Impressive Vietnam

Xin Chao! Welcome to Vietnam. Upon arriving in Hanoi, Our tour guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel downtown for check-in. The rest of the day you are free at leisure.

08:00    Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel lobby. Start your tour with a visit to Ho Chi Minh Complex including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Presidential Palace, Stilt House and One Pillar Pagoda. Then, visit the Temple of Literature - Confucius temple, this is also known as Vietnam's first university dating from 1070.

12:00    Lunch at local restaurant.

Continue the tour to the Museum of Ethnology, which displays a wide variety of artifacts dedicated to Vietnam's 54 ethnic minorities from the mountains to the coast.

After that, it is a walking journey through traditional craft streets in the 36 old quarters, visiting Ngoc Son Temple located on Hoan Kiem Lake, a unique landmark of Hanoi at sunset on the lake.

17:00    Then check in hotel Day use to refresh.

Have dinner before boarding the overnight bus to Sapa.

08:00    Early in the morning to Sapa, the driver will pick you up and take you back to the hotel to rest & have breakfast.

Our guide will meet you at your hotel and give a brief introduction on what to prepare and how to hike through Muong Hoa valley.

You'll start with a walking journey through the town center, then follow a steep path down the valley past small villages like Y Linh Ho, with small rocky slopes, and passing streams, and follow the small paths with a footprint leading through the terraced fields to reach Lao Chai village of Hmong's. 

12:00        Lunch at Lao Chai or Ta Van village

After that, you will continue to cross the bamboo forest to climb uphill to Ta Van village of the Day people, along the way you will have the opportunity to meet local people, visit the school and take pictures of the natural scenery of the beautiful Muong Hoa Valley.

16:00    The car will pick you up and your guide back to your hotel. Free time to rest or walk around town

Overnight at hotel in Sapa town.
 

08:00    After breakfast, you will start a short walk to Cat Cat village, inhabited by the Black Hmong tribe. You will experience the tribal way of life while enjoying the wonderful view of terraced rice fields and waterfalls in Cat Cat village. Here, you can see the hydroelectric power plant built by the French in the 20th century. Then, you return to the hotel to check out and have lunch at the restaurant.

13:00-13 30:    Goodbye Sapa. You return to Hanoi by limousine van. Arrive at your hotel in Hanoi around 20:30 - 21:00 pm.

You check in at the hotel and have time to rest. Tonight's dinner is your own arrangement.

 

08:00    Our guide picks you up at your hotel and departs for Hoa Lu. In about 2 hours of running through the countryside, you can enjoy the village scenery interspersed with the mountains and the life of the farmer in the fields. Coming to Hoa Lu, you will visit 2 ancient temples worshiping the kings of 2 dynasties of the Vietnamese nation, Dinh and Le dynasties from the year (968 - 1009 AD).

12:00    Lunch at local restaurant with local dishes.

After lunch, you take a boat trip along the river in the quiet space of the valley with only the sound of birdsong, the sound of boating and visit the cave system in the flooded Trang An tourist area, the population of 31 valleys, 50 caves on the water are home to 600 kinds of plants and more than 200 kinds of animals. Many species are listed in the Red Book of Vietnam.

15:30:     Car will take you back to your hotel in Hanoi.

8:30    Our driver will pick you up at your hotel for Halong cruise in about 3 hours.

11:30    Our cruise representative will greet you and offer you cold drinks, after introducing the yacht and guiding you through the check-in procedures.

You'll enjoy a seafood lunch on deck while the cruise delves into the heritage area. The journey will pass through hundreds of large and small islands with typical names of Ha Long before stopping at a small island where you can kayak or swimming on the jade green water, without waves.

The cruise will take you to visit a cave under the limestone mountains to a small clear bay, which is home to schools of fish during the breeding season before returning to the yacht for a light drink at sunset over the bay.

19:00        Dinner will be prepared with delicious dishes in a peaceful and interesting space

07:00     Start your day with a tai chi class in the fresh air with small dew drops in the air, then sip a hot cup of coffee in the morning birdsong over the sparkling bay.

Then you will move on a yacht to visit Sung Sot cave with hundreds of years old stalactite columns sparkling in the early morning sunlight through the holes of the cave.

Back on the yacht, you'll pack your luggage on deck and check out.

The yacht will continue to move to new areas in the heritage area and relax on the deck overlooking the panoramic view of the slow-moving bay in the fresh breeze.

The farewell lunch for the crew was thoughtfully prepared while the yacht continued to move to the berth.

11:30:     The farewell lunch for the crew was thoughtfully prepared while the yacht continued to move to the berth.
    
Cruise docked and you get on board and disembark.

Our driver will wait for you at the cruise terminal and help you load your luggage into the car for departure to Noi Bai International Airport.

08:00    This morning, we will sail along the romantic Perfume River to the ancient Thien Mu Pagoda, the Buddhist center in Hue and the former residence of the monk who burned himself to death to protest the anti-Buddhist law. government of Ngo Dinh Diem during the war in Vietnam.

After that, we will move to the area of the Imperial Citadel and the Forbidden City, the residence of the royal family and the center of political power of the feudal kings of the Nguyen Dynasty.

12:00    Have lunch at Y Thao garden restaurant.

In the afternoon, you will visit the mausoleum of King Tu Duc, one of the mausoleums with beautiful architecture built in a carefully maintained tropical garden.
End of the journey is a visit to the village of making traditional conical hats, one of the indispensable accessories of a woman when wearing a traditional Ao Dai.

Overnight at hotel in Hue 

08:00    This morning, we drove over the majestic Hai Van Pass, enjoying the view of the Pacific Ocean, stopping to visit the famous Lang Co fishing village.

On the way through Da Nang, you will use your feet to visit the Cham Museum, one of the places that preserves the most artifacts of the prosperous civilization of the Champa dynasties.

12:00     Arriving at Hoi an, after having lunch at a local restaurant, you will join a walking tour to visit places such as overseas Chinese area, Japanese area, ancient houses of local traders such as Tan Ky ancient house, Bridge Pagoda connecting the Chinese and Japanese, Phuoc Kien Assembly Hall, Hoi An Market ...

Then you will be able to take a wooden canoe down the Thu Bon river in the sunset to the Thanh Ha pottery village across the river to see the local people's hundreds of years old baking techniques.

 

08:00    In the morning, go to the traditional herb village Tra Que, where people still grow according to the natural method (organic), you will join the people in growing vegetables and see the village's general environmental protection method.

Then meet a local family and take a cooking class, go grocery shopping, go to the garden to pick vegetables and practice making fun and informative Vietnamese dishes, then enjoy lunch together family.

13:30    In the afternoon, you will come to a complex of 70 temples and towers with unique architectural and cultural features of the Champa kingdom within 9 centuries. The temple complex is a place to store spiritual and cultural values with many influences of Hinduism and Buddhism of a kingdom that no longer exists. This temple valley complex has been recognized by Unesco as a world cultural heritage that needs to be preserved since 1999.

You are free at your leisure until being transferred to Danang airport for a short flight to Ho Chi Minh city.

Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport, you will be escorted to the hotel for check-in. Lunch & dinner today are on your own arrangement.

You may also take an optional show or a night tour in Saigon.

08:00    Our guide & driver pick you up at your hotel.

Cu Chi half-day tour is located about 70 km from Saigon, you will visit the Cu Chi tunnels, the former stronghold of the Viet Cong with a 3-story deep tunnel network extending over 200 km. The network and its sections are deep on many levels, including numerous trapdoors, specially constructed living areas, warehouses, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers, and kitchens.

The Cu Chi Tunnels played an important role in the Vietnam-American War as they allowed the Viet Cong to control a vast countryside just 30 to 40 kilometers from the old Saigon.

Today the remaining tunnels have become a major tourist attraction, offering visitors unique experiences and a taste of what life underground during the war must have been like.

12:00    Your lunch will be served at a local restaurant along the way.

An afternoon with a journey to explore Ho Chi Minh City, including the Reunification Palace, the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until April 30, 1975. Then there is the War Remnants Museum that formerly the Museum of War Remnants, which stores images of the South Vietnam War, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the city center post office, representing colonial architecture from the 19th century.

08:00    Our guide & driver will pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, traveling to Cai Be.

Upon arrival, start the boat trip to visit Cai Be floating market. Then, you’ll come to Tân Phong island for biking/walk on village paths to see the local daily life. On the way, you can make some stops to see how they make rice paper for spring rolls, sew coconut leaves for cottage roofs and especially see how they wave the dried water hyacinth to make many products: baskets, bags, hats, wallets, and shoes

12:00    Have lunch at a local restaurant with Mekong river specialties. Then back to your boat crossing the Mekong river & some canals to An Binh Island, where you will check in at the local homestay. 

17:00    Dinner made by your & members of local families.

Stay overnight in An Binh(Vinh Long)

 

08:00     After breakfast and check out for a walk along the village to enjoy the fresh air in the morning & stop having tea at the Coconut workshop.

Then, continues the cruise along the Hoa Tinh canal to see some families making brick, wave bamboo baskets, sewing conical hats, and process to make rice
noodles. Stop at Vinh Long market in the town, where you have a great chance to take photos of fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs, snakes, rice-field rats, tropical fruits, and vegetables. 

Return to the car to visit Vinh Long Temple of Literature, which is a school for Confucian-influenced Confucian scholars or That Phu Mieu Chua Ong Temple, a meeting and worshiping place for overseas Chinese businessmen before leaving for Ho Chi Minh City

12:00    Stop for Lunch at Local Restaurant in My Tho.

16:00    Arrival to Ho Chi Minh City, free to walk around the city or shop for souvenirs

You are free to relax until our driver picks you up and takes you to the airport for your departing flight.

End the tour and say goodbye see you next time