Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Ha Noi Arrival (D)
Arrive at Noi Bai Airport. The driver will meet you and transfer to the hotel for check-in.
Welcome dinner featured with Vietnamese specialty.
Stay overnight in a hotel.
Day 2: Ha Noi Half-Day City Tour – Halong (B, L)
Your tour starts with a visit to HoChiMinh mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda. The next stop is the Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first college – Quoc Tu Giam, then roaming around Hoan Kiem Lake. Lunch in a nice restaurant then transfer to Halong Bay in the afternoon.
Overnight in Halong Bay.
Notes: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum closes on Monday and Friday morning.
Day 3: Halong – Ha Noi (B, L)
Have breakfast at the hotel. A 6-hour boat trip gives you a chance to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of Halong Bay – the World’s Natural Wonder. Afternoon back in Hanoi. The evening is reserved for the Water Puppet Show.
Overnight in Hanoi.
Day 4: Ha Noi – Hue (B,L) Flight
Am: Transfer from your hotel in Hanoi to the airport. Flight VN245 to Hue (12h20 -13h30). Pick up then transfer to your hotel in Hue.
In comparison with other ancient capitals in Southeast Asia, Hue City is the one that still preserves comparatively the intact appearance of a complex of the monarchic capital consisting of walls, palaces, royal tomb, etc. The Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) had it urbanized and built in systematic, philosophical, and abundantly artistic ways. Every year, Hue attracts a lot of tourists coming from all over the world. The most famous tour they often choose to discover Hue which shows tourists not only special historical sites but also beautiful landscapes of the ancient city.
You take a trip to visit Hue City and Khai Dinh King’s Tomb: which is a blend of Western and Eastern architecture. It is located in Chau Chu mountain near Huế in Vietnam. It was built for the Nguyễn Emperor Khải Định, the twelfth king of the Nguyễn dynasty. It was built from 1920 to 1931 taking 11 years to complete.
Overnight in Hue
Day 5: Hue City Tour (B, L)
Boat trip to Thien Mu Pagoda: You get on the dragon boat. You will cruise along the Perfume River for about 30 minutes. After that, the boat will stop at another boat station. Here you can freely visit Thien Mu Pagoda, which is the oldest pagoda in Hue City.
Then visit Minh Mang King’s Tomb: Considered as the most majestic of all Nguyen Dynasty royal tombs, Minh Mang Tomb is a complex of 40 constructions: palaces, temples, pavilions, etc. Many say that it’s a perfect combination of man-made and natural beauty in Hue, where architecture fits harmoniously into the surrounding landscape.
PM: Visit the Imperial Citadel where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945 with numerous attractive places to see like Flag Tower, Noon Gate, Nine Dynastic Urns, Nine Holy Cannons, Thai Hoa Palace, and Forbidden Purple City. Thai Hoa Palace.
The tour ends with shopping at Dongba Market – Dong Ba Market is the biggest and most significant central market of Thua Thien Hue province and the adjacent regions.
Overnight at a hotel in Hue.
Day 6: Hue – Da Nang – Hoi An (B, L)
Transfer to Danang. Spend time in Lang Co beach en route, taking photographs from HaiVan Pass ( The pass of Sea and Cloud). Cham Museum in Danang. Afternoon visit Marble Mountain and enjoy sea/sun bathing in DaNang beach. Arrive Hoian.
Overnight in Hoian.
Day 7: Hoi An (B, L)
Visit Hoian – an old trading town, some 30km from Danang. Hội An is a city on Vietnam’s central coast known for its well-preserved Ancient Town, cut through with canals. The former port city’s melting-pot history is reflected in its architecture, a mix of eras and styles from wooden Chinese shophouses and temples to colorful French colonial buildings, ornate Vietnamese tube houses, and the iconic Japanese Covered Bridge with its pagoda.
You will visit: the Japanese Covered Bridge, TanKy Old House, Assembly Hall Chinese, Hoian Museum, and Market. Lunch at a restaurant.
Overnight in Hoian.
Day 8: Hoi An – Da Nang – Nha Trang (B, L) Flight
Am: Transfer from Hoian to Danang airport for flight VN 335 to NhaTrang ( 10:10 – 11:30 am), the guide will welcome you and escort you to the hotel.
Above all, Nha Trang is about the beautiful turquoise water, nearby islands, and the best diving in the country. nha trang is endowed with deep, quiet, and warm waters all year round, surrounded by archipelagoes, islands, mountains, and white sand beaches. the 7 km white sand beach of Nha Trang is often called Vietnam’s Mediterranean Area. nha trang is sunny all year round, with an average temperature of 23°c due to northern winds.
The left of the day is open for free sea bathing at NhaTrang beach.
Overnight in Nha Trang.
Day 9: Nha Trang Boat Trip To Islands (B,L)
8:00 am: Start from your hotel to Cau Da port. Tri Nguyen Aquarium on Mieu Island is the first place to visit, many sea species of Nha Trang/Khanh Hoa province make a small ocean world there. Mun Island is the best island for snorkeling where you can see lots of lives colorful corals and fish. You will also be able to see caves in which the sea swallows make their nest. Then relaxing, swimming & doing water sports or other activities at Mot Island, Tranh Beach Island, or on a small island called “Mini beach”. Taking a fresh lunch at the island. On the way back you will visit a fishing village before going to the shore.
Day 10: Nha Trang – Da Lat (B,L)
After breakfast, leave NhaTrang for Dalat – the charming city in Highland. The natural beauty also inspired Vietnam’s last emperor, Bao Dai, to build a summer home in Dalat in 1933. This original golf course has been redesigned and expanded to a plush 18-hole course, which consistently earns high ranks from international sporting magazines and draws golfers from all over Asia.
While some of the colonial mansions have been beautifully restored, others remain neglected, and the sight of these majestic villas, their roofs covered in moss and their tennis courts choked with weeds, lends the town a poignant air of faded elegance.
The laneway from Nha Trang – Dalat (around 150 km ) is very sightworthy and photogenic with pinewoods, waterfalls, farms of tea and coffee, and “Picturesque” mountain pass (“Bellevue Pass” as named by the French early 20th century!)
On arrival. Visiting the waterfall of Datanla, one of the most beautiful and imposing falls in Lam Dong, and Truc Lam Zen Monastery on Phoenix Mountain, one of the most beautiful temples in Vietnam. Overnight in Dalat.
Day 11: Da Lat – Sai Gon (B, L)
AM: You visit the City Flower Garden for tourists to contemplate the glorious beauty of various types of flowers there then visit the Former Palace of Emperor Bao Dai – The last Emperor of Vietnam. Lunch. Afternoon, transfer to Saigon. You will pass through many immense coffee farms and rubber forests to reach Saigon. Arrive in Saigon in the late afternoon.
Sai Gon-Ho Chi Minh City is famous, called “Little Paris” during the French War and “The Pear of the Far East” during the US War.
Check in the Hotel.
Free and easy and Overnight in Saigon.
Day 12: Half-Day City Tour – Cu Chi (B, L)
8:00 am: Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. Depart from Saigon to Cu Chi tunnels (about 50km). As you know, CuChi tunnels are one of the most famous historical Vestiges of Vietnam’s National Liberation War. Its network consists of over 200km of tunnels linked to each other like a Cobweb. You go inside the tunnels which have the kitchens, food and ammunition storage caches, medic-care chambers (a small clinic), meeting room, commanding chambers ..etc. You discover the tunnels by entering inside on it, about 15 m, 30m, 60m, and 100m long belong to your health. At the end of the tunnels, you can eat Cassava (called Khoai Mi), which is the main food for Vietcong people during the war.
Say goodbye to the Cu Chi tunnels, it takes you by car about one and a half hours to back to Saigon. You have lunch in a nice restaurant.
PM: After lunch. You will take a city tour to visit Saigon-Hochiminh city:
Your visits:
Notre Dame Cathedral, built between 1877 and 1883 by the French, most of the materials were transferred from Marseille (France). Next to the Church, you walk to visit the Central Post Office, built in 1886 and ended in 1891 by Gustave Eiffel. Your next destination is Reunification Palace which was built in 1868, named Norodom Palace, and inaugurated in 1873. In 1963, this palace was heavily destroyed by bombs. On 30 April 1975, the tanks of the liberation army entered Independence Palace. After the liberation, Independence Palace became the headquarters of the City’s military Administration Committee.
And then You can discover the activities war during the US war by visiting. The War Museum in which is an interesting collection of American Weapons.
At the end of your tour stop at Ben Thanh market, the goods here are abundant, including almost all domestic products. Night at Hotel.
Day 13: My Tho – Mekong Delta (B, L)
8:00 am: Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel or the airport. You leave Saigon to My Tho city, about 75km, 1h30 by freeway, this is the first freeway in the South of Vietnam. An unforgettable way of seeing the Mekong Delta is driving along the provincial Roads in the Southern Region of Vietnam through the Paddy rice fields, orchards, and small hamlets.
On arrival in My Tho city, you’ll take a local motor boat, and cross the Mekong River (the biggest River in Asia, through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, its length is about 4.800km long). You enjoy fresh coconut juice on the boat. On your first visit to Unicorn Island, you taste the natural pure honey bee, bee pollen, and Royal jelly bee. Your second visit by boat is in Dragon Island where you can see how the local people make coconut candy and rice paper. This is a special product in the Ben Tre province. Walking in the village, you pass the Monkey Bridge, then you take the Horse Carriage about 1.5 km around the village. Upon arrival at the Garden, you can eat tropical fruits such as pineapples, watermelon, longan, and royal bananas. You listen to traditional folk music, called “Cai Luong”. Next, you take a sampan, a rowing boat by hand, about 2km, you can discover the rural daily life of local people inside the water coconut tree jungle. You have lunch in Turtle Island with special food such as “Elephant Ear fish:,.. etc. Conclude your tour of the Mekong with a stop at Vinh Trang Pagoda, the largest and most remarkable pagoda in the delta. Return to Saigon. Night at Hotel.
Day 14: Departure (B)
Breakfast at the hotel. Free until transfer to airport for departure.