Vietnam Highlights 10 Days

Upon arrival, your guide will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel. Refresh until the sunset time. We transfer to Long Bien bridge for capturing and watching the sunset on the Red river peaceful countryside and the historical and legendary Long Bien bridge.

Then your guide will take you on a culinary as well as local life adventure in the Old Quarter. Let’s stop at Bia Hoi corner to try the local brew, a draft beer that traces its roots to Eastern Europe. Do as the locals do and pull up a stool and enjoy a drink while watching the world go by. You will also have opportunity to see the busiest time of local life here.

Continue enjoy your real fabulous dinner with Vietnam traditional cuisine. Back to your hotel to recover before starting your real Vietnam discovery in the next morning.

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Meals:Dinner

Have your breakfast at the hotel. Firstly, start your journey to the highlights of Hanoi at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, an imposing structure that houses the remains of the revered former president who led Vietnam’s campaign for independent from colonial rule. Next, head onward to Quan Thanh temple and Tran Quoc pagoda – the oldest pagoda in Hanoi to experience the spirituality of the local people. Especial, on the first and middle day of Lunar month, people come here to pray health, peace, property,…

For lunch, sit down for a traditional Vietnamese meal with different types of Pho near Truc Bach lake to discovery a special way of Pho in Hanoi.
After lunch, get the cyclo through the Quarter’s 36 streets named for the products historically sold here. Stop at some of the only remaining streets that continue selling the goods of their namesake, including Tin and Bamboo street. Continue by strolling your walk to Hoan Kiem lake. Enjoy a cup of Egg coffee at a café. Having  a water puppet show for a look at traditional performance art in Vietnam before heading back to your hotel for refresh a while.

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast at your hotel, we leave busy Hanoi to head enter Pu Luong Nature Reserve by road via a breath taking mountain pass giving you a panoramic view of the whole valley. You arrive at your accommodation in time for a delicious lunch, followed by free time to explore the beautiful retreat, with its captivating panoramic views and tranquil setting.

This afternoon, you will be transferred to a suspension bridge over the Cham River, where you begin your walk in search of stunning water wheels. Get up close to each wheel and discover how water is moved from river to handmade bamboo aqueducts via simple constructions of all sizes. Arriving at a local fisherman’s house, you have a short rest to gear up for the rafting adventure. Float along the calm river and enjoy the views, in between learning how to paddle and steer your handcrafted rafts. Arriving at scenic Tan Lap bridge, you disembark to be transferred back to Pu Luong Retreat for dinner.

Accommodation: Pu Luong Retreat

Meal: Breakfast

This morning, wake up in the early morning to descend into the beautiful valley facing the Retreat where you walk around tumbling rice terraces. Trek through small paths shrouded in vegetation to slowly reveal a picturesque village sitting at the base of a towering mountain.Your camera will not be able to sit still! Continuing to the base of the valley, you weave between roads and farmland, villages and wild fields, ponds and rivers, mountains and open land. Savour the ever-changing scenery as you trek to a beautiful spot. Then you will be transferred back to Puluong Retreat for lunch.

Check out the hotel, then we drive back to Hanoi

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast,

Arrive in Hanoi train station in the early morning, transfer to hotel for refresh and have breakfast.

Your 2-day 1-night cruise trip starts with picking you up at your hotel roughly from 9.00 am. After 3 hours driving, it is time for check-in to one of the finest cruises in Ha Long Bay. The cruise manager and staff will welcome you with drinks and a brief agenda for your trip, and then you will enjoy a lovely lunch with the cruise take you further toward Bai Tu Long Bay. After the lunch, you will visit Thien Canh Son cave, go kayaking or relax on a beach. The dinner will be served at around 7:00 pm and after the dinner is your chilling time.

Accommodation: Overnight on cruise

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Doing taichi on Halong cruise sundeck

The second day of your trip starts early with a tea or coffee. At 7:00 AM, breakfast will be served on board. After the breakfast, you will continue cruising around the bay then visit a fishing village or explore a cave and other activities (depending on your cruise). After that, you will get back to the boat, check out your cabin at 10:00 AM and have a delicious lunch. Disembark the cruise, head to Noi Bai airport for the afternoon flight to Danang. Upon arrival, our tour guide will meet you at the airport and transfer to Hoi An ancient town. The rest of day is free at leisure to discover Hoi An ancient town on your own, may try to get your suit tailor made by the talent tailors with affordable price You will not be disappointed!

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,

Picking you up at your hotel by mini- van, we will bring you over the countryside where bike are available to ride (If you don’t know how to ride bicycles, please use our scooter “XE OM” services and you pay the extra 120,000 VND). You start the day by cycling to the local farmer in Cam Thanh Ecological village. Here you are greeted by a local host and then you join with them how to grow wet rice with their family. Starting farming work like plough and raking with buffalo, riding water buffalo, learning how to transplant rice, flooding farm, grinding rice, pounding rice. After then, the guide and van will bring down to a local fishing village. You will be boarded on boat . Join local fisherman on the river and enjoy hands-on experience of round net and cast net fishing. Enjoy learning and experiencing cultural folk music of Bả Trạo with local fishermen. Joining to go fishing with local fishermen at Phuoc Hai local fishing boat to experience local cast net CHAI. Continue to visit water coconut palm jungle, enjoying the basket boat and visiting the water coconut palm forest. Learn how tolearn origami such as grasshoppers, flowers, rings, caps, bracelets toys made from water coconut leaves…, Having a fun to catch crab around the water coconut palm forest and after then boarding back boat, the Captain Cook will cook for your lunch/dinner (morning time you will get lunch and afternoon time you will get dinner on boat) and cold beer or soft drink we will bring you back to your hotel.

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,

After your flight to Ho Chi Minh City, head to Cu Chi Tunnels, which once sheltered thousands of Viet Cong soldiers and included living quarters, supply routes and even hospitals. Many died there from malaria and other diseases, and a few were also married and children were born there. The cramped tunnels were central to a few of the war’s strategic operations, including the famous 1968 Tet Offensive, and they didn’t escape damage: Note the craters left by American B52 bombers. The tunnels also have “man traps” – large pits that ensnared enemy soldiers by sharpened bamboo stakes.  You can try to get in the tunnel and don’t worry— you won’t fall in.

In the evening head back to the Saigon Opera House, to watch the spectacular A O Show. This performance is a showcase of Vietnamese culture and art, and combines, in beautiful precision, elements of both old and new.

After the hour long show, let try to enjoy Saigon street food tour. Sit down the traditional Street BBQ in Vietnamese style. What can be more authentic with a mini oven on the table and grill different types of meat and eat it instantly.

BBQ stall – Saigon street foods

Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Travel two hours south of Ho Chi Minh City to get Ben Tre. Taking a boat to rowing through coconut canal.   We take the local vehicle, the Xe Lôi, along beautiful village roads . We will stop for lunch at a local house and you can experience first-hand the lives of local people in Ben Tre.

Take some free time to soak up the beauty of the countryside in any way you like. Just relax amid the tall coconut trees or cycle around the village.

Our last stop is at a local fruit plantation where we have the opportunity to enjoy all the fruity delights of Ben Tre. Our local sampan boat will return to the dock where you will be will be transferred back to Ho Chi Minh city. The rest of day is free at leisure.

Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Your guide will meet you at your hotel and transfer you to the airport for your onward flight home.

Accommodation: N/A

Meals: Breakfast,