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Hanoi - Ba Be National Park - Halong Bay - Danang - My Son - Hoi An - Nha Trang - Dalat - Saigon - Cu Chi - Mekong Delta Journey Map
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A journey is a bridge between two points. In Vietnam, some journeys take place on roads, highways, railways, rivers and footpaths and there city dwellers carry precariously balanced goods on bicycles and motorbikes. For the rest of the world, your family journey is a bridge refreshing and even connecting members. Today we invite you to journey through a changing Vietnam and to experience the incredible diversity of its landscape and its people.
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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS |
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Hanoi, a shaded city of peaceful lakes, ancient architecture and nice parks
Beautiful Ba Be Lake & rustic home stay at minority village
Relaxing boat cruise around Halong Bay, a world heritage site
Charming ancient town of Hoi An, Romantic eternal spring city of Dalat
Famous Nha Trang city of nice sandy beaches
Dynamic Saigon city with high buildings and historical sites, Wet rice culture of
Mekong Delta
Cu Chi Tunnels, a symbol of Vietnamese spirit
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Day 1: Hanoi arrival (D)
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Upon arrival at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport, our guide and driver will welcome you and transfer you to your hotel. You are free to stroll around the city and catch a first glimpse of this peaceful city.
In the evening, we will have a chance to watch the famous water puppet show. After the show, we can enjoy a special dinner at a very nice local restaurant by Duong River.
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Day 2: Hanoi city tour (B, L)
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At 8am, our guide and driver will meet you at your hotel and embark on the city tour with highlights of Hanoi including Ho Chi Minh Complex, the Temple of Literature and “Hanoi Hilton” –a nick name given by US pilots during the war.
Enjoy lunch with authentic delicious Vietnamese cuisines and then one –hour cyclo tour is followed through the busy Old Quarter where you can see peddlers are selling wares as if they have done that for centuries! A cheerful time together comes, our family can have some drinks at Highland Coffee and enjoy comfortable atmosphere with a great view from the top.
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Day 3: Hanoi –Ba Be (B, L, D)
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Today we will have an early pick up at hotel and drive 250 km to the mountainous rice field region of Ba Be. Enjoy gorgeous view along the way and lunch at a local restaurant in Bac Can. Tonight, we have dinner and stay in Babe National Park Hotel.
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Day 4: Ba Be (B, L, D)
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After breakfast, we will have a chance to breathe fresh air in the national park and do interesting exercise by walking 2km to the harbor. A boat trip to visit the biggest and most beautiful Ba Be Lake in Vietnam. We also can visit Nang River, Puong Grottoes and Dau Dang Waterfall. After lunch in a local minority house, we continue our boat trip to visit Pac Ngoi minority village of the Tay. Dinner and overnight with a Tay family.
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Day 5: Babe- Thai Nguyen- Hanoi (B, L)
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After simple breakfast, we get on the transport back to Hanoi. On the way, we will stop over some minority villages and take nice photos. We return Hanoi by 4pm.
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Day 6: Halong Bay day cruise (B, L)
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We will come to pick you up at your hotel at 8:30am. The 3 – hour journey through the rich farmlands of the Red River Delta opens the scenery of rice fields, water buffaloes and Vietnamese village daily life. We will stop over in Hai Duong to take a cup of green tea with a piece of the provincial traditional sweet green bean cake.
Arrive Ha Long around noon and board our private Junk for a 4 hour cruise on the emerald green water of Ha Long bay among the 3,000 spectacular limestone islands. A fresh seafood lunch will be served on board before we start our cruise to Thien Cung Cave, the most beautiful cave and famous for its stunning stalactites and stalagmites. You also have relaxable time for swimming in the bay. In the late afternoon, we head back to Ha Long harbour and our waiting vehicle will transfer us back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi approximately around 7pm.
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Day 7: Hanoi –flight to Danang (B)
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Morning flight to Danang, a picturesque city by the Han River, by clean stretching beaches and by the coast of the Eastern Sea with distinctive attractiveness.
This day is a completely relaxing day and you are free to enjoy the beach or hotel facilities.
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Day 8: Danang (B)
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Free to enjoy the beach
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Day 9: Danang –Hoi An (B)
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After breakfast, our guide meets you at your hotel and escorts you to Hoi An. On the way, we pay a visit at Cham Museum and impressive archaeological site of My Son. My Son is comparable to other big icons in Southeast Asia, like Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Ayutthuya in Thailand and the Borobodur in Indonesia. The ruins and temples of My Son have been dated as being from the 7th to the 13th century. Reaching Hoi An in the afternoon, you are free to stroll around the town.
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Day 10: Hoi An free day (B)
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Today you can see the vestige of the mix combination of Chinese and Japanese architecture as well as traditional cultural values. In December, 1999 Hoi An is declared a Unesco World Heritage site.
Come to Hoi An, you will discover by yourself interesting proper character through the historical & cultural museum of Hoi An, Phuoc Kien Chinese assembly hall, etc…Hoi An is also a wonderful destination for shopping. Here you can have nice clothes only in few hours!
Rest of the time you will have cheerful time at Cua Dai beach. It is now time for swimming or walk leisurely on the sands.
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Day 11: Hoi An –Nha Trang (B)
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Today, we will experience the train journey from Danang to Nha Trang and arrive Nha Trang in the evening. Then we take a rest at hotel.
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Day 12: Nha Trang (B)
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Today we can visit highlights of Nha Trang City including:
• Long Son Pagoda: built in commemoration of the monks and nuns who died whilst fighting the Diem Government. It is famous with the White Buddha statue and spectacular view of the city from the high.
• Hon Chong means the "Husband Rock", the name given to one of the two rocks (Husband and Wife). As a bridge to help them meet, a row of smaller rocks, stones, pebbles and corals pave the way for their reunion, this ill-fated legendary couple.
• The Po Nagar Cham Temples: an outstanding example of Cham architecture, situated on Mount Cu Lao, this hillside location offers panoramic views of the surrounding bay and countryside.
Rest of the time, we can relax at famous Thap Ba Hot Mineral Spring Center, where we take mud bath or sink in hot mineral water (not included in the package). Return Nha Trang in the late morning.
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Day 13: Nha Trang boat trip (B, L)
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At 8h30, our guide will meet you at your hotel and then take a short drive to Cau Da Port. Here we start our cruise to Nha Trang Bay and see the great landscape of over 19 islands on the Bay. Heading out to Hon Mun Conserve Sea Creatures Zone, we can explore the ocean bed and ideally, have the chance for swimming, diving and snorkeling in the crystal clear waters. We can see and touch numerous sea creatures, colorful fish while admiring the coral reefs deep in the sea. Approximately at noon, our boat continues to Mot Island. Lunch will be served on board. At 13h30, we reach Tam Island. Here we are free to enjoy different types of water sports such as Jet Ski, parasailing, volley-ball (your own account).
Our last stop of the day is Chai Village where we can explore the daily life of local people, visit the floating fish farm and rowing in a basket boat before boarding our boat back to Cau Da port. Return to Nha Trang, end of the tour.
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Day 14: Nha Trang –Dalat (B)
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Today we take a drive to Dalat, a very popular destination for Vietnamese local people. After check –in in your hotel, you then can be free to walk leisurely around the city, drink coffee at local uphill restaurant, riding horse around the lake while enjoying this peaceful city.
In the evening, our guide picks you up for a dinner out.
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Day 15: Dalat from north to south (B, D)
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Today, we embark on the city tour to the most wanted places of Dalat.
East:
• Dalat railway station: remarkable with its architecture and its old steam locomotive. If wish, you can take the 7km train ride to Trai Mat through vegetable farms.
• Linh Phuoc Pagoda: 9km east from the center, the most colorful decorated temple of dalat, caved with tens of thousands of beer bottles and broken china wares.
North:
• Lat Village: visit Lat houses and study Lat culture.
South:
• Robin Hill: at 1650m, we will get the whole view of Dalat. And take a cable car to Tuyen Lam Lake, the nicest lake of Dalat
• Truc Lam Zen Monastery: the largest Zen Monastery of Vietnam
West:
• Bao Dai Summer Palace, where the last Emperor of Vietnam stayed and ruled his Vietnam from 1949 to 1954
• Crazy house: display proper art, architecture, different imagination.
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Day 16: Dalat with biggest falls (B, L, D)
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In the morning, we will drive out the highway toward Saigon for visits at Gouga and Pongour Waterfall, one of the biggest falls of the central highland. Back to Dalat for lunch, you can stop over at Chicken Village if desire.
In the afternoon, after lunch, we will take a drive to Lam Dong Museum housed in a lovely French style villa. Then we head to the Valley of Love, where you can take one –hour horse riding for nice photos. If time allowed, we can also pass by the XQ embroidery house nearby and enjoy the traditional music performance.
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Day 17: Dalat –Saigon (B)
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The following destination of our trip is Ho Chi Minh City still called Saigon by many locals. This bustling metropolis, contradiction of its northern counterpart crowded of bikes and motorbikes, excited by numerous shopping area and sidewalk cafes.
After breakfast we drive southeast for 7 hours (approx 250kms) to Ho Chi Minh City. On the way we pass small hamlets as well as tea, coffee cashew nut, rubber and tobacco plantations. Along the way we can make stops as requested to stretch our legs and take some wonderful photographs. Overnight in Saigon.
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Day 18: Cu Chi Tunnels (B)
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In the morning you will departure for the Cu Chi Tunnels. The Cu Chi Tunnels are an impressive network of tunnels with a length of over 250 km. This strategic place was used by 15,000 Viet Cong fighters during the war. The underground network provided sleeping quarters, meeting rooms, hospitals, and other social rooms.
Arrive at the tunnel gates, we will watch the movie of the war time. Then we have time to inspect the tunnel site, visit the gates, traps, underground hospitals, worships, kitchens, bunkers and go through a section of the tunnel. Our trip ends and we transfer back to Saigon in the late morning.
In the afternoon, you are free to explore the city or shopping at Ben Thanh Market.
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Day 19: Mekong Delta (B, L)
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At 8 hours, you will be picked up at the hotel and transferred to My Tho. Around 9h30, arriving in My Tho, you will enjoy different type of boat trip (motorized boat trip and rowing boat trip) to islands where you can visit local houses, see how they make delicious coconut caramels and enjoy lunch.
After that, you will also stop over the Unicorn Island for a traditional music performance, “cai luong” by local people. Enjoy some tropical fruit here. Especially, you will have a chance to be on horse-drawn carriage or local transport “Xe loi” (nowadays, it is often seen on movies).
In the afternoon, around 2 hours, you will take a drive back to Saigon.
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Day 20: Saigon departure (B)
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Free time for shopping at Dong Khoi Street or shopping centres around until transfer time to the airport for a flight home.
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INCLUSIVE: |
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All transfers and transportation as dedicated in the itinerary, Train ticket: Danang –Nha Trang (tourist class) |
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Local English speaking guides on day trips & excursions |
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All accommodation on twin share basis with daily breakfast |
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Additional meals as clearly mentioned (B: breakfast, L: lunch; D: dinner) |
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Private Boat cruises as per the itinerary (Ba Be Lake, Halong Bay, Nha Trang and Mekong Dela) |
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Domestic flight tickets: Hanoi –Danang (economy class), Domestic airport taxes |
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Sightseeing fees and permits during guided time
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EXCLUSIVE: |
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Vietnam Visa, Travel insurance (compulsory) |
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International airfares and taxes |
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Expenses of a personal nature such as bar bills, laundry and telephone charges |
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Tips and gratuities, Services not clearly described |
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ACCOMMODATION: |
This is another important element of your Vietnam tour. Our Vietnam travel consultant will offer you Vietnam hotel options based on your Vietnam travel budget and taste.
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**Rates vary frequently. Please contact us to get the best possible price based upon your travel period and specific touring needs.
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