Updated TRAVEL SERVICE & RESERVATION

Day 1 – 21 Dec 2024: Ho Chi Minh (Arrival)

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• Overnight at Cap Town Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 2 – 22 Dec 2024: Ho Chi Minh (Arrival)

Breakfast at your hotel, arrive in Ho Chi Minh city at 10:35AM (CX767), our driver transfer you to hotel for your stay.

• Overnight at Cap Town Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 3 – 23 Dec 2024: Mekong Delta → Ho Chi Minh

‭Breakfast at hotel.
07:30am – 08:00AM: 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.
Motorboat excursion on Tan Thach canal: Discover the daily life of local people, have lunch at a local restaurant. The eco-restaurant features crocodile, porcupine farms, frog, and snake farming models, hammocks for relaxing, and bicycles for exploring fruit orchards, coconut groves, and rice fields. Horse-drawn carriage tour through village paths: Learn about the everyday life of local residents.
Return to Ho Chi Minh city

• Overnight at Cap Town Hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 4 – 24 Dec 2024: Ho Chi Minh (Cu Chi Tunnels) → Hoi An

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 Hanoi city tour as you will be back to this hotel to go to the airport from your hotel.

07:30 – 07:45 AM, Pick up at your hotel and depart to Cu Chi 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.

After lunch, drop you at your hotel.

 At 16:30 PM, our driver will transfer you to airport for flight to Da Nang depart at 19:05 PM (VJ1634). Upon arrival at airport at 20:25 PM, our driver transfers you to Hoi An town for your stay.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An Hotel in Hoi An.
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Day 5 – 25 Dec 2024: Hoi An (visit My Son Sanctuary)

Breakfast at hotel.

Around 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.
Have lunch at local restaurant.

Rest of the day is your leisure time to discover the city on your own.

• Overnight at Kim An Hoi An Hotel in Hoi An.
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Day 6 – 26 Dec 2024: 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 Hotel in Hoi An.
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Day 7 – 27 Dec 2024: Hoi An → Hanoi

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel. Check – out the hotel at 12:00 and spend your leisure time until 14:30 PM our driver transfers you to airport for flight to Hanoi depart at 17:05 PM( VN178). Arrival at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi at 18:30 PM, you will be taken to hotel.

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi.
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Day 8 – 28 Dec 2024: Hanoi (city tour)

Breakfast at 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”

Enjoy take a cyclo tour around the bustling old quarter to see the ordinary life of Vietnamese people in Hanoi.

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 Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi.
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Day 9 – 29 Dec 2024: Hanoi → Halong 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.

08:15 – 08:30AM, our guide Pick you up at your hotel and go to Halong bay on a shuttle bus. Take a rest and enjoy local specialties after 2h.

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.

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 on Halong bay.
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Day 10 – 30 Dec 2024: 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.

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi.
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Day 11 – 31 Dec 2024: Hanoi → Siem Reap

Breakfast at your hotel.

Your leisure until 13:00 PM we transfer you to airport for flight to Siem Reap depart at 16:20 PM (VJ913). Arrival at 18:05 PM, you will be taken to hotel for your stay.

Rest of the day is your leisure time

• Overnight at Ta Prohm hotel in Siem Reap.
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Day 12 – 01 Jan 2025: Siem Reap (Explore the Angkor)

Breakfast at hotel

At 07:45 – 8:15 AM, Our guide picks up you visit to the antique capital of Angkor Thom (literally: “Great City”), located in present day Cambodia, was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire. Continue your visit at the South Gate with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, the Bayon Temple, unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara, the Phimeanakas, the Royal Enclosure, the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King.

Continue your visit to Ta Prohm, one of the most beautiful temples in Angkor. Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery.

In the afternoon, visit Angkor Wat the most famous of all the temples on the plain of Angkor. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and architecture.

In the evening, enjoy a delicous dinner at a nice local restaurant in Seam Reap.

• Overnight at Ta Prohm hotel in Siem Reap.
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Day 13 – 02 Jan 2025: Siem Reap (Tonle Sap Lake) → Departure

Morning, enjoy breakfast at hotel.

Around 8:00 – 08:30AM start the tour by visiting the National Museum. Here, you can explore a collection of Khmer art, artifacts, and historical exhibits that provide insights into the culture and history of Cambodia.

After the museum, take a boat trip on Tonle Sap Lake, one of the largest lakes in Asia. This is an opportunity to enjoy stunning views of the lake and see some of the local fishing villages and floating communities that call it home.

After the lake tour, head to downtown to visit Artisan’s D’angkor, the carving art school, where you can witness the intricate art of stone carving and other traditional crafts. Next, continue your visit to Wat Thmei, a beautiful pagoda that is known for its memorial stupa that contains the skulls of Khmer Rouge victims.

Afterward, enjoy lunch and spend some leisure until we transfer you to airport for flight back to Australia.

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