Welcome to Hanoi, Our Impress Travel Team will be awaiting you at Noi Bai Airport, with our easy-to-recognize “Impressers” welcome sign. Then we will start our first day as follows:

• HA NOI ARRIVAL: On arrival in Hanoi, our guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel for check-in.
• LUNCHTIME: Free time. Have your light lunch or simply relax around your hotel.
• HANOI WALKING STREET FOOD TOUR – 3 HOURS: We eat as we go, trying seasonal fruits and sampling a tasty French-inspired snack from a street cart. Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Try Hanoi dish Banh Cuon at a local eatery. Our next two snack stops are at outdoor barbeque stalls. We sit down with the Hanoi locals and sample various meat, vegetable, and bread specialties that are flame grilled over hot coals for extra flavor. It’s then time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced and condensed milk – this specialty is one not-to-be-missed!. Your local guide will then take you to one of Hanoi’s best kept secrets, a hidden street food restaurant to taste the top ten street foods in Hanoi with Banh My Hanoi, Vietnamese Rice Wine, and famous Egg Coffee
• HANOI BY NIGHT: Nighttime in Hanoi. As your hotel is located in the center of Hanoi’s old quarter you can take a short step out and explore the stores, to find out good places to drink & eat and enjoy the night.

Our Impress Travel Team will come to your hotel and pick you up at 800 AM then start an amazing city tour visiting the most attractive places in Hanoi, in the following order:

HO CHI MINH PRESIDENT COMPLEX: On leaving the hotel we will visit this outstanding place. It includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – the final resting place of the Vietnamese great father or Uncle Ho, and President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house – where he lived on and off from 1958 to 1969
ONE PILLAR PAGODA: This pagoda is a group of structures consisting of a pagoda and a tower built in the middle of a square lake.
WEST LAKE &PAGODA: This is the oldest pagoda in Hanoi, located beside West Lake.
LUNCH is served with Vietnamese cuisine and Asian style food, if you don’t like Vietnamese food or have a special food request, please inform our travel consultant beforehand and we will arrange a suitable food for you.
TEMPLE OF LITERATURE: This is the most important Temple of Confucius in Ancient Vietnam. The temple hosts the “Imperial Academy", Vietnam’s first national university. The temple was built in 1070 at the time of Emperor Ly Thanh Tong.
VIETNAM MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY: This museum is very specialized & the most interesting in Hanoi with many different things relating to the 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups.
HOAN KIEM LAKE AND NGOC SON TEMPLE: Here is the last destination on our city tour. We will walk around the lake and visit Ngoc Son temple before taking a Cyclo Tour.
TAKE A HOUR ON CYCLO: To ride around the old quarter, and experience life in the busy & narrow streets of the old quarter from a CYCLO.
WATCHING WATER PUPPET SHOW: This show offers the “unique” water puppet program which is Vietnam’s extremely attractive spiritual show and one of a kind.
Stay overnight in Hanoi

This day takes 3.5 hours driving from Hanoi to Halong, then for DISCOVERING THE WONDER OF HALONG FOR 2 DAYS as below activities:

• HANOI TRANSFER TO HALONG: 08h00 – 08h30 Pick up at the hotel and start the scenic, 3.5-hour drive to Halong Bay. Enjoy the landscape of the Red River Delta countryside and have a short break on the way. 
• HALONG BAY ARRIVAL: 12h30 – 13h00 Embark on Cruise followed by a short cruise briefing 
• CRUISING TO EXPLORE HALONG BAY: 13h30 – 15h30 Savor a delectable lunch as Cruises among the limestone islands. Explore the amazing SUNG SOT CAVE – the most beautiful cave in Halong Bay. 
• SUNSET TIME ON CRUISE: 16h30 return to Cruise. Continue cruising to the quiet area while enjoying the beautiful seascape on the way. COOKING CLASS AND SUNSET PARTY ON SUNDECK.
• NIGHT TIME: 19h00 – Have dinner is served, socialize with other guests, take part in board games, fish for squid, or just laze around and overnight on board.

• The last day of the trip gives you free time for shopping & packing up for your transfer to Tan San Nhat airport and flight to Yangon, Myanmar.
• Arrive in Yanyon, then pick up by Impress Travel in Myanmar.
• Transfer to hotel, check in hotel.
• Overnight in Yanyon city.

• Leave Yangon for Bagan. Begin your day with a ride from Shwezi gone pagoda (which is believed to enshrine a bone and a tooth of Gautama Buddha) to Ananda, That byinNyu and Manuha pagodas, the prominent monument built between the 11th and the 13th century. In the afternoon, discover the lacquer work that features a part of the Bagan fame. We will enjoy the sunset on the legendary Irrawaddy River. (Optional Balloon rides over Bagan ),
• Overnight in Bagan

• After breakfast at our hotel, transfer to the airport to reach Mandalay. The sightseeing tour in Mandalay includes the Mahagandaryone Monastery where the food is offered to a thousand monks; the U Pain Wooden Bridge, the Mahamuni Image – a bronze Buddha image castled during the lifetime of Buddha himself; Tapestry works, Wood carving & bronze castling workshops, Marble carving workshop and silk weaving home cottage. Lunch at a restaurant. After lunch, we will continue to the Mandalay Palace, Shwenandaw Monastery – noted for its exquisite wood carvings, gold leaf beating workshop, the Atumashi Monastery, the Kuthodaw Pagoda – known as the world biggest book; and finally, we will end up the tour by visiting Mandalay Hill to watch the sunset over the panoramic view of the city.
• Overnight in Mandalay

• After breakfast at our hotel, transfer to the airport to reach Mandalay. The sightseeing tour in Mandalay includes the Mahagandaryone Monastery where the food is offered to a thousand monks; the U Pain Wooden Bridge, the Mahamuni Image – a bronze Buddha image castled during the lifetime of Buddha himself; Tapestry works, Wood carving & bronze castling workshops, Marble carving workshop and silk weaving home cottage. Lunch at a restaurant. After lunch, we will continue to the Mandalay Palace, Shwenandaw Monastery – noted for its exquisite wood carvings, gold leaf beating workshop, the Atumashi Monastery, the Kuthodaw Pagoda – known as the world biggest book; and finally, we will end up the tour by visiting Mandalay Hill to watch the sunset over the panoramic view of the city.
• Overnight in Mandalay

• Wake up for a walk to the colonial part of Yangon from Sule Pagoda to City Hall building, the British buildings of Emmanuel Church to Inland Water Transport, followed by a visit to exotic food stalls and the local markets of Yangon.
• In the afternoon, you will have time to discover Chaukhtatgyipyay, the biggest reclining Buddha statue in Myanmar. Afterward, we will enjoy a stroll to the Shwedagon pagoda, the most prominent Buddha monument with the highest tower made of gold and diamonds, shining in the sky of Yangon.
• After the city tour, you will head to Yangon airport for your departure flight.