Day 1 : Arrival in Hanoi – Pick up - Welcome Dinner (D)
Hanoi Food
On arrival at Hanoi Airport, our driver and tour guide pick up and transfer you to our hotel for check in. If the time permits, we enjoy our welcome dinner at fine restaurant in Saigon. Transfer you back hotel.
O/N at hotel in Hanoi
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Welcome dinner
– Tour guide
– Hotel in Hanoi
Day 2 : Hanoi Full Day City Tour (B, L)
Hanoi Water Puppet Show
Today we enjoy our city tour in Hanoi for visiting Ho Chi Minh Complex, where we will spend a couple of hour to visit: Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum, his former stilt-house residence, the Presidential Palace, the Ho Chi Minh museum and one pillar pagoda. Keep going to see the Temple of Literature: Originally built as a temple to Confucius, this is the site of Vietnam’s first university dating back to 1070. The temple highlights the importance that Vietnamese society placed then and now on education. Then we visit Hoa Lo Prison.
Lunch will be at a fine local restaurant in Hanoi.
In the afternoon, we will visit one of the most interesting museums in Vietnam; Museum of Ethnology, which is widely acknowledged as the best in the country and has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam’s 54 Ethnic minority peoples. Following by that we will wander around the city by car to see the real life of Hanoian as well as the difference parts the city.
we will have chance enjoy the unique Water Puppet show. Hear the Vietnamese traditional instruments and singing from the live musicians who play throughout the show. The trip will be finished after the show at the hotel.
Stay overnight at hotel in Hanoi
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– English speaking tour guide
– Meal : Breakfast, lunch
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Hanoi
Day 3 : Hanoi – Fly to Dien Bien - Tour (B)
Red Dao People - Dien Bien Phu
You will be picked up and transferred to the airport for flight to Dien Bien Phu. Upon arrival pick up and transfer to your hotel.
This afternoon you will visit Dien Bien cemetery and the museum, explore the local market. Overnight in Dien Bien
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Domestic air ticket: Hanoi – Dien Bien (Vietnam Airline)
– English speaking tour guide
– Meal : Breakfast
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Saigon
Day 4 : Dien Bien Tour (B)
Dien Bien market
You spend the day around Dien Bien Phu visiting the former battlefields . It was here that the French planned to lure the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, into the valley by sending 16,000 French troops as bait. The French however did not count on the brilliant leadership of General Vo Nguyen Giap who somehow managed to place the Vietnamese artillery on the surrounding ridges. From March until May 1954 the Viet Minh pounded the French positions until the French capitulated with the loss of 3,000 men. It’s estimated that the Viet Minh lost more than twice that number. Later you visit the head quarter of General Giap during the Dien Bien Phu campaign. We will have the chance to meet several of the different ethnic minority tribes here, when we visit the villages of both the Thai and H’mong people. Overnight in Dien Bien Phu.
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– English speaking tour guide
– Meal : Breakfast
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Saigon
Day 5 : Dien Bien – Fly back Hanoi (B)
Dien Bien Overview
You have a morning at leisure and then you take a transfer to the airport for flight back to Hanoi where you will be picked up and dropped off at your hotel.
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Domestic air ticket: Hanoi – Dien Bien (Vietnam Airline)
– Meal : Breakfast
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Hanoi
Day 6 : Hanoi – Halong Bay – Cruise & Overnight onCruise (B, L, D)
Swimming in Halong Bay
we will be met at the lobby of hotel and transferred to Halong Bay. It takes us 3,5 hours on the way and we will have a short break at Sao Do town in Hai Duong city, where you can relax, take some teas, walk around or go to the toilet. After 15 minutes or more we will keep on driving to Halong Bay. Arriving at Hong Gai Wharf at around midday, we move to the Bhaya junk. Enjoying welcome cocktail before we check in en-suite cabin. Our trip starts after that, it’s time to enjoy the magnificent scenery of Halong Bay.
At 12:30 a traditional Vietnamese buffet lunch is served. Enjoy our lunch and relax until we catch Surprise Cave. Our tender will transfer you to the cave and you will have one hour to explore one of the most beautiful and biggest caves on the Bay. Back to the junk our time is visiting fishing village. You can enjoy swimming or kayaking at Hang Doi (Bat cave) or enjoy sunbathing onboard with cool drinks; or relax over on board beauty spa services and massage.
In the evening, a luxury Vietnamese dinner buffet and light entertainment will be served at the dinning bar. Many more activities in the evening like watching movies, playing games with fellow passengers or enjoying night-fishing and chatting with friendly crews; or relax at open bar and music, enjoy happy hour with “buy one, get one free”.
Overnight on Bhaya deluxe junk
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Breakfast, lunch, dinner
– Tour guide
– Entrance fees
– Cruise & Accommodation on Cruise in Halong Bay (A/C private cabin on cruise)
Day 7 : Halong Bay - Hanoi (B, L)
Halong Bay Kayaking
Getting up early this morning to practice Tai Chi on Sun Deck, early birds enjoy the sunrise. We can do more morning exercise by swimming on the Bay or relax or come to dining bar for International breakfast buffet at around 07:00. The Cruise will continue on taking us around the Bay this morning. The last route on the Bay will be Bai Tu Long Bay and our cruise will stop at the Hong Gai Wharf at around 10:30AM. We will transfer to our awaiting vehicle and drive back to Hanoi. Trip concludes in Hanoi.
Stay overnight at in Hanoi
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Breakfast, lunch
– Tour guide
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Hanoi
Day 8 : Hanoi – Fly to Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon (B)
Notre Dame Cathedral - Saigon
You will be picked up and transferred to the airport for flight to Saigon. Upon arrival pick up and transfer to your hotel. The rest time for you relaxing.
Stay overnight at hotel in Saigon
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Breakfast
– Domestic air ticket : Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon (Vietnam Airline)
– Hotel in Saigon
Day 9 : Saigon Full Day City Tour (B, L)
Ben Thanh biggest market in Ho Chi Minh City
our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel for the Reunification Palace, the former Presidential Palace for the president of the South of Vietnam. After that we will visit War Remnant Museum, where you can see countless artifacts, photographs and pictures documenting about the second Indochina war. Before our lunch we stop at Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post office to get our good shots for our memory of the biggest city in Vietnam.
Our delicious lunch will be served at a “Pho 2000” restaurant in the central city.
In the afternoon we will visit: Ben Thanh market, Cho Lon, Chinese town and market. Here you can experience our Vietnamese Southern daily life. We will be back our hotel after visiting Giac Lam pagoda, one of the oldest and finest pagoda in Ho Chi Minh city. It is really relaxation here. Trip end at your hotel
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Breakfast, lunch
– Tour guide
– Entrance fees
– Hotel in Saigon
Day 10 : Saigon – Fly to Phu Quoc (B)
Phu Quoc Island - Kien Giang
You will be picked up and transferred to the airport for flight to Phu Quoc. Upon arrival pick up and transfer to your hotel. The rest time for you relaxing on the beach.
Stay overnight at hotel in Phu Quoc
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Domestic air ticket : Saigon – Phu Quoc (Vietnam Airline)
– Meal : Breakfast
– Hotel in Phu Quoc
Day 11 : Phu Quoc Relaxing (B)
Relaxing at resort in Phu Quoc Island
Free time at your leisure
Stay overnight at hotel in Phu Quoc
Include:
– Meal : Breakfast
– Hotel in Phu Quoc
Day 12 : Phu Quoc Relaxing (B)
Fishing on Phu Quoc Island
Free time at your leisure
Stay overnight at hotel in Phu Quoc
Include:
– Meal : Breakfast
– Hotel in Phu Quoc
Day 13 : Phu Quoc Relaxing (B)
Special food
Free time at your leisure
Stay overnight at hotel in Phu Quoc
Include:
– Meal : Breakfast
– Hotel in Phu Quoc
Day 14 : Phu Quoc – Fly back Saigon (B)
Phu Quoc airport
You will be picked up and transferred to the airport for flight back Saigon. Upon arrival pick up and transfer to your hotel. The rest time for you relaxing at Saigon city.
Stay overnight at hotel in Saigon
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Domestic air ticket : Phu Quoc – Saigon (Vietnam Airline)
– Meal : Breakfast
– Hotel in Saigon
Day 15 : Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon - Departure (B)
Saigon special food
Free time until our driver picks up and transfers you to the airport to catch our flight back home.
Include:
– Private transportation by car with air conditioner & experienced driver
– Meal : Breakfast