Day 1: Hanoi – Cat Ba Island – Lan Ha Bay (L, D)
Am:
6h30 - we pick you up from your hotel then head to Hai Phong City for a hydrofoil boat ride to Cat Ba Island, then a short bus ride to Beo pier where a little boat takes you to a floating house at a corner of Lan Ha Bay. Afterward, we relax on the comfortable draft house, just above the fish nets, while fresh sea food lunch (vegetarian menu available) is prepared.
Pm:
After learning basic paddle strokes and paddling routes from your certified kayaking guide, it's your time to grab the paddle and make your own strokes, go passing floating villages, lagoons and private beaches. You are observing local daily life on your cool kayak, paddling in ways nature lovers have been dreaming of. Dinner and overnight in your simple draft house just above the water.
Day 2: Lan Ha Bay – Cat Ba Island – Hanoi (B, L)
Am:
Coffee and breakfast at your draft house to warm up the morning dew for a stunning day in the serene bay. Keep paddling to the other side of the awaking Lan Ha bay, you will visit a dark cave for a lagoon behind (tidal permission), and then more paddles to the meeting point to take a transfer boat back to Cat Ba Island. Have lunch at a resort nesting at a corner of Xuan Dam Village.
Pm:
We take you to Cai Vieng harbor for a hydrofoil boat ride back to Hai Phong. Be picked up by our vehicle then drive back to Hanoi. Trip ends at your hotel around 16h30.
Our price: $168/person
(Valid until: Sep 30th, 2012)
Our price includes:
Transfer to/from your hotelEntrance feesSupport boatKayaks and safety gears01 big bottle of water/dayHome stay with local fishermenEnglish speaking guide (kayak expert)Hydrofoil tickets Hai Phong - Cat Ba, Cat Ba - Hai PhongMeals as specified (01 Breakfast, 02 Lunches and 1 Dinner)
Our price DOES NOT include:
Drinks, personal expenses and other things not clearly mentioned in the included list
VAT and Service charges
What to bring:
- Original passport
- Insect repellent
- Swimming suits (warm clothes in winter)
- Camera, sunglasses and sun screams
- Money for drinks (beer, wine) on boat
Single supplement:
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Single supplement must be applied for those who want to stay in single
cabin. "Willing to share" policy is no longer applicable.
Child policy:
- Baby Cot is free of charge and according to availability.
- Children under 4 years will be free of charge (Maximum is 1 child)
- Children from 4 to under 9 years old (Maximum is 1 child)
- Sharing bed with parents will be charged 50% the adult tour price
- Sharing room with adult will be charged 70% the adult tour price
- From 9 and above will be charged as adult
- Two children under 9 years sharing a private cabin are charged at 75% of full cabin rate
Note:
- Payments
in VND are to be made equivalent to the amount in USD at the official
exchange rate of the State Bank of Vietnam on the day of payment.
- No Shuttle bus Ha Noi – Ha Long - Hanoi: Reduce US $ 10 / 2 ways / pax.
- Compulsory Dinner : US$ 25 / pax on December 24th & 31st, 2011 and January 22nd, 2012.