Hanoi, 2007 ISBT SITS NIHBT
November
10 - 13, 2007
Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Excursion programme


REGISTERED ACCOMPANYING PERSONS TOUR
(Included in registration fee of accompany persons)
 

HANOI CITY TOUR (Half day)
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Time: 08.30 – 12.30 hours or 13.30 – 17.00 hours
Accompanying persons may register for the Morning or for the afternoon tour.

The present site of Hanoi was chosen for Vietnam’s capital by King Ly Nam De as early as AD542 and was renamed Thang Long (Soaring Dragon) in later 1010. Hanoi has since remained of many Royal dynasties. Hanoi today is the political, commercial and cultural capital of the whole country. Once in Hanoi, you will find yourself in a one thousand-year old city of interesting pre-1940 architecture with various beauty spots, including many lakes.

With the Half day Hanoi city tour, you will have the chance to visit Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first university constructed in 1070, it’s gardens and well-preserved architecture offers a relaxing glimpse into Vietnam’s past. And the next visit is Museum of Ethnology – a research centre and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Vietnam. After that, driving past Tran Quoc pagoda – Hanoi’s oldest pagoda and Hoan Kiem Lake, represented the spiritual heart of the city.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee.
 

OPTIONAL DAY TOURS

Important Day Tour Information
The following day tours are subject to availability when booking and subject to a minimum of passengers being reached. All tours will depart from Meliá Hanoi, unless otherwise specified. You are welcome to participate in the offered tours or request a tailor-made tour alternatively. All the prices are per person and subject to minimum numbers being reached.

For more information and bookings please come to the Social Programme Desk.
 

Hanoi Vicinities Tour
Date: Daily
Time: 08.30 – 12.30 hours
Price: US$ 30.00

Half day tour to visit Bat Trang ceramic village, the famous village is situated approx 15km outside of Hanoi, surrounded by fertile farmland. Watch the artisans forming, painting and glazing their products, which are then baked for several days in huge kilns. Then we will take you to Dong Ky wood carving village is far from Hanoi 25km, famous for producing beautiful traditional furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl. This tour is also your wonderful souvenir-shopping opportunity.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee.
 

Cycle and Water Puppet Show
Date: Daily
Time: 17.30 – 20.00 hours
Price: US$ 30.00

Enjoy leisurely one-hour cyclo tour (xich lo) wandering through the classic streets of Hanoi’s Old Quarters to experience the bustling, real lifestyle and business of the Quarter. Then you will attend the performance of the famous Vietnamese traditional art of water puppetry at Thang Long Theatre. Water puppetry is a traditional art form with distinctive culture identity of Vietnam. it came to existence, developed and diversified over a thousand years ago in the Red River Delta. Water puppetry showed daily life of villagers such as farming, fishing, romance, children playing and the topics of the plays are picked from ancient legends, myths and historic stages.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, cyclo.
 

Full Day Tour to Ha Long Bay
Date: Daily
Time: 08.00 – 18.30 hours
Price: US$ 99.00 (lunch included)

Ha Long Bay, listed as a World Heritage Area of outstanding natural beauty. “Dragon descending to the sea” as it is known in Vietnamese, picturesque Ha Long Bay has more than 1,000 limestone islets rising from the sea, many of them containing beautiful grottoes. Driving to Ha Long Bay through the lush, scenic Red River Delta and enjoy a relaxing 4-hour boat trip through Ha Long Bay with many islands of innumerable shapes and forms seem to go up and down with waves of the emerald sea. The limestone of the islands have been carved by nature into many such marvellous caves as Heaven Gate Cave (Dong Thien Cung – discovered in 1994) Wooden Head Cave (Hang Dau Go), Virgin Cave (Hang Trinh Nu), all with exciting legends. Fresh seafood lunch is prepared and served on board.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, boat cruise, lunch on boat.
 

Full Day Tour to Hoa Lu – Tam Coc
Date: Daily from Sunday until Wednesday
Time: 08.00 – 17.00 hours
Price: US$ 65.00 (lunch included)

We leave Hanoi head south for a 2-hour drive to Ninh Binh. We spend one hour visiting two remaining temples of the Dinh and Le Dynasties of the ancient citadel of Hoa Lu. After lunch, move on to Tam Coc, often called “Dry Ha Long Bay” where Limestone carts rise from rice fields and winding streams. Enjoy the spectacular scenery during a leisurely boat ride in traditional local sampans paddling through Three caves that made Vietnam famous in the French film ‘Indochina’: Hang Ca, Hang Giua and Hang Cuoi.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, lunch
 

Hanoi - Sapa Tour
Date: Friday, November 9 (departure at late evening) -
Monday, November 12 (arrive Hanoi at early morning)
Price: US$ 299.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 85.-

Experience the romance of overnight train travel. Two days tour to visit outstandingly beautiful valley – SAPA, an incredibly picturesque village that lies on the Hoang Lien Son mountain range near the Chinese border in NW Vietnam. It is called as “the Tonkin’s Alps” You can see many hill tribe people, their villages, rice terraces, lush vegetation, and Fansipan, highest peak in Vietnam. Trekking through this beautiful mountain villages and observe the varied customs and cultures of some of the minority people.

Includes: Accommodation in Sa Pa at 3 stars hotel, overnight train with solf-sleeper, transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, full board meals.
 

Sapa Tour
 

Pre and Post Package Tours

Important Pre and Post package Tour Information

The following day tours are subject to availability when booking and subject to a minimum of passengers being reached. All tours will depart from Meliá Hanoi, unless otherwise specified. You are welcome to participate in the offered tours or request a tailor-made tour alternatively. All the prices are per person and subject to minimum numbers being reached.

For more information and bookings please come to the Social Programme Desk.
 

Ha Long Bay Cruise
Date: Thursday, November 8 and Friday November 9
Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15
Price: US$ 166.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 40.00

Driving to Ha Long Bay through the lush, scenic Red River Delta and take two days cruising overnight on board through one of Vietnam’s world Heritage sites – the amazing Ha Long Bay with thousand limestone peaks rising up from its crystalline emerald waters. This two-day itinerary gives us the chance to enjoy the bay from the luxury junk. Here you can explore some of the limestone caves dotted around the bay, relax on the tanning deck, swim in the clear aqua blue waters and enjoy the best cuisine available in the bay.

Includes: Transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, overnight boat cruise, meals on boat (1 breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 dinner).
 

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Island Tour
Date: Wednesday, November 14 - Friday, November 16
Price: US$ 340.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 50.-

Three-day trip to Cat Ba island combined with a visit to Ha Long Bay. This is the largest island in the Cat Ba Archipelago that consists of 350 limestone outcrops adjacent to Ha Long. Starting from Ha Long Wharf it will take you 5 hours by a tourist boat, with stopovers for swimming, visiting spectacular karsts and having fresh seafood. The island is a national park of Vietnam and is recognized by UNESCO as the Biosphere Reservation of the world.

Includes: Accommodation at 3 stars hotel, transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, boat cruise, full board meals
 

Hanoi - Sapa Tour
Date: Tuesday, November 13 (departure at late evening) -
Friday, November 16 (arrive Hanoi at early morning).
Price: US$ 299.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 85.-

Experience the romance of overnight train travel. Two days tour to visit outstandingly beautiful valley – SAPA, an incredibly picturesque village that lies on the Hoang Lien Son mountain range near the Chinese border in NW Vietnam. It is called as “the Tonkin’s Alps” You can see many hill tribe people, their villages, rice terraces, lush vegetation, and Fansipan, highest peak in Vietnam. Trekking through this beautiful mountain villages and observe the varied customs and cultures of some of the minority people.

Includes: Accommodation in Sa Pa at 3 stars hotel, overnight train with solf-sleeper, transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, full board meals
 

Hanoi–Hue–Da Nang–Hoi An Tour
Date: Monday, November 5 - Friday, November 9
Wednesday, November 14 – Sunday, November 18
Price: US$ 540.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 99.-

Flight to the centre of Vietnam for Heritage Road Tour: Two days visiting the most significant monuments of Vietnam’s imperial dynasties, taking a boat down Hue’s tranquil Perfume River to see ancient tombs, pagodas, temples. Then drive the scenic ‘Pass of Ocean Clouds’ and past picturesque beaches on the road from Hue to Hoi An, and via for one night at the beautiful resort in Da Nang. On the next day you will have chance to explore My Son - the remains of the mighty Cham Kingdom which centuries ago stretched across modern-day Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and wander the charming streets of Hoi An Town lined with centuries old houses, quiet boutiques and famous tailors.

Includes: Accommodation in Hue, Da Nang and Hoi An at 3 stars hotel, domestic flight Hanoi-Hue-Danang-Hanoi, transportation, English speaking guide, entrance fee, full board meals
 

Ho Chi Minh City Tour
Date: Wednesday, November 14 – Thursday, November 16
Price: US$ 366.00 per person for a double cabin.
Additional charge for single cabin US$ 55.-
Saigon, officially named Ho Chi Minh City, is a thriving metropolis with an unavoidable Western influence offering quite a different from Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh City is the biggest one in Vietnam. You have the city tour to visit the former Presidential Palace; Central Post Office and Notre Dame Cathedral - two of the city’s colonial-style monuments; Cho Lon - Saigon’s China Town famous with Binh Tay market and Thien Hau pagoda and to visit the famous Cu Chi network of underground tunnels, strategic centre of the Viet Cong struggle and boating river-based villages of the vibrant Mekong Delta.

Includes: Accommodation in Ho Chi Minh City at 3 stars hotel, Domestic flight Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh city, transportation, English speaking guide; entrance fee; full board meals.

For more information and bookings please come to the Social Programme Desk.
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