DAY 01: HANOI (D)
You are warmly welcome by tour guide at Noi Bai Int’l Airport and transferred to the hotel. Check in (if room available). Dinner at restaurant.
DAY 02: HANOI – HALONG (B/L/D)
This morning depart Hanoi for Ha Long Bay and drive pass some of the beautiful rural landscape before arriving to the World Heritage site of Ha Long Bay in the afternoon. After arriving Halong Bay, board the deluxe Junk. Enjoy welcome drink and lunch of freshly caught seafood served on board. While having lunch, the boat sails out to the bay, passing amazing shaped mountains. At 4.30 pm, arrives and visit Sung Sot cave. Then sailing to Titop Beach and Mountain where we can land on the beach for swimming or stepping up (400 steps) to the top of the mountain for taking beautiful panorama pictures of Halong Bay and viewing the sunset. Overnight on cruise
DAY 03: HALONG – HANOI – LAO CAI (B/L/D)
Enjoy early morning view of the bay’s landscape with a cup of tea or coffee with breakfast. Sitting on the upper deck, you can relax and enjoy the breath-taking beauty of the rocky islands rising from the crystal-clear water of the bay before taking a small boat to visit Hang Luon. We have some time to swim before leaving back to the harbour. Check out and have early lunch before our journey back to Hanoi on the way stop at Dong Trieu Pottery Village.
Tonight, take Express Train to Lao Cai (4 beds cabin)
DAY 04: LAO CAI – SAPA – LAO CHAI – TAVAN (B/L/D)
05:30 am-Arrival Lao Cai. Drive to Sa Pa. Breakfast at restaurant.
Visit Ham Rong Mountain (the Jaw of Dragon), climbing up the San May (Cloud Yard) to enjoy the panorama of Sapa Townlet, visit the orchid gardens with beautiful and colorful flowers and numerous caves and stones in extraordinary shapes.
Afternoon: Visit Ta Van (Zay people) and Laochai (H’mong people) villages.
Lunch and dinner at restaurant. Overnight at Sapa hotel.
DAY 05: SAPA -LAO CAI – HANOI (B/L/D)
Morning: Free discover the Sapa Town and Sapa Market
Afternoon:. Travel by car or Jeep to Taphin Village where the Red Dzao will make you feel at home. En route, we pass the ruins of a French – era church.
20:15 Take a night train back to Hanoi. Overnight on board. (4 berth bed)
DAY 06: HANOI CITY TOUR (B/L/D)
Full day Hanoi City tour including Ba Dinh Square – a major site of tourism and pilgrimage, President Residence of wooden house on stilts, his garden and fish farm. In the same complex, visit One Pillar Pagoda – one of the oldest pagodas in Vietnam built in 11th century and shaped as a lotus flower, Temple of Literature – the first Uninversity of Vietnam, Tran Quoc Pagoda regarded as one of the oldest pagodas in Hanoi built in Ly Nam De King (544-548)
Have a lunch with fried fish – one of the Hanoi special food.
Afternoon: Visit the Museum of Ethnology – the best collection of 54 Vietnam ethnic minorities. Continue to Opera House, Restored Sword Lake situated in the heart of the capital. 01 hour cyclo around the city’s old quarters, where many of the buildings date back several hundred years. Dinner at restaurant.
DAY 07: HANOI – HUE (B/L/D)
You will flight to Hue this morning.
Take a boat ride along the romantic Perfume River and stopping at Thien Mu Pagoda to see the 7-storey octagonal tower and an old Austin car, which transported Thich Quang to Saigon in 1963 for his self-immolation. Then continue to visit Minh Mang Tomb. Lunch and dinner at restaurant. Overnight at Hue hotel
DAY 08: HUE – HOIAN (B/L/D)
Morning visit Imperial Citadel from where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945 and the Tomb of Khai Dinh King (the 12th King of Nguyen Dynasty)–the interminglement of many architectural trends: European and Asian, as well as ancient and modern.
Afternoon free for shopping at Dong Ba Market a paradise for snapshots of daily activities as well as for shopping with everything from souvenir items to bronze goods, Hue sesame sweetmeat, conical poem hats, etc . Lunch and dinner at restaurant.
Transfer to Hoian. Overnight at Hoian hotel
DAY 09: HOIAN (B/L)
Morning: 2 hour Hoian walking tour through the narrow winding streets of the Ancient Quarter visiting Phuc Kien Temple, Chinese Assembly Halls, the 200-year old Tam Ky ancestral house, the Japanese Covered Bridge and the colorful local markets.
Lunch at restaurant. Overnight at Hoian hotel
DAY 10: HOIAN (B)
You have a leisure time on the beach.
DAY 11: HOIAN – DANANG – HOCHIMINH CITY (B)
Free until transfer to the airport for departure.
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City. Meet your guide and transfer to hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight in Hochiminh City.
DAY 12: HCMC – CAI BE – VINH LONG – HCMC (B/ L/D)
Morning departure from Hochiminh City. Have a motorized boat ride to see round Cai Be Floating Market with local people being selling, buying, exchanging goods from their boats. Walking around to see orchard, rice paper making, rice crispiest producing process…. Stop for a rest and Vietnamese lunch with local tropical fruits. Continue to boat through a village to see peaceful tranquil life of villagers, admire marvelous natural setting of Mekong Delta region.
15:00 – Visit Vinh Long Market. Then transfer back Hochiminh City in the late afternoon. Overnight at hotel.
DAY 13: FULL DAY TOUR TO TAY NINH – CU CHI (B/L)
Morning drive to Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh Province (120 km). Experience the colourful noon ceremony of Cao Dai followers. After lunch in Tayninh, drive to Cu Chi Tunnels located about 70 km from Ho Chi Minh City – a network of 200km long underground dug-out which is being used during Vietnam – USA war. Back to Hochiminh City in the afternoon.
DAY 14 : HOCHIMINH CITY – VUNG TAU (B/L)
Transfer to Vung Tau. The visit to Vung Tau will include Front & Back Beach, White Villa.
You have a leisure time on the beach. Overnight in Vung Tau hotel.
DAY 15 : VUNG TAU – HOCHIMINH CITY (B)
You have a leisure time on the beach. Afternoon transfer back to Ho Chi Minh city for a short city tour, includes: the Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Saigon Post Office, a lacquer ware factory and Thien Hau Pagoda in the city’s bustling Chinatown. Afternoon enjoy your shopping at the Ben Thanh market. Overnight in Saigon hotel.
DAY 16: HOCHIMINH CITY Q SIEM RIEP (B/L/D)
After breakfast you will be transferred to the airport for flying to Siem Riep. Upon arrival Siem Riep picked up and transferred to your hotel. Visit Floating Village of Chong Khneans and take a boat trip to Tonle Sap.
Lunch and dinner at a local restaurant and overnight at hotel.
DAY 17: SIEM RIEP (B/ L/ D)
Today you will visit South Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon, Baphuon, Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, and Elephant Terrace of the Leper King. You will have lunch at a local restaurant. Visit Ta Prohm, Angkor Wat and view lovely sunset from PhnoBakeng. Dinner at a local restaurant and overnight at hotel.
DAY 18: SIEM RIEP Q HOCHIMINH CITY (B)
Breakfast at hotel. Free time until departure. Transfer to the airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh city.
Meeting at Tan Son Nhat airport, transfer to the hotel for check in.
DAY 19: HOCHIMINH CITY DEPARTURE Q (B)
Breakfast at hotel. Free at leisure until departure for your country “Home sweet Home”
Price includes:
– Accommodation on twin sharing basis with daily breakfast in hotel;
– 01 night on Halong cruise including 03 meals + 01 breakfast on board (at dinner have welcome wine – 01 glass of wine), free fruits, overnight ticket
– All meals as specified in the itinerary: B (Breakfast) at hotel, L (Lunch) & D (Dinner) at local restaurants.
– Aircondition transfer and transportation;
– Train tickets Hanoi – Laocai- Hanoi (4beds cabin);
– Local English speaking guide; Sightseeing tour, entrance fee, water puppet show;
– 01 bottle of mineral water /pax/day
Price excludes:
– Visa fee; International air ticket and airport tax upon departure and SGN-REP-SGN;
– Domestic airticket & airfare (HAN – HUI// DAD-SGN)
– All kind of drinks and meals that not mentioned;
– And other personal expenditures such as telephone, laundry…
– Personal travel insurance; TIP for guide and driver.