Hanoi Muslim Travel Package 4 Days – 3 Nights

The Hanoi Muslim Travel Package 4 Days – 3 Nights is a private northern Vietnam tour that keeps every night in a Hanoi hotel: the capital on day one, a day cruise in Halong Bay on day two, and Hoa Lu and Tam Coc in Ninh Binh on day three. Halal meals are booked ahead in Hanoi and Ninh Binh. Prices run from 512 USD per person for two or three travellers down to 238 USD per person for a group of twenty-one or more, in a 3-star hotel. Airport transfers at Noi Bai are included.

Tour at a Glance

Day by Day in Short

What You Will See

Ba Dinh Square and the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

The first morning starts at Ba Dinh Square, the ceremonial centre of Hanoi, where Ho Chi Minh read the declaration of independence on 2 September 1945. The Mausoleum at the head of the parade ground holds his embalmed body behind a guard of honour: entry is free, the queue moves steadily, and inside there is no talking, no photography and no stopping on the walkway. The same walled complex holds the Presidential Palace grounds, the stilt house he actually lived in, and the One Pillar Pagoda, first raised in 1049. The limits are worth knowing before you fix your dates. The Mausoleum admits visitors on mornings only – 07:30 to 10:30 from April to October, 08:00 to 11:00 from November to March, and thirty minutes longer at weekends and on public holidays. It is closed every Monday and Friday, and it shuts for roughly two months of maintenance each autumn, which in 2026 ran from the first week of September to the first week of November. Shoulders and knees must be covered and bags and cameras are left at the checkpoint. If your arrival falls on a closed day or outside those hours we move Ba Dinh to another morning of the tour; if it cannot be fitted in at all, the first day keeps a Hanoi museum in its place.

The rest of day one

After Ba Dinh the pace slows, because most flights land in the morning and nobody sightsees well after a night in the air. The Temple of Literature is the next stop: Vietnam’s first national university, founded in 1070 and still laid out as five walled courtyards around the stone stelae that carry the names of its graduates. After lunch you pray at Al-Noor Masjid on Hang Luoc Street – the only mosque in Hanoi, built in the 1890s by Indian Muslim traders and still the centre of the city’s small Muslim community. The day ends on foot around Hoan Kiem Lake and in the Old Quarter, where the streets are still named after the trade that once filled them.

Halong Bay as a day trip

Halong Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed in 1994 and extended in 2000, and it holds 1,969 islands and islets, around 1,600 of them inside the protected core zone. On this package you see it as a day cruise: out on the expressway after breakfast, about four hours on the water with lunch served while the boat moves, a stop at one of the bay’s caves, a slow pass by Fighting Cocks Islet, and back in Hanoi in time for a proper halal dinner. You give up the sunrise and the quiet night on the bay; in exchange you keep your hotel room, your luggage and your halal dinner three nights running.

Hoa Lu, the capital before Hanoi

Before Hanoi there was Hoa Lu, capital of Dai Viet from 968 to 1010, chosen because the limestone peaks around it did the work of city walls. What stands today are the temples to King Dinh Tien Hoang and King Le Dai Hanh, rebuilt over the centuries on the old palace ground, with stone courtyards, dragon carvings and a quietness that has nothing to do with tourism.

Tam Coc by rowing boat

Tam Coc means “three caves”, and that is exactly what you get: a small boat, rowed by hand and often by foot, carried down the Ngo Dong River through three low tunnels in the rock, with rice fields on both banks and limestone towers standing straight up out of them. It takes about two hours and it is the part of this package travellers describe most often afterwards.

Halal Food and Prayer

On this package every lunch and dinner on land is at a halal restaurant we book before the tour goes out – in Hanoi that is a real choice of kitchens, in Ninh Binh it is a short list, which is why we reserve rather than improvise. Hotel breakfast is a buffet and is not a halal kitchen; there is always fruit, bread, eggs, noodles and vegetables, and your guide will point out what to avoid.

The Halong Bay day boats do not have a halal kitchen. Lunch on board is seafood and vegetables cooked without pork, lard or alcohol, and the galley is told in advance that the group is Muslim. That is accurate, but it is not the same thing as a halal kitchen, and we would rather say so than let you find out on the water. Two ways round it: we can book a halal lunch at a restaurant in Halong City and keep the boat to cruising only, at extra cost; or you take the 5 days – 4 nights package, where the night on the bay is spent on Mon Chéri Cruise and every meal on board comes from its dedicated halal kitchen. Day one is built around a stop at Al-Noor Masjid. On the Halong and Ninh Binh days there is no mosque on the route, and the boat and the restaurants are where people usually pray.

Hotels, Rooms and the Cruise Cabin

Every price on this page is per person in a twin-share room – two travellers to a room – and you choose the hotel class yourself: 3-star, 4-star or 5-star. The 3-star hotels are small, well-run places in or beside the Old Quarter; the 4-star properties are larger with a lift, a restaurant and a better breakfast spread; the 5-star choices are international brands with a pool and a spa. All of them include daily breakfast.

Travelling alone, or need three to a room? Tell us when you enquire. A single room carries a supplement, and a triple room is usually a twin with a rollaway bed rather than three proper beds, so we will tell you honestly what the hotel can do before you pay anything.

Who This Tour Is For

Take this package if you have four days, want the three big names of northern Vietnam – the capital, the bay and the rice fields – and would rather not pack and unpack. It suits families with young children, travellers who are unsure about a night on a boat, and anyone who wants a halal dinner and a familiar bed at the end of each day.

Pick another tour if

You want the night on the bay: the 5 days – 4 nights package is the same ground with an overnight cruise instead of the day boat. If you want Sapa and the northern mountains as well, go to the 6 days – 5 nights or the 7 days – 6 nights. And if you only have a day to spare, the Halong Bay day tour and the Hoa Lu and Tam Coc day tour can be booked on their own.

Why book direct with Vietnam Muslim Tours

We are the operator, not a reseller. The guide who meets you at your hotel works for us, the driver works for us, and the restaurants are ones we book ourselves and keep checking. That means you pay the local price with our best price guarantee, changes on the day go straight to the person running your tour, and nothing is passed through a middleman who has never been to Vietnam. Our travellers rate us on TripAdvisor.

Customise This Tour

This is a private tour, so the shape is yours. The changes travellers ask for most often: swap the Halong day cruise for an overnight cruise with a dedicated halal kitchen; swap Tam Coc for the Trang An boat route, which is longer and has more caves; move Ba Dinh to another morning if your flight lands too late for the Mausoleum; add a Hanoi street-food evening with a halal vendor; or add a night in Ninh Binh so the rice fields are seen at sunrise instead of midday. Send us your dates and we will rebuild the four days around them.

Local Expert Notes

By Jimmy, Vietnam Muslim Tours

• Ask for day two to be the Halong day rather than day three if rain is forecast. The bay is the one part of this package that a grey sky really spoils, and we can usually swap it with Ninh Binh at 24 hours’ notice.
• The three caves of Tam Coc are low. If anyone in the group is tall, sit in the middle of the boat, not the bow.
• Dong Xuan Market is best in the late afternoon and is a market for Hanoians, not a souvenir hall. Prices are quoted high for foreigners; your guide will tell you what a thing is worth.
• Four days in Hanoi in July and August means heat and sudden rain. Light long sleeves, an umbrella, and plan the walking for early morning or after four o’clock.
• If you are a group of eleven or more, say so in your first message. The price drops a long way at that point and the vehicle changes to a coach with room for luggage.

Book this tour

Tell us your dates, your group size and anything you need for food or prayer, and we will send a written quote, usually within 24 hours. You book direct with the company that runs the tour, at the local price, with our best price guarantee. Send your enquiry or message us on WhatsApp.

Updated 12 October 2026 by Jimmy, Vietnam Muslim Tours.