Highlights of Vietnam' beauties Hanoi food tour, Halong bay cruise, Hue, Hoian, Mekong Delta, Ho Chi Minh city and the most popular destination in Cambodia: Siem Reap with Angkors are revealed in the customized package for the group of 5 persons.
DAY 1: HANOI ARRIVAL (D) 2nd-Aug-2016
Driver pick up at the airport with your flight. Check in hotel in Hanoi.
At 18.00: meet at your hotel lobby & start our walking tour in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.
The main stops are at the most Only-One-Dish-famous shops or restaurants owned by families who have been making certain famous traditional dishes in Hanoi for years. These famous dishes of Hanoi culinary experience will come one after the other during the walking tour in this Hanoi National Heritage area. The experience will not only bring you the real local Hanoi dishes but also the special way of enjoying it as a part of the daily culinary life in Hanoi! The journey will bring you down to the local market to learn about Vietnamese cooking and eating habits. This industrialized haste and busy life creates a lot of fast foods. Hanoians are lucky to be able to eat delicious home-cooked meals in a busy city at any time! The walking takes you down to some smaller walkways and alleys which you would not normally enter. It is time we find "A City Inside A City".
Overnight in the hotel in Hanoi.
ACC: Highlight Service: Mk Boutique Hotel 2 Luxury room (4*) (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 2: HANOI PRIVATE CITY TOUR (B; L) 3rd-Aug-2016
8. 30 am: Start from your hotel in Hanoi, we will come to the heart of the city for the main attractions in town. Today, the first destination we are going to visit Ho Chi Minh historical Complex; visit to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and his residence relics 50 years ago to understand why Vietnamese people worship him and the human beings respect him: the nationalist! The journey would bring you to the One Pillar pagoda - the unique 1000 years old pagoda in the area.
10.00 am: Continue the visit to Women Museum (Customized museum to your request) 12.00: Enjoy the special Vietnamese lunch at one of the best local Vietnamese food restaurant in Hanoi
13.00: Visit Temple of Literature, which is known the place worshiping Confucius and as the first university in our country 1000 years ago
14.00: Visit Ngoc Son (Jade) temple & Restored Sword Lake; Visit Hanoi Old Quarter, take a rickshaw tour to see the Old Quarter.
16.30: Finish the tour at your hotel in Hanoi. Stay overnight in Hanoi hotel.
ACC: Highlight Service: Mk Boutique Hotel 2 Luxury room (4*) (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 3: HANOI - TRANSFER TO HALONG CRUISE (B; L; D) 4th-Aug-2016
Pick up from your hotel in Hanoi by private vehicle to check in Halong Bay cruise. Follow the cruise activity in the rest of the day. Lunch, dinner served on the cruise.
ACC: Halong Royal Winf Cruise 5* Royal Executive room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 4: HALONG - HANOI - HUE BY FLIGHT (B; L; D) 5th-Aug-2016
Follow the cruise Itinerary in the morning. Check out at noon and get private transfer from Halong city to the airport to depart for your flight to Hue at 16h40. Upon your arrival in Hue, get picked up by guide and driver to go to a special Royal party in Hue. Stay overnight in Hue hotel.
ACC: Hue Romance Hotel 4* City Center Located - Deluxe City View room
(1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 5: PARADISE CAVE DAY TOUR (B: L: D) 6th-Aug-2016
07.00 am: start Hue - Paradise Cave 1 Day Tour: Pick you up at your hotel to Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park. On the way, tourist will be introduced Hien Luong Bridge and Ben Hai River where Viet Nam country was bisected between Southern and Northern. Coming to Phong Nha restaurant, having lunch and relaxing.
After lunch, we will continue the drive of 15 kms to Paradise Cave (Thien Duong cave)- the most beautiful cave in the area. Walk into the cave to witness the shapes of the beautiful stalagmites and stalactites. After visiting Paradise cave, we come back Hue city on Ho Chi Minh Legendary Trail.
7.00 pm: Arrive Hue city. Have dinner in a local restaurant. Stay overnight in Hue.
ACC: Hue Romance Hotel 4* City Center Located - Deluxe City View room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 6: HUE CITY TOUR (B; L; D) 7th-Aug-2016
8.00 AM: Driver and guide pick up from your hotel in Hue City to start the tour to visit the main tourist attractions in Hue! Our first visiting site will be the UNESCO world heritage site: Hue ancient citadel - the place during Nguyen Dynasty known as the Royal Citadel - Forbidden City. Visit Hue Royal Museum and the seven – storey Thien Mu Pagoda on the riverbank. Have lunch in a local restaurant in Hue city.
After lunch, we will choose to visit one of the 03 famous King's tombs in Hue of: King Khai Dinh, King Minh Mang or King Tu Duc. On the way back to visit the Conical and Incense making village.
15.30: Drive from Hue to Hoian. Have a special dinner in Hoian river side restaurant before getting back to the hotel.
ACC: Hoian Sunrise Resort 5* - Deluxe Ocean View room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 07: HOIAN HALF DAY CITY TOUR (B; L) 8th-Aug-2016
1.00 PM: Guide greets and meet. Take the shuttle bus of the resort to town center and start our walking tour around the town to experience this old port town with the mixture of different constructions of old houses such as Japanese Bridge, Phuc Kien Assembly Hall, Sa Huynh Museum, Ong pagoda and local market…At the town, you also have chance to enjoy traditional music show at an old house. Hoi An is famous for shopping place and tailor-made shops with reasonable price and the speedy services after 1-2 hours. Free for local dinner and shopping, stay overnight in Hoian hotel.
ACC: Hoian Sunrise Resort 5* - Deluxe Ocean View room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 08: HOIAN - DANANG - SAIGON BY FLIGHT (B) 9th-Aug-2016
Have free time to discover Hoian before taking a drive from Hoian hotel to Danang airport for a flight to Saigon.
6.00 PM: Have a special walking tour to visit Saigon city and try its special food tour. Our walking today will connect you from the most famous Nguyen Hue walking street and the local markets to the most special food corner in town near Ben Thanh market. The food trail will show you the different dishes of Taste of Hanoi with its Southern culinary style which is also rich and various. Saigon is a dynamic city its unforgettable endless dinning experience.
ACC: Grand Silver Hotel & Spa 4* City Center Located - Deluxe City View Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 9: SAIGON - MEKONG DELTA (B; L) 10th-Aug-2016
8.00 am: Driver & Guide pick up from your hotel in Saigon to start the day trip to visit our special Mekong delta.
10:00 am: Get on a boat to go across the river on Long Island, visitors see the village floating fish market, tropical fruit Orchard. The visit to a real local family to enjoy all kinds of fruits in the giant garden while listening to the traditional local folk music: "Don Ca Tai Tu". Strolling along the village to visit different families and gardens and enjoy honey tea here. The boat journey would continue to take visitors to a workshop of coconut candy (a specialty of Ben Tre). Enjoy the freshly made candy and get back to the boat to visit the local market. From here, we will get a Cycling tour (Horse cart if you are not fond of biking) on the village road creeping through the orchards along roads and pristine beauty that nature has bestowed the area. Visit workshop of cakes. Get to the local restaurant for lunch. (Any special diet can be served on request).
3.00 PM: Get back to the boat to go back to the canal and return to Saigon. Free for dinner in a local restaurant and finish the day trip at your hotel in Saigon.
ACC: Grand Silver Hotel & Spa 4* City Center Located - Deluxe City View Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 10: SAIGON CITY - CUCHI TUNNEL DAY TOUR (B; L; D) 11th-Aug-2016
8.30 am: Chosen guide and driver pick you up from hotel in Saigon. We will take a drive to visit the Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office, The Reunification Palace, The War Remnants Museum. At noon, we will have lunch in a fine local restaurant in Ho Chi minh city.
PM: Drive to Cu Chi tunnels, the first of impression is watch of short introductory video showing how they were constructed, then spend the next hour exploring the maze of tunnels. Also on display are various man - traps, the remains of an american tank and numerous bomb craters made by 500 pound bombs dropped by B52 bombers. For those interested there’s even the opportunity to fire off rounds from an AK47 or MK16 at the nearby rifle range Crawling under Cu Chi tunnels Crawling under Cu Chi tunnels.
18.30: Have dinner in a local restaurant in Saigon. Finish the day tour at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.
ACC: Grand Silver Hotel & Spa 4* City Center Located - Deluxe City View Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 11: HO CHI MINH CITY SIEM RIEP (B) 12th-Aug-2016
Free on your own till the private pick up to the airport for your flight to Siem Riep. Get pick up by private driver to get to the hotel in Siem Riep. Free for a day to visit Siem Riep city full of bars, restaurants, shops!
ACC: Siem Reap Somadevi Angkor Hotel 4* City Center Located - Superior Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 12: SIEM RIEP - ANGKOR WAT (B; L) 13th-Aug-2016
After breakfast, visit Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, its famous silhouette never fails to impress. It covers a huge area of 1.6 sq. km (one sq. mile) and is surrounded by a wide moat. The god-king Suryavarman II ordered the construction in the 12th century and dedicated the temple to Vishnu, the Hindu deity he identified with. The five enormous towers have the same symbolic function as other temple mountains of Angkor: they represent Mount Meru, the mythical dwelling place of Hindu gods. In the outer galleries are some of the finest and best-preserved bas-reliefs of the Khmer Art. Next stop will be Ta Prohm where the jungle has reclaimed the monuments and giant tree trunks reach through the ancient stone. Here you can get a feeling of how the first European Explorers would have found the ruins. This temple is dedicated to the mother of Jayavarman VII, constructed as a Buddhist monastery and enormously wealthy in its time. Then you will end the day with a view at Phnom Bakheng, the best spot over Angkor Wat and the outlying complex before returning to hotel.
ACC: Siem Reap Somadevi Angkor Hotel 4* City Center Located - Superior Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 13: SIEM RIEP - ANGKOR THOM (B; L) 14th-Aug-2016
After breakfast Afternoon, Depart from the hotel to visit the
Artisan d’Angkor; to see wood and stone carvers at work.
Banteay Srei, located about 25 km from the central Angkor area is exceptional in many ways, it is a small complex built in the 10th century by the spiritual mentor of
King Jayavarman V and dedicated to the
Hindu deity Shiva. Unique to
Banteay Srei is the rare pink sandstone on which are exquisite ornamental carvings of gods, demons, coiling serpents and floral garlands. Most of the bas-reliefs found on the walls depict scenes of Hindu episodes - the
Ramayana. Afternoon you will discover
Angkor Thom Complex- starting at the
South Gate of Angkor Thom,
Bayon; there are more than 200 enigmatic smiling faces on the 54 towers of the temple. Next visit the
Pyramidal Baphuon, Terrace of the
Leper Kings where some exceptionally well conserved early carvings can be seen and the
Terrace of Elephants, supported by sculpted stone elephants, it served as the giant viewing platform for royal ceremonies.
ACC: Siem Reap Somadevi Angkor Hotel 4* City Center Located - Superior Room (1 Twin + 1 Double)
DAY 14: DEPARTURE (B) 15th-Aug-2016
Free on your own till the private pick up to the airport. End of services!
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