Day 1: Hanoi arrival
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Arriving at Noi Bai airport, you will be met and driven to your hotel. will have time to relax after your journey, enjoy Welcome dinner with Vietnam traditional cuisine. And then have tickets for a performance of traditional Water Puppetry (an art form unique to northern Vietnam). Your overnight stay will be in Hanoi.
Transfer: Private AC coach
Guide: English speaking guide
Meal: welcome dinner
Activity: Water Puppet show
Accommodation: Hanoi Authentic hotel – Superior room or similar
Option Lan Vien hotel – Superior room or similar
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Day 2: Hanoi discovery – night train to Sapa (B, L) |
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You will have the whole day to explore Vietnam 's capital city. Your guide will take you to the Temple of Literature, the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century, and a popular attraction, as is Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum . You will then drive to the excellent Ethnology Museum for an overview of Vietnam 's 54 distinct ethnic groups in anticipation of your trip to Sapa. Dinner is for your choice. After that our guide will take you to train station for the romance of night train to Sapa.
Transfer: Private AC coach
Guide: English speaking guide
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation : Oriental Express 4 soft sleeper shared cabin or similar
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Day 3: Lao Cai Station – Sapa – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Sapa (B,L) |
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Upon arrival in Sapa Town, leave your luggage in hotel and then have breakfast. Take time to relax, enjoy Sapa pure atmosphere. Then, in the afternoon, soak your body, feel ready for a great trek down to the picturesque valley of Muong Hoa. We will walk on small paths and trails to reach Lao Chai and Tavan Village to visit the Tayand Day tribes. Our car will take you back to Sapa for your overnight stay.
Transfer: private AC coach
Trekking : 15 km on dirt paths downhill – Moderate grade.
Meals : Breakfast and lunch
Guide: English speaking
Accommodation: Bamboo Sapa Hotel – Superior room or similar
Option Chau Long Sapa Hotel – Deluxe New Wing room or similar
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Day 4: Sapa – Cat Cat – Sin Chai – Lao Cai Station – Hanoi (B, L). |
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Sunrise breakfast and then check in your hotel, get ready for our last trek. You first sneak through the market and leave the busy town behind. After a couple of minutes, you will follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat village. You will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station. Take a rest here before you trek downhill to get Sin Chai village. Enjoy beautiful scenery on the way back to Sapa town for lunch. You will have free time to discover by yourself in the afternoon. Dinner is for your choice. Back to hotel for shower and then our car will transfer you to Lao Cai station for overnight train back to Hanoi
Transfer: private AC coach
Trekking : 8 km on dirt paths downhill – Moderate grade.
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch
Guide: English speaking
Accommodation: Oriental Express 4 soft sleeper shared cabin or similar |
Day 5: Hanoi – Halong bay – Deluxe Phoenix Cruiser (B,L,D). |
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Upon arrival to Hanoi, you will be picked and transfer to small hotel in old quarter for freshen up services (bath + breakfast + room used within 3hrs)
Am: Be picked up at your hotel from 8h00 for 3.5 hour bus ride through the country side of the Red River Delta to Ha Long City. Upon arrival, aboard Halong Phoenix Cruiser, fresh seafood lunch (vegetable menu available) would be served while the boat is gliding out.
Pm: A short tender ride from the middle of the bay to an island for the famous Sung Sot Cave, followed by visiting Ti Top island, relax on its beach or walk up to the top for the panoramic view of the anchorage area. As the sun sets over the bay, just relax on sundeck with your favorite drink. Dinner is served with typically local seafood. Overnight on board
Transfer: AC shuttle bus
Guide: English speaking
Meals : Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation : Deluxe ensuite double/twin cabin
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Day 6: Deluxe Phoenix Cruiser – Halong - Hanoi (B,L) |
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Am: Rise up for a breathtaking on sundeck then be ready with fun kayaking around the area for a stunning vista in the serene bay. Back to boat, you learn recipes and techniques that go into the most popular dish of the Vietnamese food just before lunch time. Lunch would be served when cruising back to the harbor.
Pm: Our bus is waiting on the harbor to take you back to Hanoi. Trip ends at your hotel around 16h00. Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
Transfer: AC shuttle bus
Guide: English speaking guide
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Hanoi Authentic hotel – Superior room or similar
Option Lan Vien hotel – Superior room or similar
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Day 7: Hanoi – Danang – Hoi An (B) |
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Your morning will be free until your car and driver arrives to take you to the airport for your flight to Danang. Upon arriving in Danang, you will have a brief look at the remarkable Hindu statuary in the Cham Museum before leaving for Hoi An. Your overnight will be in Hoi An
Transfer: private AC coach
Meal : Breakfast
Flight Hanoi – Danang with Vietnam Airlines
Accommodation: Hoi An Trails Resort – Superior room or similar.
Option Deluxe Golden Sand Resort – Superior room or similar |
Day 8: Hoi An relaxing (B) |
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The day will be free for strolling in the town, lazing on the beach, or whatever takes your fancy. You will spend the night in Hoi An.
Option: Hoi An cooking class tour
My Son holy land tour
Meal : Breakfast
Accommodation: Hoi An Trails Resort – Superior room or similar.
Option Deluxe Golden Sand Resort – Superior room or similar |
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Day 9: Hoi An – Cu Lao Cham – Snorkeling (B,L) |
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8.30 am : Transfer bus from hotel to Cua Dai quay
9.00 am - 9.25 am : Relax in fresh cool wind & enjoy the beautiful landscape on the speed boat to Cham island
9.25 am - 10.10am : Visit Bai Lang, including Au Thuyen, Tay Tang pagoda and Bai Lang fishing village
10.10 am - 11.10 am : Transfer to Bai Xep for snorkeling
11.10 am - 14.00 pm : Go to Bai chong to relax, swim, sunbath and enjoy a special lunch with fresh seafood
14 pm : Return to the mainland. Overnight at hotel in Hoi An.
Transfer: AC shuttle bus
Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Guide: English speaking all day
Accommodation: Hoi An Trails Resort – Superior room or similar.
Option Deluxe Golden Sand Resort – Superior room or similar |
Day 10: Hoi An – Danang – Nha Trang (B) |
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After breakfast, your time is your own until your car arrives to take you to Danang airport for the flight to Nha Trang, where a driver will meet you and take you to your hotel. Your overnight will be in Nha Trang.
Transfer: private AC coach
Meal: Breakfast
Flight Danang – Nha Trang with Vietnam Airlines
Accommodation: The Light hotel – Deluxe room or similar
Option Michelia hotel – Superior room or similar |
Day 11: Nha Trang relaxing (B) |
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The day will be your own. Lazy on the beach and do anything you like. Overnight at hotel in Nha Trang.
Option: Group island tour
Mud bath tour
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: The Light hotel – Deluxe room or similar
Option Michelia hotel – Superior room or similar
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Day 12: Nha Trang – Da Lat (B) |
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After breakfast you will be relax until our driver will come to take you to the central highlands to Dalat You will spend the night in Da Lat. Transfer: Private AC coach
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: Blue Moon Resort – Superior room or similar
Option Anna Mandara Dalat – Superior room or similar |
Day 13: Da Lat Orientation (B,L) |
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Breakfast at hotel, you will visit the Linh Phuoc Pagoda and an embroidery workshop in an attractive garden setting. Alternatively, you could visit Dalat's railway station instead of the embroidery workshop. After lunch, Emperor Bao Dai's Summer Palace , the Crazy House, the Lam Ty Ni Pagoda and Dalat market are on the itinerary. You will spend the night in Dalat.
Transfer: Private AC coach
Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Guide: English speaking
Accommodation: Blue Moon Resort – Superior room or similar
Option Anna Mandara Dalat – Superior room or similar |
Day 14: Da Lat – Ho Chi Minh (B) |
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After breakfast, you'll set off for Ho Chi Minh City – the early part of the journey takes you through attractive scenery and large coffee plantations. You will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City in the early afternoon. Your overnight stay will be in Ho Chi Minh City.
Transfer private AC coach
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: Dragon hotel – Deluxe room or similar
Option New World hotel – Superior room or similar
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Day 15: Ho Chi Minh City – My Tho - Ben Tre – Can tho (B,L) |
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We start the tour early at 7.30 am and go ahead to Tien Giang . On arrival t ake a boat trip around four beautiful Islets: Dragon, Unicorn, Tortoise and Phoenix on Tien River . Through Xep canel to visit Mekong traditional houses at Quoi An village(make all from coconut tree). See coconut collection set and how the locals make handicrafts from coconut trunk and shell. Enjoy seasonal fruits and listening to traditional music. Take the horse-cart on village path and stop at Ben Truc orchard, taste honey with tea or wine. See bees-breeding in wooden boxes at local farms. Take rowing-boat on water palm creek. Lunch on islets at the local house. Experience the friendliness and hospitability of the host . Boat to visit a coconut candy workshop, taste candy (Special products of Bentre province). Drive back to Ho Chi Minh City . End of the tour at about 5:00 pm.
Transfer: Private AC coach
Meals : Breakfast and lunch
Guide : English speaking
Accommodation: Ninh Kieu 2 hotel – Superior room or similar
Option Victoria Can Tho hotel – Superior room or similar |
Day 16: Ho Chi Minh departure (B) |
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Our fantastic holiday come to an end. After breakfast be relax until our driver will come to take you to airport for your flight back.
Transfer: Private AC coach
Meal : Breakfast
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