Vietnam Highlights

Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City – the largest city in Vietnam. Our guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel for check-in. The room is at your disposal from 02:00 PM onwards. The balance of the day will be free at your leisure. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh
• Meals: None
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide for airport pick up
• Transfer: Private car

08:00 – 08:30 AM: Pick up at your hotel and start the city tour including:

• Independence Palace (the Reunification Palace) was built on the sight of the former Norodom Palace.
• War Remnants Museum which has a vast display of both the Indochina wars.
• Notre Dame Cathedral & Central Post Office the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times
• Jade Emperor Pagoda with the peaceful atmosphere &o many stories behind each detail of the pagoda.

Relax and have lunch at a local restaurant.

02:00 PM: Depart around 1,5 hours through the pleasant countryside before arriving at Cu Chi Tunnels – the historic site where Vietnamese soldiers used as a shelter during wartime. This fantastic network stretches over 250 km and is the shelter of Vietnamese soldiers during the wars.

06:00 – 07:00 PM: Be dropped off at your hotel. Dinner on your own account. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch with
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer

Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, and drive 1,5 hours to My Tho. We will stop along the way for refreshments and toilets.

• Upon arrival, we board a motor-boat and cruise along a vast network of canals and channels to enjoy wonderful views of the Mekong River, including four famous islands “Dragon, Unicorn, Turtle, and Phoenix”.
• Stop at one of the floating fish houses, in nets and wire baskets under their house, the villagers cultivate freshwater fish and shrimp – a major export product of the region.
• Cross the River to the other side, you will stop at a traditional workshop to witness a step-by-step process on how to make coconut candy, honey farming… while trying some yourself and listening to traditional music.
• Enjoy what local people offer by hand rowing a sampan along the shady, breezy canal. We will transfer to local transportation called Xe Loi to travel throughout the villages.
• Lunch will be served at a riverside restaurant with a Vietnamese 5-course set menu. Please request in advance if you have a food allergy, you are a vegetarian, or you observe Halal.
• Take a rest after lunch before boarding the motor-boat back to My Tho. We drive to Vinh Trang pagoda, an ancient southern architectural gem built in the middle of the 19th century. There are many Buddha statues including some that are over a hundred years old.

We drive another 1,5 hours back to Ho Chi Minh City for flight to Danang.

Once arrival in Danang, you will be warmly welcomed by our tour guide to transfer to the hotel in Danang to check-in. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Danang
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer & Private car
• Other: Boat trip on Mekong Delta

07:45 – 08:00 AM: Be picked up at a hotel in Danang. Transfer to Ba Na Hills (35km) and take Cable Car which gains 5 world scores to Ba Na Hills station. Stop at by Night station to visit Vong Nguyet hills, The Old Villas of French, the Golden Bridge…

Continue moving up by cable car to the Nui Chua Mountain – the top of Ba Na range, visiting Nghinh Phong top, Le Nim Villas, Orchid Garden… Experience hill climbing train (first and unique funicular in Vietnam) and visit an old French cellar (Debay Ancient Wine Cellar), flower garden Le Jardin D’amour. Buffet lunch will be severed at the restaurant.

In the afternoon, you will be free for joining games in Fantasy Park – the third biggest indoor games zone in Vietnam with series of interesting games: 4 – 5D film, skiver, The death race, dinosaur park… (2 hours). Or discover Ba Na hills on your own.

03:00 PM: Back to the cable car, then you will be transferred back to the hotel.

Our driver will pick you up to transfer to Danang airport to take your domestic flight to Hanoi. Once arrival in Hanoi, you will be warmly welcomed by our tour guide to transfer to your hotel to check-in. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer & Private car

07:30 – 08:30 AM: Get picked up by our tour guide and bus then depart for Ninh Binh province (90 km south of Hanoi). Have a break 20 minutes halfway to relax and experience Vietnamese handicraft products such as lacquer wares, paintings, embroideries…

Arrive at Hoa Lu, which is once depicted the ancient capital of Viet Nam, settled up in the 10th century. Visit temples of two dynasties of Dinh and Le with very unique architecture in the old time.

Visit the excavation area beside the Le Dai Hanh temple. You experience the vestiges of Royal Palaces ground dated back the 10th century. Go back to the bus and drive to Tam Coc.

02:00 PM: Board the sampan boats (2 people share a boat) in Tam Coc dock to drift down the river among the villages, mountains, and lush rice fields. Passing through 3 caves “Hang Ca – First cave, Hang Hai -Second cave, Hang Ba – Third cave” to get a strange feeling. The boat returns to the dock for the bus drive back to Hanoi.

06:00 PM: Arrive in Hanoi.

Back to the hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer
• Other: Boat trip as mentioned

08:00 – 08:30 AM: starting our Best Halong Bay day trip with hotel pickup in the morning, you will set out by air-conditioned bus from Hanoi to Halong Bay. The 3.5-hour scenic drive gives you the chance to enjoy the landscape of the Red River Delta and see the daily rural life of Vietnamese farmers with rice fields and water buffaloes.

Upon arrival at Halong Bay, you will begin the most beautiful day with Halong Bay day cruise. After a short introductory talk by the tour guide, you will enjoy a wonderful local seafood lunch on board (Vegetarian food is available if requested). The nearly 4-hour relaxing cruise gives you the chance to discover the spectacular scenery of this UNESCO World Heritage site with its thousands of limestone islets and mountains. We cruise through emerald waters, passing by the Dog Stone, Burning Incense Islet and Fighting-Cock Islet, the famous symbol of Halong Bay.

After lunch, we stop at Ba Hang Fishing Village for a trip by kayak or bamboo boat rowed by the locals. That will be one of the most highlighted activities on your Halong Bay day trip. Then, we will visit the magnificent Thien Cung Cave, (Heavenly Palace Cave) to explore huge chambers adorned with stalactites and stalagmites before returning to your cruise.

You will enjoy a tea break and sample some green bean cake, which is a local specialty in the northern provinces while watching an unforgettable sunset over the legendary Halong Bay.

Afterward, you get on the shuttle bus to come back Hanoi. The Halong Bay day trip concludes with drop-off at your Hanoi hotel at around 08:30 – 09:00 PM.

Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer

You are free to relax until being transferred to the airport (without tour guide) for your departure flight. Room is at your disposal until noon time. Meals on your own. End of tour.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: None
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: None
• Transfer: Private car