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This twelve-day tour will bring to you to the highest point of Vietnam of Fansipan. You will have chance to challenge yourself with a three-day trekking to the summit 3143m above sea-level. The tour includes Hanoi, Sapa – Fansipan and Nha Trang. Nha Trang is one of the places owns the most beaufitul beaches in Vietnam.

As you wil travel tailore-made, so please do not hesitate to let us know the destinations or the activities you like or dislike. We will revise the tour programme until you completely satisfy!

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (D)
Arriving at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, you will be met and driven to your hotel for check in. You will have time to relax before we present you with Vietnam daily life in the past and now with one or two hour cylo tour around the Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son temple and Old Quarter of Hanoi. You will then enjoy a Water Puppet Show and a welcome dinner at a restaurant with Vietnamese cuisines. You will spend the night in Hanoi.

Day 2: Hanoi – Overnight train to Lao Cai (B/L)
You will have the whole day to explore Vietnam’s capital city. Your guide will take you to the Temple of Literature, the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century, and a popular attraction, as is Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, his simple stilt house where he lived and worked, and the museum dedicated to his memory. After lunch, you’ll call in at the serene Tran Quoc Pagoda, the oldest in Hanoi and the excellent Ethnology Museum for an overview of Vietnam’s 54 distinct ethnic groups. In the evening, your driver will come to pick up you up to the railway station for your overnight train to Lao Cai. You will spend the night on the train.
Day 3: Lao Cai - Sapa - Fansipan (B/L/D)
Arriving at Lao Cai railway station early in the morning, you will be picked up by your guide to Sapa for breakfast and then be tranferred to Tram Ton Heaven’s Gate. You’ll start the first day climbing through a decense forest in Hoang Lien Son National Park. Pitch camp at an altitude of 2200m. The dinner wil be prepared by the cook around a camp fire while the nocturnal sounds of the forest provide an exotic soundtrack in the background. Your overnight will be at the basecamp.

Day 4: Fansipan (B/L/D)
After breakfast, you will start the final ascent arriving at the summit 3143m above sea-level. From this, the highest point in Vietnam, there is stunning views to China in the north, and to Laos in the west. There is time for a well-earned rest before descending back down to Base Camp for the night. You will spend the night at the base camp.

Day 5: Fansipan - Sapa (B/L)
Enjoy morning coffee and the sounds of nature as the porters break down the camp and leave in advance back to Sapa. Trekking down across well-known terrain always goes more quickly and arrival time back in Sapa should be in the late afternoon via Sin Chai village. You will spend overnight in Sapa.

Day 6: Sapa – Overnight train back to Hanoi (B/L)
You will be free today in Sapa to explore the town by yourself until the late afternoon. Our driver will take you back the Lao Cai railway station for an overnight train back to Hanoi. Your overnight will be on the train.

Day 7: Hanoi – Nha Trang (B/L)
Arriving in Hanoi at 5am, you’ll be met and transferred your hotel for breakfast and re-freshment. You’ll then drive to the airport for a morning flight to Nha Trang. You will be free in the remainder of the day to relax on the beach. Your overnight will be in Nha Trang.

Day 8: Nha Trang Cycling (B/L)
In the morning, you will pick up a bike to cycle across the countryside around Nha Trang City stopping off at several villages, a working brick kiln and a good example of typical 19th century Vietnamese architecture en-route. You’ll meet local people, find out about their rural lifestyle and see how they earn a living. Your journey will take you across the rice fields where the farmers work with the water buffalos, and visit hamlets producing: rice paper, conical hats, woven rice-stalk mats, charcoal stoves. You lunch will be at a riverside restaurant. You’ll spend overnight in Nha Trang.

Day 9: Nha Trang – Whale Island (B/L/D)
After breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up by the Whale island Resort minibus to drive to Ninh Hoa where you will board a speed boat to spend 02 days in the Whale Island.
Day 10 – day 11: Whale Island (B/L/D)
Whale Island, at the extreme north of the bay, offers very safe beach diving to 15m. More advanced diving includes wall diving to 40m, coral gardens at 15m, and racing drift dives. Whales and sharks are occasional visitors. For diving, we suggest you to book directly with the PADI 5-star Rainbow Diving Centre. They’re a high quality diving centre in Vietnam.

Day 12: Whale Island – Ho Chi Minh City Departure (B)
You will return to Nha Trang in the morning to catch a flight to Ho Chi Minh City in a good time to connect to your departure flight.
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