Top Northern Vietnam Lantern Festival

You have a choice of standard, deluxe, or VIP first class seats to the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater in Hanoi. Book your entrance ticket and skip the line with priority seating. The unique puppetry performance is done on the water, accompanied by storytelling and music. Choose a showtime to fit your sightseeing schedule.

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.

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.

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.

TOUR PROGRAM : 8:00a.m or 1:30p.m : Our Guide will pick you up from your hotel in Hoi An or Da Nang city Our first stop at Thanh Ha Pottery Village, where our guide will take you around the village to see local daily life, stopping at one of the typical family businesses to learn how to make pottery and get some souvenirs to take home. We will then stop at the small family lantern factory to learn how to make lanterns. Experienced teachers will show you how it is done and you will get to make a lantern to take home. Our next stop is Coconut Forest where we will test the seafarer in you as you take a ride in a bamboo basket boat to visit Coconut Jungle, and you will have a chance to fish for crabs. After the basket boat ride,a relaxing foot massage at local family Lunch or Dinner cooked by a local family. 12:30 or 18:00. we return you to your hotel This Tour an ideal tour for couples, small group or families of all ages, making sure you undertake fun activities together