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Day 1: Hanoi (arrival)
Welcome you arrives at Hanoi airport . Our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel.
- Overnight at hotel in Hanoi
- N/A
Day 2: Hanoi → Ha Long Bay
Breakfast at your hotel then check out your hotel, you can leave big luggage at hotel (please note to hotel staff to keep for you) and bring small bag for Halong bay trip as you will be back to this hotel to stay more.
Around 8:00 – 8:30 AM, our bus Pick you up at your hotel and go to Halong bay on a shuttle bus.
• 11:45-12.00 – Meeting at Tuan Chau harbor. Check in and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew.
• 12:30 – You will board your the cruise and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew.
• 13:00 – Check – in cabin and enjoy specially prepared lunch while cruising through most beautiful parts of the magical bay with thousands of amazing limestone islands emerging from emerging from emerald water. Sailing with Royal 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.
• 17h-17:15 : Back to the boat from the titop island to have shower and refreshing up
• 17:30– Join the sunset moment on the sun desk in a warm and romantic mesosphere, 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 on cruise
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Day 3: 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.
15:00 – 15:30 drop off your hotel.
Your leisure time in the city on your own.
- Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
- B,L
Day 4: Hanoi (city tour)
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), as you will be back and go to the airport from the hotel.
08:00 – 08:30 AM, 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 with 8 delicious dishes.
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”
Get dropped off at the hotel.
- Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
- B,L
Day 5: Hanoi → Hoi An
Breakfast at hotel.
Free time in Hanoi until we transfer you to the airport at for the flight departure to Da Nang. Once arrived in Da Nang airport, you’ll be taken to Hoi An hotel for your stay.
- Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
- B
Day 6: Hoi An (Leisure)
Breakfast at hotel.
Your leisure time for walking around the Old Town for shopping and relax in Hoi An.
- Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
- B
Day 7: Hoi An (My Son Sanctuary)
Breakfast at hotel.
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 hotel in Hoi An
- B,L
Day 8: Hoi An (Leisure)
Breakfast at hotel.
Your leisure time for walking around the Old Town for shopping and relax in Hoi An.
- Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
- B
Day 9: Hoi An (Coconut Jungle and Basket boat)
Around 8:00 – 08:30AM, Our driver will come and take you to join in class. 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 traditional methods of how to cook 4 dishes of Vietnamese foods.After the lesson, you enjoy what you cooked and 4 prepared side dishes. Tour end, the tour guide will drop you off back at the hotel.
Note: We can cater to vegetarian & dietary requirements.
- Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
- B,L
Day 10: Hoi An (departure)
Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
Spend your leisure time in the city until we transfer you to the airport for departure flight.
- NA
- B,
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