DAY 1: MỸ THO – BẾN TRE – CHÂU ĐỐC ( BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER )
7 :00 am pick up your group at airport and then a smooth one and a half hour bus ride passing the green rice fields, leads you to the beautiful rural Mỹ Tho city .
8:30 am Arrive to Mỹ Tho ,the bus will stop at Mekong Reststop to take a break about 15 minutes. Heading to visit Vinh Trang pagoda an oldest ancient one in Southern Vietnam. Known as the largest pagoda and the most special architecture in Mekong Delta. It’s architecture was influenced by Vietnamese culture and Khmer’s culture as well as European’s architecture
10:00am The morning trip continues on the motorized boat on the Tien river to visit the island. Arrive Unicorn Island, you will visit the pomelo farm and the bee farm at the same time. Enjoy honey tee and royal jelly from the farm. After that, the electric car will ride you on the village road to enjoy the atmosphere of the countryside. Arrive Xu Dua to listen to folk music in the Delta, the artist will use the traditional instruments and sing folk music,wearing “ao dai” – traditional dress of Viet Nam. You will be served 5 different tropical fruits on the table while listening to music. Back to boat, heading to Ben Tre province “hometown of coconut” in Viet Nam to visit Coconut Candy Factory. You can learn how Vietnamese people make candy in a tradional way, you can try some candy that just cook.
12:00 pm around the restaurant area, we enjoy the rowing boat. The local people will row you on a small boat through a canal is covered with water coconut at 2 sides of the canal. The beautiful view appears in front of your eyes will make you feel comfortable and relax. Then, back to the restaurant for lunch. You can try the special food of this area, fried elephant ear fish. “dinosaur’s egg”, etc… After lunch, you will have free time to visit the village, we have free bike for you riding around
Back to the boat trip again to back to the bus. On the way you can review 4 islands one more time.
Go to Châu Đốc City to stay 1 night at 3 star hotel. Around 7 p.m your tourguide will take you to the restaurant for dinner. After dinner you will have free time to explore the city.
DAY 2: CHÂU ĐỐC – CẦN THƠ ( BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER )
Morning: have breakfast at your hotel. After that, we will visit The Lady Temple Of Sam Mountain, Thoại Ngọc Hầu’s Tomb, Tây An Temple,….
Then, keep going the journey. We go along the Vĩnh Tế canal, on the way we can see lots of famous mountain of that area such as Cấm Mountain, Két Mountain, … and some Khmer’s pagoda with beautiful buildings.
Arrive Trà Sư Mangrove Forest, walking around 500m to the boat station from the parking slot. Then take the motorboat about 10 minutes through small canal, on the way you can see the natural ecosystem of Mangrove Forest in Viet Nam with many kinds of different wild animal. After the motorboat trip, we change into another rowing boat slowly row along the canal to enjoy the gorgeous scenery of this place. Then, you can climp on the observe tower to take a look of the whole view here.
Having lunch at TRÀ SƯ restaurant.
Heading to Cần Thơ City-the capital of Mekong Delta- to stay the 2nd night here.
7 p.m your tourguide will pick you up at the hotel’s lobby for dinner. You will have dinner on a 5* cruise. After dinner you will have free time to explore the city at night. You can wander around the walking street or enjoy the local cuisine or street food at the Ninh Kieu night market.
DAY 3: CẦN THƠ – FLOATING MARKET- MỸ KHÁNH – HCMC (BREAKFAST – LUNCH)
After breakfast, visit Cái Răng floating market. The unique culture just only in the South of Vietnam, in Mekong Delta. During the boat trip, you can see how Vietnamese people live on the river and their normal activities. You can learn how the local people selling stuff on a boat, it’s definitely different from selling at the maket on land. You also can learn how to make rice noodle and you can do it by your own. Even, you can try a really special food from the river like dried fish, dried frog or even dried snake.
Leaving the floating market, you keep going to visit Trúc Lâm Zen Monastary, the biggest Monastary in Mekong Delta. After that, heading to Mỹ Khánh Tourist Village to have free time and have lunch over there.
After lunch, visit the Purple House, it’s a café with everything is decorated in purle. You can use the ticket to exchange a free drink over there. That’s a nice place for you to take pictures if you are a “live on the internet” person. Just take your time and relax there.
Back to HCMC, arrive HCMC at around 6 p.m
You will move from Sai Gon to Da Nang by Train
DAY 4: YOU WILL VIEW THE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY OF VIETNAM THROUGH THE TRAIN JOURNEY. Meals + drink (self-sufficient expenses)
DAY 5: DA NANG AIRPORT – BA NA HILLS – HOI AN
Morning: Car and tourguide welcomed the delegation at the Danang Airport
– Car could take the tourist to restaurant to use breakfast (if there is demand, costs are excluded). Depart for Ba Na resort Danang 35km from the center to the northwest.
9h15: At the foot of Ba Na Hill. Visitors will have free time to take pictures here, while tourguide get tickets for the cable car.
10h00: After 20mins for moving by carble car, you are at Ba Na station. The visitor will visit Linh Ung Pagoda 2 – where the Shakyamuni Buddha 27m high. Or you could buy ticket for climbing train (expenses excluded) to visit gardens with Le Jardin garden, wine cellar
11h30: Continue to move with 2nd cable car to go up French village area on top of Ba Na.
– Lunch in a restaurant buffet.
– After lunch, the visitor will have free time to visit and take pictures at the French Village and have fun at the indoor entertainment Fantasy Park – Southeast Asia’s largest with over 90 free games: sliding cable outdoor, cinema 3D, 4D …, visit the Wax Museum (expenses excluded).
15h00: Leave Ba Na Hills by carble car
16h00: Depart for Hoi An.
17h30: Dinner at the restaurant.
18h30: Visit Hoi An ancient town. Tourist will find out the famous works: Covered Bridge, Tan Ky ancient house / German An old house, Fukien / Guangdong Assembly Hall …
19h30: Visitor have free time to visit Hoi An at night
20h30: Check in hotel and rest
DAY 6: HOI AN – SON TRA – HUE
7h00: Breakfast at the hotel. Check out hotel
8h00: Visit the Linh Ung Pagoda 3 on Son Tra Peninsula.
9h30: Go to Hue through Hai Van tunner. Car will stop at Lang Co in 15mins.
12h00: Arrive in Hue restaurants, rest and lunch groups.
13h30: Check in hotel
16h00: Visit An Dinh Palace.
17h30: Have dinner at the restaurant.
19h00: After that, you can listen to Hue on the Huong River (cost excluded) or free to visit Hue on the night.
DAY 7: HUE – QUANG BINH
7h00: Breakfast at the hotel and check-out hotel
9h00: Car and tourguide take visitor to visit the Imperial Citadel of Hue – the center of power of the last feudal dynasty in Vietnam. This is a working place of 13 kings Nguyen with female beauty supply frequency princess and prince.
11h30: Lunch at the restaurant.
13h00: Continue the journey, go to Quang Binh. Along the way, tourists are visiting the Holy Land La Vang, is to look at the heroic land of Quang Tri with Thach Han Bridge, Ben Hai River, Hien Luong Bridge.
18h00: Arrive in Dong Hoi, have dinner at the restaurant.
19h00: Back to the hotel, check in and rest. Visitors are free to wander at night in Dong Hoi.
DAY 8: PHONG NHA CAVE – DARK (TOI) CAVE
7h00: Breakfast at the hotel.
Depart for Phong Nha Cave (35km from Dong Hoi City)
Following Son River to visit Phong Nha Cave – the longest cave and beautiful water world: Bi Ky Cave, Fairy Cave, The Palace..
11h30: Have lunch at restaurant
13h00: Discover Dark (Toi) cave: is a branch of Phong Nha cave system, no lighting system should remain mysterious beauty, pristine nature. Visitors will experience extremely interesting occasion natural mud bath or swim across Thuy Tien lake, Bong Lai lake
You could join Zipline, swing aerial zip-line in the system are properly invested and very modern or kayaking out between blue Chay River and join other water games.
17h30: Come back Dong Hoi, dinner at the restaurant.
18h30: Visitors go to the hotel to rest, free night.
Check out hotel, and go to train.
DAY 9: YOU WILL VIEW THE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY OF VIETNAM THROUGH THE TRAIN JOURNEY. Meals + drink (self-sufficient expenses)
DAY 10: HA NOI –HOA LU – MUA CAVE – TAM COC (LUNCH, DINNER)
10h30: After arriving in Ninh Binh province, the guide takes you to visit Hoa Lu – the Ancient Royal capital of Viet Nam. We will visit Dinh king temple and Le king temple, in the 10th century, finding out the heroic histories of this two Kings in Chinese Wars. After that, we go to Tam Coc (10 km far from Hoa Lu).
11h30: Visit Mua Cave (Mua mean Dance) with 500 step up to the Top of Mua Moutain. On the Top, you can overview all the nice sence of Hoa Lu.
12h30: Have lunch at local restaurant. After lunch you will get on bamboo boat – rowed by the local people – in Hoang Long river to visit Tam Coc (three caves) on the way. You pass through three enormous caves that provide a brief respite from the intense summer sun. It takes approximately two hours to go up and down the river and along the way, you witness local fisherfolk, village life along the river and, of course, the striking limestone karst formations that Tam Coc is famous for.
16h30: Get on the bus go to the homestay/ bungalow/ hotel
17h00: Check in the Hotel. Have Dinner and Overnight in Hotel
DAY 11: BICH DONG PAGODA – THAI VI TEMPLE – THUNG NHAM BIRD VALLEY ( B, L )
Morning: Have breakfast at Hotel/ Bungalow then be ready for the trip
08h30: Get picked up by our friendly guide then cycle to visit the Thai Vi temple and Bich Dong pagoda (the second most beautiful cave in Viet Nam)
11h30: Check out and have lunch in the restaurant with a lot of local foods such as goat meat, fish, spring roll, fried rice…
Vegetarian foods are always available at the lunch
13h00: Continue to Thung Nham Bird Valley. Get on a small sampan to discover Hang But (Buddhist Cave), about 500m in length, a magical view of the stalactites and stalagmites, and see a big Buddha-shaped stalactite sitting beside an underground river, as well as visit an orchard of tropical fruits in this area.
The best time for the bird park in the afternoon, sit quietly on a boat and slowly paddle through Thung Chim (Thung Nham), discover the most features of this area with more than 4,000 birds of 40 species flying to inhabit every day. Your best chance to take nice photos and immerse yourself in the wild and nature.
17h00: Get on the bus to return to Hanoi
19h30: Get dropped off at hotel in Hanoi
20h: Check in hotel and rest
You enjoy Hanoi cuisine Bun Cha, Pho…. (self-sufficient expenses)
DAY 12: HA NOI CITY TOUR:
07h45-08h30: We’ll pick you up from your hotel take you to visit:
07h45-08h30: We’ll pick you up from your hotel take you to visit:
08h30: Arrive Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.
09h00 – 9h15: Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Godess of Mercy – It is the most unique padoga in the world
✓ Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…
✓ Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
✓ Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed at least 2 months (15thJune -15thAugust) for the annual maintaining but still can take picture Mausoleum and visit around that area
11h00: Continue visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century
12h30: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine with 8 delicious dishes.
13h30: Visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam
Special Note : we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays
15h45: Leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the “Hanoi Hilton
16h15: Tour finishes. Back to hotel
Arrive Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.
You enjoy Hanoi cuisine Bun Cha, Pho…. (self-sufficient expenses)
DAY 13: HANOI – TUANCHAU – LAN HA BAY (LUNCH/ DINNER)
08:00 – 08:30 | Pick-up time
For those who book our transfer service will be collected from hotels around Hanoi Old Quarter to explore Halong Bay – Lan Ha Bay (For guests booking Limousine Bus or shuttle bus only).
11:30 Welcome at Tuan Chau ha bour in Halong Bay.
11:30-12:00 You will be taken on our tender from the wharf and make your way out onto the bay to board our luxurious craft, Sapphire Cruise. You will be welcome aboard and greeted with a complimentary drink. Our Crew will conduct a compulsory safety procedures session and then you are free to check into your cabin and freshen up. Take some time to have a look around the vessel or watch the magical landscape go by.
13:15 A special lunch of fresh seafood and an assortment of appetizing favorites will be served. We set sail for Lan Ha Bay passing to Da Chong islet where you can see a lighthouse built by the French over 100 years ago.
15:00 When lunch is about to finish, it is just nice that the Cruise completes its entry through Cua Van area to Lan Ha Bay (as part of Halong Bay). The area is surrounding of a lot of extraordinary limestone karst landscapes. Guests can start their journey to explore the Lan Ha Bay by Kayaking and swimming in the crystal clear waters of the bay.
17:00 Back to the main boat, and cruising to a place for staying overnight
17:30 Join the sunset party on the sundeck in a warm and romantic atmosphere, making friends with other members in the group, enjoy fresh local fruit, listening soft, light music.
19:15 Relish special Dinner in restaurant.
20:45-00:00 Your free time to relax with an exotic cocktail or whatever takes your fancy. Our bar has a wide range of wines, beers, and liquors and is always a welcome sight for guests after a day on Bay. Order a Spa service or take any activities on boat cruise such as watching documentary movies, squid fishing or simply relax on our rooftop deck under the cover of a star filled sky.
DAY 14: DARK & BRIGHT CAVE – HA LONG BAY – HANOI (LIGHT BREAKFAST/BRUNCH)
6:30 The nicest time of the day on Lan Ha Bay is the morning. Head to the upper deck to participate in our daily Tai Chi sessions. Relax with an early morning cup of tea, coffee or juice anywhere you wish on the boat and watch the never-ending miraculous scenery unfold before you.
7:00 Light breakfast will be served in our restaurant (pastries, tea, coffee)
7:45-9:00 Enjoy the last stage of your trip to Dark & Bright cave and islets by local rowing boats which is a wild and mysterious beauty in the middle of the World Heritage. Back to our main board afterward.
9:30 Check out of your cabin as we draw closer to the mainland.
11:00 Cooking class opened right on the Cruise, you will be guided how to prepare and make spring rolls.
12:30 Enjoy your brunch on the boat.
11:45 You will board our tender and head back to the wharf where you will be met by your return trip vehicle to transfer you to Hanoi.
12:10 Tour ends at Tuan Chau habour in Halong Bay.
Bus transfer service by the highway from Halong to Hanoi is available for booking in advance.
Arrive at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter at around 15:00 – 15:30, end of unforgettable trip
SERVICES INCLUDED:
1. Transportation:
– New vehicles
– Ships, boats (if have)
2. Excluded:
– Drink, Personal expenses, tips & gratuities.
– Flights, trains in the program.
– Tip for guide and driver
– Sleeping single room.
– V.A.T
– Transportation
Entrance fee:
– The Citadel, An Dinh Palace entrace fee
– Hoi An ticket
– Cable car tickets Ba Na Hills
– Phong Nha entrace fee
– Dark Cave entrace fee and games (zipline, kayak, mud bath).
– Hue music on Huong river ticket
– Tickets on Ba Na’s Wax Museum (VND 100,000 / tickets)
CHILDREN RATES:
– Children under 5 years are free (sharing bed with parents)
– Children 5-8 years old charged 75% of price
– Children 9 years old charged as adults
