Tour Itinerary
DAY 1 Ho Chi Minh Arrival (D)
Arrive at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our guide and transfer to your hotel.
Ho Chi Minh city, formerly known as Saigon, is Vietnam’s largest metropolis and its commercial hub. It is constantly a hive of contemporary activity. It is where businesses converge and shoppers indulge themselves in unlimited choices. However, the city also carries with it a rich historical legacy, in contrast to its dazzling glamor.
Have dinner at a restaurant
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Meals: Dinner
DAY 2 Ho Chi Minh City Tour (B, L)
Have breakfast at your hotel.
Driver and tour guide will pick you up at your hotel and take a full day city tour. Start with a visit to the War Remnants Museum, which features an extensive collection of exhibits including weaponry, photos and documentation on Vietnam’s wars with the French and Americans.
Continue to the Reunification Palace, which was formerly the South Vietnam President’s residence and symbol of the Southern Administration’s reign until end of April 1975. Next, call in Saigon Post Office, a fine colonial building which was designed and built in the early 20th Century by the famous French architect Gustave Eiffel.
Stop at Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, a neo-Roman cathedral built over 130 years ago by the colonial French with materials entirely imported from Marseilles. Move on to Cho Lon or the city’s China Town where you will visit the Jade Emperor Temple (Phuoc Hai), a rare Taoist structure in Vietnam built in 1909 in dedication to the Lord of Heaven. Enjoy your lunch at a restaurant.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 3 Full Day Mekong Delta – Phong Nam – Ben Tre ( B,L)
Have breakfast at your hotel.
Our tour guide and car will pick you up at your hotel. Depart for Phong Nam.
Arrive at Phong Nam Pier. Take the boat along the Chẹt Sậy river, one of the branches of the Mekong River. See daily activities along the river like fishing, water transfer, etc. Stop at the brickwork to see the local people make bricks by hand (the traditional way). Enjoy fresh coconut juice.
Visit the coconut husking factory to see the local people husking coconuts by hand. Then, continue with the boat to visit one of the coconut processing workshops where coconut candy is made and have a chance to learn about the coconut candy making process located along the canal (Lan Thanh coconut candy workshop) and taste tropical fruit and honey tea.
Turn on the natural scissors’ creeks, where they look smaller and smaller, to go to the village. Take a walk to the family-made sleeping mat. Afterward, being on a motorbike or biking and traveling through some tranquil villages where there are vegetable gardens to be able to touch on real life and find out tropical culture from peasants
Have lunch at the local restaurant.
Take the rowing boat to the small canal.
Arrive at Nhà Việc Bridge – board a bus back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Return to your hotel.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 4 Ho Chi Minh – Flight To Da Nang & Transfer to Hoi An (B, L)
Have breakfast at your hotel.
Meet our guide & driver at the hotel lobby then transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for one hour flight to Da Nang. On arrival, you are transferred 45 minutes to Hoi An ancient town by private car & guide.
Overnight in Hoi An
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 5 Hoi An City Tour (B, L)
Have breakfast at your hotel.
Spend your half day on a Hoi An city tour. Once a bustling maritime commercial port of Asia between the 15th and 19th centuries, Hoi An, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, is now a peaceful town of exceptionally well-preserved architecture, lifestyles, and traditions. The town exemplifies a fascinating fusion of cultures between Vietnam and the outside world, including China, Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. Your sightseeing will include the iconic 400-year-old Covered Bridge with a small temple attached to one side as a prominent example of Japanese architecture; the Museum of Trade Ceramics, which is an elegant Vietnamese-style wooden house built in 1858 showcasing antique ceramic artifacts; the 200-year-old Tan Ky House, typifying an ancient Chinese merchant residence; the Ong Temple, built in 1653 by Chinese settlers to worship Guan Yu, an ancient Chinese general whose character stands for loyalty, bravery, and justice; and the local market, which is vibrant with colors and activities.
Lunch at a local restaurant
Overnight in Hoi An
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 6 Lantern Making – Tra Que Vegetable Village (B, L)
In the Morning, have breakfast at your hotel
Start your day with a lantern-making class. You will visit craftsmen with skillful hands who will show you how to create brightly colored lanterns. Expertly guided, you could make yourself a lantern as a gift to your family.
By car or cycling (if requested) through the paddle fields to Tra Que vegetable village, you can relax and enjoy the peaceful countryside, then stroll along the vegetable villages. As a special treat, you will be involved with digging, sowing, planting, and harvesting the vegetables with the hundreds of years of rudimentary tools of the farmers. You will enjoy E Water, a specialty of Tra Que Vegetable Village, where you can feel the strong medicinal flavor of many kinds of vegetables. You could become a farmer with many interesting activities. Lunch is at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Hoi An
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 7 Hoi An – Hue Full Day City Tour (B, L)
In the morning, have breakfast at your hotel
Transfer to Hue via the Hai Van Pass (Ocean Cloud Pass). It takes around 2.5 to 3 hours to transfer from Hoi An to Hue. On the way, you will have time to enjoy a stunning headland-and-bay panoramic view from the pass, which for miles hugs the mountainside along the shoreline and overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
And sightseeing: Lap An Lagoon, Lang Co Beach With more than 10 km of white sand beach and blue sea water, Lang Co Beach is an ideal place for relaxing, swimming, and taking photos.
You will visit the Khai Dinh tomb. The Tomb of Khải Định (Ứng Mausoleum), is located in Chau Chu mountain near Hue in Vietnam. It was built for Khải Định, the twelfth Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. It was built from 1920 to 1931, taking 11 years to complete. The tomb is a blend of Western and Eastern architecture. It is located on a steep hill outside of the capital city of Hue.
Overnight in Hue
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 8 Hue – DMZ – Paradise Cave – Hue (B, L)
Have breakfast at the hotel.
Our tour guide and driver will warmly greet and pick you up at your hotel lobby in Hue city center and depart for Paradise Cave at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
On the way, you will stop and visit the La Vang Holy Land, a national and sacred place for Christians located in Hai Lang district, Quang Tri Province. The area is considered an important place for pilgrimage by Roman Catholics in Vietnam, as it is believed that Mary (the mother of Jesus) appeared in the banyan tree a few years ago.
While in Quang Tri Province, you will see several historical sites in the demilitarized zone on the road. Like the Hien Luong Bridge and Ben Hai River, they served as the physical border between North and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel, as determined by the Geneva Accords of 1954 during the Indochina War.
Have lunch at a local restaurant and rest shortly before heading to the Paradise Cave.
Explore the Paradise Cave – considered as one of the most magnificent and magical wonders of the world. The Paradise Cave is even dubbed as the “underground palace” with its magnificent stalactites and stalagmites formation.
Visitors can easily navigate through the cave thanks to the recently installed LED lights and wooden staircases. The lights also highlight many wonderful stalagmites and stalactite formations.
Drive back to Hue while looking at the beautiful landscape of Central Vietnam.
Overnight in Hue
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 9: Hue City Tour – Flight to Ha Noi (B)
Have breakfast at hotel
Meet our guide at your hotel and take a boat cruise along the Perfume River to enjoy an open view of the river and its surroundings. Stop along the way and land on shore to visit Thien Mu Pagoda.
Take a full day tour of Hue City, the former Imperial Capital of Vietnam for the 1802-1945 period and the last refuge of Vietnamese feudalism. The city’s beauty is characterized by a natural scenic landscape and an extensive variety of historical relics. Begin with Hue Citadel, a well-known UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site which is a 520-ha fortress-like grand complex built in the early 1800s and featuring three enclosures separated by heavy ramparts namely Kinh Thanh Hue (Civic City) as the outer, Hoang Thanh (Royal City) as the middle and Tu Cam Thanh (Forbidden City) as the inner. Visit Dong Ba Market, the famous local market in Hue.
Lunch is at the local restaurant.
Taking the flight to Hanoi. Arrive at Noi Bai International Airport, tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer to your hotel for check-in. Relax as you wish.
Overnight in Ha Noi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 10 Full Day City Tour (B, L)
Have breakfast at your hotel.
In the Morning, start a full day city tour visiting to Ho Chi Minh Complex which features the life of Ho Chi Minh, the nation’s founder. At the complex, visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where the nation’s founder’s body is preserved (closed on Monday, Friday and through October – November) and the rural style house on stilts where Ho Chi Minh lived and worked. Stop by one of Hanoi’s icons, the One Pillar Pagoda, built in the 11th Century in dedication to Bodhisattva or Buddha of Compassion and reminiscent of a lotus blossom rising from a pond. Continue to the Temple of Literature, known as the first university of Vietnam built in 1070 by the Ly Dynasty to honor Confucius, sages and outstanding Vietnamese scholars.
In the Afternoon, continue the journey to one of the following museums of choice namely the Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Vietnamese History, the Museum of Revolution, the Museum of Military History or the Museum of Ethnology. Go to Hoan Kiem Lake, the center point of Hanoi whose name “The Return Sword Lake” originated from a legend of a sacred sword and home to a rare endangered giant turtle species and visit Ngoc Son Temple on the lake. Next, take an hour cycle tour of the Old Quarter of Hanoi with its ancient streets representing traditional trades from the past. Finish the tour at the Thang Long Opera Theatre with a traditional Vietnamese water puppet show.
Overnight in Ha Noi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
DAY 11 Hanoi – Halong – Overnight On Boat (B, L, D)
After breakfast at your hotel. The tour guide and private car will take you from Ha Noi hotel to Halong.
Boarding time; check in your cabin. followed by activities such as boarding a cruise for departure, A welcome drink will be served, along with a cruise briefing, safety instructions, and check-in cabins by the cruise manager.
A great lunch is served while cruising, passing by islets.
Kayaking around Luon Cave; visit Titop Island. Free choice of activities such as sunbathing, swimming, conquering the peak of the biggest island in Halong, and taking panoramic photos of Halong Bay in the afternoon
Happy Hour. Buy two beverages, get one free.
Cooking Class. Our chef will demonstrate the preparation of a particular Vietnamese cuisine in the dining room. Our guide will let you know what items will be prepared and will explain the process during the demonstration. Duration: about 20 to 30 minutes
Under the magnificent night sky, our luxury set menu dinner is served with a variety of Vietnamese and Asian foods.
Joining the squid fishing on boat with our crews and can enjoy the squid cooked with assistance from our chef or laze yourself with our happy-hour drinks at the bar.
Overnight on Cruise
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 12 Halong Bay – Hanoi (Brunch)
Early start for a Tai Chi demonstration on the sundeck; tea and coffee available.
A light breakfast will be served in the restaurant.
Discover Surprise Cave, one of the biggest caves in Halong Bay, with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites.
Back to the main boat for check-out. Please put your baggage out in the corridor and settle your bill at reception.
A buffet brunch will be served in the restaurant while the boat heads back to the harbor.
Disembark at Tuan Chau Marina and depart for Hanoi.
Return to Hanoi.
Overnight in Ha Noi
Meals: Breakfast, Brunch
DAY 13 Hanoi Departure (B)
Have breakfast at your hotel, Free at leisure until meet our guide then transfer to airport for flight departure.
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