Summary of Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (No meal on the first day)
On arrival, at Noi Bai International Airport, you will be welcomed by our driver who will take you to your hotel in Hanoi City Center to check-in.
Be relaxed and self-explore Hanoi city. Hanoi is over 1000 years old and is currently the capital of Vietnam, as well as the commercial, political, and cultural heart of the country.
Overnight at hotel (Meal: No)
Hotel: La Storia Ruby hotel or similar
Day 2: Hanoi – Halong Bay (Meal: B- L – D)
In the morning, be picked up from the hotel and transferred to Halong Bay.
Take a boat trip to explore one of the world’s great natural wonders, cruising the thousands of limestone islands filled with caves of all shapes and sizes. The sails of junks and sampans gliding along the clear and emerald waters of the bay form a magnificent picturesque scene that blends with the sky.
In the afternoon, you also get a chance to visit Sung Sot cave, swim and relax on Titop island, and enjoy Sunset Party on the sundeck.
After dinner, socialize with other guests, take part in board games, fish for squid, or just laze around.
Cruise: ACLASS LEGEND (3*)V’SPIRIT (3*)MAJESTIC (3*)CARINA (3*) or similar
Day 3: Halong Bay – Back Hanoi (Meal: B- L)
Do TaiChi in the early morning and enjoy the peaceful morning of Halong Bay. Kayak around Drum cave; visiting Ba Hang fishing village, Dog Islet, and more.
While heading back to the harbor, watch the fruit carving demonstration and participate in the Cooking Class before enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch. Disembark from the junk at noon and transfer to Hanoi.
Return to the hotel around 16.00 pm. Recheck in at the hotel.
Hotel: La Storia Ruby hotel or similar
Day 4: Hanoi – Sapa – Cat Cat village (Meal: B- L – D)
At 7.00 am, be picked up at the hotel and transferred by bus to Sapa. Arriving at Sapa around lunchtime, you’ll check in to your hotel.
In the afternoon, visit Cat Cat village (light trekking required), where you may wish to try the local apple wine or purchase a hand-woven blanket, and Sapa town.
Free and easy in the evening time.
Hotel: Sapa Vista hotel or similar
Day 5: Lao Chai village– Ta Van village – Giang Ta Chai village – Back Hanoi (Meal: B- L)
After breakfast, start a 5-hour trek to visit Lao Chai – Ta Van and Giang Ta Chai village, explore the local ethnic minorities life, admire the spectacular natural scenery with the terraced rice fields. Visit Sapa’s ancient rock formations with engraved images big and small, the unique patterns of the ancients, as well as admire the picturesque bridge to the clouds clear over the Muong Hoa stream.
Lunch at the restaurant in the middle of the village
Return to hotel in Sapa around 14.00pm.
15.00 Goodbye Sapa. You will be picked up at the hotel and taken on a bus journey to Hanoi.
Arrive at Hanoi around 21.30 pm, check in at the hotel again.
Hotel: La Storia Ruby hotel or similar
Day 6: Hanoi – flight to Da Nang – Hoi An ancient town (Meal: B)
After breakfast at the hotel, the rest of the day is spent at your leisure until our driver comes and transfers you to the airport.
Take a 1- hour- flight to Danang. Be picked up at the airport and transferred to Hoian by private car.
Arrive at Hoi An and check in. The rest of the day is spent at your leisure, discovering the beauty of Hoi An.
Overnight at hotel in Hoian (Meals: B)
Hotel: Venus Hoian hotel or similar
Day 7: Hoi An – My Son Holly land (Meal: B – L)
Have breakfast at the hotel, after that be picked up for My Son Half day tour.
Arriving in My Son – the Holly land surrounded by the marvelous mountains, 48km west of Hoi An. My Son was chosen as a religious center, built in the late 4th century under the Cham’s King Bhadravaman. It is a huge religious complex with over 70 towers and temples of different architectures.
Wander through the elaborate carvings and sculptures of the Cham people, tourists are welcomed at the Old Tower of the Cham. Spend 2 hours enjoying and discovering the beauty of Ancient buildings at the Champa Kingdom with our tour guide.
12.00: Leaving My Son for Cau Lau boat station and taking a boat trip on Thu Bon river.
You could visit the living of the local people and feel the fresh air. You will have soft lunch (My Quang traditional noodle), then get a boat trip to visit Thu Bon river, stopping for visiting at Kim Bong Carpentry Village – The traditional work village.
14:30: The boat trip will finish at the Boat station then return to the hotel.
Hotel: Venus Hoian hotel or similar
Day 8: Hoi An Free and Easy (Meal: B)
Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.
Spend the entire day at your leisure.
Hotel: Venus Hoian hotel or similar
Day 9: Da Nang – Flight to HCMC (Meal: B)
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel, free time until our driver transfers you to Da Nang airport to take a flight to Ho Chi Minh city.
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh and check-in hotel. The rest of the day is spent at your leisure, discovering the most active city in Vietnam.
Hotel: Prague hotel or similar
Day 10:Mekong Delta – My Tho- Ben Tre (Meal: B- L)
07:30 – 7.50 am: Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and then start the tour. Enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields.
On arriving at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses, fruit plantations, and fishing villages along the river bank.
Proceed to the Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shadow of the water coconut trees along natural canals, then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music”, performed by locals.
Visit a family business that epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste the delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantation and village.
Meet the bus and return to HCMC.
Hotel: Prague hotel or similar
Day 11: Ho Chi Minh Free and Easy (Meal: B)
Spend your free time shopping and sightseeing.
Optional: join Cu Chi tunnel, Ho Chi Minh city tour… (on request)
Day 12: Saigon – Phnom Penh (Meal: B)
At 8.00 am, be picked up and transferred to the bus station. A 6-hour coach journey to Phnom Penh. Stop at the border for the visa process and continue going to Phnom Penh. Check-in hotel then free and easy at your leisure.
Hotel: King Grand Boutique Hotel or similar
Day 13: Phnom Penh – Killing Fields ChoeungEk – Russian Market (Meal: B- L)
At 8-8.30am Visit the Tuol Sleng Prison Museum and the notorious ‘Killing Fields’ of ChoeungEk, which will give us a deep insight into the painful bloody rule of the Khmer Rouge.
Lunch at a local restaurant. We will have time this afternoon to explore PsarToul Tom Pong, also called the “Russian Market”, where anything and everything is for sale. Later this afternoon, we will take a one-hour boat cruise on the Mekong river.
Hotel: King Grand Boutique Hotel or similar
Day 14: Phnom Penh – Siem Reap (Meal: B)
At 8.00 am, be picked up and transferred to the bus station. A 6-hour coach journey to Siem Reap. Check-in hotel then free and easy at your leisure.
Hotel: G&Z Gliss D’Angkor hotel or similar
Day 15: Siem Reap – Angkor Thom – Angkor Wat Temple (Meal: B- L)
At 8-8.30am After breakfast, proceed to Angkor Thom Area (Angkor Thom Temple South Gate, Bayon Temple, Baphuon Temple, Phimean Akas Temple, Elephants Terrace & Leper King Terrace, Royal Palace, Woman and Man Pond) Proceed to visit Ta-Prom Temple.
After lunch, continue your journey to Angkor Wat Temple – one of the seven greatest architectural wonders of the world, built in between the 9th – 13th centuries.
16.30pm: Return to hotel.
Hotel: G&Z Gliss D’Angkor hotel or similar
Day 16: Siem Reap – Departure
Have breakfast at the hotel then free and easy. Enjoy the last day in Siem Reap then be picked up at the hotel and transferred to the airport. Goodbye Cambodia. Trip ends.
