Vietnam. Bacninh is home of Budhism, some of the oldest and largest pagodas are in the province.
Two trips have similar schedule, the total distance to be covered on bike is between 16 km and 20 km. Pick 1 from 2.

7:50 Leave Hanoi by car (3-9 persons), enjoy landscape and guide story on the way.
8:30  Arrive at the village, greeting the host family and get bikes. Start to ride on bike with the our guide through picturesque scenes, stay at rice paddies, pagoda, village assembly hall, riverside etc,. You can make a stop on your request, talk with people, learn about their life, take pictures.
11:30  A noon break at the host home, where you can relax and hang around in Vietnamese style.
12:30  Start again to explore the countryside
Several short stops for guide stories, riding through exciting countryside: river dike, mulberry fields, bamboo shaded roads, brick-fields, temple, war memorial etc., sightseeing, taking picture
15:00  Visit a nation-famous pagoda.
16:00  End of tour.
17:00  Arrive in Hanoi

PRICE: 30 USD/person

Including: Transportation, English-speaking tour guide, entrance fee, lunch (rice cake eating with sesame, salt - roasted and crushed; bread; pork pie; banana and cucumber; noodle soup; water in big bottle)

Excluding: Travel insurance, personal expenses and tips!

BA BE LAKE PRIVATE TOUR (3 DAYS / 2 NIGHTS)

From Hanoi you are driving through a beautiful mountainous landscape to Ba Be National Park which consists of rain-forest and the connecting lakes.

Detail Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi – Ba Be lake (250 km).
Departure from Hanoi at 08:00 and drive to Ba Be National Park. On the way we make several stops wherever you want to take photos and visit sightseeing places and villages along the way. We also pay a visit to the Thai Nguyen Minority and Culture Museum where we can learn something about the culture and traditions of the different minority groups in Vietnam. We have lunch on the way in a local restaurant. We arrive in Ba Be lake late in the afternoon and will have dinner and stay overnight with a local Tay minority family in their traditional wooden stilt house. (L, D)

Day 2: Ba Be lake boat trip.
After breakfast, we are going on a boat trip for about 4 hours to visit Ba Be lake. On the way we stop at Dau Dang waterfall and the impressive giant Poong grotto with hundreds of bats.We take our lunch Ba Be lake in a Tay village.In the National Park you can discover spectacular high waterfall, rivers, deep valleys, natural caves and small lakes. Steep mountains surround the lakes up to 1.745 m high. In the afternoon you have the possibility to go on a short trek with our guide to one of the small Tay villages scattered around the lakes on the land. Dinner and stay overnight in the same homestay at Ba Be Lake.(B, L , D)

Day 3: Ba Be Lake - Hanoi.
After breakfast, we leave our homestay and Ba Be Lake for the drive back to Hanoi. Lunch in a local restaurant on the way. We arrive in Hanoi at about 16:00 in the afternoon. The trip ends where it started at your hotel. (B, L)

(B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner)

Including: Private transportation, boat trip, homestays, meals as mentioned, entrance fees and English-speaking tour guide.

Excluding: Drinks, insurance, personal expenses and tips!