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Day 2: Hoi An Half Day Sightseeing Tour (B)
A walking tour of Hoi An’s Old Town is the best way to soak in the atmosphere of this fascinating place, followed by an excursion to My Son, the site of the Cham Ruins. Overnight in Hoi An. |
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Day 4: Cooking Tours & Cycling Tours to visit countryside (B)
In the morning, a cooking tour in the local market with a cooking demonstration at the Bridge Cooking School. Afternoon, biking to visit countryside areas around Hoi An. Stay overnight at the hotel in Hoi An. |
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Day 5: Free at Leisure (B)
We’ll catch a glimpse of China over the other side of the river this morning as we disembark from the overnight train and begin our drive into the mountains and on to the picturesque minority hill tribe town of Sapa. Set amidst some magnificent mountain scenery and in the shadow of Vietnam’s tallest peak, the 3,143-metre-high Mt. Fansipan, the former French colonial hill station town of Sapa is home to some of Vietnam’s most colourful minority hill tribes. Like Dalat in the south, the French developed Sapa in an effort to replicate parts of the Alps and the Pyrenees. A number of their villas remain but many were lost in 1979 when the Vietnamese army evicted the invading Chinese. We’ll spend the afternoon discovering the charms of this magic little town and set out the next morning on an adventurous two-day trek up the Muong Hoa River Valley with its lush vegetation and rice terraces. There are no hotels up here so we spend the night at a minority village in the cosy longhouse of one of the village’s families. The next morning, after a hearty hill tribe breakfast, we trek back into Sapa. In the evening we make our way back to Lao Cai, where we once again board the overnight train, for the return trip to Hanoi. |
