Amazing Vietnam 10 Days

Arrival Flight: Guest’s own tickets

A warm greeting awaits at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International airport; your private guide and driver will meet you OUTSIDE the arrivals lounge and transfer you (approximate 45 minutes) to your hotel in downtown Hanoi.

Please look for your tour guide who holds up your names on a welcome signboard.

While every effort is made to have your room available upon arrival, check-in time is at 02:00 pm; your room may or may not be ready before this time. Your tour guide will provide additional details regarding your stay, and you will be able to ask any questions you may have.

Check-in your hotel for some rest before starting the evening local food discovery.

We start our walking tour at Hanoi’s largest covered market, Dong Xuan. Along the perimeter of the market, dozens of street hawkers sell a staggering variety of produce from live seafood to exotic fruits and spices. Your expert English-speaking local guide will give you an insight into the intricacies and traditions of Vietnamese food culture including details on ingredients and historical backgrounds of popular northern dishes. Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our tastebuds with the famed Hanoi dish Banh Cuon at a local eatery. Watch in awe as the skilled chefs demonstrate for you how this tasty dish is put together. Continuing into the atmospheric heart of the Old Quarter, we wander past street stalls and quiet residential lanes where you can observe local life that has changed little since Hanoi was founded over 1000 years ago. Our next stop is Banh My 25 shop “French Baguette”, a little food stall with a few typical tiny Vietnamese chairs on the sidewalk where we enjoy the delicious and fresh baguettes while observing the neighbourhood. Continue to other food stalls in Hang Bo and Ho Hoan Kiem Street where we try some dishes such Che “Vietnamese style pudding” and Nom “papaya salad with beef”. It’s then time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced – this speciality is one not to be missed!

Notes:

• Just want to take a moment to note that all transfers and tours include a licensed guide and licensed driver in a private vehicle.
• Additionally, when you arrive in Vietnam, you'll be supplied with an activated pre-paid sim card which has key contacts programmed of English speaking company representatives and tour guide phone numbers. This way, if you ever find yourself needing it, you can contact someone quickly who can assist with anything you need. Most clients leave it off the entire time, but it's nice to have just in case anything happens and you need to reach us.

Included for the day:

• Transport: Private vehicle and driver
• Tour guide: English speaking tour guide
• Meals: Hanoi street food tour
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi city

After collection from the Hanoi hotel, enjoy a scenic drive to an area of natural beauty, often referred to as ‘Ha Long Bay on land’. First stop at Hoa Lu, you will have quick visit two temples built in honour of the emperors Dinh and Le. Keep going to the Mua cave. From on the top, you can see all the way to Tam Coc, enjoy a stunning panoramic view of the countryside and the Ngo Dong river. After lunch, you get a small boat. The ferryman will take you to visit the scenic landscape of the majestic mountains, the fields in the triangle cups when the sampan goes along the Ngo Dong river. Cycle for half an hour on quiet roads through villages, rice fields, rivers and rocky outcrops inside the village.

Included for the day:

• Transport: Private vehicle and driver
• Tour guide: English speaking tour guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi city

Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Vietnam’s most spectacular natural attractions. The 3 and half hour drive passes by rice fields, buffaloes and rural villages Boarding on the boat, we cruise through the thousand amazing islands and islets on beautiful emerald green waters. Many interesting activities such as kayaking, swimming, climbing Titop island are waiting... Do not forget to enjoy the sunset with a cocktail.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach)
• Tour guide: English speaking tour guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Overnight on the boat

Get up early to do a Tai Chi exercise on the bay and then enjoy breakfast on the boat. Continue cruising through many island and islet to explore the hidden charm of the bay. Have lunch on the boat before checking out and get on the bus to come back to Hanoi city.

After that, a quick transfer to the airport for a flight to central Vietnam. Picked up at Da Nang airport, transfer to hotel in Da Nang.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach) and private airport taxi
• Tour guide: English speaking tour guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Da Nang

The driver picks you up at your hotel and transfers to Ba Na Hill. You will admire the high by the most modem cable car system in Southeast Asia. You will visit the Dream Stream Cable car Station. After finishing the first cable car, you will visit France wine cellar, exploring the golden bridge (Winding its way around a 150-meter course lined with flowers, a golden bridge shimmers against the Ba Na Hills, supported by a pair of giant hands.). You will see the panorama of Danang City. Have lunch and rest at the restaurant. After 1 day explores here, the driver takes you to Hoi An.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach)
• Tour guide:
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Let’s have a close-up and intimate exposure to both the local farming and fishing communities. Accompanied by your tour guide, you commence the day leisurely cycling along country roads witnessing local Vietnamese rural life first hand, discovering all manner of photo opportunities - coming and visiting a beautiful organic vegetable village, watering and planting vegetable, hoeing a soil with local farmer, riding a water buffalo in a rice paddy field; seeing ducks swimming along the rice farm or farmers tending their crops. The photo opportunities are endless. As well you will experience the friendliness of the local people greeting you along the way. Later you will board our Jack Tran's boat for a river cruise to meet and engage with local fishermen and enjoy a hands-on experience of traditional net fishing. You will also experience paddling the unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boat while the waterways of coconut palm paradise. This tour provides you with a cultural window into the ways of life of both our farming and fishing communities.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach)
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Have breakfast at your hotel. After check-out, transfer to Da Nang airport for the flight to Ho Chi Minh.

Included for the day:

• Transport:
• Tour guide:
• Meals: Breakfast
• Entrance Fees:
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

This day's bus will take you to the famous attractions in Ho Chi Minh city. Provides you with an overview of the past, present and the architecture of Vietnam's most vibrant cities through attractions such as French colonial heritage buildings, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Central Post Office Reunification Palace… However, the highlight of this trip is at the end of the tour with a visit to Cu Chi tunnels. A legendary place in the Vietnam war. You really can not believe that people can live like this in the damp cellar and this little road. Take beautiful photos before returning to ho Chi Minh city.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach)
• Tour guide: English Speaking Guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

The day will begin with a two-hour ride from Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta. You will: take a boat cruise to one of the highlights of the Mekong-Cai Be Floating Market; stopover at a local house to watch how locals make coconut candy, rice-paper, rice-popcorn and rice wine; spend time amidst local farmers, enjoying traditional music and tropical fruits. Have lunch at the local restaurant. The day will begin with an hour and a half ride from Ho Chi Minh City to the My Tho. Enjoy the scenery and green rice paddies. Once we arrive at My Tho, we will visit the iconic Vinh Trang Pagoda, the biggest pagoda in the Mekong delta. Then, we will take a nice boat ride along the river, where you will witness the aromatic fruit plantations, the picturesque stilt houses and the traditional fishing villages along the river bank. The boat takes you to a small canal, escaping the hustle and bustle of the town. We disembark at a coconut island in Ben Tre and enjoy a walk around the village. Enjoy lunch at the local restaurant, then visit the coconut candy mill and take an amazing rowing boat trip along the small canal 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. And finally, a local boat will take you back to My Tho, then the bus will drive you back to Ho Chi Minh city.

Included for the day:

• Transport: SIC (seat in coach)
• Tour guide: English Speaking Guide
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

This morning is free at leisure in Ho Chi Minh City and does some last-minute shopping before flying back home or on to your next destination.

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Included for the day:

• Transport: Private airport taxi
• Tour guide:
• Meals: Breakfast
• Entrance Fees:
• Accommodation: