Hoàn Kiếm Trip Overview
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ HIGHLIGHT ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
✔️Gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces.
✔️Study how the local people make their clothes and other handicraft from Hemp and Indigo as well as their culture, custom and habit.
✔️Study how the local tribe make handicraft from natural materials such as:
hemp, indigo…ect.
✔️Visit small ethnic groups: Black Hmong, the Day and Red Dzao tribes
✔️Have chance to visit most of the most attractively places in Sapa
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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✔️ ✔️ ✔️ HIGHLIGHT ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
✔️Gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces.
✔️Study how the local people make their clothes and other handicraft from Hemp and Indigo as well as their culture, custom and habit.
✔️Study how the local tribe make handicraft from natural materials such as:
hemp, indigo…ect.
✔️Visit small ethnic groups: Black Hmong, the Day and Red Dzao tribes
✔️Have chance to visit most of the most attractively places in Sapa
Itinerary
Day 1: Hanoi Museum tours half day with student volunteer guide
Stop At: AZ Local Trip, No.4 12 – 95 Lane Chùa Bộc Street Đống Đa Hanoi City VN 100000, P. Chùa Bộc, Khương Thượng, Đống Đa, Hà Nội, Vietnam
This is our main office in hanoi city
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
7:45 – 8:15 : Tour guide from AZ Local Trip picks up you and your group from your hotel or at the confirmed meeting point in Hanoi Old Quarter. You can choose some places below to visit but ask before the tour
Bustling Hanoi offers a charming blend of new and old. The French-colonial era has left a legacy of beautiful buildings, with the Old Quarter a fascinating area to explore on foot. Sample Hanoi’s unique cuisine, shop for locally produced crafts and soak up the abundance of history and culture on offer in the city’s compelling sites and monuments. Hanoi has always been a symbol of culture and a source of pride throughout the history. This city tour Hanoi is designed aiming to give you an opportunity to enjoy an absolute and adorable Hanoi. Small streets with old houses, friendly people with typical Vietnamese smiles offer you the true feeling of this capital city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Vietnam National Museum of History, 1 Trang Tien – no 25 Tong Dan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
Built between 1925 and 1932, Vietnam National Museum of History was formerly home to the École Française d’Extrême-Orient. This architecturally impressive museum has a blend of Chinese and French design elements.
In here preserving more than 7,000 precious objects, some aged thousand years old which represent the cultural diversity of the country. Exhibit highlights include bronzes from the Dong Son culture (3rd century BC to 3rd century AD), Hindu statuary from the Khmer and Champa kingdoms, jewelry from imperial Vietnam, and displays relating to the French occupation and the Communist Party.
Besides Vietnamese origin objects, it consists of objects from other culture like China, Japan, Thailand. Here, you’ll gain a better understanding of Vietnamese history from the earliest time until recently.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Vietnamese Women’s Museum, 36 Ly Thuong Kiet Hang Bai Ward, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
We’ll then move to the next destination which is the Vietnam Women’s Museum.
This excellent modern museum showcases Vietnamese women’s significant contributions to the nation’s development, culture and society. The Museum is also a center for cultural exchange with women from other nations with the goal of fostering ‘equality, development and peace’.
They’re up to 25,000 objects displayed in the museum which were divided into three thematic displays: Women in Family, Women in History and Women’s Fashion.
The Museum’s collection features historical and contemporary objects which illustrate and reflect the lives and roles of Vietnamese women in society. It also gives insight into Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups, addressed through the lens of women’s issues.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Vietnam Military History Museum, 28A Dien Bien Phu St., Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
After visiting the excellent Vietnam Women’s Museum, we’ll then head to the next one which is the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. This is a national museum established by the Vietnamese government to preserve and present the country’s artistic treasures.
The museum building itself is an artistic work of architecture. It is a combination of old French-style architecture with traditional architectural elements of Vietnamese communal houses.
The museum displays not only paintings, sculptures, ceramics and lacquers created by modern Post-war artists but many of its contents date back as far as pre-historic and feudalism time including different forms of religious sculptures, folk paintings and ceramics.
After that, we’ll have lunch at a local restaurant with the traditional cuisine of Vietnam.
Hanoi Museum Tour to Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street Cau Giay, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
We’ll off to Vietnam Museum of Ethnology after lunch.
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is where you can learn about the diversity of Vietnamese culture with 54 ethnic minorities.
The museum consists of documents, antiques and photos of culture and rite of several ethnic communities from the North to the South of Vietnam.
It is also well-known for its outdoor exhibition area, at which you could see real house or tombs of some minor groups in Vietnam.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – B, L, D
Stop At: Sapa, Sapa, Lao Cai Province
Arrive in Lao Cai around 5:30 a.m. We will take 1 hour van ride uphill to the beautiful town of Sapa. The ride gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces. Upon arrival Sapa town, we have buffet breakfast at the
hotel
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai Tl152, Sapa 290000 Vietnam
After having breakfast, we have a short walk of 5km along mountain trail to visit Y Linh Ho village which is inhabited by black Hmong tribe and completely secluded from tourists, especially you are able to embrace raw Sapa culture and community by coming into some native houses to discover their own culture and custom as well as study how the local tribe make handicraft from natural materials such as: hemp, indigo…ect.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Lao Chai, Lao Chai, Lao Cai Province
Continuing to walk down Muong Hoa River where you can
take a rest or swim before trekking uphill to Lao Chai village where your picnic lunch will be served.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ta Van, Ta Van, Lao Cai Province
After lunch, you will visit the Day and Red Dzao tribes of Tavan village, which lies in the middle of Muong Hoa valley where excellent panoramas of rice terraced fields. Climbing to the main road, you are transferred to Sapa by car. Having shower and dinner before being transferred to Lao Cai for catching the night train to Hanoi.
Home-stay at the Dzay local house.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Home-stay at the Dzay local house.
Day 3: TaVan – GiangTaChai – SuPan – Sapa B,L,D
Stop At: Giang Ta Chai Village, Ta Van Commune, Sapa 008420 Vietnam
Breakfast before start tour with 08 km walking to visit 2 villages of the red Dzao, the H’mong (Giang Ta Chai & Su Pan). Visit a beautiful waterfall and rattan bridge. Enjoy landscapes… through bamboo forest on the way to the main road to get the Car to return to Sapa.by bus
Duration: 5 hours
Stop At: Su Pan, Su Pan, Lao Cai Province
You also trekk through Su Pa.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
