15 intensive days trip in Vietnam
Blog posts
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1st day - Impressive Hanoi
Our agenda Arrive in Hanoi 6:20 AM One of our friend lost her luagge where all her stuff as well as equipment for filming are in. We got compensation for the inconvenience - 600,000VND. One day later, we finally could manage it to take it from the transporter on...
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2nd day - insight Hanoi
Day 2 - VECO day Breakfast 7.30 AM Everyone would have a great time with the nice buffe in the hotel. Leaving to VECO office 8.30 AM Arrive at VECO Vietnam office and Meeting with VECO Vietnam 9.30 AM I guess everyone felt the same way about VECO where they...
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3rd day - intensive day
Breakfast at hotel in Hanoi 7.15 AM We had a wonderful breakfast again in the hotel before leaving to Trac Van. Check out hotel 7.50 AM The moment before we checked out, some of us saw the banner that the hotel made for us and felt really happy. Everyone felt happy...
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4th day - filming day
3 groups in 3 families had a great chance to stay in their houses and joined all different activities ranging from working in the field, cooking, etc. And our cameraman worked hard with the interview with our lady "Yen". It was a real day in real Vietnamese...
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5th day - emotional day
Trac Van – Our second family – people make the place We felt in love with the kindness, honest, and sincere of people in this small village. We admired their courage of fighting for a better life. We believed the people in that small village can make a difference...
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7th day - hiking day
Breakfast - at Cuc Phuong resort 7.30 AM Check out hotel 8.05 AM Leaving to Cuc Phuong national park 8.15 AM Hiking, cycling cuc phuong discovering 8.45 AM; Visiting the preserve animal area; Hiking to Thousands year old tree (1h.45 minutes) Visiting Cave of...
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8th day - lovely Mai Chau
Breakfast at Cuc phuong 7.30 AM Check out Leaving to Mai Chau 8.15 AM Breaking time on the way - eating snacks Lunch: Quan Hang homestay 12.00PM Relaxing at the homestay 13.00PM Mai chau exploring/walking around different villages to see local people life...
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9th day - highlight day
One group went for hiking to Chieu cave and other went for waterfall "Thac Go Lao" We had a wonderful lunch again in Quan Hang homestay before leaving to Luong Son. We had a small walk to the river and found an uncle who fished in really special way. He used a pillar...
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10th day - emerging day
Breakfast at Hai Hoa restaurant 7.15 AM Check out the hotel 7.50 AM Leaving to Luong Son 8:00 AM Meeting with the group and government: * 5 minutes for government (10 mins translation and questions) * 10 minutes for Group (30 minutes translation and questions)...
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11th day - 5d world
Breakfast at Hai Hoa restaurant 8.00 AM Visiting markets, schools, river (optional) 9.00 AM Go to Ba Vi 11.00 PM Lunch Ba Vi Hotel 12.00 PM Visiting Ba Vi National park Relaxing at the hotel/resort 15.00 PM Dinner at Ba Vi 18.30 PM We left Luong Son to go to Ba Vi....
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12th day - cocktail near the beach
We had a nice breakfast in Ba Vi and left to Cat Ba. It was a nice day on the way to Cat Ba. It took quite long time for us to reach the beautiful island – 5 hours. We arrived in Cat Ba at 4PM and had a great lunch with Pizza. We left the restaurant and walked to Cat...
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13th day - soon
We had a beautiful day with kayak inside the cave and jumping into the ocean. And yes, monkey beach and the observation point. Unexpected thing always happened. Our driver forgot his key so he couldn’t come to pick up us. Everyone was hungry and we booked the dinner...
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14th day - Hanoi we are back
Hanoi, here we are We made it back Hanoi around 1pm and had lunch in a beautiful Vietnamese restaurant. It was the first time all the food were finished. We then had open option for everyone while An and Mike and I went for filming. We made it to the tower Lotte to see...
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15th day - Rushing to see you again
Takeaway from the 15th day Come and go, it is the rule of life. We always need to be ready to move on Express your appreciation to the time you have spent with people by a sincer way Keep in touch We came back Veco office with all preparation after a morning of...