Highlights
- Start your day tour from Hanoi city or airport (depending on your option)
- Transfer by Expressway (If your option is pickup from Hanoi or Hanoi Airport)
- Cruise on the bay for 4 hours on Route 1
- Visit Heaven Grotto, one of the most beautiful grottoes in Ha Long Bay
- Take a sampan boat or kayak around the floating village to visit water caves
Description
- Pickup at your hotels in Hanoi by our professional driver and tour guide at the time you booked.
Enjoy luxurious, modern, and comfortable round-trip transport from Hanoi via the National Expressway through the Red River Delta, with opportunities to see daily life for Vietnamese farmers. Rice fields and water buffalo flank both sides of the road.
Take a rest stop at a halfway point before continuing to Ha Long Bay. The most interesting glimpses into rural life come during February and June when whole families are busy transplanting the young rice plants to the growing fields.
Arrive at Halong Tourist Wharf. Our cruise team will board you and take you into the bay. On the way out, a fresh seafood lunch (vegetarian option available if requested) will be served.
The limestone bedrock and sheer cliffs of the countless islets have inspired local people to come up with equally fanciful names: Stone Dogs Island, Incense Burner Island, and Fighting Cocks Island - the symbol of Ha Long Bay.
You will then head on to Thien Cung Grotto (Heavenly Palace Grotto), a magnificent and otherworldly cave. Explore its huge chambers adorned with stalactites and stalagmites of all kinds. It's most impressive with four holy animals: dragon, unicorn, turtle, and phoenix, and a magic heaven gate.
Cruising to the floating village, where you will enjoy 40 minutes of kayaking or bamboo boating around the islands and water tunnels and bask in the charm of this natural paradise.
After 4 hours of cruising, you will be brought back to the Halong tourist wharf, where your vehicle will be waiting to take you back to Hanoi.
Includes
Private transportation pickup and drop-off at your hotels in Hanoi and round-trip transfers by National Expressway
Private or shared English-speaking tour guide (depending on your option)
Private cruise or shared cruise (depending on your option)
Special local seafood lunch (vegetarian is available on request)
Kayaking or bamboo boat around the floating village in 40 minutes
Entrance fees to Ha Long Bay and cave visits
1 bottle of mineral water
Excludes
Drinks (available for purchase)
Personal expense
Tips for tour guide, driver, boat rower
Important Information
- You can choose to kayak or take a sampan boat once you reach there
- To visit Heavenly Palace cave and Dau Go cave you must walk about 2km up, down and inside of the cave
- If you are vegetarian or allergic to any foods, let us know when you book the tour
- Do not bring any plastic bags or plastic bottles to the entrance of Ha Long Bay (government regulation)
- Let us know if you need to pick up at any other hotels outside of Hanoi city
- Please note, the itineraries and schedules are subject to change without notice, depending on the weather and operating conditions
- Customers should provide their hotel name and address in the Hoan Kiem district for pick-up arrangements
- All passengers should provide mobile phone or email address to the tour operator. The company will contact you directly after you make your reservation
- Disabled guests are unable to partake in water sport activities on the boat
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
