Introduce special and unique dishes at Food Week in Hanoi

A Food Week showcasing the specialties typical of three regions in Viet Nam will open at Vinhomes Riverside, Long Bien district, Ha Noi, from November 7-15.

The event aims to introduce special and unique dishes from North, Central and South Viet Nam.

Also, a cooking contest titled Honour Vietnamese Cuisine will be held to honour chefs. Leading Vietnamese chefs such as Tran Ba Dung, Tran Van Lap, Nguyen Van Bong and Le Thi Lan will compete for the title of master-chef of the event.

Visitors decide the result of the contest by voting for the dishes they like.

To enjoy the food, visitors need to pay a package fare of 500,000 VND (about 22 USD) per adult and 250,000 VND (about 11 USD) per child for a lunch or a dinner.

Source: vietnamtourism.com

Emirates airlines launches "free Dubai visa" offer

Emirates airline has announced complimentary Dubai visas for passengers from Vietnam.

Passengers who book return tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Dubai between October 20 and November 20, 2015, for flights between October 20 and December 15, 2015, will get free Dubai visas that normally cost up to US$90 each.

This offer is valid only for individual travellers and for a maximum stay of 30 days.

Mohammad Sarhan, Emirates' country manager in Vietnam, described Dubai as truly a fascinating destination and the top choice of travellers from across the globe.

“With this complimentary visa offer, we would like to provide passengers from Vietnam a unique opportunity to discover the global city of Dubai this winter", he said.

Source: VNS

Discovery Tu Lan Cave 1 day

Route: Primary forest; Chuot Cave; La Ken valley; Hung Ton Cave; swimming in Hung Ton cave; To Mo valley and waterfall.

Duration: 1 day

Transport: car

Price: from $75

One day tour to Tu Lan Caves System is designed for tourist would like to explore the nature, jungle, untouched caves with limited of time. This tour will offer tourist chance to experience the primary forest, Chuot (Rat) cave, trekking uphill from Laken valley (elevation: 150m) to Hung Ton valley, explore Hung Ton dry cave and experience the ladder with 10m vertical drop, swimming 100m in the darkness of Hung Ton river cave. This tour will bring you unique caving and trekking experiences.

Trekking gear: Helmet, trekking boots (wet and dry trek), headlight, life jacket, dry box for cameras.

ITINERARY:

Phong Nha -Tan Hoa-La Ken valley – Hung Ton cave – To Mo valley – Phong Nha (L)

07:30 -09:00 Depart from Phong Nha to Tan Hoa Village by vehicle

09:00 -11:00 Trekking from Tan Hoa village to Chuot cave, Laken valley

11:00 –13:00 Trekking uphill from Laken valley to Hung Ton cave

13:00 – 14:00 Picnic lunch at Hung Ton cave

14:00 – 15:30 Explore Hung Ton dry cave, go down 10m ladder in the cave, Swim through hung Ton cave.

15:30-17:00 – Trek back to Tan Hoa Village; Pick up and transfer to Phong Nha

18:30: – Arrive Phong Nha, tour ends.

Tour includes:

Picnic lunches

Entrance fees

Trekking gear

Tour guide

Porter (6 Pax share 1 porter)

Transportation (during the tour at Phong Nha)

Excludes:

Hotel (Before and after the tour)

Breakfast and dinner before and after the tour

Personal expenses

Travel insurance

VAT

Sapa - Y Ty - Muong Hum 2days 3 nights

Route: Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa - Ta Phin - Y Ty - Muong Hum - Lao Cai - Hanoi

Duration: 2 days 3 nights

Transport: train/car

Price: contact

OVERVIEW

Y Ty commune is located west of Bat Xat district, about 100 km from Lao Cai town. Y Ty is dub “foggy land” with gorgeous terraced fields and the most beautiful earth walled houses in Lao Cai.

Hani villages and Dan Sang and Y Ty cardamom protected forest. Over a century ago, the French military keeping watch on the Chinese border praised the beauty of the Y Ty plateau, 2000m-high and therefore 400m higher than Sa Pa.

ITINERARY:

Day 1: Hanoi - Laocai - Sapa ( B – L- D)

The train from Hanoi arrives to Lao Cai Station approx. at 05:30am. After breakfast at the local restaurant, Vietnam Typical Tours' guide will take you to visit the Dragon Mountain in Sapa, where you can enjoy the beautiful view over Sapa town, to visit the “music village” with traditional ethnic music, to walk around black rock mountains and many kinds of flowers like orchids and roses. Then you will come back to the hotel to take a rest before heading out for dinner at local restaurant.

In the afternoon you will have a pleasant tour to Cat Cat village, home to Black H’mong people. You will walk with your English speaking guide downhill about 4 km. On the way to the village you have the opportunity to enjoy breathtaking scenery of the mountains range and peaceful Muong Hoa valley; notice the villagers working on the paddy rice fields, their children playing around, and their animals such as: water-buffaloes, pot-belled pigs and chickens. You can also see on the way an old hydro-electric power station which was built in the early 20th century by French. After crossing village, we’ll arrive to a beautiful waterfall which is a good place for refreshing and taking pictures. At the end of the tour, you will return back to Sapa by foot.

At evening you have free time to explore the night life of Sapa. Dinner is held at local restaurant in Sapa.

Day 2: Sapa - Ta Phin - Y Ty (B-L-D)

After having a breakfast, checking out the hotel, you will start your journey from Sapa by car toY Tý. You will have the chance to see the starting poin of Red River running into Vietnam land that is very popular river of Vietnam, which has one part runs through Hanoi. We will stop over there where you can see the conjunction of Lung Po Stream joining to Red river.

Having lunch at Y Ty and take lunch break.

In the afternoon, We start our visit to Lao Chai 1 village in which we can see the biggest house in mushroom shape located in the middle of Ha Nhi People ( one of the most popular ethenic people living in Y Ty) We have chance to meet the local people and share cultural experiences with families. After that, we continue discovery Phin Ho plateau with the height of over 2.000 m , enjoy the fresh and pure air and discovery the diversity of plants.

Go back Y Ty and over night at home stay in the village.

Day 3: Y Tý- Muong Hum - Lao Cai (B-L)

In the morning, after a quick breakfast our friendly driver take you to Mung Hum by car. On the way, we will stop at Y Tý jungle which is primary forest having diversity of ancient trees, and rare herbal. Overhere the weather is foggy and cool every season of the year. Enjoy the overall pictures of the local market which is taken in part of so many local people in their own colorful dress. This kind of market was held weekly by local people in 20 km2 surrounded.

Having lunch on the way, will go directly to to Laocai to take the train go back to Hanoi. Enjoy your dinner in Lao Cai City .

TOUR INCLUDED:

Transfer from the hotel to Hanoi Railway Station

Roundtrip transfer in Sapa, Lao Cai

Return train tickets Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi (Soft sleeper with A/C - 4 persons in one cabin)

1 night at 3* hotel in Sapa

Homestay fee 1 nights

Meals as stated above

English speaking guide

Entrance fees

TOUR EXCLUDED:

Travel insurance 

Extra food and beverages

Phone and laundry

Tips and personal expenses 

TOUR NOTES:

Bring walking shoes, raincoat, jacket, extra clothes, torth, insect repellent and sunscreen.

Korean Jeju Air opens new flight to Hanoi

To meet the increased demand of inbound and outbound tourists between Viet Nam and Korea, Jeju Air has announced the opening of a new daily route connecting Incheon and Noi Bai International Airport. 

The new route will depart Noi Bai International Airport for Incheon daily leaving at 2.25pm using Boeing 737-800 aircraft from December 18, an airline spokesperson says.

The airline is all bells, steam and whistle promoting both traditional and new destinations while the airline is opening up new routes to bring in more tourists and meet the increased demands of business, the spokesperson said.

Jeju Air is a low cost airline based out of Jeju City, the Republic of Korea, offering scheduled domestic services between Jeju and the Republic of Korean mainland out of Jeju International Airport or Gimpo International Airport, Seoul.

The airline, owned by Aekyung Group (81.7%) and the Jeju Provincial Government (4.54%), began operations on June 2, 2006. On July 11, 2008, Jeju Air made its first international flight.

In 2011, the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam, the Ministry of Transport and Korean Air signed an agreement, allowing Jeju to conduct its first international flights to Viet Nam.

Source: VOV

A day in Vinpearl Phu Quoc Resort

The Vinpearl Phu Quoc Resort which was debuted earlier last month by Vingroup is a new destination for those who wish to have a great escape to Phu Quoc Island off Kien Giang Province.

The five-star resort complex located on Bai Dai (long beach) to the northwest of Phu Quoc Island covers an area of 300 hectares, including a 750-room hotel/villa and an entertainment area Vinpearl Land and a 27-hole golf course.

A highlight is the Vinpearl Land whose activities are suitable for people of all ages. There are a game center, a water park, an outdoor entertainment zone with lots of thrilling games, an underwater world with tens of thousands of sea creatures and especially 15 penguins imported from Australia. A fountain stage with a capacity of 3,000 audiences is where people can enjoy some exciting art performances.

From the resort, it is convenient for tourists to explore other famous sightseeing spots on the island, including Ganh Dau, Cua Can, and some beaches like Thom, Vong, Khem, and Sao and Tranh and Da Ban streams, Cau Temple, the National Park of Phu Quoc and Phu Quoc Prison.

The resort last week hosted Miss Vietnam 2014 beauty contest at its fountain stage with the performance of popular American singer Kelly Clarkson.

Tourists can take daily flights provided by local carriers like Vietnam Airlines, VietJetAir and Jetstar Pacific from HCMC to Phu Quoc island or they can take a boat trip from Rach Gia Town of Kien Giang Province to the island.

Source: SGT

Hoa Binh - Hang Kia - Cun Pheo - Mai Chau trekking tour 5 days 4 nights

Route: Hanoi - Hoa Binh - Hang Kia - Cun Pheo - Mai Chau - Hanoi

Duration: 5 days 4 nights

Transport: car

Price: contact

Inspired by a team of friends traveling with a tourist group, I have recently made the 5d/ 4n trekking tour to some of the most beautiful and remote areas in Hoa Binh province. Please find below some updates concerning this tour.

Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi - Museum of Ethnology - Hoa Binh (L, D)

Car and tourist guide of Vietnam Typical Tours pick you up at your hotel. Visit Museum of ethonology in Hanoi.

9.30: Drive from Hanoi to Hoa Binh. Arrive in Hoa Binh and check in at Hoa Binh hotel

Lunch at hotel.

PM: Meet the local guide. Transfer to the pier for a cruise on Hoa Binh lake which takes 30 minutes before disembarking on a village of Muong minority called Voi. Start trekking through the village then onto the hill along the river, ending the walk at the hotel.

Dinner at hotel followed by a minority folk music performance.

Day 2: Hoa Binh - Xa Linh - Hang Kia (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel.

Then, transfer from Hoa Binh to the direction of Mai Chau with a stopover to visit a Saturday market called Phu Cuong. Passing Mai Chau to continue another 30 minutes on national road no. 6.

Dropoff and start the trek to Xa Linh in 90 minutes.

Lunch in Xa linh in a home of Hmong people.

Continue to Cha Day village where there are choices of easy and more difficult routes to Hang Kia. On rainy days, the more difficult one should be hazardous. We finally took the easy one, passing through streams and corn fields. We arrived at Hang kia village at 17h30. This is a village at the height of more than 1000 meters above sea level, so it is quite cool even in summer time. There is only one family in the village who can host tourists, with maximum capacity of about 30 pax. The owner, 65 and having 13 children, was former district's communist party secretary.

Dinner: vegetable soup, fried beef, roasted pork, bread, fried chopped shrimp, fried vegetable

Overnight at house of H'mong people.

Day 3: Hang Kia - Cun Pheo (B, L, D)

Breakfast.

AM: 4 hours of trekking through the most difficult part of the trek. Our guide fell and had a serious cut in the hand.

Picnic lunch at a village of Thai people: bread, boiled egg, cumcumber, roasted chicken & beef.

PM: 2 hours trek before getting to Cun Pheo. Stay at a village of Muong minority. This is a spectacular village surrounded by palm gardens and bamboo

Dinner and overnight at house on stilt

Day 4: Cun Pheo - Xam Khoe (B,L,D)

Breakfast.

3 hours trek in the morning brings us to Sam Khoe where we stay at a Thai village.

Lunch.

PM: 2 hours bonus trek to see the nearby garden and terraced rice fields

Dinner with a jar of Can wine. The food is placed in large trays lined with banana leaves and decorated like traditional food of Thai minority.

Overnight at house on stilt.

Day 5: Xam Khoe - Mai Chau - Hanoi (B,L)

Breakfast

1.5 hours trek to reach an inter-district road where we meet our bus (should be 16-35 seater) to pick us up and drive to Hoa Binh town via Mai Chau.

Lunch at Hoa Binh hotel.

Continue drive and drop-off in Hanoi in the afternoon.

Tour included:

- Car, accommodation, tourist guide, Foods,entrance fees

Tour excluded: 
- Tip, private expends, ...

Hanoi transportation guide

Getting to know about some popular means of transportation in Hanoi helps you avoid inconvenience and many scams.

1. Getting Hanoi from Noi Bai airport

From Noi Bai airport to Hanoi Old Quarter, there are taxis that run at fixed rates waiting outside of the arrival hall. It costs between 315,000 - 345,000 VND depending on the type of taxi you get (or $16-18). Three official taxi brands for airport routes are: Noi Bai Taxi, Viet Thanh Taxi, and Dai Nam Taxi, you can also take a look at our Guide to taking taxi at Noi Bai airport here.

In any case, do not go by the meter because the rate will be much higher than the fixed rate. You also need not pay any toll fees.

2. Taxi

Taxi is very convenient and popular in Hanoi. The price hovers 14000/km for a 4-seat.

If you want to go by taxi, you should ask for suggestion of the hotel first, it can help you avoid scams. Or you shake hand to stop a taxi and show the driver where you want to get. Don’t forget to check the meter before the drive starts. If you find the fare suspiciously higher than the amount you expect it to be, you should check the meter again and call the police or the taxi PBX for help.

3. Renting a motorbike

Roads in Hanoi are quite interlacing, small, and full of corners, and you may face traffic jams during peak hours. So riding a motorbike is very convenient.  You should hire a motorbike to always take the initiative, especially when you tend to visit places away from the Old Quarter.

Motorbikes can be rented at almost every hotel and in some shops in the Old Quarter, especially in Hang Bac street. The price for rent is from 5$ per day. You even don’t have to book in advance.  Motorbikes can also be bought in Hanoi. 

4. Take a motorbike taxi

The Xe Om - motorbike taxi with his motorcycle on the pavement

It is fun to take a motorbike taxi, usually called Xe Om which means hugging motorbike - a really convenient way to getting around the city. They can be catch everywhere in the streets, esspecially at the crossroad. A man sitting on his motorbike with a ambiguity look at the flow of people. You can go and stop anywhere you want, the price is much cheaper than taxi, about 6000d/km, of course you have to try your best to bargant. If the driver can not speak English, show him where you want to get on the map and use your fingers to negotiate for good price.

You choose the driver with good motorbike like SYM, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, and both have to wear the helmets or you will be stopped by the police.

5. Cyclo

Cyclo is the unique mean of transportations in Hanoi. The cyclos are crowded parking around Hoan Kiem lake and along the streets in Old Quarter like red waist ants. When taking a cyclo make sure you agree on a price BEFORE you get on and write it down. If your putting two people in one cyclo make sure you get the price for both people. And the most important thing you need to remember is try your best to bargain.

Source: worldtraveldairy.net

Hanoi city Tour full day

Itinerary: Hanoi city

Duration: 1 day

Transport: car

Departure: daily

Price: from 35$

Anyone who has ever visited Hanoi will probably tell you that it may be the most beautiful city in all of Asia. People have settled here along the Red River for a thousand years. Nestled along wooded boulevards among the city’s two dozen lakes you will find architectural souvenirs left by all who conquered this great valley, from the Chinese who first came in the last millennium to the French, booted out in our own century.

PROGRAM:

07:45 - 08:30  Get picked up by our tour guide and bus. After short drive, start visiting first place named Tran Quoc Pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.

09:00 Visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father, walking along Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived and worked from 1958 to 1969.

10:00 Visit One-Pillar Pagoda – the one modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi city.

11:00 Visit the colorful features of the 54 ethnic groups of Viet Nam in the Ethnology Museum.

13:00 Bus takes you to a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter, have a rest and enjoy the lunch.

14:00 Visit Temple of Literature, the most famous temple situated in Hanoi, also functioned as Vietnam's first university. It was first constructed in 1070 under King Ly Nhan Tong and dedicated to Confucius, sages and scholars. A vast structure that has existed to present day.

15:30 Drive to legendary Hoan Kiem Lake, visit Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Van Xuong saint and former general commander Tran Hung Dao for his struggle against Mongolians. You also see the beautiful Vietnamese and French architecture around the lake.

16:00 Arrive back to your hotel. Tour ends.

Trip included: 

- Pick-up and transfer by A/C modern bus.

- A bottle of water/person on the bus.

- English speaking tour guide

- All entrance fees to sites indicated in itinerary

- Meals as : Lunch

Trip excluded:

- Beverages, tax and personal expenses

- Others not clearly mentioned above

CHILDREN POLICY: 

- Baby Cost is free of charge and according to availability.

- Children under 5 years old will be free of charge.

- Children from 5 to under 9 years old 75%

- From 10 and above will be charged as adult (100% tour price)

Halong Bay 1 day

Itinerary: Hanoi - Halong - Thien Cung Cave - Hanoi

Duration: 1 day

Transport: Car

Departure: daily

Price: from 35$

Ha Long Bay is said to be a magic land of natural sea bay beauty, attracting more and more tourists ever since UNESCO’s recognition of its nature!

PROGRAM:

7h45 – 8h15: Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at your hotel or our office depart to Ha long Bay, spend 3,5 hours . On the haft way stop for short break in Hai Duong Province 25 minutes.

12h00 – 12h15: Arrive Bai Chay port, Start cruising and enjoy a Special lunch with Vietnamese Traditional Dishes while the boat slowly slides on romantic waves of the sea to the legendary fishing village.

13.00PM: Visiting floating village (Or kayaking, moto boat, bamboo boat if you have booking).

14.00 :Visiting ‘’Thien Cung Cave”. Thien Cung Cave or the Cave of Heavenly Palace is on the same island , Thien Cung Cave makes the visitors the impression of being in a heavenly world.

16.45 : Return to Halong Habour, get on the bus back to Hanoi

20.30: Arrive to Hanoi. Tour End!

      

Trip included:

- Pick-up and transfer by A/C modern bus Hanoi – Halong – Hanoi

- A bottle of water/person on the bus.

- English speaking tour guide

- All entrance fees to sites indicated in itinerary

- Meals as : Lunch

Trip excluded:

- Beverages, tax and personal expenses

- Others not clearly mentioned above

CHILDREN POLICY:

- Baby Cost is free of charge and according to availability.

- Children under 5 years old will be free of charge.

- Children from 5 to under 9 years old 75%

- From 10 and above will be charged as adult (100% tour price)

  

WHAT TO BRING:

- Original passport, sun glasses, insect repellent

- Cruise itinerary and schedule subject to change upon weather and operations conditions.

- Special requests on food (diet or vegetarian) please inform us before departure.

Top 5 famous Restaurant in Hanoi

Quan Ngon Restaurant

You are a tourist who has read a lots about the deliciousness and diversity of Vietnamese food but hasn’t known where to try them all at once? Let’s visit Quan Ngon Restaurant, which was established specially to satisfy your wish. Quan Ngon Restaurant is special in its name “ngon” which means delicious in Vietnamese. Only one simple word but still expresses what the restaurant offers you. In here, customers can enjoy almost every Vietnamese dish from the Northern foods to the Central’s and the South’s with the best quality promised by Quan Ngon’s chefs. They using best induction cooktop for cooking. Additionally, you may be able to see how foods are made thanks to the design of a chain of food-serve stalls like traditional-style market of Vietnam. The restaurant’s staffs are well trained, enthusiastic and agile in traditional clothes can always deliver best service to you. 

Add: 18 Phan Boi Chau, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. 

Tel: (04) 9428162 2. 

Sen Tay Ho Gastronomic Center

The restaurant is proudly to be one of the biggest buffet restaurant in Vietnam which can serve more than 1200 customers and above 200 dishes of different gastronomical styles from Vietnamese to European and Eastern Asian cuisine. Sen Tay Ho is a chain three buffet restaurants: International Buffet Restaurant where you can try excellent foods from well-known cooking styles in the world; Hanoi Buffet brings you to an ancient corner of Hanoi where you can see traditional food-serving stalls of Vietnam. The menu of Hanoi Buffet bases mainly on high-quality sea-foods with complicated cooking art like Baked Lobster, Tu Hai, So Diep and Tuna and Salmon Shashimi, etc. Luxury Star Buffet is opened exclusively at weekends provides an distinctive eating experience with rare dishes one can only taste in Vietnam like Grilled Trionychid Turtle, Sake-steamed Crab, Goose Liver and Frog hot-pot. Also, both the menus of International Buffet and Hanoi Buffet restaurant are available here. Additionally, customers may entertain music shows of Vietnamese pop stars while eating . 

Add: 614 Lac Long Quan, Tay Ho, Hanoi 

Tel: (84-4) 3719-9242 3. 

Ngoc Mai Buffet Restaurant 

The first impression when coming to Ngoc Mai Restaurant is its elegant architecture with the emerald color theme together with refined inferior. Its windows are designed in curve-shape giving people an impression like being traveled on a giant ship. The quality of dishes in the restaurant is even more taken care of. In order to make it standing out among other restaurants, Ngoc Mai changes its menu day after day with a variety of international foods. The restaurant also put the fresh of foods at the highest priority which one can enjoy the most fresh octopus, salmon or tuna sushi in Hanoi. Children would keep their parents stay at this restaurant after meals longer than any other one in Hanoi thanks to its luscious desserts like ice-creams, yoghurts  or fresh fruits. 

Add: 17th Floor, Ruby Plaza, 44 Le Ngoc Han, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi 

Tel: (04) 2220 6698 4. 

Highway4 

It would be a mistake if you are a fan of Hanoi’s gastronomy but haven’t visited Highway4 Restaurant, which is located in an old quarter of Hanoi. Opposite to its modern English name, Highway4 posses an ancient architecture with Vietnamese bamboo low tables and chairs. It is also decorated with Thuy Mac pictures and Vietnamese minor ethnic style pictures which provide customer a real Vietnamese space. The menu of Highway4 could be summarized in one word: “Rare”, because its foods are cooked by the innovation of professional chefs here. Thanks to this, Highway4 really established its own cuisine which is a melting pot of innovation and the quintessence of other countries’ cooking art. Some delightful dishes of the restaurant are: Chau Sa, Duck Grilled with Lac Mac Leaf or Cricket Meat Roll. 

Add: 54 Mai Hac De, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi 

Tel: (04) 3976 2647  5. 

Cha Ca Thang Long Restaurant

Cha Ca – has been a symbol of Hanoi’s 1000 years of gastronomy which any passengers coming here should not miss. You may notice a dozen of restaurants that can serve Cha Ca but you can never have a more delicious meal of this food after trying once at Cha Ca Thang Long. Cha Ca in this restaurant has a specially taste that cannot be expressed by words that one can only feel by tasting it. From the ingredients, raw material to soup powder are exclusively appear at Cha Ca Thang Long. When being asked the secret of making such delicious Cha Ca, owner of the restaurant answer that it is the love in cooking, the passion with the job, the will to keep a traditional food live on brightly and an ambition to make Cha Ca becoming well-known to the world like Pho that create Cha Ca Thang Long. 

Add: 19-21-31 Duong Thanh, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi 

Tel: (04) 38245 111

Source: immivietnamvisa.com

Useful Vietnamese visa information

Visa procedure

Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country. Visas are exempted for the citizens of the countries, which have signed a bilateral or unilateral visa exemption agreement with Vietnam, tourist visa may be valid for 15 to 30 days.

Visa exemption:

Vietnamese people that hold foreign passports and foreigners who are their husbands, wives and children are exempt from visa requirements to enter Vietnam and are allowed to stay for not more than 90 days. In order to be granted visa exemption certificates at Vietnamese representative offices abroad, overseas Vietnamese need conditions:

- Foreign-issued permanent residence certificate (PRC) with the validity of at least six months since the date of entrance. 

- Visa exemption paper (VEP) is granted by Vietnamese appropriate authorities.

Those who expect to stay more than 90 days must apply for visa according to current stipulations before their entrance.

Bilateral visa exemption agreement:

Citizens of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Laos holding valid ordinary passports are exempt from visa requirements and are allowed to stay for not more than 30 days; Philippines is allowed to stay for not more than 21 days.

By February 2011, citizens of China, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, and Rumania holding valid ordinary passports for official mission. Citizens of 60 countries holding valid diplomatic or official passports are exempt from visa requirements including:  Argentina, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, France, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela.

Unilateral visa exemption:

Visa with 30-day validity is exempted for officials from ASEAN secretariat holding different kinds of passports.

Citizens of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Russia holding different kinds of passports are exempt from visa requirements and are allowed to stay for not more than 15 days.

Others who want to enter Vietnam must be provided with a visa:

Tourist visa is valid in 30 days.

Visa is issued at the Vietnamese diplomatic offices or consulates in foreign countries. Visa is possibly issued at the border gates to those who have written invitations by a Vietnamese competent agencies or tourists in the tours organized by Vietnamese international travel companies.

Application files for visa: the entrance application (printed form); two 4x6 cm photos; passport and fee for the visa issuance.

Visa extension: Served by all international travel companies.

Contact us for any further information to get your visa! Email: info@vietnamtypicaltours.com

Quang Binh Sun Spa Resort

Introduction:

Sun Spa Resort is set amidst a spacious 29 hectares of landscaped garden along pristine white sand Bao Ninh Beach Vietnam and on the banks of the legendary of Nhat Le river.(Google Map)

Located in the picturesque Central Vietnam city of Dong Hoi, 50 kilometers from the mystical, UNESCO recognized caves of Phong Nha, Sun Spa Resort offers luxurious accommodation in Dong Hoi, excellent facilities along Bao Ninh Beach and the perfect gateway to discover the World Heritage. 

Not many Destinations in Vietnam have much advantages as in Quang Binh. Only in the area on 8.065km2, Quang Binh contains three types of geography, stretching from the forests, hills, plains to the coastal strip ofsand dunes. Each type contains both a great value, the convergence potential of tourism development in the future.

Destinations:

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: This park features a karst region of more than 200,000 km² if Hin Namno region in Laos bordering this park is combined.

Da Nhay and Ly Hoa Beaches, Nhat Le Beach: these two beaches feature white and fine sands, clean water, and are among one of the most attractive beaches in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Trail battlefield, where there are many important sites along the trail during Vietnam War.

Dong Thien Duong : The longest Cave in Asia with 31 Km long

Hang Son Doong : Recorded as The largest Cave in the World

Facilities:

Surrounded by water on three sides, the peninsular resort has 234 international standard rooms, facing our beach, including ocean suite, deluxe and superior rooms. All the rooms have the facilities that you would expect of a top-quality resort, including satellite TV, Air-con, laptop portal, safety deposit box and Jacuzzi in the suites.

Check-in time : 2.00 PM

Check-out time : 12:00 PM

Credit Cards accepted:

Visa

MasterCard

American Express

Diners

JCB

UnionPay

Connect 24 ( Vietcombank)

Rooms:

Superior Garden Room: The Superior Garden room overlooks the beautiful tropical garden. They all have a bathroom with a bath tub and hairdryer.The rooms have a “king-size ” bed of 2x2 mt or two twin beds of 1,2x2mt. 

Quantity: 112 rooms

Deluxe Pool/Ocean Room: Deluxe Pool-Ocean View Rooms have a balcony with either a Pool or an Ocean View. Some can be converted into communicating family rooms; each of them with bathroom with a bath tub.The rooms have either a “ king size ” bed of 2x2mt or two twin beds of 1,2x2m. 

Quantity: 94 rooms

Deluxe Suite Garden Room: The Deluxe Suite Garden view room is furnished with full-length windows and a large king-size bed, Enjoy the view over palm trees, plants and flowers in all kinds of shapes and colors. The Hotel room features full amenities, air-conditioning, Cable TV, wifi and a refrigerator. 

Quantity: 15 rooms

Deluxe Suite Pool/Ocean Room: The Deluxe Suite Pool/Ocean room is furnished with full-length windows and a large king-size bed. This room overlooks the Ocean, the beautiful garden and the landscaped swimming pool. At night, you will see the faraway lights of the local fishermen offshore while the swimming pool is being romantically illuminated. 

Quantity: 9 rooms

Ocean Suite: Each Ocean Suite room is decorated with luxury furniture featuring one double bedroom, one living-room and a separate jacuzzi bathroom. The Ocean Suite is equipped with air-conditioning, cable TV, VCR, a refrigerator, an in-house safe box, wifi, tea and coffee making facilities, relaxing sofas, shiny and comfortable furniture. This suite has been the home away from home to many of our VIP guests. 

Quantity: 4 rooms

Bungalow (per room): Bungalow rooms are spacious and airy, with terraces looking out over the lush tropical gardens down to the sparkling lagoon.

Each room offers all the luxury facilities for 5 star resort standards: an indoor double jacuzzi, a separate shower, air-conditioning, polished timber floor, Cable TV and a refrigerator. The rooms on the second floor have a high thatched roof with a modern design. Quantity: 60 rooms

Pool Villa: Sun Spa  Resort and Spa has 13 villas carefully set and oriented to allow ultimate privacy and tranquillity to all our guests. Luxurious tropical gardens all around the resort provide a natural and quiet setting.

Sapa Bac Ha market tour 3 days 4 nights

Bac Ha market is very well known in the area for its color painted to local hill tribe people. There are Flower Hmong, Phu La, Black Dzao, Tay and Nung…They all gather to the market to sell their homemade products such as corn wine, handicraft… as well as an interesting animal.

1st night: Trekking Travel's taxi takes you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 1: Lao Cai - Bac Ha - Sapa ( B/L/D)

The train arrives at the Lao Cai train station at approximately 6:00 am. Pick up and transfer to Sapa . After breakfast we take the minibus to go to Bac Ha (arrive at about 10.00AM). 10h30: At the market day you have opportunities to meet local people from the remote villages in their traditional costumes. They are 4 different tribal groups Flower Hmong, Black Dao, Toy and Phi La, in the afternoon taking 2 hour walk to visit Ban Phi – A Flower Hmong village which is located in scenic valley. 

16h30: Bus transfer back to Sapa for dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 2: Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B,L,D)

After breakfast, we leave the hotel and start trekking down the valley to the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H'mong village Lao Chai. Black H'mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. After this you continue to Ta Van village  to visit the Zay people. The Zay houses are built of wood and bamboo with a clay floor. 

Have picnic lunch on the way then keep going to the bottom of Sapa valley. 

Jeep back to Sapa in the afternoon. Overnight at the hotel in Sapa.

Day 3: Sapa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai, trekking tour ( B/L/D)

Have breakfast at your hotel. Trek around 10 km to visit two villages of the Black H'mong (Catcat and SinChai). Visit the waterfall and hydroelectric power station established by the French in CatCat village, nice landscapes of green forests and beautiful scenery along the way. Walk back to Sapa. 

Check out the hotel. Have lunch at the local restaurant. 

Afternoon, free to visit Sapa town, market, church and flower garden in HamRong mountain... 

16h30: Bus take you back to Lao Cai railway station for train back Hanoi.

Tour includes:

Night train tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berths)

Pick up and transfer by jeep or minibus as tour program.

Meals as itinerary

Entrance fees

Accommodation based on twin share or double (Hotel and home-stay)

English-speaking guide

Tour excludes:

Travel insurance

Drinks and tipping at customer’s discretion

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