DAY 1: HANOI AIRPORT PICK UP – HANOI STREET FOOD TOUR – NIGHT TRAIN TO SAPA
Welcome to Hanoi – you will be picked up at Noi Bai Airport on your arrival for 45 minutes drive to your hotel at Hanoi city center.
Check in hotel (early check-in subject to availability)
Followed by guided Hanoi Street food tour:
Start the Food tour at one of the inner city’s finest local “Pho”, Vietnam’s national dish. Large choices of “Pho Bo” (beef noodle soup) and “Pho Ga” (chicken noodle soup).
Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our taste buds with the famed Hanoi dish Banh Cuon (Rolled rice pancake) at a local eatery. Watch in awe as the skilled chefs demonstrate for you how this tasty dish is put together.
Can’t be missed with Bun Cha – It is basically a cold noodle soup with pork. You’ll be served by a plate of rice noodles, fresh herbs, and a bowl of cold broth with grilled pork. The rice noodles and fresh herbs are pretty common in a Vietnamese restaurant. The broth and the pork are the ones make this dish unique.
Our next stops are at outdoor barbeque stalls. We sit down with the Hanoi locals and sample various meat, vegetable and bread specialties that are flame grilled over hot coals for extra flavour.
It’s then time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced and condensed milk – Hoa Qua Dam.
The tour will ending up with traditional Vietnamese coffee – (Ca Phe Nau Da) or Egg Coffee (Ca Phe Trung). Or, if coffee is not your style, a cold beer awaits!
Guide take you walk back to hotel – Free time
Dinner on your own
21:00 – get pick up at hotel for short transfer to Hanoi Train Station
22.00 – take the overnight train to Lao Cai which will reach Lao Cai at 6.00 next morning
Overnight on train in a shared 4-berths cabin = 4 passengers per cabin – End of Day 1 – Hanoi Package Tour 6 Days 5 Nights
(Private cabin(s) can be arranged with extra cost, please advise)
Note: Today tour can be changed upon your arrival time to Hanoi