18 Days Vietnam - Land of Magnificent Cultural Heritage

Arrive to Tan Son Nhat airport. Warm welcome and transfer to your hotel. Welcome dinner with warm atmosphere.

Meals: Welcome Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh 

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08:00 AM: Take the morning trip to 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, the historic Central Post Office.

Followed by the remarkable site of the War Remnants Museum the museum has a vast display of both the Indochina wars.

12:00 PM: Have lunch at the local restaurant.

Then continue to Cu Chi Tunnel:

• You’ll have a chance to watch the documentary and see self-made weapon, bamboo traps,...and see how guerrillas dug , lived and fought inside the tunnels as well as learning how the strength of will against sophisticated weapon.

• You can crawl in the tunnels if you wish.

• Know how the locals make rice paper, rice wine.

• Try to fire AK-47. ( 600.000 VND / Bullets ) and the steamed cassava

• 18:00: Leave Cu Chi, return HCM center

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

Depart for Cai Be, stop for photos at Tan An town over the flat rice fields. Arrive to Cai Be, start the motorized boat to visit the Cai Be floating market, experience how people exchanging goods, fruit and many other commodities on their vessels. Visitors then roam into the small villages to visit the orchard, fruit plantation. Keep cruising to Vinh Long through small canals to enjoy the charm of the Upper Mekong Delta. Visit some hand-made family business products such as the coconut candy mill, the crispy rice popcorn. Arrive in Binh Hoa Phuoc village the green pearl of Vinh Long town where you can indulge yourself into the nature. Enjoy the southern Vietnamese traditional folk music. Take a nice walk through the bonsai garden. Return to HCMC. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh 

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Free at leisure and explore Ho Chi Minh by yourself, spend time for visit local market, local life and enjoy the night market.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh 

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After breakfast, we take the flight to Dalat. Arrival Dalat, free at leisure in the late afternoon. 

Meals: Breakfast.

Accommodation: Hotel in Dalat

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Have Breakfast at Hotel - 8:30-8:45: Pick you up at your hotel and visit Bao Dai Palace, Truc Lam Zen Monastery a large pagoda built in 1993 with a area of 24 hectares.

Datanla waterfall is a beautiful natural waterfall. You can use the longest new (self –sufficient) roller coaster in Southeast Asia.

Noon: You return to the city to have lunch at the restaurant 

Afternoon: You will visit the Love Valley - visit Wax museum and tour the lookout hill, Venus flower garden & Dream Hill complex with its poetic scenery and blend in with th local people

16:30: Driver drdop off you back your hotel. Tour Finish

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Dalat

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In the morning depart for Nha Trang by Limousine Shuttle bus. Arrival Nha Trang - Free at leisure on the beach in the afternoon. 

Meals: Breakfast.

Accommodation: Hotel in Nha Trang

From 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM, we will pick you up from your hotel and transport you to the harbor. From there, a vessel will take you on a tour of four islands in Nha Trang Bay.

­Between 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM, you will visit Mun Island. This island is home to the first marine conservation area in Vietnam, protecting 350 species of coral and marine creatures. When diving, you will be amazed by the colorful coral reefs, beautiful fish, and other sea creatures. You can also opt for a glass-bottom boat tour to see the coral from above.

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From 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, it will be time for a delicious lunch on the boat. You will be treated to a variety of tasty dishes, including fried shrimp, fried fish with tomato sauce, spring rolls, cabbage soup with shrimp and meat, lagim fried noodles, water spinach sautéed with garlic, fried chopped egg, steamed rice, and seasonal fruits for dessert.

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Between 12:30 PM and 2:00 PM, you will visit Mot Island. After lunch, you can enjoy a music program called "Dance Of Sea" performed by our band, providing a relaxing and leisurely atmosphere. You will also have the opportunity to join the Floating Bar Party on Mot Island, where you can savor cocktails, fruits, and music in harmony with the gentle sound of the waves on the romantic blue sea.

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From 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM, you will visit Tranh Beach. Here, you can rest and relax on the beautiful beach or take part in water sports such as banana float, water motorbike, and parachute (additional costs may apply). Afterward, you can enjoy some seasonal fruits on the vessel.

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Between 3:45 PM and 4:45 PM, you will visit Mieu Island and the Tri Nguyen Aquarium. The vessel will dock at Mieu Island, where you can explore the mysterious Tri Nguyen Aquarium designed to resemble a stranded pirate ship on a reef. Inside the ship, you will find various unique species of coral and marine life. Outside the ship, there is the Lo Thien Aquarium where you can purchase food to attract turtles and fish.

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At 4:45 PM, the vessel will take you back to Cau Da port, and the bus will drive you back to your hotel, free at leisure till transfer to the train station to Danang.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: On the nigh train

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Arrival Danang station in the morning, pick up and transfer to Hoi An Ancient Town. Relax at hotel till the afternoon walking through the narrow winding streets of the Ancient Quarter visiting Chua Ong Pagoda, Chinese Assembly Halls, the 200 - year old Tam Ky ancestral house, and the Japanese Bridge.

Have dinner in Hoi An.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoian

From the 16th to 18th centuries, Hoian was a thriving international commercial port for Chinese, Dutch, French, Japanese, and Portuguese and Arab traders. These people came primarily to trade in the high grade silk, which is still produced in the area, as well as ceramics. Today, Hoian is a quaint riverside town, popular with tourists for its eclectic architecture, tailors shops, and numerous cafes. Some of the buildings in the narrow streets have remained unchanged for more than a century.

In the morning we visit Ruins at My Son Holy Land, former capital of the ancient Cham civilization that ruled Central Vietnam from the second to the thirteenth century. Their religion was primarily derived from Indian Hinduism. My Son is considered to be one of the best-preserved Cham structures in Vietnam. The complex is comprised of seventy Hindu-like towers and temples dating from the second century. This site is a must-see for those people who are interested in architecture and ancient civilizations and is now one of five UNESCO World Heritage sites in Vietnam.

- Come back to Hoi An by boat. Have light lunch at the boat /restaurant

Meals: Breakfast, Light Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoian

7h30 - 8h00 am, the tour guide will meet you at your hotel and start the tour.

Morning, you will visit Bay Mau coconut forest (water coconut tree) grove where you will disembark and discover the daily life of the people there. Visit coconut forest by Basket boat and play some games there. Learn about the way to make some products from coconut trees, and learn to cook some traditional food in Hoi An.

12h00: Have lunch at the restaurant and return to Hoian

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoian

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After breakfast, free at leisure till transfer to Danang airport for boarding to Hanoi. Upon Noi Bai airport and transfer to hotel in the center. Free at leisure in the Old Quarter

Meals: Breakfast.

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

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Our guide will pick you up between 08h00 and 08h30

08h30: Arrive Tran Quoc Pagoda –  the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.

09h30: 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

11h00: Visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in Vietnam.

- Special Note : we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays

12h45: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine with 8 delicious dishes.

14h00 – 14h15: Continue visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century 

15h15: 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. 

16h15 -16h30: Highlight will be a Water Puppet Performance – the unique form of Vietnamese art derived from wet rice civilization of South East Asia and transfer to your hotel.

Have dinners on your account. Driver comes to see you and transfer to train station for departure to Sapa with the night train 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: On the night Train

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Arrive to Lao Cai station at 5:00 in the morning. Pick you up at Lao Cai Station then transfer to Sapa. Have breakfast and shower in hotel before the trip starts. Trek down to Lao Chai village to visit the Tay and Day tribes. Have a picnic lunch on the way then keep going along the bottom of the Sapa valley to get to Ta Van village, which is supposed to be the most beautiful one in the area. Return to Sapa. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

We start the trip after breakfast, heading up to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zdao tribe where you will have lunch. After lunch you check out and leave your luggage in the hotel then get yourself ready before heading down to Cat Cat and Sin Chai villages of Black H'Mong tribe. Enjoy the waterfall in Cat Cat and beautiful scenery along the way. Return Town and take a Limousine to Hanoi. It takes 6 hours and arrive Hanoi in the evening.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

After breakfast, our driver comes to take you to Halong. It takes 2.5 hours and we can stop on the way for refresh. Arrive to Ha Long Bay at noon 12.00. Check in cruise and welcome drink. Lunch was prepared on boat, we visit Caves, Islands, Beach, have dinner on cruise, enjoy sunset, drink and over night on the cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: On Cruise

Have breakfast, kayaking to explore beach, caves, Islets, mountain. Return and have lunch on cruise. Return to Ha Long wharf. Arrival Hanoi around 3pm, free at leisure.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

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Free at leisure for shopping until transfer to NoiBai airport for departure. HOME SWEET HOME!!!

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: N/A

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