Day
1: Arrive in Hanoi
Arrival in Hanoi in the afternoon, meet your guide
and then transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day
is at your leisure. Overnight Hanoi.
Day
2: Hanoi - City tour - Lao Cai (B/L) Night
train
Morning
depart from your hotel to visit Hanoi history and
culture & people and get some more shocks of the
culture. This tour draws to: the Ho Chi Minh complex,
Temple of literature, one of the Museums (Ethnology,
Fine Art, Army, History...) with lunch at restaurant
then back to the Old Quarter for some more exploration.
Short break before the night train to Sapa. ( Soft
sleeper AC cabin of 04 berth )
Day
3: Lao Cai /Sapa (B/L)
Get
Lao Cai Railway Station at about 06:00, welcome and
transfer to Sapa. Breakfast just right after hotel
check in. Free at leisure at the hotel in the morning.
In the afternoon, Trekking to visit Cat cat village,
H’mong people and Catcat waterfall lying in
a small valley. Overnight at hotel in Sapa.
Day
4: Sapa Surrounding/Hanoi (B, L) Night
train
All
day trekking to visit some minority villages. Lao
Chai - TaVan.You will meet some different minority
people H’mong, Zay, Red Dzao, you can see the
different colorful dresses. 17h00 transfer to Laocai
train station for night train to Hanoi. Overnight
on train.
Day
5: Hanoi – Ha long Bay (B/L/D)
Night
on Private Junk
Arrival
from Sapa in the early morning. Take a mini van Ha
Long city then boat cruise straight to the Bay with
seafood lunch served on the Bay, cruise along the
wonderful Bay in the afternoon with cave visit and
swimming, dinner and sleep on boat.
Day
6: Ha Long Bay – Hanoi-Hue (B/L) Flight
Morning
enjoy the sunrise, that would be great photos as it
is raising up from the ocean and through the peaks
of the limestone islands Breakfast served on boat
before driving back Halong City. Lunch at restaurant.
Back to Hanoi then directly to Noi Bai airport for
flight to Hue. Welcome and transfer for hotel check
in. Night in Hue.
Day
7: City tour of Vietnam last feudal dynasty (B/L)
Morning
visit the Imperial Citadel and Emperor Khai Dinh’s
mausoleum. In the afternoon visit Emperor Tu Duc’s
tomb, Dong Ba market. Overnight in Hue.
Day
8: Hue - Boat trip then to Hoian - the charming old
town (B/L)
Morning
boat trip along Perfume river to visit Thien Mu Pagoda.
Leave Hue in the afternon by a mini van for Hoi An,
on the way stop for Hai Van Pass, Cham Museum, Marble
mountain, Lang Co Beach. Hotel check in upon arrival.
Overnight in Hoian
Day
9: Hoian - Walking tour in the ancient town (B/L)
Breakfast
at hotel then join the walking tour to discover around
Hoi An- the old Tan Ky House, Covered Bridge, Phuc
Kien Assembly Hall. Shop for tailored made silk products
or spend your time at the wonderful beach. Free at
leisure at night in Hoian.
Day 10: Da Nang - Nha Trang
- the best beaches & corals(B)
Flight
Breakfast
at hotel. Transfer to Da Nang airport for fligh to
Nha Trang, welcome and transfer to your hotel, free
to chill out on the beautiful and white sandy beach.
Overnight in Nhatrang.
Day
11: Nhatrang –island boat trip(B/L)
Leave
hotel after breakfast to boat station for boating
to visit Tam island and Tri Nguyen visit coral island
and TriNguyen Aquarium. Lunch on boat. Overnight in
NhaTrang.
Day 12: Nha Trang - Hochiminh
(B/L)
Flight
Morning
flight from Nhatrang to Saigon. Welcome at the airport
and take a short city tour of SaiGon to visit Reunification
Hall, Notre Dame Cathedral, former US Embassy, War
crimes Museum, Chinatown, Ben Thanh Market. Overnight
in Saigon.
Day
13: Day trip to Tay Ninh and Cu Chi tunnels(B/L)
Spending
full day to Tay Ninh with the Great CaoDai temple
(a mixture of Buddhism, Confucius, Taoism, Hinduism
and Christian). Seeing the noon mass (~one hour).
Lunch in Tay Ninh. In the afternoon, we visit Cu Chi
- a fabulous tunnel. You will have an opportunity
to get the unique experience of guerillas living and
fighting underground during the war. Get back Saigon
in the late afternoon. Overnight in SaiGon.
Day 14: Sai Gon – Visit the
fertile Mekong delta(B/L)
One
day with busy branches of the Mekong and into the
peaceful canals. Visit an island orchard, see the
daily life of farmers and try exotic seasonal fruits
unique to the region. See what life is really like
for Mekong locals by exploring a quiet island on foot,
call on coconut-candy workshop and visit a bee farm
to try some honey with rice wine or tea. Back Saigon
in the late afternoon. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 15: Departure Sai Gon, Goodbye
Vietnam(B)
Free
at your leisure until your next departure. |