Top Northern Vietnam Dance Shows

Spend 2 days cruising around Halong Bay, Lan Ha Bay or Bai Tu Long Bay. Highlights include Sung Sot Cave and Titop Island for Halong, Cat Ba Island and Dark and Bright Cave for Lan Ha, and Thien Cahn Son Cave and Vung Vien Floating Village for Bai Tu Long. Tour includes accommodation at different luxury levels, meals, activities and round-trip transfers from Hanoi.

Skip the lines and the hassle with this book ahead service that includes Water Puppet entrance tickets and delivery to your Hanoi hotel. Choose from several showtimes to fit your travel schedule and wait for tickets to be delivered to you! Arrive at the theater 15 minutes before showtime and prepare to experience one of Vietnam's most memorable traditional art forms live on stage.

The Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre is known for its mastery of traditional Vietnamese water puppetry, where lacquered puppets perform in a waist-deep pool of water, with live music and dramatic special effects. Enjoy a performance exclusively for your group when you book this private showing, available at a choice of four different times across the day.

Discover the secrets of traditional Vietnamese pottery without a time-consuming trip to one of the country’s rural ceramics villages. In this half-day pottery class, learn how to make all sorts of clay creations from a master artisan direct from Bat Trang, one of the country’s oldest ceramics villages. Get personalized guidance and answers to all your questions in this private session – no fighting to be heard from the back of the class.

Visit Bai Dinh Pagoda to see hundreds of Buddhist statues and take a sampan boat trip along Trang An River on this tour. Your boat will be steered by local people, so you can relax and enjoy stunning scenery including rising limestone cliffs, water caves, and more. Included hotel pickup and drop-off make, plus lunch at a local restaurant, make this a convenient day trip from Hanoi.

Timeless, comfortable, and convenient, the sleeper train is the perfect way to travel between Hanoi and Sapa—although do note that trains terminate in Lao Cai, an hour’s drive from Sapa. Book a comfortable soft bed in a shared 4-berth cabin online, either Hanoi–Lao Cai or Lao Cai–Hanoi, with this convenient ticketing service: You’ll need to be at the station an hour before the train departs to reconfirm tickets.