Yoga & Wellness Retreat in Mai Chau

Arrival in Hanoi. In the Arrivals Hall, your driver stands with a sign with your name applied, helps you to the car, and drives to the centrally located hotel. The hotel is located in the city's old quarter with its pleasant narrow commercial streets and within walking distance of Hoan Kiem Lake and Dong Xuan Market, some of Hanoi's landmarks. In the afternoon, you'll experience a cyclo tour around Hanoi. Enjoy the cyclo tour; then you will transfer to dinner" at "Home Moc Restaurant" and back to the hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.

Breakfast in the morning, then you will check out the hotel and get in the car to transfer to Avana Retreat (takes about five hours) Arrive in Avana Retreat by early noon. Check into the villa, enjoy the fresh air, and be fascinated by the nature of Mai Chau. You have a free afternoon to explore Avana Retreat (here, you can join in some activities such as a scented candle-making class and beeswax painting class, etc.). Back at the villa, you will enjoy dinner prepared at the restaurant. Overnight in Avana Retreat Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Accommodation: Avana Retreat Resort (5 stars)

Leave modern life behind to hike into the mountains. Start from Avana Retreat to trek through the nearby forest before you reach the top of a tranquil mountain where you can behold the breathtaking views over Thai villages. Continue to walk on narrow dirt paths, passing local cornfields, cassava fields, bamboo forests, and paddy rice fields to visit other villages. On the trekking tour, you might see farmers and hear buffalo's bell ringing out in the air. You also visit a local house and listen to them sharing stories and traditional life customs in an ethnic village. Return to Avana Retreat by shuttle van. Duration: 3 hours Difficulty level: Intermediate Number of kilometers: 6km Height difference: From 350m up to 700m above sea level. Scheduled: On Request (08.00 AM -11.00 AM; 02.00 PM - 05.00 PM) Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Accommodation: Avana Retreat Resort (5-star) Guide: Half-day

You can join the morning yoga class (7:00 am to 8:00 am) and then have breakfast at the hotel. Enjoy the last morning at Avana Retreat, you can go swimming or relaxing until the driver picks you up to transfer to Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi.

Breakfast at a hotel. Hanoi JEEP TOUR starts at your hotel in and around the Hanoi Old Quarter. Our guide and driver will greet you at your hotel lobby or our meeting point for a safety briefing; we will then begin our adventure! On the first part of our Hanoi Jeep Tours, we expose you to the REAL HANOI with a day-in-life experience, featured with the parts-unknown of the city with slices of life in the maze of backstreets, tiny alleyways, local homes, schools, random markets, and black market, experiencing where & how locals live, work and play. Other travel companies show just you the beauty and tell you to run away from the bad and the weird of your destinations. On Hanoi exploration journeys, we show you the good and expose the bad and the weird aspects of your destinations as they are what they are. For us, the run-off- the mill tourist sites are only the tip of the iceberg, the majority of your destinations remain hidden in the parts unknown. On the second part, Hanoi Jeep Tours, we pass by & stop at the MUST-SEEE places of our beautiful city such as Ho Chi Minh mausoleum - the Mecca of Vietnamese, The 1000-year-old Buddhist and Toasist Tran Quoc Temple, the Temple of Literature, the historical train-street, the enchanting French Quarter, The hustling & bustling Old Quarter, the romantic Hoan Kiem Lake, West Lake, Hanoi Opera House & famous Long Bien Bridge etc. The last part of Hanoi Jeep Tours is the Hanoi Food Tour! We have AUTHENTIC, HEALTHY, & ORGANIC FOOD at Hidden Gem Cafe, where we savor the tastiest of the tasty dishes of Hanoi, including family heirlooms & secret recipe dishes, and local delicacies.

Breakfast at the hotel. Freetime until transfer to the airport for the flight departure.