TRAVEL SERVICE & RESERVATION

Day 1 – Jun 17: Ho Chi Minh (arrival)

Arrives at the airport in Ho Chi Minh at 05:10 – VJ084, our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel.

Your leisure time in the city on your own.

• Overnight at Queen Ann hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 2 – Jun 18: Ho Chi Minh: city tour & Cu Chi tunnels

Breakfast at hotel.

Around 7.30 – 7:45 AM, our guide picks you up to visit Ho Chi Minh city. Depart for Cu Chi tunnel, the trip will take approximately one and a half hours bus driving. Upon arrival, before exploring the tunnels, you will have some short introduction followed by introductory video about how the tunnels were constructed and how the people survived in the harsh conditions of the war time. Then, spend your time to explore the remaining area and tunnel systems which included the special constructed living areas with kitchens, bedrooms side by side with other martial facilities like storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers helping whoever lives inside the tunnels meet their basic needs. Besides, there are also many hidden trap doors and dangerous traps within the maze-like tunnels for security
purpose during the war. Afterward, special tea and cassava (guerilla’s food during the war) will be served.

Break time for relax or time for those who want to try the real shooting gun.

Have lunch at restaurant in HCM city.

In the afternoon, visit Independence Palace, also known at the Reunification palace, was built on the sight of the former Norodom palace. The Independence palace is a widely known Landmark of Ho Chi Minh City and was designed by the architect Ngo Viet Thu. Continue seeing the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times such as the Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Central Post Office. Followed by the remarkable site of the War Remnants Museum the museum has a vast display of the both the Indochina wars.

Return to Ho Chi Minh.

• Overnight at Queen Ann hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 3 – Jun 19: Ho Chi Minh (Motobike food tour evening)

Breakfast at hotel, is your leisure time.

At 18:00 – To experience Ho Chi Minh City, you need to do two things: Ride a motorbike, and eat the food. On this tour, you’ll do both. Zooming across five districts with your English-speaking guide, you’ll hop on and off your motorbike to taste most popular street food in Vietnam: bun bo hue, nuoc mia, banh mi

After the first meals, your guide driver will take you to a “food heaven” in District 3. Street food sold here is diverse since people in the area come from many places and have different taste. Climb up to the buildings and see the contrasting architecture between the modern and the traditional.

The next stop for food is in Cambodian market. Over here you will sample Banh Trang Nuong and Crispy Banana Cracker

Hop on the scooter and get to another area to enjoy the most popular street food in Vietnam – Banh My – This food is listed as #1 street food that Vietnamese people eat almost every day because it is very convenient and delicious.

More food is coming, we will stop and sit on plastic chairs among many locals at a local eatery to have a wonderful night with friend.

During this ho chi minh food tour, we will chat and share the local and food stories to help you understand more about life of people as well as local cuisine not only in Saigon but also the whole Vietnam.

Finishing the tour and driving back to your hotel

• Overnight at Queen Ann hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 4 – Jun 20: Ho Chi Minh → Mekong Delta

Breakfast at hotel.

07:30 – 08:00 AM, Pick up guests at the hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and depart for My Tho Port.‬ Boat cruise on the Tien River to view the four islets: Long, Lan, Quy, Phung.‬ ‭The‬ ‭boat‬ ‭passes‬ ‭by‬ ‭floating‬ ‭fish‬ ‭farms‬ ‭along‬ ‭the‬ ‭Tien‬ ‭River,‬‭offering ‬‭a ‬‭view‬‭ of ‬‭Rach ‬‭Mieu ‬Bridge.‬
‭Arrive‬ ‭at‬ ‭Thoi‬ ‭Son‬ ‭islet:‬ ‭Stroll‬ ‭through‬ ‭village‬ ‭paths,‬ ‭visit‬ ‭fruit‬ ‭orchards,‬ ‭enjoy‬ ‭seasonal‬ ‭fruits, and listen to traditional Southern Vietnamese music.‬

Rowing‬ ‭boat‬ ‭through‬ ‭small‬ ‭canals:‬ ‭Enjoy‬ ‭the‬ ‭peaceful‬ ‭riverine‬ ‭scenery,‬ ‭visit‬ ‭a‬ ‭honey‬ ‭bee‬ ‭farm, and taste honey tea and banana wine.‬
‭Continue‬ ‭down‬ ‭the‬ ‭Tien‬ ‭River‬ ‭to‬ ‭Tan‬ ‭Thach‬ ‭Canal‬ ‭(Ben‬ ‭Tre):‬ ‭Visit‬ ‭a‬ ‭coconut‬ ‭candy‬ ‭workshop, and explore traditional handicrafts.‬
‭Motor boat‬‭ excursion‬‭ on ‬‭Tan‬‭ Thach ‬‭canal: Discover‬‭ the‬‭ daily ‬‭life ‬‭of‬‭ local‬‭ people, ‬‭have ‬‭lunch‬ at‬‭ a‬‭local‬‭ restaurant.‬‭ The‬‭eco restaurant‬ ‭features ‬‭crocodile,‬‭ porcupine‬‭ farms, ‬‭frog,‬‭ and‬‭ snake‬. ‭farming‬ ‭models,‬ ‭hammocks‬ ‭for‬ ‭relaxing,‬ ‭and‬ ‭bicycle ‭for‬ ‭exploring‬‭ fruit ‬‭orchards, ‬‭coconut‬ ‭groves, and rice fields.‬

Horse-drawn‬ ‭carriage‬ ‭tour‬ ‭through‬ ‭village‬ ‭paths:‬ ‭Learn‬ ‭about‬ ‭the‬ ‭everyday‬ ‭life‬ ‭of‬ ‭local‬ ‭residents.‬

After tour, back to Ho Chi Minh.

• Overnight at Queen Ann hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 5 – Jun 21: Ho Chi Minh city →Hoi An

Breakfast at hotel.

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Ho Chi Minh.

At 11:40, Transfer to airport for flight to Da Nang – VJ1630 (14:10 – 15:35). Upon arrival, head to Hoi An old town.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An in Hoian.
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Day 6 – Jun 22: Hoi An (visit My Son Sanctuary)

07:30 – 08:00 AM, Our guide picks you up at hotel and leave Hoi An for visiting My Son Holly Land – the ruins of Cham people and was an imperial city during Cham dynasty. Here you can have more chance to explore and understand of technique of Old Cham people in making red bricks to build Tower which still now a secret to everyone, you can see a large complex of religious relics that comprises more than 65 architectural works. It also surprises for those who are curious with architectural art. In 1999, UNESCO labeled the Cham architecture in My Son as a World Cultural Heritage Site.

Spend a little leisure time in Hoi An.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An in Hoi An.
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Day 7 – Jun 23: Hoi An (Basket boat & Cooking class)

Breakfast at hotel.

8:30 – 13:00 A unique experience through the coconut forest in the heart of Hoi An old town, enjoy & experience how to prepare special foods. This tour will give visitors a great experience, especially the short vacation tourists in Hoi An, this is a perfect choice. Highlight Attractions: Going to experience a local colorful market how to deal with the local sellers and know all ingredients for the meals. Take a paddle boat trip in a unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boat down the waterways of a coconut palm paradise. Enjoy a hands-on experience of traditional net fishing and “Purple Crabs” in the canal. Welcome drink and join the cooking class. Our chef will teach you the differences about the ingredients and traditional methods how to cook 4 dishes of Vietnamese food. At the end of the course, we will provide you with recipes so you can cook Vietnamese food with your family and friends at your home. You learn 4 courses but enjoy 8 Vietnamese foods. After have lunch/dinner, our guide will drop you off back your hotel. After the lesson, you enjoy what you cooked and 4 prepared side dishes.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An in Hoi An.
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Day 8 – Jun 24: Hoi An (Leisure)

Breakfast at hotel. Your leisure time for walking around the Old Town for shopping and relax in Hoi An.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An in Hoi An.
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Day 9 – Jun 25: Hoi An → Da Nang

Breakfast at hotel. Your leisure time for walking around the Old Town for shopping and relax in Hoi An.

At 12:00 PM, we transfer you from hotel lobby to Da Nang.

• Overnight at Cicilia Hotel Đà Nẵng in Da Nang.
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Day 10 – Jun 26: Da Nang (Leisure)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time at beach in Da Nang one more day.

• Overnight at Cicilia Hotel Đà Nẵng in Da Nang.
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Day 11 – Jun 27: Da Nang (Leisure)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time at beach in Da Nang one more day.

• Overnight at Cicilia Hotel Đà Nẵng in Da Nang.
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Day 12 – Jun 28: Da Nang → Hue

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time at beach. At 12:00 PM, our driver transfer you to hotel in Hue.

Rest of the day is your own time to explore the city yourselves.

• Overnight at Serene Palace hotel in Hue.
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Day 13 – Jun 29: Hue (city tour)

Breakfast at hotel.

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM, our driver and guide pick you up and start the tour. Get on the dragon boat , go along the Huong river to enjoy the fresh atmosphere and peaceful beauty of Hue on the way to Thien Mu pagoda, the oldest pagoda here.

After visiting Thien Mu, we get on the car and go to the Citadel to see the living, working, worshiping and relaxing areas of Nguyen Kings’family, the last royal family in Viet Nam.

The last stop in the morning is Dong Ba market, before we head to the restaurant for lunch. Lunch time at My Home restaurant is a great time to savour the best Hue traditional foods and some royal tea while having your feet relax in herbal water after the meal.
In the afternoon, we will visit two royal tombs Minh Mang and Khai Dinh with traditional architecture and French-influenced style, respectively.

We will take a 10-min trip on car to Thuy Xuan conical hat village to visit a local family who produce the traditional hat and incent.
You can have many photos taken with creative decoration from colorful incent sticks made by people here.

4:30 PM: we get on car , come back to the hotel.

• Overnight at Serene Palace hotel in Hue.
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Day 14 – Jun 30: Hue → Hanoi

After breakfast, your leisure time until at 10:00 our driver you to the airport for flight to Hanoi – VJ562 (12:20 – 13:35).

Arrival in Ha Noi, our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel for your stay.

• Overnight at La Dolce Vita hotel in Ha Noi.
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Day 15 – July 01: Hanoi (City tour)

Breakfast at your hotel

08:00 – 08:30AM, Get picked up by our friendly guide and start to explore Hanoi City.

08.45: Arrive at Tran Quoc Pagoda located on Golden Fish IsLand in West Lake. It is the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.

09.30: 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

11.15: 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

12.45: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine

14.00 – 14.15 : Continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century.

15.15: 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

After the tour, drop you off at hotel. It’s your free time now to have dinner and a short while to explore the streets of Hanoi on your own.

• Overnight at La Dolce Vita hotel in Ha Noi.
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Day 16 – July 02: Hanoi → Halong bay

Breakfast at hotel. Please check out after breakfast, you can leave your big luggage at your hotel (please ask staff there to keep in store for you), bring small bag for one night in Halong as you will be back and stay one more night. 

8:00 – 8:05 AM , Our guide Pick you up at your hotel and go to Halong bay on a shuttle bus. Take a rest at Humanity center and enjoy local specialties after 2h. Arrival in Halong at 11.45.

11:45-12.00 – Meeting at TuanChau harbour. Check in Royal Palace Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew.

12:30 – You will board your Royal Palace Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew. 

13:00 – Check – in cabin and enjoy speacially prepared lunch while cruising through most beautiful parts of the magical bay with thousands of amazing limestone islands emerging from emerging from emrald water. Sailing with Roylal Palace Cruise in very tranquil route, expolling the exotic beauty of the legendary Bay, a feeling in paradise will come to you

14.30 – Discovering outstanding and magical beauty of Luon Cave by bamboo boat or kayaking.

15:45  – Small tender brings you to visit Titop island, hiking to the top of the island from where tourists can capture a panoramic view of Halong Bay.

17:00-17:15– Back to the boat from the titop island to have shower and refreshing up 

17:30 – Join the sunset moment on the sundesk in a warm and romantic armosphere, making friends with other members in the group, enjoy fresh local fruit, listening soft, light music

19:00 – Enjoy special dinner cooked by our professional chef

20:30 – The moment you choose your own way to relax after dinner, listening to music, singing karaoke, relaxing on the sundeck, squid fishing available for entertainment during the night time.

• Overnight at Royal palace Cruise in Halong bay.
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Day 17 – July 03: Halong bay → Hanoi

05:45-06:00 – Take photos of sunrise, morning exercise with our Tai Chi master, a perfectly healthy way to start a new day.

06:30 – Enjoy your breakfast, coffee, tea, fruits.

07:15 – Visit Surprising Cave – the most beautiful one in Halong Bay.

09:00 – Back to Royal Palace Cruise for check-out. Keep cruising towards Ha Long Bay, passing by hundreds of islands and islets with different shapes depending on your imagination.

10:00 – Cooking class opened right on the cruise.

10:30 – Farewell lunch served on the cruise before you arrive at harbor.

11:40 – Tour ends at Tuan Chau habour

Say goodbye to the crew and disembark.

Get on bus to go back to Hanoi.

Your leisure time in the city on your own.

• Overnight at La Dolce Vita hotel in Ha Noi.
• B,L

Day 18 – July 04: Hanoi → Sapa

Breakfast at hotel. Please check out after breakfast, you can leave your big luggage at your hotel (please ask staff there to keep in store for you), bring small bag for one night in Sapa as you will be back and stay more. 

06:30 – 06:45: our driver picks you up from the hotel, depart for Sapa

13.00: Arrive Sapa Town with colorful traditional costumes of H’mong, Dzao, Tay ethnic People. The tour guide will be waiting for you at No.3 Fansipan Str (or at where the bus stop), holding the sign “Sapa Pathfinder Travel” to welcome you. Then, please follow him to come to the hotel.

· Welcome drink and itinerary briefing

· Enjoy the lunch with local Vietnamese dishes, check-in procedures

14.30: A short trek to the gate of Cat Cat village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and is located near the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of Fansipan Peak. Our local guide will show you the daily life activities of the locals, trek down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built a Hydraulic Power Station; stop for photo with bridge and waterfall then you will walk uphill for bus to pick up to get back to Sapa in the afternoon.

Trekking distance is about 3.5 kms and it lasts for 2 hours

Come back to Sapa Town.

• Overnight at Sapa Panorama Hotel in Sapa.
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Day 19 – July 05: Sapa → Hanoi

7.00 – 7.45: Have breakfast at hotel and prepare light pack for trekking

Trek from Sapa to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain.

Lunch at a local restaurant

Heading to Ta Van village – home of Dzay ethnic people.

Bus picks you up at Ta Van Bridge to Sapa.
Trekking distance is about 12 kms and it lasts for 4.5 hours

14:00 – 14:30: Take a bus back to Hanoi

• Overnight at La Dolce Vita hotel in Ha Noi.
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Day 20 – July 06: Hanoi → Ho Chi Minh

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel.

Your leisure time to explore the city until at 10:15 we transfer you to airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh – VJ1137 (12:45 – 14:55).

Our driver transfer you to hotel for your stay.

• Overnight at Queen Ann hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 21 – July 07: Ho Chi Minh (Departure)

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. At 07:00 our driver transfers you to airport for departure flight – VJ083 (10:40 – 21:55).

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