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Day 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai (Monday)

[Vitoria Sapa Resort, travel, tour, train] At 7.30 PM Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi, transfer to the Hanoi train station to board night train to Lao Cai. Overnight on the train.

Meals: N/A

Day 2: Lao Cai – Sapa (Tuesday)

[Victoria Sapa resort, train, tour] The train arrives in Lao Cai station at around 05:30 am. Local tour guide and car pick up and transfer to local restaurant before proceeding Sapa. Check-in Victoria Sapa Hotel and you will be free at leisure for the rest of morning.

Afternoon, take a light trek to Cat Cat and Sin Chai village to see Black H’mong hill tribes. Walking back to hotel. Overnight in Sapa

Meals: Breakfast

Day 3: Sapa Trekking (Wednesday)

[Sapa tour, sapa adventure - vietnam] 8.30: Leave hotel, by car to starting point, for a 5 km decending trek from Lao Chai to Ta Van villages. Enjoy the breath-taking landscapes, green rice terrace with friendly hill tribes of Hmong, Dzay, Red Dzao..

11.30: Proceed to Ecolodge Resort for lunch. Relaxing, enjoying stunning view from top of the mountain before starting another short trek to Thank Kim village

13.00: Start walking to Thank Kim village, one of vey few villages not often visited by tourist, to visit Red Zao hill tribe. . Touring the villages befoere getting back to the car to drive to the hotel. Overnight in Sapa

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 4: Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi (Thursday)

[Vietnam Travels, Sapa adventure] Morning visit Dragon Mountain before going to Sapa minority market right in center of town .

Free time for shopping before proceeding to Lao Cai to catch the night train back to Hanoi (The train leaves Lao Cai at 8.20 AM)

Meals: Breakfast

Upon arrival in Hanoi at about 04:30 AM, you will arrange transportation by your selves back to your hotel. Tour ends.

Inclusions :

Accommodation (double/twin sharing)

Private pick up and transfer (A/C van)

English/French speaking local tour guide

Meals specified in tour program

Return sharing train tickets (Hanoi – Sapa – Hanoi, 4 people/cabin)

Sightseeing tours per program

All entrance, permission and visiting fees

Exclusions :

Meals which do not specify in the program

Personal travel insurance

All personal expenses

All gratuities and tips to driver and tour guide

Note:

Moderate trek, grade 2

Should have good hiking shoes, insect repellent and enough water for trekking days

Warm cloths for Sapa due to changeable weather

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The museum features modern architecture and is located on an area of 1,500 sq.m and an open-air exhibition area and flower gardens.

The Quảng Ninh Museum was founded in 1960, under the original name of the Historical and Revolutionary Museum of Hồng Quang at 5B Cầu Cao, Hồng Gai Town (Ha Long City now). In 1964, the Hồng Quang Area was merged with Hai Ninh Province to form the new province of Quảng Ninh, and the museum took its new name following the merger.

During periods of war, all documents and artifacts from the museum were evacuated to various sites while the building of 5B Cầu Cao was leveled in the dust by bombing.

In 1990, People Committee of the province decided to build Quảng Ninh Museum at 165 Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Ha Long City (former place of Quảng Ninh Import and Export Company). The museum features modern architecture, and is located on an area of 1,500 sq.m, with an open-air exhibition area and flower gardens.

Exhibitions include: the early Hạ Long culture; Ly and Trân dynasties culture; culture of Quảng Ninh’s ethnic groups; times of wars; the history of the region’s coal industry; revolutionary tradition of working class in mining area; Uncle Hô with Quảng Ninh and Quảng Ninh Province in renovation time.

Over the last 40 years, the museum has found and preserved over 10,000 artifacts.

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Day 1 : Hanoi – Ha Long – Cat Ba (L, D)

[Vietnam tour, Halong discovery] 8h00 Depart to Ha Long City, enjoy the rural sceneries on the way. 11h30 Arrive in Ha Long City stop for lunch at restaurant( optional: Free time then get on boat and have lunch on boat).
After lunch take a boat trip to Cat Ba Island, on the way visits SUNG SOT cave. Stop on the sea for swimming. 17h30 Arrive in Cat Ba island, car/van transfer to the hotel .Free time walk around Cat Ba town -sightseeing floating village on the sea. Have dinner. Overnight in Cat Ba .

Day 2: Cat Ba – Hai Phong – Hanoi (B, L)

After breakfast free time to relax at the beach or go to visit Cat Ba national Park. Lunch in a restaurant. 14.30 take the hydrofoil boat to Hai Phong. Car/van pick up at Hai Phong back to Ha Noi. 17.00 arrive Hanoi. End of the tour.

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03 Star Hotel (2 persons share one double/ twin room) [vietnam tour, Halong]
Transport by air-conditioning car / van
Private boat Ha Long – Cat Ba
Entrance fee
Meals as mentioned in the itinerary
English/French speaking tour guide.
Service charge

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Drinks, personal expenses,tips

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Mosses in rivers or streams have long been an interested dish of many ethnic minority groups like Thai, H’ Mong, Muong, etc. Village patriarchs said that green mosses were also a useful medicine.

Together groping for green mosses is an interesting cultural feature of ethnic people of the northwest mountainous s area. In the gross crop, all people of a village temporarily stop their cultivation and together go to banks of big rivers or streams to pick mosses on good days. They use green mosses as reserved food and/or gifts for their relatives.

The way to process green mosses is similar in all minority groups. Mosses are put on large flat rocks. Then people use big bamboo and wood sticks to lash mosses and pick out gravel and grit before putting them in xa or khieng, which is like a flat basket, to wash until clean. Finally, clean mosses are kept with slight salt water for 10 to 15 minutes and then are washed again before being minced and mixed with spices to make the following dishes:

* Khay pho: Spices include garlic, onion, mac khen, ginger, chilli, fennel, minced lemon leaves and citronella bulb mixed with minced mosses which are added by an adequate quantity of salt. The mixture is then wrapped into phrynium or banana leaves, which is then buried into hot straw ashes that is surrounded by live coals for no less than 2 hours until the phrynium or banana leaves are dry.

* Khay pinh : After carrying out all processing steps as Khay Pho, people wrap ripe mosses into la lot or lemon leaves before gripping them in cleft bamboo sticks which are then grilled until ripe. Afterwards, people fry them by pig fat.

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Based on writings on remained stone stelae, historians have proved that the Phu Le Communal House was officially built under a directive by the Minh Mang King of the Nguyen Dynasty, issued on June 14, 1862.On April 14, 1896, the Communal House was first erected with very simple materials (thatched roof, wooden columns, board waffles, and laterite floorings) and on the land donated by Mr Le Van Sung. In 1923, the structure was renovated and became one the largecommunal houses of the province.

The Communal House is a house of 10 apartments, in which the 6 main apartments are built-in to the house roof, the rest 4 apartments are specially used as guest rooms and the kitchen.

In 1945, under the war threats, many worshiping and decorative objects were brought into hide by local people following a call by the management council. All brass instruments and tools were intended to be used in the “brass week” for making weaponry for used in the guerrilla war. Unfortunately, the intention was thwarted when the French colonial troops poured into the commune and occupied the Communal House. So the materials were also brought into hide.

After the war, only worshiping objects were returned to the Communal House and have been laid there until now. In 1972, the Communal House was again repaired due to war damages.

In 1950,the Communal House was again totally rebuilt on the same old ground base, with contributions from the commune’s people. The new Communal House was built with concrete walls, new roof tiling, and more new concrete columns. The main receptive hall was rebuilt with corrugated roof in 1967.

Phu Le is of high value thanks to not only the antique factor, but also its valuable artistic carving and engraving works and many other old-time decoratives made by craftmen from the Central Vietnam. Today, one of its halls was degraded and has never been able to paired due to lack of funding.

According to local elderly, the Communal House was used as a place of worship to the “Tutelary God”. Worshiping ceremonies are held twice a year, on the 18th and 19th days of the Third Lunar month, and on the 9th and 10th days of the Eleventh Lunar month. The Third Lunar month’s ceremony is called the Ky Yen (Pray for Peace), at which people pray to the God to bless for peace and good life. The Eleventh month’s ceremony is called the Cau Bong (Pray for Good Crops), which is asking for a good crop season to come.

Besides, there are other worshiping events at the Communal House on the main Mid-month occasions of the First, Seventh, the Tenth, and on July 27 every year. On such ocasions, local people, and some from other parts of the province, gather to the Communal House pray for whatever they wish to.

The ceremonies at the Communal House are also occasions for the whole community to come and share their life stories, to exchange information on various topics, from the very niches of their village life to even worldwide events. And, there is the indispensable nights of hat boi (a form of triditional drama).Though its original design and features have been largely damaged by the two wars in the past, and degraded through time, the Phu Le Communal House remains to be a symbol of the Vietnamese finest traditional morality: the loyalty of the people, the way of social living behaviour among the neighbourhoods.

So, visiting the Phu Le Communal House, tourists not only have chances to look at an artistic structure, but they also are able to sink themselves in the ancient and tranquil air of the House itself.

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The Museum is located in a large open area on Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Cau Giay District, about 8 km from the city centre. This area used to be paddy field of the local people. During the construction of the Museum, all of the infrastructure was built, including the 700m road from Hoang Quoc Viet Street to the entrance of the Museum. (In the near future, this road will reach the Daewoo Hotel, which is situated between Cau Giay and Lieu Giai Streets)

The Vietnamese Government first invested in the Museum in 1986 and construction of the foundation began in late 1989. According to the proposal, the total budget for construction was 27 billion of Vietnamese dong (US$ 1.9 million), not including 4 billion dong (US$ 285,000) for collecting and exhibiting the artefacts.
The exhibition building of the Museum was designed by the architect Ha Duc Linh, a Tay minority, who works for the Living Houses and Public Works Building Company, Ministry of Construction. The interior architecture was done by Mrs. Veronique Dollfus, a French architect.

The Museum is divided into two parts: an indoor and an outdoor exhibition. The indoor part is composed of the exhibition building, office, research centre, library, storage, technical lab and auditorium. These offices cover 2,480m2, including 750 m2 for storage of artefacts. The outdoor exhibition, which will be accomplished in the first years of the 21st century, is to highlight different types of houses in all parts of Vietnam. Pathways link the indoor and outdoor exhibitions with each other.

Since its inauguration on the occasion of the 7th Summit of Francophony in Hanoi, give date the Museum receives about 60,000 visitors annually.

It features a fascinating collection of art and everyday objects gathered from Vietnam and its diverse tribal people.

The museum has excellent maps and the displays are well labelled in Vietnamese, French and English. Interesting dioramas portray a typical village market, the making of conical hats and a Tay shamanic ceremony, while videos show the real life contexts. There are fabulous displays of weaving and fabric motifs. Visitors can also enter a traditional Black Thai house reconstructed within the museum, and there are outdoor exhibits in the landscaped grounds. A craft shop – affiliated with Craft Link, which is a fair trade organisation – sells books, beautiful postcards, and arts and crafts from ethnic communities.

The museum is quite a way from central Hanoi, but it shouldn’t be missed.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Address: Nguyen Van Huyen Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: (+84-4) 7562193 – Fax: (+84-4) 8360351 – E-mail: vme18@hn.vnn
Website: http://www.vme.org.vn/index.asp
Opened from Tue to Sun, 8.30am-5.30pm.

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Located near Hoi An (only 45km) in the center of Vietnam, near Danang airport (70 Km).
We will have very soon at only 15 minutes by car from Chu Lai airport (with weekly flight to Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, opening soon!)
Excursions near by
Thu Bon River
Cu Lao Cham (Cham Islands)
Cua Dai Beach
Japanese Covered Bridge
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1 Ambiance bar 1 Havana cigar box 1 Panoramic restaurant “Le grain de Sable”
Overflow swimming-pool Security team BEACH Bar
Bussiness centre Tea/coffee making IDD telephone
24-hour room service Beauty salon Massage
Sauna/steam-bath Karaoke Parking
Laundry & dry-cleaning service Internet & Email service Car/Motor/Bicycle rental service
Restaurant Car parking Souvenir shop
Tours operations Jacuzzi Courier, parcel and postal services
Limousine service Sightseeing tour services. Transportation facilities
Private bathroom Mini-bar Hair-dryer
Tour Desk Currency Exchange Gymnasium
Policies

* All rates are in USD, including breakfast, dinner, VAT & service charges.
* No charge for child under 2 when sharing bed with parents, US$ 30/ pax for children under 12 years old( Including Breakfast and Dinner). maximum 2 children/ villa.
* Transfer: 30 USD/pax/way from Da Nang Airport.

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The Life Resort Hoi An is situated on the Thu Bon River, in the French colonial quarter and only a few steps from the bustling historic town center where merchants once traded precious goods and left traces of their many different cultures. Beautiful Cua Dai beach is only a 5 km drive or a short boat trip from our jetty.
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Thu Bon River
Cu Lao Cham (Cham Islands)
Cua Dai Beach
Japanese Covered Bridge
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Daily Newspaper Excursion booking service VCD/DVD rental
E-mail corner Travel and accommodation services Sightseeing information
Bussiness centre Tea/coffee making Satellite stations
IDD telephone Massage Sauna/steam-bath
Parking Laundry & dry-cleaning service Internet & Email service
Fitness room Restaurant Souvenir shop
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Translation and Secretarial service Private bathroom Mini-bar
Direct dial telephone
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* All rates are in US$, including breakfast, VAT & service charges.
* No extra charge for children under 12 when sharing beds with parents.
* Add 20USD per extra bed, only from Deluxe/Up.
* Airport transfer: $15/way for a 4-seat car; $20/way for a minivan.

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