14 days. Exploring Vietnam

Day 1: Hanoi (arrival)

Arrive in Hanoi, our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel for your stay.

• Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
• N/A

Day 2: Hanoi → Sapa

After breakfast, pick you up at hotel and transfer to Sapa. Arrival in Sapa around 13:00, take a little time for refreshment. Enjoy a tasty lunch of local Vietnamese dishes.

Then, we embark on a short trek to Cat Cat village. This village, home to the Black H’mong ethnic group, is nestled in a deep valley near the base of Fansipan Peak. With a knowledgeable guide, we explore the village, witness daily life, and visit the picturesque waterfall that once powered a French-built Hydraulic Power Station. We capture memorable photos before hiking uphill to meet our return bus to Sapa town. The trek covers 3.5 km and lasts about 2 hours. We return to Sapa

• Overnight at hotel in Sapa
• B,L

Day 3: Sapa → Hanoi

After breakfast, we start our trek, get through the rice terraces in Muong Hoa valley. We reach the village of Black Hmong, see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain. Enjoy picnic lunch at Lao Chai Village.

Continue our trek to Ta Van village – home of Dzay ethnic people. Enjoy the scenery until we meet our van at Ta Van bridge and head back to Sapa town. The total trekking distance is about 12 kms and it lasts for 4.5 hours.

A late lunch will be prepared for you near the craft centre and then visit a village school. Later, we make our way back to Sapa town and return to Hanoi.

• Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
• B,L

Day 4: Hanoi → Halong bay

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. We leave Hanoi for Halong bay around 8.00am. Upon arrival in Halong, embark and have delicious lunch onboard. We cruise through thousand amazing islands and islets during the lunch. After lunch, take a refresh in your room before kayaking, swimming… Go back to the boat, get a drink and enjoy a sunset scenery in the bay.

• Overnight on cruise on Halong.
• B,L,D

Day 5: Halong bay → Hanoi → Hue

After breakfast on boat, you will have a chance to enjoy kayaking or swimming and visit the cave it depends on the cruise we will choose.

Lunch will be served on the cruise. Be back to Hanoi. Our driver will take a flight to Hue.

• Overnight at hotel in Hue
• B,L

Day 6: Hue (city tour) → Hoian

Hue city tour. Get a boat trip to Thien Mu Pagoda. We then continue our visit at the Citadel & Hue Royal Antiques museum. Visit Dong Ba Market and have lunch at a nearby restaurant.

After lunch, visit tomb of King “Minh Mang” and Tomb of King “Khai Dinh”. Proceed our tour at a nearby village where people making incense stick and conical hat. After that, we transfer you to Hoi An.

• Overnight at hotel in Hoian.
• B,L

Day 7: Hoian (Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary)

Morning, visit My Son Sanctuary, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This is graphically illustrated by the remains of a series of impressive tower-temples located in a dramatic site that was the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom for most of its existence. Afternoon, leisure time in the city on your own.

• Overnight at hotel in Hoian.
• B,L

Day 8: Hoian → Danang

Morning, after breakfast, your free time till 12:00noon, our driver transfers you to Danang. Your leisure time in the city on your own.

• Overnight at hotel in Danang.
• B

Day 9: Danang (Golden bridge & Ba Na hills)

08:00 am – 08:30 am: Our Minivan and a tour guide pick you up at hotel lobby. Reach Ba Na Hills via Cable Car.
Spend your time on the most modern Cable Car in Southeast Asia,visit Dream Stream Cable car Station and see the panorama of Quang Nam – Danang City on high.
After finishing the first cable car, you will visit The Golden Bridge – which has the most exotic structure and also the world’s most prominent pedestrian bridges highlighted by the British Guard newspaper, France wine cellar, Le Jardin D’amourn(consists of 9 gardens),, Linh Ung pagoda.
Continue the 2nd Cable Car to visit the French Village (enjoy Street Music, watch Art’s statue), Campanile, Nine Floor Goddess Shrine, Tombstone Temple, Linh Phong Monastery, Linh Chua Linh Tu Temple & Tru Vu Tea Shop Watch Carnival Performance Show, Square Du Dome.
Challenge the most popular adventure ride – Slide of Tube Car. The new funicular railway will take tourists from Kingdom of the Sun to the new construction launches – The Castle of the Moon.
Lunch at Restaurant (Buffet).
Join in Fantasy Park with Walking in Fairy Forest, discover Dinosaur Park, play 5D wild west, enjoy 4D death race ride, watch 3D mega 360 degree, ride on Journey into the underground, enter Jurassic Park, challenge Freefall Tower and participate in adventure in Horror House and over 90 free games.
15:00: Return to the Cable Car for leaving Ba Na Hills
16:45 – 17:45: Our Minivan brings you back to your hotel.

• Overnight at hotel in Danang.
• B,L

Day 10: Danang → Ho Chi Minh city

After breakfast, your leisure time till we transfer you to the airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh city.

Your leisure time to explore the city on your own.

• Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
• B

Day 11: Ho Chi Minh (Cu Chi tunnels & city tour)

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. After that, visit Cu Chi tunnels. We leave the city and drive 60km to Cu Chi, where you can delve into the intricate system of tunnels and explore the Cu Chi Tunnel, an impressive feat of engineering that played a significant role in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, enjoy tea, cassava (guerrilla’s food during the war). Once the tour is complete, we will make our way back to the city.

After lunch, visit city tour. Places to visit: The Re-Unification Palace, the Notre Dame Cathedral & the War Remnants Museum.

• Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
• B,L

Day 12: Ho Chi Minh city → Mui Ne

After breakfast at hotel, our guide take you to Mui Ne. On the way to Mui Ne, visit fish sauce museum, it is the Lang chai xua (Old fishing village) fish sauce museum is the first and only museum of its kind in Vietnam. The museum vividly recreates the 300-year history of the ancient Phan Thiet fishing village, from the Champa era to the French colonial period and the 1940s – 1960s.

Enjoy lunch at local restaurant. After that, visit Wine castle in Mui Ne, you not only have chance to contemplate a construction of medieval Europe, to taste the illustrious bottles of wine, but also to approach the delicate secrets of wine world through a model of production process in Middle Ages and in Modern Age.

Heading to your hotel and check in your hotel. Enjoy your free time on the beach in Mui Ne.

• Overnight in Mui Ne
• B,L

Day 13: Mui Ne → Ho Chi Minh city

After breakfast, take a visit:

• White sand dunes at the top of the sand dune, catching the morning sunrise. Other activities can be taken: riding quad-bikes over sand dunes, hiring a jeep to the top of sand dune and ostriches riding (at own expense), sliding down sand dunes’ slopes with surfboards…
• Red sand dunes slopes are less steep than the White sand dunes, great opportunity for taking photo as red colour of the sand is great contrast to background scenery

Returning back to the resort, it is free time for swimming and sunbathing

At noon, proceeding to the resort’s restaurant and have lunch.

Checking out your hotel and going back to Ho Chi Minh City.

• Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
• B,L

Day 14: Ho Chi Minh city (departure)

After breakfast, your leisure time to go shopping or enjoy walking around till we transfer you to the airport for your departure flight back home.

B

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