Meal provided: No

Welcome to Vietnam.

Upon arrival at Noi Bai International Airport, obtain your visa and clear Immigration and Customs.

After collecting your baggage, exit the airport to meet outside a local tour guide and driver.

Settle in and enjoy the rest of day at leisure.

Stay overnight in Hanoi.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

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 for maintenance every Monday & Friday), Ba Dinh Square, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, 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

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 at a vivid picture of the miniaturized Vietnamese ethnic community’s life.

Take a cyclo in Hanoi 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.

Enjoy Water Puppet Show before being dropped off at your hotel.

Stay overnight in Hanoi.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

07.45 – 08:30: The shuttle bus will pick you up from your hotel in Hanoi and head to the northeast of Vietnam. In the middle of the way, we have a quick stop to stretch your leg and refresh then continue our way to Halong Bay.

12.00: Arrive at Swan office in Ha Long, have a bit of time to relax, and then you will transfer to Swan Cruises by tender.

12.45: Enjoy a welcome drink, be briefed about safety on the boat and activities included then check in your cabin.

13.00: Have lunch while leisurely cruising to the core of Lan Ha Bay

Fabulous Buffet lunch is served while Swan Cruises – The Boutique Cruise starts her sail into magnificent Lan Ha Bay – an extension of HaLong Wonder which is much quieter and has fewer tourists. She will pass the famous Finger Islet, Candle Islet, and thousands of uniquely shaped limestone towers and islands.

15.00: Explore Lan Ha – Ha Long Bay

Option 1:  Visit the Dark and Bright Cave – famous for the pristine natural beauty and poetic, attractive seascape of Lan Ha Bay. This is also the best time for tourists to enjoy bamboo boats or swimming – which is an interesting activity to discover the truest beauty of the Limestone Mountains and immerse in the emerald green water of Lan Ha Bay.

Option 2: Swan cruise – The Boutique Cruise reaches the Three Peach area (if the weather permits). It is time to discover Lan Ha Bay yourselves with your travel buddy sharing a kayak. While kayaking, you will have a brief look at the geology of the Karts Mountains that form a beautiful surrounding

17.00: Sunset Time 

Return to Swan Cruise and enjoy a Sunset party in a stunning moment of sunset at Lan Ha Bay.
You will also have a chance to join our Cooking class to challenge your skills in preparing very famous Vietnamese spring rolls.
er, our experienced captain will choose the most tranquil area to anchor for overnight.

19.00: Savor Deluxe Dinner

After dinner, reward yourself with a large selection of cocktails at a panoramic bar or take one of our onboard activities: squid fishing, and karaoke. (We open the light and prepare the squid fishing rods).

Stay overnight on the cruise.

Attention: The itinerary is subject to change due to the weather, tide level, and operating conditions without prior notice.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

06.00: Sunrise Tai-chi section on the sundeck

Be an early bird for a photo hunt and join our Tai-chi session on the sundeck to refresh your body and mind.

07.00:  Having a Light Breakfast

Swan cruise – The Boutique Cruise continues her sail, passing amazing karst towers. Tea, coffee, and a light breakfast are served with fresh air and peaceful surroundings.

08.15: Explore Ao Ech Areas  

Join the kayaking & swimming to explore the Frog Pond area – the famous filming location for Kong Skull Island (King Kong) in Quang Ninh in 2018. 

09.30: Return to the boat for check-out 

10.00: Lunch Time 

During the time well prepared Set menu lunch is served, Swan cruise – The Boutique Cruise slowly navigates emerald water and thousands of Karst Mountains towards the Harbour.

(If you want to go to Cat Ba Island, you must let us know, we will transfer you by Sena Cruise small transfer boat to Gia Luan Port).

11.30 – 12.00: Disembark Swan Cruise and farewell the crew and back to Hanoi by shuttle bus

Around 16:30: Arrive at the hotel you wish to drop off. Get in our private car and transfer to the airport for the onward flight to Da Nang.

Arriving at Da Nang airport, picked up by our tour guide and driver. Transfer to your hotel. Stay overnight in Hoi An.

Attention: The itinerary is subject to change due to the weather, tide level, and operating conditions without prior notice.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

8:00 AM: You will be picked up by local tour guides at the hotel.

You will be driven to Hoi An Market (around half an hour), you can feel the bustle of the morning market, and have an opportunity to have direct contact with sellers.

You might also learn some tips for “bargaining” when going shopping

Our tour guides will introduce to you the necessary ingredients for cooking classes. Then you will have a sightseeing tour along the Thu Bon River and Cua Dai beat by boat. On the river, you have a chance to contemplate the river’s beauty in the countryside of Vietnam.

Next, you can get some loveable handmade souvenirs made from nipa palm leaves such as hats, watches, and rings… When you do it on a bamboo basket boat, you will be immersed natural beauty of the nipa palm forest.

Then be welcome in our restaurant. Here, after you use welcome drinking, you paint on a bamboo Sieve by yourself

In the end, participate in a cooking class with our chefs. Cooking classes will take place within 2 hours, the chef will teach you how to cook Vietnamese cultural cuisine. Then you can enjoy Vietnamese food made by yourself. Finally, you come back to the hotel by car. End of the trip.

Menu

– Fresh spring roll without the rice paper

– Deep-fried spring roll

 – Rice pancake with fresh salad

– Grill eggplant with tomato sauce

– Seasonal fresh fruits

Return to the Ancient Town, go 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 architectures, 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 Hall was built around 1690 and functions 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 of 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.

Drop off at your hotel.

Stay overnight in Hoi An.

Meal provided: Breakfast

After breakfast, meet our tour guide and driver at your hotel lobby.

Head to Quy Nhon, located in Binh Dinh Province is recognized as one of the three tourism hubs of Vietnam’s south-central coastal region along with Da Nang and Nha Trang. Besides soft white beaches and a clear, turquoise sea, Quy Nhon has much more to offer to visitors.

Stay overnight in Quy Nhon.

Meal provided: Breakfast

Free day at your leisure.

Stay overnight in Quy Nhon.

Meal provided: Breakfast

Around check-out time, meet our tour guide and driver at your hotle lobby. Transfer to Pleiku.

Check in your hotel.

Stay overnight in Pleiku.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Kontum province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia.

This morning, take a coach trip to Kontum. Enjoy a short visit to:

Wooden church: Kon Tum draws visitors’ attention right at first sight with the brown bell-tower of a wooden church, which imposingly rises towards the blue sky. The Church is situated at the center of Kon Tum town, in a spacious area with many enclosed combining constructions: church – guest house – house displaying traditional and religious items – Rong house. Besides, stepping into the church campus, tourists will have a chance to visit other places such as the brocatelle sewing and weaving factory, joinery, and orphanage.

Konktu village-a village of Bahnar people: Travel to this village via the Konklor suspension bridge, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Dakbla river. Upon arrival, the tourists will have a stroll around the village to meet friendly villagers and explore the culture and custom of the oldest group of the minority who has been living in the Central Highland for some thousand years. The tourists will have a chance to contemplate the Roong house, an imposing symbol of the Bahnar people that you have never seen in any other place in Vietnam.

Then continue our trip to Dakto, 47 kilometers from Kon Tum. During the Vietnam War, it was viewed as a strategic area because of its proximity to a major branch of the Hochiminh trail, which Hanoi maintained through the neighboring country of Laos. It was the site of the Battle of Dakto.

Upon arrival, visiting old battlefields such as:

Point 601: Seventeen km from Kon Tum along the road to Dak To is a monument by the side of the road. It’s known as ‘Skull Hill’ because of the large number of human remains unearthed here after the war.

Dakto Victory Monument: a monument to the critical North Vietnamese victory on nearby Charlie Hill. The hill itself is difficult to access, and, in any case, there’s nothing there to see.

Phoenix Airstrip: The biggest American airstrip in Kon Tum during wartime. When you get there, you’ll find two long, concrete airstrips that are now being used to dry manioc in preparation for use as chicken feed. Beyond the airstrip are some fortifications — mounds of bull-dozed dirt that still have foxholes dug into them.

Back to Pleiku.

Stay overnight in Pleiku.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

This morning, travel to Buon Ma Thuot, the capital city of Dak Lak. The city is the largest in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region and is famous as the regional “capital of coffee

Upon arrival, take a coach trip to Lak Lake which is about 56km to the South from Buon Ma Thuot city. It is the largest nature freshwater lake of Dak Lak and ranks behind Ba Be Lake (Bac Kan) of Vietnam. Besides, Lak Lake is the shelter of numerous species of aquatic life, fish and shellfish which are a major economic resources for local residents living in the area around the lake.

By the side of Lak Lake is the sizeable the M’nong Rlam village of Jun with over 30 long houses. Different from the M’nong Gar who live in on-ground houses, the M’nong Rlam live in longhouses which are built on stilts like the Edeh.” The village is named Jun because it juts out from green Lak Lake.

Coming to Lak Lake, you may ride elephants around the village, row dugout canoes on the lake or enjoy the Gong show and drinking jar-wine with the villagers (these are optional tour activites, Please contact us for more details)

Back to the town. Check in hotel.

Stay overnight in Buon Ma Thuot.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast depart to visit some spotlights of Buon Ma Thuot city such as AkoDhong: village of the E-de people: long house-on-stilts; E-De shop with embroidery and the village chief’s house; Daklak Museum: Ethnography, bio-diversification, and history

Depart to Draysap waterfall, guests will have nice pictures of mushrooms and long houses, learn about the flora in the forest along the way to the waterfall then visit the impressive waterfall of Draysap. Away 30km from Buon Ma Thuot City, Draysap as E-de language means the Misty waterfall. The misty is by its water falls from about 30m height, 100m length creating an amazing veil of mist. Walk along the path leading up to the fresh stream where guests can swim.

Head to Ban Don for lunch then visit the bamboo suspension bridge over 250m on the Srepok river, the ancient house of Laos about 120 years olds, Jang Lanh village, and the cemetery.

Back to Buon Ma Thuot, on the way drop into coffee plantations and pepper gardens, Khai Doan Pagoda.

 Drop off at your hotel.

Stay overnight in Buon Ma Thuot.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, meet our tour guide again and head to Dalat. On arrival, have lunch at a local restaurant then check in your hotel.

Take a short rest before continuing visiting the Valley of Love, a picturesque valley of rolling hills with a lake as its centrepiece, serving as a romantic getaway for locals and tourists and then the XQ Historical Village at City’s Flower garden.

Drop off at your hotel.

Stay overnight in Dalat

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

This morning, enjoy your city tour day in Dalat by visiting:

Bao Dai’s Summer Palace: Emperor Bao Dai had made three huge palaces in the city of Dalat. Among them, the most visited palace is called the Dinh 3 which was built in 1933. The entire structure of the palace was made in art deco fashion. It was set inside a pine grove near the Pasteur Institute, in the southwestern direction of the lake

Dalat Railway Station, built in 1938, was designed in the art deco architectural style by French architects Moncet and Reveron, although it incorporates the high, pointed roofs characteristic of the Cao Nguyen communal buildings of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. The three roofs, said to represent the three peaks of Dalat’s iconic Lang Biang mountain, are also reminiscent of Normandy’s Trouville-Deauville Station.

Crazy House: Described as a “fairy tale house”, its overall design resembles a giant banyan tree, incorporating sculptured design elements representing natural forms such as animals, mushrooms, spider webs and caves. Its architecture, consisting of complex, organic, non-rectilinear shapes, has been described as expressionist. Its creator, Vietnamese architect Dang Viet Nga, who holds a PhD in architecture from Moscow State University, has acknowledged the inspiration of Catalan Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi in the building’s design

In the afternoon, take a cable car running from Robin Hill to the Truc Lam Temple. The ride covers 2.3 kilometers with 50 brightly painted cabins spanning the distance. The panoramic views of Dalat are worth the effort.

Truc Lam Temple (Vietnamese: Thien Vien Truc Lam) is a Zen Buddhist temple outside the center of Da Lat. The temple is located at a turnoff on the road from the city center towards Prenn Hill, the temple is near Tuyen Lam Lake, located on Phuong Hoang Hill. The entrance of the temple is somewhat isolated, so there is a direct entrance to the temple with 61 steps or climbing, or the person can go directly past Tuyen Lam Lake and then climb 222 steps past the triple gated entrance to enter the main courtyard in front of the temple.

Our next stop is Dalat flower garden, sitting at the end of Xuan Huong Lake, around 2 kilometers from the city center, it cover 11 hectares. With its cool mountain climate, Dalat is perfect for growing a wide variety of flower

You also can not miss a trip to Dalanta waterfall. It is not so imposing or tumultuous as some others in Dalat but it exerts an extraordinary attraction to adventurers. Datanla or Datania is a word compound in K’Ho language, meaning ‘water under the leaves’ – related to the war of Cham, Lat, Chil in the 15th-17th centuries. There are beautiful and glossy rock slabs where fairies from heaven are legendarily used to bathe and get amused; therefore it is also called Fairy Stream. Going farther down, tourists are soon in front of an immeasurably deep chasm, called ’Death Chasm’.

Stay overnight in Dalat.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Travel on your private transportation within almost 5hrs of driving to Ho Chi Minh

Arriving in Ho Chi Minh, welcome by our tour guide and driver. Transfer to the centre for lunch then 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 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).

Drop off at your hotel.

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Streetfood dinner

This morning head out to 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, from 1948 to assist Viet Minh in the combat with French. And it was continuing 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 has designated a free fire zone and was heavily bombarded. Since 1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for visitors.

Have lunch at a local restaurant then drop off at your hotel at around 14:00.

Free until you are picked up to join in the Ho Chi Minh nightlife tour by scooter.

Pass by the most famous city highlights by night, enjoy the street food dinner and end up at a local bar to enjoy trendy music and some local beer and snacks.

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

This morning we leave Ho Chi Minh behind and head to Vietnam’s rice basket of 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.

Arrival, boarding the motorboat at a pier and cruising on the Mekong River. Here, overlooking 4 famous islands: Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Turle Island. They pay a visit to My Tho fishing port, and fishing farms along Tan Long island.

Continue to Thoi Son Island where you have a chance to visit fruit orchard, seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted (included) while listening to  Vietnamese traditional music

Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat (the main mean of transportation in My Tho & Ben Tre) and slowly cruised through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Lives from both sides of the creek can be observed.

Before heading to lunch, pass through the coconut candy workshop (sample of candies can be tasted), bee-keeping farm, and enjoy honey tea.

Back to Ho Chi Minh in our private car.

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh.