TRAVEL SERVICE & RESERVATION

Day 1 – 13 Dec: Hanoi (Arrival)

Edward James Shield arrival in Hanoi. Our driver welcome and transfer you to hotel. Rest of the day is your leisure time to explore the city on your own.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• N/A

Day 2 – 14 Dec: Hanoi (Arrival)

Valerie Patricia Risk arrival in Hanoi. Our driver welcome and transfer you to hotel.

Edward James Shield, spend your leisure time for relaxation in Hanoi. You can also visit some famous places on your own and try local cuisine.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B

Day 3 – 15 Dec: Hanoi (Leisure time)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Ha Noi.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B

Day 4 – 16 Dec: Hanoi (Leisure time)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Ha Noi.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B

Day 5 – 17 Dec: Hanoi (Arrival)

Nicola Jackson arrival in Hanoi. Our driver welcome and transfer you to hotel.

Edward and Valerie, spend your leisure time for relaxation in Hanoi. You can also visit some famous places on your own and try local cuisine.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B

Day 6 – 18 Dec: Hanoi (Leisure time)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Ha Noi.

Evening, walking around 10 minutes to Cai Mam Bistro Restaurant ( 05 Lương Văn Can) to enjoy your welcome dinner at 18:30~19:00PM

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B,D

Day 7 – 19 Dec: Hanoi → Ha Long Bay

Morning, 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. 

•    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:  Kayaking in Ha Long Bay Pearl Farm
•    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 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 on Royal Palace Cruise in Ha Long Bay.
• B,L,D

Day 8 – 20 Dec: Ha Long 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.

• Overnight at Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel in Hanoi.
• B,L

Day 9 – 21 Dec: Hanoi (City) → Hoi An

Please check out after breakfast at your hotel, 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. 

Around 08:15 – 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”

Get back to the hotel.

At …, Our driver transfers you to airport for flight to Da Nang.

Upon Da Nang airport, our driver picks up and transfers you to hotel in Hoi An.

• Overnight at Kim An Hotel in Hoi An.
• B,L

Day 10 – 22 Dec: Hoi An (Visit My Son Sanctuary)

Morning breakfast at hotel.

Around 07:30 – 08:00AM, 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.

Have lunch at local restaurant.

Afternoon, your leisure time in Hoi An.

• Overnight at Kim An Hotel in Hoi An.
• B,L

Day 11 – 23 Dec: Hoi An (Leisure time)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Hoi An.

• Overnight at Kim An Hotel in Hoi An.
• B

Day 12 – 24 Dec: Hoi An → Da Nang

Breakfast at hotel. You’re free at leisure in Hoi An for walking around to explore the ancient town on your own and shopping.

At 12:00, we transfer you Danang. Rest of the day is your leisure time at beach in Danang

• Overnight at Cicilia Danang Hotel in Da Nang.
• B

Day 13 – 25 Dec: Da Nang (Leisure time)

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

• Overnight at Cicilia Danang Hotel in Da Nang.
• B

Day 14 – 26 Dec: Da Nang (Leisure time)

Breakfast at hotel. Spend your leisure time in Da Nang.

• Overnight at Cicilia Danang Hotel in Da Nang.
• B

Day 15 – 27 Dec: 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 Cherish Hotel in Hue.
• B

Day 18 – 28 Dec: Hue (City tour)

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 Cherish Hotel in Hue.
• B,L

Day 17 – 29 Dec: Hue → Ho Chi Minh

After breakfast, our driver you to the airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh city.

Arrival in Ho Chi Minh city, our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel for your stay.

Your leisure time in Ho Chi Minh city.

• Overnight at Happy Life Green Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
• B

Day 18 – 30 Dec: Ho Chi Minh (City tour & Cu Chi Tunnel)

Breakfast at hotel.

07:30 – 08:00 AM, Depart for Cu Chi tunnels, 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.

Enjoy lunch at local restaurant.

After that, 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 (Or Tan Dinh Church), 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 Happy Life Green Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
• B,L

Day 19 – 31 Dec: Ho Chi Minh → Mekong Delta

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 Mekong trip as you will be back to this hotel to stay more.

At 7.30 – 7:45 AM, our guide pick up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city and start the trip to My Tho. Upon arrival, visit Vinh Trang pagoda which sated back to the late 19th century. Then boarding the sampan and cruising down the river around the four beautiful islands known as Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise islands.

Stop over at Unicorn Island, go walking in the village paths to contemplate orchards, enjoy tropical fruits, and Vietnamese folk music performed by the local people. Visit the fruit plantation. Be rowed in a small sampan through the Thoi Son canal and treat yourself to the beauty of the countryside, visit the family business & bee-keeping farm, enjoy honey tea and coconut candy workshop. 

Have lunch at the local restaurant. Break time.

The afternoon is time for cycling around the Tan Thach village, meeting the local people to experience their daily life in the Mekong delta. Relaxing on hammocks to enjoy the cool breeze is for those do not want to join the cycling trip. Proceed to Can Tho City.

• Overnight at KP Hotel in Can Tho.
• B,L

Day 20 – 01 Jan: Mekong Delta → Ho Chi Minh

Have breakfast at hotel.

You can take a leisurely boat ride to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River (Bassac River), then visit Cai Rang Floating Market, the most vibrant floating market in the area. Walking tour of the local noodle factory. Visit Munir Ansay Pagoda – Khmer temple, famous for its unique structure.

Have lunch and return to Ho Chi Minh city.

• Overnight at Happy Life Green Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
• B,L

Day 21 – 02 Jan: Ho Chi Minh (Departure)

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel.

Our driver transfers Valerie Patricia Risk to the airport for flight back home.

Nicola & Valerie, spend your leisure time in Ho Chi Minh.

• Overnight at Happy Life Green Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
• B

Day 22 – 03 Jan: Ho Chi Minh (Departure)

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel.

Our driver transfers Nicola & Valerie to the airport for flight back home.

• N/A
• B

End of service!