Departure: Daily

Start tour: Ha Noi

Finish tour: Ho Chi Minh City

In the view of travelers over the world, who set foot in Viet Nam, the most impressive things are the magnificent beauty of nature and a long – standing culture imbued national character. You can see the natural conditions and landscape change constantly stretching from North to South. A typical climate with a cold, wet winter in the northern and warmth spring in the southern creates the limitless expanses of green tea gardens and paddy fields and bamboo fences circling villages. Our Vietnam travel trip 10 Days/ 9 Nights give you the unforgettable experiences. You will contemplate an ancient architecture mixed the Eastern, colonial and French styles together in Hanoi; the splendid beauty of thousands of limestone islands of various shapes, sizes, and in different green and amazing colors in Ha Long; the gentle, charming sceneries of nature and palaces, royal tombs in Hue city; the cozy and peaceful town of Hoi An with the colorful light of lanterns and Ho Chi Minh city - the animate, dynamic area has combination of traditional and modern culture.

Highlights

·         Hanoi: Sightseeing with a Local Guide; water puppets performance; visit Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Presidential Palace, and Temple of Literature; take a “cyclo” ride through the Old Quarter

·         Halong Bay: Overnight cruise in a traditional Junk boat, discover caves & fishing villages, explore the lagoon.

·         Hue: See stunning scenery en-route to Hue; Take a dragon boat to visit pagodas; Visit the Imperial Citadel. Visit the Thien Mu Pagoda and the Tomb of Emperor Minh Mang.

·        Danang – Hoi An: See ancient sculpture in the Cham Museum, and tour Buddhist cave temples in the Marble Mountains. A walking tour through the UNESCO listed Old Quarter; Countryside bike ride, visit an old merchant house, the Hoi An Museum, and a Chinese assembly hall.

·         Ho Chi Minh City: City tour including entry to the War Remnants Museum

·         Mekong Delta: Take an excursion to Mekong Delta, with a boat trip on the Mekong River to visit Cat Be floating market.

In brief:

      Day 1: Arrival Hanoi Vietnam

      Day 2: Hanoi Sightseeing full day (B, L)

      Day 3: Excursion to Halong Bay and Stay overnight on Board. (B, L, D)

      Day 4: Halong Bay Cruise – Depart for Hue Imperial City. (Br)

      Day 5: Full day sightseeing in Hue City – Old Imperial City. (B, L)

      Day 6: Leave Hue to Danang/City Sightseeing. (B, L)

      Day 7: Hoi An Excursion/Thu Bon River Boat Trip. (B, L)

      Day 8: Leave Hoi An to Saigon/City Sightseeing. (B, L)

      Day 9: Full day to Mekong Delta/River Boat Trip. (B, L)

      Day 10: Conclude Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. (B) 

Day 1: Hanoi – Hanoi city tour (L/D)                                                      

A.M: Tripasean’s car and guide will pick you up at the pre-agreed place and take you to your hotel. Check in, relax and have lunch.

P.M: Starting your trip around Hanoi. You’ll take a look at Hanoi’s fascinating historic sites. First, visit Ho Chi Minh President Mausoleum and Museum. Hochiminh Mausoleum is the final resting place of Hochiminh in a glass sarcophagus set deep in the bowels of a monumental edifice that has become a site of Pilgrimage (It is closed on Monday and Friday and for the period from September until end of November for maintenance). Then, we go to Van Temple of Literature and Quoc Tu Giam – Vietnam’s first University, constructed in 1070. Finally, visit Ngocson temple on the isle in the middle of the Restored Sword Lake, the petit lake in the heart of the city, where legends grow thicker than water lilies.

Taste your dinner. In the evening you can walk around Old Quarter on foot, through narrow roads and corner interlacing together for shopping and street photography or enjoy the Water puppet show; a remarkable indigenous folk performance art form unique to Vietnam (with your own expense).

Overnight in Hanoi.

Day 2: Hanoi – Ha Long (B/L/D)

A.M: Enjoy your breakfast and then depart for Ha Long. On the way, you have an opportunity to contemplate the thriving villages and the unlimited green rice terrace stretching Red River Delta. It takes us approximately 4 hours to go and along the way, we stop to take a rest in Hai Duong.

About 12.00, we arrive to Bhaya Cafe at Tuan Chau Island. Then, board with welcome drinks and welcome briefing from our Cruise Manager and start the buffet lunch while the boat is cruising towards south east of Halong Bay passing by Chicken Rock and Titov Island.

P.M: Transfer to centre of Vung Vieng floating village by tender boat. Start to discover the floating village while sitting on rowing boats with local people. After that, we go to Vung Ha Beach for Kayaking and swimming (Kayak & Spa book in advance at the reception). Back to our boat.

About 17:30, cooking demonstration with traditional Vietnamese food on sundeck (in restaurant if weather does not allow) and then enjoy Western style dinner will be served with fixed menu.

In the evening, you have free time for joining movies in the restaurant or Squid fishing (with your own expense)

Day 3: HALONG BAY – HANOI (B/L/D)

A.M: Get up early and start Tai Chi demonstration on sundeck; tea and coffee available. Enjoy light breakfast in the restaurant. Then you have a chance to discover Surprise Cave, one of the biggest caves in Halong Bay with beautiful stalactites and stalagmite. After that, back to main boat for check out and taste the buffet while the boat is cruising back to harbor. Disembark in Tuan Chau Marina and leave for Hanoi.

P.M: Arrive in Hanoi. Check in your hotel and relax. Have dinner and overnight in Hanoi city.

Day 4: Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh – Ho Chi Minh City tour (B/L/D)

A.M: Tripasean’s car and guide pick you up at the pre-agreed place and take you to Noi Bai airport for your trip to Ho Chi Minh City. After arrival, go to your hotel, check in and have lunch.

P.M: We will visit War Remnants Museum. This museum tells the story of war from the Vietnamese perspective. Exhibits include photographs, machinery, and weapons that depict the harsh realities of war). Then we stop off at the Thien Hau Lady temple that was built in the early 19th Century dedicated to Thien Hau, the Goddess of seafarers. After that, we continue to visit the Reunification Palace, formerly known as the Presidential Palace that was the sight of South Vietnam's surrender in April 1975. Walk down to see Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office which are beautiful examples of architecture from the French colonial period. Have dinner and overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

Day 5: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre- Ho Chi Minh (B/L/D)

A.M: Today, after breakfast and check out your hotel, you’ll departure early to My Tho. After arrival in My Tho Wharf, take a boat and cruise on river. You have a chance to see four isles with special names: Dragon Isle, Qilin Isle, Turtle Isle, and Phoenix Isle, visit fishing villages and keep your mind deep into peace space of endless green palm forest.

You’ll stop at Qilin Isle (Thoi Son) to visit fruit orchards and taste many types of fruits (depending each season), coconut candy,honey tea, enjoy “Don Ca Tai Tu songs of locals. Don Ca Tai Tu is genre of instrumental and vocal traditional music which arose in South Vietnam at the end of the 19th century from a combination of the ritual music nhạc lễ of southern Vietnam and the chamber music nhạc huế of central Vietnam. Its name means litterally "music and song of the amateurs" and shows that it is a musical entertainment for scholars and music lovers at all levels of society.

Then, we stop at Con Phung to have lunch with local speciality. Relax before we return to Ho Chi Minh City.

Day 6: Ho Chi Minh – Danang (B/L/D)

A.M: We transfer to airport for your trip to Da Nang. After arrival, go to your hotel, check in and have lunch.

P.M: We visit visit the Cham Museum, which features a fine collection of open air sandstone carvings, Ngu Hanh Mountain (Marble Mountain), a fairy land with a dreamlike scenery, pagodas, grottoes. This is a cluster of five marble mountains lying close to the sea including 5 mountains: Kim Son (Metal Mountain), Thuy Son (Water Mountain), Moc Son (Wood Mountain), Hoa Son (Fire Mountain) and Tho Son (Earth Mountain). Five is a very important number in oriental mentality and life because according to Oriental philosophy, metal, wood, water, fire and earth are five elements that create the universe. It makes the mysterious beauty of Marble Mountain.

In the evening, after dinner, you have free time for walking around Da Nang city.

Day 7: Da Nang – Hoi An Old Town – Thu Bon River Boat trip (B/L/D)

A.M: Depart for Hoi An town from Da Nang. Hoi An is an ancient town with full historically classical meaning and image. We will walk and visit Japanese Covered Bridge (Chua Cau or Lai Vien Kieu), Tan Ky Old house, Quang Dong Assembly Hall, Tran Family Temple…

P.M: Enjoy the ThuBon river boat trip, discover the amazing Hoian craft villages dotting the riverside, and hop off the boat to explore them more deeply. Visit the Thanh Ha ceramic village to admire its intricate pottery, and stop off at the Kim Bong furniture village to check out the hand-crafted tables and chairs, and then float down to the Cua Dai estuary for a spectacular view of the sun setting over the Thu Bon River and the sea before returning to your hotel.

Have dinner and overnight in Hoi An.

Day 8: Hoi An– Hue – Hue Citadel (B/L/D)

A.M: After breakfast, we depart for Hue. On the way, we go through Hai Van tunnel - the longest tunnel in Southeast Asia, Lang Co beach. About 3 hours later, we arrive in Hue, check in your hotel and relax. Have lunch

P.M: We visit Hue Citadel, a large fortress built in the 17th century (year 1805) mandated by Emperor Gia Long; Ngo Mon gate where Bao Dai ended Nguyen dynasty, Thai Hoa palace (Palace of Supreme Hamony), Hall of the Mandarins, Forbidden Purple city. Have dinner and overnight in Hue.

Day 9: Minh Mang Tomb – Perfume River Boat Trip(B/L/D)

A.M: Our car takes you to visit the Minh Mang royal tombs a standard architectural complex consisting of 40 constructions (palaces, temples, pavilions, etc.) designed on a symmetric axis running from Dai Hong gate to the foot of La Thanh (Surrounding Wall) behind the Emperor's tomb. Eat lunch in restaurant.

P.M: Cruise on a spectacular boat riding along the Perfume River. Stop to visitThien Mu Pagoda, one of the oldest and prettiest religious buildings in the country, was an important site of protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem government in 1960s. Admire the landscape and enjoy the sunset over the Perfume River.

Back to hotel. Have dinner and overnight in Hue.

Day 10: Hue – Ha Noi (B)

A.M: Eat breakfast and check out your hotel. Then, we go to airport for a return flight to Hanoi.

Finally, we take you from airport to the place that we picked up at the beginning of journey. Finishing your trip.