Highlight
Day 1: HCMC arrival – airport pick up – check in hotel (Meal: B, )
Day 2: Mekong delta tour : Cai Be floating market (Meal: B, L, )
Day 3: Cu Chi Tunnel tour (Meal: B, L, )
Day 4: bus to Phnom Penh (Meal: B, )
Day 5: Killing field, Russian market tour (Meal: B, L, ) - Private tour
Day 6: Flight to Siem reap (Meal: B, )
Day 7: Angkor Temple tour (Meal: B, L, )
Day 8: Ton le sap lake tour (Meal: B, L, ) - Private tour
Day 9: Flight to Da Nang - Hoi An (Meal: B, )
Day 10: My son Sanctuary tour (Meal: B, L, )
Day 11: Hoi an Free day (Meal: B, )
Day 12: Flight to Hanoi (Meal: B)
Day 13: Hanoi Halong bay overnight on junk (Meal: B, L, D)
Day 14: Halong bay - Hanoi (Meal: B, L, )
Day 15: Hanoi - Flight to Luang Prabang (Meal: B, )
Day 16: Luang Prabang – City tour (meal: B, L)
Day 17: Luang Prabang – Elephant village – Kuang Si Falls (Meal: B, L,)
Day 18: Luang Prabang – Cruise on Mekong - Pak Ou caves (Meal: B, L, )
Day 19: Luang Prabang – Departure (Meal: B, )
Day 1: HCMC arrival- Pick up- check in Hotel in HCMC (Meal: No )
Pickup from the Tan Son Nhat airport and transfer the hotel. stay overnight at the most touristic area of Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2: HCMC - Mekong delta - Cai Be Floating Market - Vinh Long tour (Meal: B, L )
8:00 Picking up from hotel/stay.
08:15 Starting drive to Cai Be. Short time to take photos at Tan An town over the flat rice fields.
10:30 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 handmade 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.
Have lunch with fresh river food served in the heart of the garden. Enjoy the southern Vietnamese traditional folk music. Take a nice walk through the bonsai garden, in Vinh Long. Head home to Ho Chi Minh City.
18:30 Arrive in your hotel.
Day 3: HCMC - Cu Chi tunnel tour (Meal: B)
08:30 Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and then start drive to Cu Chi which located 60km from HCM city, Cu Chi is now considered a heroic district for its role in the anti-American war in Vietnam. It is legendary for Original tunnels system of over 220km and is a popular spot for both Vietnamese and foreign visitors.
The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery contains ducks and water buffalos swimming in the rivers alongside the road. Visitors will find it hard to imagine the destructions, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines, When Cu Chi was" A Free Target Zone ". The remnants visitors will see show Cu Chi still has her evidence to prove the fierce battleground that took place there and visitors will see the remnants.
12:00 Back to Ho Chi Minh City
13:30 Arrive in your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 4: HCMC – Bus to Phnom Penh –Cambodia – Check in hotel (Meal: B )
Bus start at 7.00 am and drive to Moc Bai border gate to enter Cambodia (bus time 6 – 7 hours). You will get visa on arrival with the help of bus crew (on request) for you to pass Cambodia. Bus station pick up and check in hotel in Phnom Penh - King Grand Boutique Hotel.
Day 5: Phnom Penh - Killing Fields Choeung Ek - Russian Market (meal: B, L)
Visit the Tuol Sleng Prison Museum and the notorious 'Killing Fields' of Choeung Ek, which will give us a deep insight into the painful bloody rule of the Khmer Rouge. Lunch at local restaurant. We will have time this afternoon to explore Psar Toul Tom Pong, also called the “Russian Market", where anything and everything is for sales. Later this afternoon, we will take one hour boat cruise on the Mekong river. Overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh.
Day 6: Phnom Penh–Flight to Seam Reap – Check in hotel (Meal: B )
Airport transfer by car to take a short flight to Siem Reap. Airport pick up and check in hotel in Siem Reap - Motherhome Inn Hotel or Prum Bayon Hotel.
Day 7: Siem Reap - Angkor Thom - Angkor Wat Temple (Meal : B/L)
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 century, Before you end the tour, make a visit to Bakheng Hill for its beautiful sunset.
Overnight at Motherhome Inn Hotel or Prum Bayon Hotel
Day 8: Siem Reap- Tonle Sap Boat Trip- Angkor Silk Farm (Meal : B/L)
After breakfast, proceed to the Tonle Sap Boat Trip (Floating Village) and Les Artisan D' Angkor (Art School), a full-service crafts organization with an ambitious program which includes Les Chantiers Ecoles, an educational centre that trains rural young people in the traditional skills of stone carving, woodcarving, lacquer and silk weaving, After lunch, proceed to Angkor Silk Farm, Enjoy a traditional Khmer massage for 1 hour and proceed for a tour to the local market.
Overnight at Motherhome Inn Hotel or Prum Bayon Hotel
Day 9: Flight to Da Nang - Check in hotel in Hoi An town (Meal: B)
Free time till airport transfer for a flight to Da Nang (Vietnam).
We will pick up and transfer to Hoi An Ancient town. Check in hotel in the ancient town and relaxing.
Day 10 Hoi An - My Son tour (Meal: B,L)
08:00 Our guide will come to meet you at your hotel and then drive to My Son, a World Heritage, 40 km southwest of Hoi An. Located in a lush valley, My Son was a capital and religious center of Cham people, now remaining with red brick towers and sanctuaries. My Son, considered to be in the same league as some of Southeast Asia's greatest archaeological sites, including Angkor in Cambodia, Bagan in Myanmar, Ayutthaya in Thailand and Borobudur in Indonesia. These towers and sanctuaries was built from the 7 to 13 centuries. Have lunch in the local restaurant. Finish tour at your hotel.
Day 11: Hoi An Free and Easy (Meal: B )
This day you are free to visit Hoi An town with a tea on the old house or discover the daily life of the farmers (on the vegatable farm or fishing village along the River….) around the area. If you do not want, you can move to the beach for totally relaxing.
Day 12: Flight to Hanoi- airport pick up - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: B)
Fly from Da nang Airport to Noi Bai Airport (Hanoi).
Pick up the airport and then transfer you to the hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter – the most exciting place for tourist. After that you are free to visit Hanoi City by yourself.
Note: Check in time is 13:00 P.M.
Our people will greet and brief all informationa round the trip.
Day 13 Hanoi - Halong Bay - Majestic Cruise (Meal: B, L, D )
07:30 – 08:30 Our tour guide and bus pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi old quarter.
08:30 Departure to Halong Bay for 3.5 Hours.
10:00 Arrive in Hai Duong province, and have 20 minute short break.
12:00 Arrive Tuan Chau harbor, Halong Bay.
12:15 Welcome to Majestic Cruise and enjoy Welcome drink, Enjoy welcome drink get a brief introduction about cruise and safety guidelines. Check-in your cabin.
12:30 Have Vietnamese seafood and vegetarian lunch, while cruising in the magnificent Halong Bay, admiring the fascinating rock formations in the bay.
14:30 arrival in Pearl Farm, kayaking through the village
15:30 Continued exploration the bay.
16:00 Visiting Titop Island
17.30 Back Majestic Halong cruise and relax.
18:00 Join cooking class guided directly by Chef of Majestic Halong Cruise. You have chance to practice Vietnamese traditional dishes such as spring roll or famous cuisine of Vietnam.
19:30 Time for dinner enjoying special BBQ seafood on the cruise.
21:00: Evening entertainments: play game on the cruise: cards game, chess, karaoke,squid fishing, and overnight on Cruise.
Day 14 Halong Bay - Hanoi - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: B, L )
06:30 Early morning sun risers can enjoy Tai Chi lesson on sundeck.
07:00 Morning view of bay’s landscape with a cup of tea or coffee. Have breakfast.
08:00 Arrive Sung Sot Cave (Amazing Cave) and joining with guide to visiting and explore the cave.
10:00 Check-out and enjoy a fantastic cruise on the bay.
11:00 Enjoy the lunch on cruise.
12:00 Majestic Cruise are landing Halong Bay harbor, tourist say goodbye to sailors and finish the cruise.
12:30 Return to Hanoi by shuttle bus.
14:30 Stopover in Hai Duong province to visit a ceramics workshop.
16:00 – 16:30 Arrive in Hanoi end your trip.
Day 15: Hanoi - Flight to Luang Prabang (Laos) – check in hotel in Luang Prabang (Meal: B, )
Arrive in Luang Prabang, you will be warmly welcomed by our driver and then get transferred without guide to hotel for checking in.
Overnight at hotel in Luang Prabang.
Day 16: Luang Prabang – City tour (meal: B, L)
An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning alms giving ritual to saffron clad monks. This tradition is unique to Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving this procession. Enjoy your UNESCO morning walk to understand insight of this charming then back to hotel for breakfast.
This morning, visit Wat Visoun, the site of impressive Thad Makmo stupa. The rounded dome is stylistically more Sinhalese than Lao. Continue to visit Wat Aham.
Visit Wat Xieng Thong further emphasizes the uniqueness of Luang Prabang, its several roofs sweeping low to the ground. See also the impressive "tree of life" mosaic here. The gilt panel on the exterior of the chapel depicts semi-erotic episodes from the Ramayana.
Then visit the National Museum, explore the city’s fascinating array of shimmering temples and French colonial buildings. After that, visit Wat May built in 1796, the five-tiered roof of the wooden Sim (chapel) epitomizes the graceful Luang Prabang architectural style.
Overnight at hotel in Luang Prabang.
Day 17: Luang Prabang – Elephant village – Kuang Si Falls (Meal: B, L)
After breakfast at the hotel, our guide and driver will meet and escort for a 30min drive south of Luang Prabang to the elephant village. Here, you will visit the elephants and then go for a hike (25 mins, one person per elephant, howdah free)
In the afternoon, travelling outskirt of Luang Prabang, driving through green rice paddies and farms. Stop for visit few villages of H’mong and Lao Loum people, your guide can introduce you to local people and its great opportunity for you to involving with their daily activities such as wooden cotton spinning, weaving, rice harvesting and green vegetable farms. On your arrival at the Kuang Si falls, enjoy main waterfalls with spectacular views and surrounding of orchids inside the park and falls cascade over many calcified tiers and down several hundred feet into a series of cool, turquoise pools where you can cool off with a swim. End of your day, transfer back to Luang Prabang.
Overnight in hotel.
Day 18: Luang Prabang – Cruise on Mekong - Pak Ou caves (B, L)
After breakfast at the hotel, your Laotian guide and driver will take you to Phou Si Market. This market is infinitely populous and hectic with several edibles and various goods. By visiting this market, you will have the opportunity to observe the buying and selling activities of Laotian. These activities are done simply and quickly according to a very Asian style.
Then transfer to the pier where you board a traditional long trail boat, for a relaxing cruise upstream on the mighty Mekong River. Enjoy stunning mountain scenery and witness the simple rural lifestyles. You will reach Pak Ou caves at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou Rivers. These caves are displayed hundreds of sacred centuries-old Buddha images which are the object of pilgrimages during the Lao New Year festivities around mid-April.
End of your visit, cruise back and stop at Ban Xang Khong, a weaving village, where you can jump into wooden looms with local expert for practical and experience. Continue to cruise back to town.
Overnight at hotel in Luang Prabang.
Day 19: Luang Prabang - Departure (meal: B)
After breakfast, Check out hotel and transfer to the airport for your flight home. tour ends. If you need any extensions, please email Vietnam Travel Top.
