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10 Days to Explore the Heart of Vietnam
Hanoi – Halong Bay – Da Nang – Hoi An – Hue City – Ho Chi Minh City
Duration: 10 days / 9 nights
Departure: Hanoi – Ha Long Bay – Da Nang City – Hoi An ancient town – Hue citadel – Ho Chi Minh City
From: $850
- Tour Operator:
- Indochina Today Travel
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- Age range:
- 1 to 97
- Operated in:
- English
- Tour id:
- 2366
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Itinerary
Day | Destinations | Meals inclucled |
---|---|---|
Day 1 | Ha Noi Arrival | |
Day 2 | Bai Dinh – Trang An Day Tour (B/L) | (B/L) |
Day 3 | Ha Noi – Ha Long (B/L/D) | (B/L/D) |
Day 4 | Ha Long – Ha Noi (B/L) – Overnight train to Da Nang | (B/L) |
Day 5 | Da Nang Arrival – Free time in Hoi An | |
Day 6 | Lantern Marking – Be a real famer in Tra Que Village (B/L) | (B/L) |
Day 7 | Hue City Tour from Hoi An (B/L) | (B/L) |
Day 8 | Hue – Flight to Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnels (B) | (B) |
Day 9 | Mekong Delta River (B/L) | (B/L) |
Day 10 | Departure (B) | (B) |
DETAIL ITINERARY
You will be welcomed at Noi Bai airport by our driver and transfer you to the hotel in Hanoi city. Enjoy Welcome Drink at hotel and check in the hotel. Free time to visit the most interesting place in Hanoi city – Hanoi old quarter. With the ancient architecture, house and local lives, you can see and find out much strange things while slowly walking around. Tasting the local delicious street foods, traditional Vietnamese rice noodle, old house and ancient temples, friendly people…all will bring you the best. Overnight at hotel in Hanoi. Note: Hotel check-in time: 13:00
Trang An Tourism Complex (located in the northern province of Ninh Binh) is one of the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee lists. The eco-attraction which located in the East of Ninh Binh with an area of 2000 ha, divided into 5 main parts: special protection area (Hoa Lu Ancient Captial), the center, caves area, service and travel area, spiritual area – Bai Dinh pagoda. Bai Dinh pagoda is well known as one of the biggest Pagodas and has got the most statues in Vietnam.Trang An – Bai Dinh tour is one of the popular tours in the festival of the Vietnamese people after the Luna New Year holiday.
8:00 – 8:30 AM: We pick up guests from hotels located in the Old Quarter. The drive to Ninh Binh will be approximately 2 hours.
10:30 AM: Our tour guide will take you to Bai Dinh Pagoda, which has hundreds of Buddhist statues including the biggest statue of Buddha made in bronze standing 10 meters tall.
12:30 PM: Time to take a break and have lunch at a local restaurant with Ninh Binh traditional dishes from goat meat.
1:30 PM: We will continue the trip to Trang An. Upon on arrival, we will take the boat trip along Trang An river to enjoy the cave complex. The scenery of Trang An is a unique combination of deep turquoise river water between mountains, water caves and clear blue sky where you will not find anywhere else. The boat trip will range from 2 to 3 hours, rowed by local people. After the trip, you will be transferred to local homestay in Ninh Binh. Having great time for relaxing in that peaceful village
7:30 – 8:00: Take a 3-hour scenic drive from Hanoi to Halong Bay.
12:00-12:30 : Arrive in Tuan Chau Tourist Wharf. Transfer to Halong Cruise by tender.
12:30 : Welcome drink on the boat and check in to your private cabin.
13:15-14:15: Serve have lunch on board while cruising to some magnificent Halong bay scenes.
14:45 -15:00: Visit Titop island where you take your time on swim, sunbath, trekking….
16:30: Arrive in Pearl Farm Village. Visit around and swim, kayaking in the bay.
17:30: Back to the cruise and join cooking class to have experience in some traditional dishes. Tea time on sundeck.
6:00 : Practice Tai Chi on the Sundeck.
7:00-7h30: Start your day with a light breakfast. During breakfast, cruising to explore other part of Halong Bay, admire the beauty of one in seven new wonder in the world.
8:30 – 9h30: Arrive in Surprise cave, explore the Cave, one of the most beautiful caves in Ha Long bay.
9:45: Check out and take all luggage outside of your cabin, cruise back to the Tourist Wharf through Ha Long bay.
10:00: Have brunch and clear bills.
11:30: Back to the Tourist Wharf.
12:00: Departure to Ha Noi
16.00: arrive in Hanoi
You will reach hotel at 4 pm, there you will keep luggage at hotel and have have your own plan till our driver come and take you to train station for overnight train to Da Nang.
Train takes about 15 hours from hanoi to Da Nang city with soft sleeping beds on train. You will see the local sountryside during this journey with rice field, mountain, river and he how beautiful and peaceful Vietnam is. Overnight on the train.
You will reach Da Nang abot 12 noon, then our driver will take you to hotel in Hoi An for rest. Have free time by your own to visit Hoi AN town.
The tour will begin at your hotel or tour office. Our tour guide will greet you and provide your bicycle for your trip. Cycling through the paddle fields and shrimp farm
After that we will head to Tra Que vegetable village, you can relax and enjoy the peaceful countryside then stroll along the vegetable villages. As a special treat, you will be involved with digging, sowing, planting, harvesting the vegetables with hundreds of years rudimentary tools of the farmers. You will enjoy the E Water, a speciality of TraQue vegetable village, you can feel the strong medicinal flavour from many kinds of vegetables. You could will be a famer with many interseting activities.
Finish your time in Tra Que vegetable village, you will ride your bicycle leisurely passing the rice fields, villages, to come to the art of making lanterns.
– You will visit craftsmen with skillful hands, showing you how to create the brightly colored lanterns. Expertly guided you could make yourself a lantern as a gift to your family.
– Finish your learning, the tour guide will take you back to your hotel, finish your trip.
07h30-08h15: Car and tour guide will pick up you at Da Nang and go to Hue city.On the way, you will visit Hai Van road tunnel – the longest tunnel in Southeast Asia and Lang Co Beach.
10h30: You will visit the Khai Dinh tomb, the tomb had elements of eastern art mixed with western designs.
12h00: Having lunch and rest at restaurant
13h00: You will continue visiting Hue imperial city – the palace of 13 Nguyen Kings with Ngo Mon Gate, Library, Thai Hoa palace, Nine Dynastic Urns and visiting Thien Mu pagoda associated with culture and history of Hue. You will stay overnight in Hue City
After breakfast, we will transfer you to airport for flight to to HCM City. You will be transferred to hotel for check in, and get the tour to Cu Chi at 1 pm. Located 60km from HCMC, Cu Chi is now a popular spot for both Vietnamese & foreign tourists – the network of over 200km of tunnels became legendary when they played a vital role in the War. In their heyday, the tunnels were functioning underground cities including numerous trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers & kitchens.
Today, ducks and water buffalos happily co-exist in the rivers along the side of the road. However, the peaceful rural rice paddy scenery belies the area’s violent history. Visitors will find it hard to imagine the destruction, damage & defoliation over this whole area, caused by bombing and mines. There is plenty of evidence of the fierce battle that took place here during the 1960s when Cu Chi was a “Free Target Zone”.
Start our tour in the morning, before entering the tunnels visitors can watch a short introductory video showing how the tunnels were constructed. You will spend the next hour exploring the tunnels. Afterwards, enjoy tea, cassava (guerrilla’s food during the war). Return to Sai Gon.
HCM – My Tho – Ben Tre – HCM ( start 8.00 – return 17.00 ) Enjoy the scenic journey along the way bordered by green rice fields.
On arrived at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses, fruit plantations and fishing villages along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then 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 which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste the delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantation and village. Meet the bus and return to HCMC. This trip provides a fascinating insight into daily life in the Mekong Delta and you are guaranteed to take home your own private collection of beautiful memories. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at hotel, there is no activities for today, till our driver take you to airport for flight to home. Trip ends
TERM & POLICY
INCLUDED
Private transfers / English Speaking guide
Accommodation (with breakfast at mentioned hotels
Meals (Food only / NO drinks) as mentioned in program
Domestic flights with 20kg check in baggage allowance
All Entrance fees for the whole trip as mentioned in programmer
Service charges, room tax and baggage handling
Daily 2 mineral water bottle per day per pax.
All taxes
Highly responsive 24×7 supports during the tours.
High quality personally handpicked local guides at all places that are government approved.
Courteous chauffeur at your service for the tour.
Special assistance in ease city for smooth check-ins.
EXCLUDED:
– International flights & departure taxes
– Visa On Arrival guaranteed letter
– Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
– Travel insurance
– Beverage
– Other services not mentioned above
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