Tours
A selection of local tours will be organised for delegates, as well
as accompanying persons. We offer a selection of tours that can be
booked only through the organisers in the registration form. A selection
of optional tours are also offered. These together with pre- and
post-conference tours shall be booked directly from the appointed tour
operator: Asia Explorer Travel JSC.
Technical Tour to Ha Long Bay is
included in the registration fee of international participants. You can
extend your stay in Ha Long Bay with one night, see
details below.
Sightseeing Tours
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Full-day Hanoi city tour with lunch - FCH
Time: Sunday 18 October 2009
Fee: EUR 20Pick up from your conference hotel 8:00 and
transfer by car to visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Museum, One pillar
pagoda, and Temple of Literature.
After lunch visit to Hanoi Hilton Prison, Army Museum, Hanoi Flag
Tower. Wandering around Hoan Kiem Lake then visit Ngoc Son Temple and
enjoy one-hour cyclo trip around the trading area in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Tour end about 16h30 pm.
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Half-day Hanoi city tour - HCH
Time: Monday 19 October 2009 (HCH-1) and Wednesday 21 October
2009 (HCH-2)
Fee: EUR 10Pick up at NCC 13:30. Transfer to visit Ho Chi
Minh Mausoleum and Museum, One pillar pagoda, Temple of Literature,
continue visit Hanoi Hilton Prison. Wandering around Hoan Kiem Lake
and Hanoi Old Quarter. The trip ends at NCC on Monday and at your hotel
on Wednesday by17:30.
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Half-day Hanoi Bat Trang Ceramic Village -
HBT
Time: Tuesday 20 October 2009
Fee: EUR 10
Start at 13:30 from NCC. Transfer by car from
Hanoi to Bat Trang ceramic village, the center of traditional "An Nam"
ceramic.
Stop at the village is an interesting mixture between watching the real
production of ceramics and walking around for some light but fine and
sophisticated porcelain. You can find in a factory the workmen mixing
clay or dipping burnt vases into glaze to highlight their crackled lines,
the painting masters, usually young girls with dexterous hands drawing
on raw terracotta before they are heated at 900oC to 1,700oC ovens,
taking inspiring pictures of coal-dust bakes pasted on the village's
walls. Daily life of the village with a small exciting market and the
wharf at the Red River where the products shipped are also very
fascinating. Back to your conference hotel in Hanoi by 17:30.
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Extend your stay in Ha Long Bay by overnight on
deluxe junk:
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Explore Ha Long Bay, overnight on deluxe junk
HLJ-2
Time: Thursday 22 October Friday 23 October 2009
Fee: EUR 95 and single supplement EUR 60/person
Note: You can extend your one day technical
tour by selecting extension to your stay in Ha Long Bay. Those who have
selected this option will have their own buses. |
(2days/1night)
Day 01: Ha Noi Ha Long (-/L/D)
Pick up at your conference hotel 07:00, drive to Ha Long City, short
stop on the way. Arrive in Ha Long 11:00. Board the boat to enjoy an
overnight trip in Ha Long Bay. Enjoy many beautiful islets and islands
when you have deluxe seafood lunch. After lunch visit to Sung Sot (Surprise)
cave famous for its stalagmites and stalactites. Leaving the cave boat
will arrive Tittop island for swimming on nice sand beach or walk on the
top of island for panorama view of Ha Long Bay. Back to boat for deluxe
seafood dinner. After dinner enjoy fishing at night. Overnight on boat.
Day 02: Ha Long Ha Noi (B/L/-)
Sunrise breakfast on boat. Continue to visit Ha Long Bay. Deluxe seafood
lunch on boat.
Arrive to Halong City 12:00 and transfer back to Hanoi. Arrive to your
conference hotel or to the airport 16:00.
Services included:
- Accommodation based on twin sharing cabin
- Transportation as program.
- English speaking guide.
- Entrance fees as in program.
- Boat fee
- Meals as mentioned in the program (B: breakfast, L: lunch, D: dinner)
Services excluded:
- Beverage and personal expense.
Optional Tours
Optional Tours shall be booked directly from
Asia
Explorer Travel JSC.
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Good morning Hanoi - GMH
Time: Tuesday 20 October 2009
Fee: USD 15/ person
Pick up at your hotel 04:00. Transfer to visit flower market,
and vegetable market. Back to Hoan Kiem Lake. Enjoy Tai Chi with
local people. Take 30 minute of cyclo ride in very quite Hanoi
Old Quarter. Back to your hotel at 07:00 for breakfast.
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Thay pagoda. |
Half-day Thay Pagoda and Tay Phuong
pagoda - TTP
Time: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Fee: USD 19/ person
Pick up from your hotel/NCC at 13:00. We
drive 30 km (45 minutes) from Hanoi to Tay Phuong Pagoda, which
was built in the 17th century, and is very famous for the 18
statues of La Han coated with lacquer paint. After that we visit
Thay Pagoda, which was first built in 11 century. This one is
located at the foot of Thay Mountain and has a neat setting. In
here, you'll have a chance to see the oldest stage for
performing water puppet right in the village lake. Back to your
conference hotel in Hanoi by 17:30.
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Yen Vi stream in Perfume pagoda. |
Full-day Hanoi Perfume pagoda with
lunch - CPH
Time: Tuesday 20 October 2009 and Wednesday 21 October
2009
Fee: USD 31/ personDepart at 09:00
am, 02 hours drive to Perfume Pagoda (75km). Enjoy a 1.30 hours
boat trip on Yen (Swallow Bird) stream and visit Trinh temple.
Then 2 hours climbing up the mountain to visit pagoda inside
Grotto Huong Tich, the most beautiful cave, where people often
come to pray for health, luck, ... etc. After lunch, visit Thien
Tru Pagoda and scenery of Holiest in the country. Take another
1.30 hours boat trip back to the Wharf. Back to NCC or your
conference hotel in Hanoi by 15:00 |
Pre- and
Post-conference Tours
Pre- and Post-conference Tours shall be booked
directly from Asia Explorer Travel JSC.
Sapa remote villages - SA4
Fee: USD 289/ person. in double sharing (other options, please contact
Asia Explorer)
(4 days/ 3 nights by TULICO train)
Sapa Town. |
Day 01: HANOI NIGHT TRAIN TO LAO CAI
(B/L/D)
20h00: Pick up at hotel then transfer to
Hanoi station for night train to Lao Cai on TULICO COMPARTMENT
(sharing 2 upper and 2 lower soft berths with air condition
compartment with other passengers) Train departs Hanoi at 2200.
Overnight trip on train. |
Village in Sapa. |
Day 02: LAOCAI SAPA (B/L/D)
The train arrives at the Lao Cai train station at approximately
6:00 am. There will be a vehicle waiting to transfer you to
Sapa. The drive to Sapa is only 38 km but it takes around one
hour to make our way up the mountains. Once at Sapa, after
checking in hotel if room available (check in time 14h00), you
will have breakfast and then are ready to explore Sapa town. We
embark on a lovely walking tour to the hill tribe villages of
Cat Cat, home to the H'mong minority people. As we walk to the
villages nestled in the valley below Sapa, we will meet some of
the local minority people on their way to and from Sapa. Here we
have the opportunity to share cultural experiences with the
families that live in the area. Back to Sapa town for lunch.
PM: Explore Sapa town with Sapa famous
market and stone church.
Dinner at restaurant. Overnight at hotel.
Accommodation at hotel in Sapa. |
Sapa village. |
Day 03: SAPA - Lao Chai Ta Van NIGHT
TRAIN TO HANOI (B/L/D)
Breakfast at hotel
After breakfast we leave the hotel and start trekking. The first
part is on the road but we soon turn to the right and walk on a
small path down the valley to the Muong Hoa River and from here
to the Black Hmong village Lao Chai. Black Hmong is one of the
biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. They are proud of
their culture and keep their traditions and way of living. They
have their own language and wear traditional indigo blue
clothing. After lunch, you continue to Ta Van village (1.200 m)
to visit the Zay people. The Zay are a fairly small minority
group of about 38.000 people who live mainly in the mountains in
Northwest Vietnam. Development has meant that some of their old
customs have been lost but many women still wear traditional
shirts with a purple, blue or green colour. The Zay houses are
built of wood and bamboo with a clay floor. Pick up and transfer
to Lao Cai. Dinner at restaurant. Get on night train to Hanoi on
TULICO compartment. |
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Day 04: HANOI (B/-/-)
Arrive Hanoi early in the morning (about 05h30AM)
Meet at Hanoi station then transfer to hotel in Hanoi or direct
to airport. |
Services included:
- Accommodation based on single room for size 01 pax and based on twin
sharing room for size 2 pax up.
- Transportation as program.
- English speaking guide.
- Entrance fee as program.
- Meals as mentioned in the program (B: breakfast, L: lunch, D: dinner)
- Train ticket HANOI LAO CAI HANOI base on Tulico Superior cabin (4
soft berths/ cabin)
Services excluded:
- Beverage and personal expenses.
Travel agency
The organisers have selected
Asia Explorer Travel JSC as the
official travel agency. Asia Explorer Travel is responsible for
arrangements of sightseeing tours, technical tour to Ha Long Bay.
Bookings for optional tours as well as for pre- and post-conference
tours shall be made directly to Asia Explorer Travel JSC.
Contacts:
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