Meal provided: Breakfast

Welcome to Vietnam.

Upon arrival at Noi Bai Airport, obtain your visa and clear Immigration and Customs. Meet our driver and transfer to your hotel (no guide).  

Stay overnight in Hanoi.

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Meal provided: Breakfast

Start a new day by visiting Ho Chi Minh Complex, an important place of pilgrimage. A traffic-free area of botanical gardens, monuments, memorials, and pagodas, it’s usually crowded with groups of all ages, from all over the nation, who has come to pay their respects. Within the complex, you can visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum (Outside visiting as it’s closed for annual maintenance), Ba Dinh Square, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, and Ho Chi Minh Museum.

Closed by, the famous One Pillar Pagoda which is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter. It is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist symbol of purity, since a lotus blossoms in a muddy pond.

After that, continue to visit the Temple of Literature (Vietnamese name is Quoc Tu Giam) – Vietnam’s first University, which was built in 1070 in honor of Confucius, his followers, and Chu Van An, a moral figure in Vietnamese education.

Have lunch at a local restaurant (on your own account)

In the afternoon, you are transferred to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. Almost no foreign tourists to Hanoi refuse to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, where they can look into a vivid picture of the miniaturized Vietnamese ethnic community’s life. Take a cyclo in Hanoi’s Old Quarter – 36 streets and guilds to discover the ancient feature of Hanoi and daily life. Stop to visit Ngoc Son Temple which is located at the northern end of Sword Lake (aka Hoan Kiem Lake). From the shore, walking on the Welcoming Morning Sunlight Bridge leads to the island.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast at the hotel, you will be picked up by our driver and transferred to Tuan Chau International Cruise Port, you will enjoy a warm welcome from our cruise staff in the waiting lounge and complete the check-in procedure.

12.00: Upon boarding, our crew welcomes you with a refreshing drink and cold towel before checking into your cabin. The vessel leaves Tuan Chau Marina, taking you on an exciting journey to discover the beauty of Ha Long Bay. Along the way, you can enjoy the view of some of the most beautiful spots in Ha Long and admire the grandeur of the Bay with thousands of limestone islands while the vessel heads to Trinh Nu Cave.

Enjoy your lunch at our luxurious restaurant on board while the vessel cruises toward Trinh Nu Cave.

14.00: You return to your cabin for a short rest and prepare for kayaking activities in the Trinh Nu Cave area.

15.00: You will be transferred to Trinh Nu Cave by tender.

Arriving at the Trinh Nu Cave area, you will take part in kayaking activities here. To get to Trinh Nu beach, you need to kayak around thousand-year-old limestone formations and then walk for 5 minutes through Trinh Nu cave. Trinh Nu Beach will amaze you with its white sand, emerald water, and mild pleasant weather condition. 

17.30-18.00: Back on board, you will participate in a Sunset party & cooking class while the vessel cruises toward the shore. You can enjoy relaxing moments while sipping a cup of traditional Vietnamese tea or coffee on the sundeck amid wonderful scenery and beautiful sunset. Ha Long Bay is calm during the day, but when the sun goes down, the Bay becomes even more tranquil and peaceful.

You will be instructed to make delicious traditional Vietnamese steamed rice rolls by our chef and then enjoy the rolls made on your own.

17.30-18.30: Happy hour – BUY 2 DRINK GET 1 FOR FREE

19.30 Gala Dinner: Enjoy your dinner on the Sundeck (if the weather is favorable)

20.30: After dinner, you will enjoy a peaceful view of the Bay at night on the deck. You can also participate in evening activities such as massage (subject to additional charge), herbal wood foot bath in your room (free of charge 01 herbal bag for each cabin), or enjoying music and some drinks at Sky Bar while admiring the breathtaking view of the Bay at night and squid fishing.

The cruise ship anchors for your peaceful night stay in a quiet area

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Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch

06.15: Start your day with Tai Chi class on the sundeck.

06.30-07.00: Enjoy a light breakfast with coffee, tea, cake and fruit.

07.30: Exploring Sung Sot cave. This is one of the largest and most beautiful caves in Ha Long Bay. The cave has some unique rock formations which couldn’t be found anywhere else. The path to the mouth of Sung Sot Cave is under a canopy of leaves. Walking through steep stone steps, tourists may have the feeling of climbing mountains and experience the excitement as if they are stepping into the sky.

08.30-09.30: Back on board, you can rest in your room, enjoy the herbal foot bath prepared by our crew, sunbathe on the sundeck, take pictures of Ha Long Bay, or shop for souvenirs on the boat.

09.30: Check-out time.

Please put your luggage outside your cabin and leave the room key at the reception desk. Our staff will transfer your luggage to the waiting area. While waiting, you can shop for some products for the cruise.

10.00: Enjoy an early lunch buffet at the restaurant on the 2nd floor and settle the bills if any.

11.00: Arrival at Tuan Chau Marina. The trip ends.

Transfer back to your hotel in Hanoi and meet your driver, transfer to the airport for your flight to Hue.

Upon arrival, our driver transfer you to your hotel in Hue.

Stay overnight in Hue.

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Meal provided: Breakfast

Start the city tour with a visit to the Royal Palace which has three perimeters of rampart, namely from outside to inside: Kinh Thanh (Capital Citadel), Hoang Thanh (Royal Citadel), and Tu Cam Thanh (Forbidden Citadel).

• Capital Citadel: This construction started in 1805 under the reign of Emperor Gia Long and was completed in 1832 under the reign of Emperor Ming Mang
  
• Royal Citadel: The Imperial City is located in the center of the Citadel where established highest offices of Viet Nam’s feudalism and sanctums honoring the cult of decreased Emperors
• Forbidden Citadel: Located inside the Imperial City, behind the Throne Palace, the Forbidden Purple City is reserved for Emperor and his family.

Then continue to The tomb of King Khai Dinh is located on Chau Chu mountain near Hue in Vietnam. It was built from 1920 to 1931 taking 11 years to complete. In comparison with those of the preceding emperors, Khai Dinh’s tomb is much smaller on the surface but it is very elaborate. It is the result of the intermingling of many architectural trends: European and Asian, as well as ancient and modern.

Later enjoy a private boat trip along Hue city in Perfume River, you’ll deeply immerse in Hue’s pure nature & famous cultural places. The boat will take you to Thien Mu Pagoda, an ancient pagoda in Hue city, that can’t be missed while being in Hue. Its pagoda has seven stories and is the tallest one in Vietnam. The temple is often the subject of folk rhymes about Hue, such as its iconic status and association with the city.

Transfer to your hotel in Hoi An.

Stay overnight in Hoi An.

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Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Start your morning with a tour of the water coconut village and have an adventure on the bamboo basket boat.

We will stop at the colorful local market. Here you will have the opportunity to interact with the local sellers and learn about the ingredients to be used in the cooking lesson later. So make sure your camera is handy.

We continue to transfer to the vegetable village where the local farmer will show you their traditional gardening methods. At the village, we walk through the vegetable gardens where local farmers work in their fields, using the traditional methods of hundreds of years ago.

Then, we go to our home in order to prepare for our cooking class. We have a welcome drink for rest.

After that, we will go to the kitchen; work together with the professional chef. With the instructions of the chef, we will learn the traditional ways of preparing and cooking Vietnamese food.

Especially, you have a chance to experience how to decorate the dish in the Vietnamese way. This activity is great fun.

After the lesson, enjoy what you have cooked.

The tour ends at 1:00 p.m

Our menu:

1. Green papaya salad
2. Tam Huu (shrimp, pork, and herbs)
3. Hoi An rice pancake

* Other special food on request.

Coming to Ancient Town, spend the left of the afternoon for a walking tour around this enchanting port town of Hoi an, follow the narrow lanes lined with centuries-old houses influenced by Chinese, Japanese, French, and European architecture and visit its numerous places of interest: the 400-year old Japanese Covered Bridge, the Phuc Kien Assembly Halls, the Tan Ky old house, the local market …

• Japanese Covered Bridge dated back to the 18th century and is a beautiful historical piece of Japanese architecture. It is claimed that it was created by the Japanese then living in Hoi An as a way to reach the Chinese quarter across the water. The bridge also features the sculptures of two dogs and two monkeys representing the Chinese years in which many Japanese Emperors were born along with the fact that the building of the bridge began in the year of the dog and was completed in the year of the monkey.
• Phuc Kien Assembly Halls were built around 1690 and function as a traditional assembly hall for the Chinese ethnic group from Fujian, China to socialize, but later was transformed into a temple dedicated to their deity named Thien Hau – the goddess of the sea who protects sailors from danger.
• Fujian Assembly Hall bears all the fundamental features in the structure of a Chinese Assembly Hall.
• Tan Ky’s old house is an almost perfect example of an 18th merchant’s residence in this major commercial port town.

Around the town, you can see numerous art galleries and tailor shops. You are also free to get some made-to-order clothes if you like.

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Meal Provided: Breakfast

Take a trip to My Son, a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Hindu Temples constructed between the 4th and the 14th century AD by the kings of Champa (Chiem Thanh in Vietnamese). The My Son temple complex is regarded as one of the foremost Hindu temple complexes in Southeast Asia and is the foremost heritage site of this nature in Vietnam. It is often compared with other historical temple complexes in Southeast Asia, such as Borobudur of Java in Indonesia, Angkor Wat of Cambodia, Bagan of Myanmar, and Ayutthaya of Thailand. As of 1999, My Son has been recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site.

In the afternoon, transfer to your hotel in Danang.

Stay overnight in Danang.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, lunch

This morning, start our trip to Ba Na Hills, a hill station and resort located in the Truong Son Mountain west of the city of Danang. The station, advertised as “the Dalat of Danang province” by local tourism authorities, was founded in 1919 by French colonists.

A trip by cable car will offer you a chance to admire the panorama of Ba Na Hills, spring stream, Danang City, and Danang coast from your cabin at the height of 1,487 meters above sea level.

There are a variety of restaurants at the Complex for your own exploration (Pay on the spot)

During your time on the mountain, enjoy a visit to:

• Fantasy Park: the amusement park reserves countless funs and surprises, which of course involve well-tailored games to keep little kids occupied and delighted all day long.
• The Le Jardin with the relics of the French, such as the force of the French horse, nearly 100-year-old grapefruit trees, and traces of ancient villas. Especially Debay cellar, the wine cellar was built by the French in 1923, and spent nearly a century, they still retain the cellar wild, and mysterious, the work of the French single remaining fairly intact Ba Na.
• Linh Ung Pagoda, located on the peak of Ba Na Mountain at the height of 1.400 meters, was officially inaugurated on the 5th of March, 2004. You can also feel your interest in a lot of pretty villas, newly built hotels, and bungalows here. Each one has its own flower garden with many types of aristocratic flowers that Frenchmen left during the 50 past years.

Enjoy a buffet lunch in Ba Na Hills.

Keep taking a nice walk to Golden Bridge. Winding its way around a 150-meter course lined with flowers, a golden bridge shimmers against the Ba Na Hills, supported by a pair of giant hands. The bridge sits 1,400 meters above sea level, an altitude that creates the illusion of a silk strip hiding in the clouds above Da Nang.

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Meal provided: Breakfast

At 8 am, our tour guide and Da Nang Private Car will pick you up at your hotel and we start Danang City Tour Full Day.

The first place we will explore today is the Marble Mountains – A masterpiece of nature presented to Da Nang. Challenge yourself to climb up to over 120 steps to get to the Mable of Water (Thuy Son). From here, amazing and fabulous fairylands appear in front of your eyes.

There are a lot of ancient and sacred pagodas with great architecture. A lot of amazing Buhhda statues in wonderful caves from the 4th century.

Going up to the Heaven Gate to admire nature to enjoy the great panoramic views of Da Nang and Hoi An on the peak of the mount.

Moreover, we will have a chance to enjoy the skillful hands of Marble carving artists at the Marble carving village on the mountains foot with 400 years of history as well.

Around 10 am, we continue the Da Nang City Tour Full day to visit the Love Bridge and 3 famous bridges in Da Nang as Dragon Bridge, Han Bridge, and Tran Thi Ly Bridge.

From Love Lock Bridge Danang, you can enjoy the romantic views of the dynamic Da Nang city and get some nice photos as well.

After that, we will go to visit the Cham Sculpture Museum. It is a collection of various sandstone sculptures of the Gods in Hinduism of the Champa Kingdom. In this fantastic and rich history museum, our tour guide will tell you a lot of stories about the lives and culture of the Cham people, their gods, and their architecture as well.

We continue the Da Nang City Tour by visiting Han Market. Han Market is the biggest and most famous market in Da nang city. In this grand market, you can find out anything you like even a 30 USD Rolex. This is also a great place where you can learn how to bargain as well. 

After the interesting market, we keep visiting the Linh Ung Pagoda with the tallest Lady Buddha statue in Vietnam. The Linh Ung Bai But is on the Son Tra peninsula also called the Monkey Mountain. It is very common to see a lot of monkeys in the trees.

From this fabulous pagoda, not only enjoy the fresh air; the 67 m Lady Buddha statue but also you can enjoy the fantastic panoramic views of the ocean and Da Nang.

Last but not least, we will visit My Khe beach– one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. On this beautiful long sandy beach, you can swim, do some sea sports as well as sunbathing.

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Meal Provided: Breakfast

After breakfast at the hotel, enjoy your time before meeting our driver and transfer to the airport for your flight to Phu Quoc. 

Arrive in Phu Quoc, our driver transfers you to your hotel. 

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Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch 

• 08:30: Pick up from your hotel at the lobby in the center of Duong Dong town (from Phu Quoc night market, along Tran Hung Dao Street to Eden Resort). If pick up and drop off in other areas, an extra fee can be applied.

• Arrive at the harbor – board on speed boat

• Visit 4 islands in the south
• Gam Ghi Island: Snorkeling at the coral reef – Enjoy the beach
• Xuong Island (Mong Tay Island): Snorkeling at the coral reef
• May Rut Island: white sand lagoon – unique chillout 

• Having Lunch on the Island

• Sea walker (pay by yourself): a new type of service, walking under the ocean, there are the fish flocks swimming & colorful corals reef of Phu Quoc

• Speed boat arrives at Thom Island: Enjoy the water park – more than 20 modern games from the world’s leading manufacturers.

• Back on the cable car (around 25 mins): Enjoy sunset & rides with a panoramic overall view of the islands

• 17:00: Return to your hotel

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Breakfast at hotel. Free day at leisure to relax in Phu Quoc.

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Meal Provided: Breakfast

Breakfast at hotel. Free time on your own until our driver transfer you to the airport for your flight to Ho Chi Minh. 

On arrival, our driver will pick you up at Tan Son Nhat Airport and transfer to hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

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Visit the famous Cu Chi Tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence. The Cu Chi Tunnel system had been created a long time back, in 1948 to assist Viet Minh in the combat with French. And it was continued built over 25 years later. It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers. In places, it housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years…. getting married and giving birth. During the American War, the entire area of Cu Chi was designated a free-fire zone and was heavily bombarded. Since 1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for visitors. Transfer to Ho Chi Minh City.

In the afternoon enjoy sightseeing at Reunification Palace formerly known as Independence Palace, built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, a landmark in Hochiminh City. Continue to visit City Hall, Ho Chi Minh Monument, and Central Post Office which was constructed when Vietnam was part of French Indochina in the early 20th century. It has a neoclassical architectural style. It was designed and constructed by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel in harmony with the surrounding area. Today, the building is a tourist attraction.

Right nearby, you can see Notre Dame Cathedral, a magnificent building located in the heart of the city and was established by French colonists. This cathedral was constructed between 1863 and 1880. It has two bell towers, reaching a height of 58 meters (190 feet).

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Meal provided: Breakfast

In the morning, we leave Saigon behind and head to Vietnam’s rice basket of the Mekong Delta. We will pass through idyllic, rural scenes until we arrive at My Tho, a peaceful town on the bank of the Mekong River, where we will visit the Vinh Trang Pagoda.

Take a leisurely boat ride along the river, and view the stilt houses, fruit plantations, and fishing villages along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise islet and then enjoy a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shadow of the water coconut trees along natural canals, then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music“, performed by locals.

Visit a family business that epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste the delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantation and village

Check-in at your hotel. Then you will choose the activity or as a free leisure

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Meal provided: Breakfast

Early morning at 5:30 AM, take a boat trip to catch a glimpse into the lives of the locals and see the bustling markets full of life and vibrancy in Cai Rang floating market which is one of the three biggest in the Mekong Delta. The shops and stalls at the market are boat of different sizes. Cai Rang Floating Market is open all day but it is busiest from sunrise to about 9.00 am. The main items sold there are farm products and specialties of Cai Rang Town, Chau Thanh District of hundreds of boats packed with mango, bananas, papaya, pineapple, and even smuggled goods like cigarettes.

Pick up randomly a “floating restaurant” to have a one-of-a-kind breakfast such as Pho, Snail Noodles, or Crab Noodles right on the motorboat. This experience is verified by the renowned Gordon Ramsay – the famous British Chef in his food adventure in Cai Rang Floating Market.

Make a stop at Binh Thuy ancient house which has long been renowned for its ancient beauty along with its unique architecture. Antiques and prominent traditional cultural features have been still deliberately preserved and promoted by descendants of the founder. It has been captured in many films such as “The silt ways,” “The Bac Lieu Mandarin’s son” and “The Lover” by French director J. Annaud. Get back to your lodge for a short rest.

Check out at 12 PM. Drive back to Ho Chi Minh City.

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Meal provided: Breakfast

This morning you are let free to stroll around before being transferred without a guide to the Airport for your departure flight to the next destination.

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