{"id":9704,"date":"2022-02-15T05:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T05:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9704"},"modified":"2024-03-23T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:35:18","slug":"vietnam-snapshot-5-days","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/tour\/vietnam-snapshot-5-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Snapshot &#8211;  5 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Duration:<\/strong> 5 Days\/ 4 nights<br \/>\n<strong>Start\/ End:<\/strong> Hanoi\/ Hanoi<br \/>\n<strong>Tour Routes:\u00a0<\/strong>Hanoi &#8211; Sapa &#8211; Cat Cat Village &#8211; Fansipan Mountain &#8211; Hanoi<br \/>\n<strong>Tour Categories:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/category\/hanoi-tours-day-trips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanoi Tours &amp; Day Trips<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tour Customizable:<\/strong> Definitely!<br \/>\n<strong>Guide:<\/strong> Local Guide (English Speaking Guide, other languages upon request)<br \/>\n<strong>Transportation:<\/strong> Private transportation by air-conditioned car, train.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Brief Itinerary<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Day 1:<\/strong> Hanoi Arrival \u2013 Overnight on Train to Lao Cai<br \/>\n<strong>Day 2:<\/strong> Sapa \u2013 Cat Cat Village \u2013 Fansipan Mountain by Cable Car<br \/>\n<strong>Day 3:<\/strong> Sapa \u2013 Lao Chai Ta Van \u2013 Hanoi By Shuttle Bus<br \/>\n<strong>Day 4:<\/strong> Hanoi City Tour<br \/>\n<strong>Day 5:<\/strong> Hanoi Departure<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808000\">Day 1: Hanoi Arrival \u2013 Take a train to Lao Cai<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Welcome to Vietnam. Upon arrival at Hanoi Airport, obtain your Vietnam visa, and then clear Immigration and Customs. Our tour guide and driver will be waiting for you at the airport and transfer you to your lovely hotel in Hanoi. At night, our driver will transfer you to <strong>Hanoi train station<\/strong> to catch the night train to Lao Cai.<br \/>\nOvernight on train to Lao Cai<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808000\">Day 2: Sapa \u2013 Cat Cat Village \u2013 Fansipan Mountain by Cable Car (B, L)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Arrive at Lao Cai train station, you will be welcomed by our local tour guide and transferred to a local restaurant near the railway station for showering and breakfast. Then drive uphill to Sapa. Along the way, you can stop anywhere to admire green valleys, rice terraces, and local people \u2013 hill tribes working on the slope of a hill, water buffalo, or pigs on the slope of mountains.<br \/>\nSet your feet in Sapa town, start a day tour to visit: From 2 km at Sapa Town, <strong>Cat Cat Village<\/strong> is an age-old village of the H&#8217;Mong ethnic group remaining traditional custom that is lots in other villages. Come to the village, visitors have an opportunity to admire a lively and colorful picture of the local daily life. That maybe is the image of young women sitting by looms with colorful pieces of brocade decorated with designs of flowers and birds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapa-rice-field.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Cat Village, Sapa, Vietnam Local tour\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapa-rice-field.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapa-rice-field-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapa-rice-field-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapa-rice-field-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nThen, we head to the <strong>Sapa Cable Station<\/strong> for the very amazing trip to <strong>Indochina\u2019s Rooftop<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Mount Fanxipan<\/strong> by cable car. This is particularly interesting in these northern mountains of the country, where travelers seek the rice terraces and traditional arts of minority peoples. Located around 2,200 meters from the altitude are the ethnic minorities the lowland Vietnamese generically call \u2018Meo\u2019 \u2013 savages \u2013 and above them looms the bulk of<strong> Hua Xi Pan<\/strong>: \u201cgiant protruding rock\u201d. You can challenge yourself when hiking 600 stone stairs more to reach the rocky peak of The Roof of Indochina.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10426 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fansipan-capble-view.jpg\" alt=\"Fansipan, Hanoi Tour Day Trips\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fansipan-capble-view.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fansipan-capble-view-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fansipan-capble-view-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fansipan-capble-view-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter all, you will be privately transferred back to your hotel and have your own leisure time.<br \/>\nStay overnight in Sapa<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808000\">Day 3: Sapa \u2013 Lao Chai Ta Van \u2013 Hanoi By Shuttle Bus (B, L)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>From Sapa, we trek via<strong> Y Linh Ho<\/strong> through beautiful scenery to <strong>the Black H\u2019 mong village<\/strong> of Lao Chai where we spend time looking around the village and learning about life in the village.<br \/>\nThen, we walk through rice terraces and on local paths to<strong> the Zay village of Ta Van.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10427 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lao-chai-ta-van-village.png\" alt=\"Sapa Town, Vietnam Tours\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lao-chai-ta-van-village.png 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lao-chai-ta-van-village-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lao-chai-ta-van-village-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lao-chai-ta-van-village-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the only village in the <strong>Sa Pa<\/strong> area where the Dzay people live. We spend time looking around the village.<br \/>\nAt 14:00, you get on the shuttle bus to go back to Hanoi (no guide).<br \/>\nStay overnight in Hanoi<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808000\">Day 4: Hanoi City Tour (B, L)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the morning, we start our day tour to visit the <strong>Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum<\/strong> and <strong>Museum<\/strong>, where Ho Chi Minh president lived and worked till the end of his life. As a symbol of gratitude and respect of the Vietnamese people for president Ho Chi Minh, The Ho Chi Minh Museum is the preserver of everything memorable related to Ho Chi Minh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10428 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HCM_Mausoleum.jpg\" alt=\"Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Tour in Hanoi\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HCM_Mausoleum.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HCM_Mausoleum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HCM_Mausoleum-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HCM_Mausoleum-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Closed by, go to visit one of the famous temples, <strong>One Pillar Pagoda<\/strong> which was designed in special architecture, and is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter. Designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is the national flower, as well as a symbol of a Buddhist symbol of purity, since lotus blossoms in a muddy pond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10430 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-Pillar-Pagoda-Hanoi.jpg\" alt=\"One Pillar Pagoda, Vietnam local tours\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-Pillar-Pagoda-Hanoi.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-Pillar-Pagoda-Hanoi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-Pillar-Pagoda-Hanoi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-Pillar-Pagoda-Hanoi-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, visiting <strong>the Temple of Literature<\/strong> (Vietnamese name is <strong>Quoc Tu Giam<\/strong>) \u2013 Vietnam\u2019s first University, which was built in 1070 in honor of Confucius, his followers, and Chu Van An, a moral figure in Vietnamese education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10431 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Temple-of-Literature-Drum.jpg\" alt=\"Temple of Literature, Drum, Hanoi Tours\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Temple-of-Literature-Drum.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Temple-of-Literature-Drum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Temple-of-Literature-Drum-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Temple-of-Literature-Drum-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter that, visit the <strong>Vietnam Museum of Ethnology<\/strong>, where they can look at a vivid picture of the miniaturized Vietnamese ethnic community\u2019s life. It can be said that almost no foreign tourists to Hanoi refuse to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. Sip a cup of coffee at a coffee shop in the Old Quater where you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the peaceful life of the locals and listen to Vietnam traditional music.<\/p>\n<p>We visit <strong>Ngoc Son Temple<\/strong> which is located at the northern end of Sword lake from the shore, walking on The Huc bridge that leads to the island.<br \/>\nAdmire buildings of the temple, including the <strong>Pen Tower<\/strong>, the ink-slab, the Moon Contemplation Pavilion,all of which have symbolic meaning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/museum-etnologii-hanoi.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi Tour day trips\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/museum-etnologii-hanoi.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/museum-etnologii-hanoi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/museum-etnologii-hanoi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/museum-etnologii-hanoi-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nTake your time wandering and exploring<strong> the Hanoi 36 Old Quarter streets<\/strong> which are famous for the history, the architecture, the enormous amount and diversity of products, and even the everyday life of its residents. Strolling Hanoi Old Quarter, where you will see another experience about Hanoi, which mixed both ancient and modern beauty of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Continue with Hanoi Street food tour through the wet market to grilled pork, fried pancake, Vietnamese traditional bread, dried beef salad, mixed fruit, Hanoi beer, dessert sweet soup, or coffee with chicken egg (you can eat as much as you can &#8211; pay on your own).<\/p>\n<p>Stay overnight in Hanoi<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808000\">Day 5: Hanoi Departure (B)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>After enjoying breakfast at your lovely hotel, you will have your own free leisure time to sample souvenirs and relax before heading to the airport. Trip ends. Thank for choosing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/\">Vietnam Tour Package!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 days Hanoi day tour to explore the charming beauty of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Wandering through the small street, visit the historical sites, or simply sitting at the train road and sip a cup of coffee in Vietnamese style which is enough enchanting for you about Hanoi. From the capital to go to the fogged city, Sapa, where you will deep into the romantic sights, a miniature France in the north of Vietnam. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Contact us<\/a> and let\u2019s go to Vietnam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[187],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9704","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-hanoi-tours-day-trips","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}