TRAVEL SERVICE & RESERVATION

Day 1 – 26 Aug, 2025: Hanoi (arrival)

Arrival at 21:05 PM – VN258 at Noi Bai Airport, our driver welcomes and transfer to your hotel for night stay.

• Overnight at La Nueva Hotel in Hanoi
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Day 2 – 27 Aug, 2025: 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.

8:25 – 8:40 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.

11:45- 12: 00 – welcome at waiting room 26 Tuan Chau harbour in Halong Bay

12:00: You will be taken on our tender from the wharf and make your way out onto the bay to board our luxurious craft, Sapphire Cruise. You will be welcome aboard and greeted with a complimentary drink. Our Crew will conduct a compulsory safety procedures session and then you are free to check into your cabin and freshen up. Take some time to have a look around the vessel or watch the magical landscape go by.

13:15  While our boat starts to cruise ,  enjoy the special lunch of fresh  seafood and vietnamese food  cooked by one of the best Chef in halong bay . 

15:00  After cruising for nearly 2 hours to explore the tranquil Bay , passing by thousands of islands and islets , the boat reaches the best area to do kayaking to see a lot of amazing limestone karst landscapes . Our boat will not bring you to the crowded and tiny beach for swimming . Our boat will stop in the middle of the Bay so that you can have chance to jump into water , take a backflip or somersault ..

16:30  Keep cruising to admire the stunning beauty of the Bay from our Sundeck where you can capture great  photos

17:00  Attend the cooking class opened right on the Sundeck , our guide will show you how to prepare and make our vietnamese traditional dish that is spring roll

17:45  Join the Sunset party , enjoy fresh fruit , making friends with other members in the group , listening to soft and light music.

19:00  Enjoy the special Dinner with fusion food prepared by the excellent skills of decoration of our Chef .

20:30  Your free time

• Overnight on Sapphire Cruise in Ha Long Bay
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Day 3 – 28 Aug, 2025: Ha Long Bay → Hanoi

05:45 – The nicest time of the day on Lan Ha Bay is the morning. Head to the upper deck to participate in our daily Tai Chi sessions. Relax with an early morning cup of tea, coffee or juice anywhere you wish on the boat and watch the never-ending miraculous scenery unfold before you.

06:30 – Light breakfast will be served in our restaurant (pastries, tea, coffee)

7:00 – 8:15 – Enjoy the last stage of your trip to Dark & Bright cave and islets by local rowing boats which is a wild and mysterious beauty in the middle of the World Heritage. Back to our main board afterward.

09:15-9:30 – Check out of your cabin as we draw closer to the mainland.

09:45 Enjoy your brunch on the boat.

11:00 you will board our tender and head back to the wharf where you will be met by your return trip vehicle to transfer you to Hanoi.

11:45 Tour ends at TuanChau habour in Halong

Drop off your hotel and leisure time on your own.

Get back to the hotel.

• Overnight at La Nueva Hotel in Hanoi
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Day 4 – 29 Aug, 2025: Hanoi (city tour)

Breakfast at your hotel.

Around 08:00 – 8:30 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.

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

Get back to the hotel.

• Overnight at La Nueva Hotel in Hanoi
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Day 5 – 30 Aug, 2025: Hanoi – Phu Quoc

Morning breakfast at hotel.

Untill we tranfer you to airport for flight to Phu Quoc

Afternoon, your leisure time in Phu Quoc.

• Overnight at Amarin Resort Phu Quoc in Phu Quoc
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Day 6 – 31 Aug, 2025: Phu Quoc ( leisure )

Breakfast at hotel.

Your leisure time for relaxing on the beach.

• Overnight at Amarin Resort Phu Quoc in Phu Quoc
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Day 7 – 01 Sep, 2025: Phu Quoc ( leisure )

Breakfast at hotel.

Your leisure time for relaxing on the beach.

• Overnight at Amarin Resort Phu Quoc in Phu Quoc
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Day 8 – 02 Sep, 2025: Phu Quoc ( leisure )

Breakfast at hotel.

Your leisure time for relaxing on the beach.

• Overnight at Amarin Resort Phu Quoc in Phu Quoc
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Day 9 – 03 Sep, 2025: Phu Quoc – Ho Chi Minh

Breakfast at hotel.

Untill we tranfer you to airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh

Arrival in Ho Chi Minh, we tranfer you to hotel for your night stay.

• Overnight at Harmony Hotel in Ho Chi Minh
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Day 10 – 04 Sep, 2025: Ho Chi Minh (visit Long Tan – Nui Dat)

Breakfast at hotel.

8.00 Pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city and depart to Ba Ria – Vung Tau (about 90km away from Saigon City).

Arrive at Ba Ria. Our first point to stop is the Long Tan Cross Memorial in Long Tan village. At this site, you may encounter some Vietnamese veterans who had served in this fierce war and listen to them telling about what really happened in the past. You would understand more about the losses and devastated results of the war on the remaining both in Vietnam and in Australia. Then drive pass by the location of Horseshoe FSB (access is not permitted due to the continued presence of land mines) to the Discourtesy Rubber Plantation. Then go ahead to Long Phuoc Tunnels. Like other tunnels systems found in Vietnam, the Long Phuoc Tunnels included meeting areas, first aid stations, and fighting pits.

After lunch, we will continue our trip to Nui Dat – Task Force Base (Nui Dat SAS Hill) with the area of about 4 kilometer radius of the base. Little remains of this military camp today except for the columns of the main gate. The former runway is now a street in the local village, and the old helipad is now a soccer field. We also spend time at the Nui Dat Kindergarten which is built by Australian Veterans for children in the village.

Drive back to Saigon. Tour ends at your hotel around 18:00PM

• Overnight at Harmony Hotel in Ho Chi Minh
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Day 11 – 05 Sep, 2025: Ho Chi Minh → Can Tho – Cai Be

Breakfast at your hotel.

8:00 – 8:30 Pick-up at the hotel in Saigon (district 1 and district 3) by shuttle bus service

11:30 Boarding of the cruise vessel and check-in

12:30 Panorama cruise and lunch on board around 13.00

16:00 Guided walk to a rural village or through the lush greens of orchards and rice paddies

17:30 Return to the boat for refreshment and to enjoy the sunset on the top deck

19:00 Dinner on board, night on board

Dinner on board, night on board

• Overnight on Mekong Eyes Cruise
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Day 12 – 06 Sep, 2025: Can Tho – Cai Be

07:00 Morning tea break served on board

08:00 Excursion on rowing sampan to explore small canals, enjoy “Đờn ca tài tử” (Folk Music) and visit home-made handicrafts family on Tan Phong islet.

12:00 Bicycle ride on back roads or walk in a small village along the Mekong Canal

13:00 Panorama cruise and lunch on board around

16:00 Afternoon walk to a rural village.

19:00 Dinner on board, night on board

• Overnight on Mekong Eyes Cruise
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Day 13 – 07 Sep, 2025: Cai Rang – Sai Gon – Mui Ne

07:00 Morning tea break served on board

08:00 Check out of cabin. Excursion on a long sampan to Cai Rang floating market.

11:00 Departure to Saigon and lunch en route (Shuttle bus// Land transfer)

16:30 Arrival in Saigon (district 1 and parts of district 3) and we tranfer you to Mui Ne for your night stay.

• Overnight at Pandanus Hotel in Mui Ne
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Day 14 – 08 Sep, 2025: Mui Ne ( leisure )

Breakfast at your hotel.

Your leisure time relax at the beach

• Overnight at Pandanus Hotel in Mui Ne
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Day 15 – 09 Sep, 2025: Mui Ne ( leisure )

Breakfast at your hotel

Your leisure time relax at the beach

• Overnight at Pandanus Hotel in Mui Ne
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Day 16 – 10 Sep, 2025: Mui Ne – Ho Chi Minh (departure)

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. Check out time is 12:00 PM.

After checkout at 13:30 PM, our driver transfers you to the airport in Ho Chi Minh city for flight back home ( 20:50 PM – VN773 ).

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End of service!