Day 1: Hanoi - airport pick up - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: No)
Day 2: Hanoi - Halong Bay - overnight on Cruises (Meal: B, L, D)
Day 3: Halong Bay - Hanoi - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: B, L)
Day 4: Hanoi Free day –Airport transfer - Flight to HCMC- Pick up- check in Hotel (Meal: B)
Day 5: HCMC - Mekong delta - My Tho - Ben Tre tour (Meal: B, L )
Day 6: HCMC - Cu Chi tunnel tour (Meal: B, L )
Day 7: HCMC – Bus to Phnom Penh Cambodia – Check in hotel (Meal: B)
Day 8: Phnom Penh City Tour (B/L)
Day 9: Phnom Penh –Siem Reap by public (B) Mekong Express Limousine
Day 10: Angkor Wat Temple (B/L/D)
Day 11: Siem Reap - Departure (Meal: B)
Day 1: Hanoi - airport pick up - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: No)
Pick up from the Noi Bai (HAN) 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 information around the trip.
Day 2: Hanoi - Halong Bay - overnight on Cruises (Meal: B, L, D )
08h00 – 08h30: Pick-up at hotel and start the scenic, 3 and ½ hour drive to Halong Bay.
12h30 – 13h00: Embark on Majestic Cruises followed by a short cruise briefing.
13h30 – 14h30: Savor a delectable lunch as Majestic Cruises among the limestone islands.
15h00 – 16h00: Explore the amazing Sung Sot Cave – the most beautiful cave in Halong Bay.
16h00 – 17h00: Cruising to Titov island. Go swimming and relaxing at the beach of Titov or climb up to the top of the island for a panorama view of Halong Bay.
17h00 – 17h30: Return to the main boat and continue cruising to the quiet area while enjoy beautiful seascape on the way.
17h30 – 19h00: Enjoy Sunset Party on sundeck and admire the best moments of the day when the sun starts to set.
19h00: Dinner is served. Socialize with other guests, take part in board games, fish for squid, or just laze around.
Overnight on board.
Day 3: Halong Bay - Hanoi - Check in hotel in Hanoi (Meal: B, L )
06h30 – 07h15: Start your day with Tai Chi exercises or a photo hunt.
07h30 – 08h30: Have breakfast on board and enjoy the peaceful morning of Halong Bay.
09h00 – 10h00: Kayak among the hidden areas of the bay, around the Man’s Head Islet area.
10h15: Return to the boat. Freshen up and check out of your cabin.
10h15 – 11h00: Continue your cruise exploring the Bay, passing Ba Hang fishing village, Dog Islet, and more.
11h00 – 12h15: While heading back to the harbor, watch the fruit carving demonstration and participate in the Cooking Class before enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch.
12h15 – 12h30: Disembark Majestic Cruises.
12h30 – 13h00: Transfer back to Hanoi.
Day 4: Hanoi Free day –Airport transfer - Flight to HCMC- Pick up- check in Hotel (Meal: B )
Today, you are free to visit Hanoi Old Quarter. You will have a flight to Ho Chi Minh city and stay overnight at the most touristic area of Ho Chi Minh City
Day 5: HCMC - Mekong delta - My Tho - Ben Tre tour (Meal: B, L )
A smooth one and half hour bus ride passing rice fields and stopping over the National highway. Before the trip continues, we have a rest stop on the way for bath-room. And take the bus go to My Tho city. Right here, we can take the motorboat join in with the daily activities of the local people, enjoy the atmosphere and then take a cruise on the Upper River (Tien River) to Unicorn Island (Ky Lan).
On the way, we will be crossing the fishing port, floating houses, these other Dragon, Phoenix and Turtle islands, visit the orchard garden, bee-farm to enjoy honey tea or you can take photos of a python.
Next place, we go to the coconut candy workshop, you can try special candy have sugar free, coconut wine. A little time tour guide take you go to tropical fruit garden enjoy some fruits, enjoy the sound of "Southern Vietnamese folk music” and then follow horse carry visit the countryside, the amazing rowing boat trip on the small canal is something visitors can not miss. Then continue on to Ben Tre province - "the country of coconut ", we have lunch into Phoenix and have free time to visit
crocodile farm or mokey brigde,, then enjoy the relaxing on the hammock. Visitors" expects will be fulfilled by final boat trip back to My Tho city. Visitor the beautiful Vinh Trang Pagoda which the temple was built in 1849. Say goodbye Mekong Delta one day trip. We will return to HCM city by bus.
Day 6: HCM City tour - Cu Chi tunnel tour (Meal: B, L )
08:30 Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel to start the trip at travel office for visiting Reunification palace which was the residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of the war in April 1975. Continue seeing some impressive French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral and the Old Central Post Office then War Remnants Museum.
12:00 Have lunch in a local restaurant
13:30 After lunch, the tour will 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.
16:00 Return to Dist 1, overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Day 7: 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 V Hotel or New Riverside Hotel
Arrive Phnom Penh, meet with driver and transfer to hotel for check in. Free to relax.
Phnom Penh is known as the "Pearl in Asia", it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s with old colonial buildings. There are a number of surviving French colonial buildings scattered along the grand boulevards. Currently known as the political and commercial city of Cambodia.
Day 8: Phnom Penh City Tour (B/L)
In the morning after having breakfast then we tour Phnom Penh, the capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia. We will visit Wat Phnom, the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, and the National Museum, with many pre & post Angkor artifacts.
Lunch is at Friends the Restaurant a ‘kindness restaurant’s where ex-street children are trained in hospitality and restaurant skills, helping them to break away from life on the streets.
This afternoon, we deal with a dark chapter of Cambodian history as we visit sites related to the Khmer regime. Visit the notorious Tuol Sleng Museum & Choeung Ek Killing Field. This former school was used as a prison by Pol Pot’s security forces and became the largest center for detention and torture during the rule of the Khmer Rouge. We will also have some time to explore the Russian Market.
Day 9: Phnom Penh –Siem Reap by public (B) Mekong Express Limousine
After breakfast, you will be driven to the bus station to begin the journey to Siem Reap, which takes around 6 hours distance: 314km without guide . Pick up from the airport and transfer to the hotel check in. On the way to hotel, we will stop in front of the King’s Residence to see the Main Shrine, where the local people usually worship, with its statue of Yeay Teap, Preah Ang Chek and Preah Ang Chorm. Buying jasmine and lotus flowers to worship is very important for the Cambodians. We will continue to "Chantiers Ecoles - Les Artisans d'Angkor" which provides training to young Cambodians in an effort to revive the ancient Khmer traditions of stone carving and wood sculpting.
Spend the rest of time to visit one of the city’s lively open markets, Psar Chars, also called the “Old Market”, where anything and everything is for sale! Then continue to Wat Bo, a large, highly respected pagoda, founded in the 18th Century. Like the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh, the vihear of Wat Bo contains unique wall paintings of the Reamker that are said to be late 19th Century. Here we will have a blessing ceremony by Buddhist monks for propensity, happiness and safely etc, during your holiday in Cambodia.
Day 10: Angkor Wat Temple (B/L/D)
After breakfast, enjoy a full day excursion to discover Angkor Thom and Temples. Firstly, you will visit the wonderful Angkor Thom (the Great City) including the Southern Gate, famous Bayon temple (12th century in the centre of city remains one the most enigmatic temples of the Angkor group composed of 54 gothic towers decorated with 216 smiling faces of Avalokitesvara. Baphuon temple is lying just to the north of Bayon a pyramidal representation of mythical Mont Meru. Terrace of Elephants used as a giant reviewing stand for public ceremonies and served as a base for the king’s grand audience hall ; Terrace of the Leper King a platform 7m high, with statue and temple walls covered in emerald-green moss intertwined with roots which many deem the most charming of all, Ta Prohm.
Lunch is Khmer style in a local restaurant. Regain your energy enjoying a sumptuous Khmer feast near Sras Srang, the Royal Pool of Ablutions, originally reserved for the King and his consorts. Enjoy a spread of great local food followed by a nap lazing in a hammock, or explore to see the traditional way of life and say hello to the Cambodians near here.
Afternoon, it is time to visit the wonderful Angkor Wat Temples – one of the seven greatest architectural wonders of the world, as a temple and mausoleum forKing Suryavarman II at the peak of the Khmer empire in the first half of 12th. Angkor Wat is probably the best-preserved of the Angkorean temples, with a central tower surrounded by four smaller towers. The central monument represents the mythical Mount Meru, the holy mountain at the centre of the universe, which was home to the Hindu God Vishnu. The whole complex covers 81 hectares, a rectangular wall measuring 1025 meters by 800 meters borders the inner edge of the moat, and temple's greatest sculptural treasure is its 2 km-long bas-reliefs around the walls. In the late afternoon, visit to the Phnom Bakheng temple, is the first temple in Angkor region build by the Yacovarman I King in the first of 9th century, located on a slope gently hill where thousands tourist are grouping on the hilltop to catch a memorable time of life when viewing the marvellous sunset, the distant Angkor Wat in the jungle. This evening, enjoy buffet local dinner with Cambodian Cultural Performance including Apsara Show.
Day 11: Siem Reap - Departure (Meal: B)
Today is on your own leisure until transfer to the airport for your flight to the next destination. End of base tour service.
Note: Finish tour in Siem Reap. Not included flight out ticket.
