Amazing Vietnam

Arrival at Noi Bai airport; once immigration has passed and your bags have been collected, we will be waiting for you at the exit for the transfer to the hotel.

At 8:30 am, departure to Mai Chau, an idyllic valley home to various ethnic groups. We will arrive at noon to have lunch at the Ecolodge where we will taste a great variety of dishes of traditional Vietnamese cuisine. At 14:30 we will start the bike tour with our guide and the local expert to explore the villages surrounded by rice fields and cultivated fields, such as corn or yucca; there we will discover the traditions of the country together with the locals. We will enjoy fruits and tea from the area with them, while they show us their houses, their customs, how regional costumes are woven and in general how they live their day to day. We will return to the resort for dinner, after which we will be able to enjoy a traditional dance performance in the open air and a typical rice wine of the area.

At 8:30 we will meet our guide and our driver to move to the place where the walk begins: Sam Pa Village. After visiting this small village, we will continue walking to Mai Ha, a town where the Thai ethnic group resides. Hidden between bamboo forests, rice fields and yucca fields, we will be able to see the traditional houses on stilts in the north. We will continue the route to Te Village, a small town nestled among the dense forests where we can share experiences with the locals to learn even more about Vietnamese culture. We will finish with a short and well-deserved rest before lunch at the Ecolodge and the subsequent transfer back to the hotel in Hanoi.

At 8:30 our guide will show us the city of Hanoi: the Temple of Literature, dedicated to Confucius and the first University of Vietnam, the Museum of Ethnology to learn about the peoples and culture of Vietnam; the Ho Chi Minh Memorial complex, we will be able to see from the outside the mausoleum where his embalmed remains rest, and we will visit the house where he lived. Also the one-pillar Pagoda, a small and curious Buddhist pagoda, unique in the world. After that we will go to Hoan Kiem Lake with its Ngoc Son Temple, where our guide will tell us the story of the turtle and the sword. In the old quarter, we will taste a peculiar coffee (not included, 40000VND), and we will begin to explore it by walking through the 36 streets to know the day-to-day life of the capital.

At 7: 30/8: 00 land transfer to Halong Bay, which means a falling dragon. Upon our arrival around 12:00, boarding at the Junco, after the welcome drink, the cruise will begin to discover the bay, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. Once the navigation has started, the crew will serve lunch and after a short rest to enjoy the views on the deck, we will disembark to visit Hon Co beach and its hidden cave. We will be able to do a kayak ride among the rock formations and on our return there will be an exhibition of Vietnamese cuisine before dinner. To end the day we will have a party on deck and for the most curious, squid fishing! Night on board.

The day begins at dawn with Tai Chi exercises on deck, followed by breakfast as we head back to the bay. We will disembark at the typical sampan to know a floating fishing village, its way of life and customs; We will sail to contemplate the landscape from a new perspective. Back in our junk we will receive a Vietnamese cooking class with the crew. While we have lunch the junco will be able to head back to the bay. Ground transfer from Halong to Hanoi and at the agreed time at the reception of your hotel, transfer to the airport for the flight to Danang, from where we will transfer you to the hotel.

Today at 9:00 a.m. departure to the Marble Mountains, whose names represent each of the 5 elements. At the top of the Thuy Son mountain, we will discover the Linh Nham cave; the Tam Thai pagoda, and the beautiful Linh Ung pagoda, with the Xa Loi Tower and its spectacular views; also the Am Phu cave, known as the cave of hell because of the steepness of the entrance. We will leave for Hoian, recognized as a World Heritage Site, where we will walk, dropping by the houses, temples and markets that surround the Thu Bon River; the Japanese covered bridge, which separated the Japanese from the Chinese district; the House of Phung Hung, residence of one of the richest families of Hoian; the Tan Ky house where we can appreciate the traditional architecture of the seventeenth century; the chapel of the Tran Family, an influential Chinese family; and the Cantonese assembly hall.

Free morning to enjoy Hoian at your own pace, its historic center, its beach,... At 15:00 transfer by road to the hotel in Hue. Ask us about the options to visit the Golden Bridge in Ba Na Hills.

At 9:00 we will leave to visit the ancient capital of the empire full of palaces, monuments, gardens, history and gastronomy. We will sail by dragon along the Perfume River to the Thien Mu Pagoda, an elegant octagonal tower with seven levels. We will visit La Ciudadela, a great fortress built in the seventeenth century by order of Emperor Gia Long. In its interior we will visit 3 enclosures, The Imperial City, The Civic City or Capital and The Forbidden Purple City, in which the only man authorized to enter was the Emperor. After the Citadel, we will visit the Imperial Tombs of Tu Duc, the most beautiful in all of Hue that was used by Emperor Tu Duc as a summer palace and a place of spiritual retreat; and Khai Dinh, built as a monument and mausoleum. After that, we will go to the airport for the flight to Ho Chi Minh, and later transfer to the hotel.

At 8:30 we will leave for My Hiep, Dong Thap province. We will tour the Mekong canals to Xeo Quyt. This former guerrilla base is located in the city of Cao Lanh, with an area of ​​50 hectares, of which 20 are mangroves. It was the base of the revolutionary Committee of popular leaders of the province, resistance against the Americans. In the afternoon we will continue to Sa Dec, a small and quiet town that was the setting for the autobiographical novel "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras. We will walk through its market, not very crowded and authentic near the river and we will discover a lot of architecture from the colonial era, as well as numerous old mansions and merchant houses. One of these houses belonged to the protagonist of the novel and has been traditionally restored. After the visit we will continue to Can Tho, where we will stay.

At 5:00 we will leave Can Tho, the most populated city in the delta and known as the rice pantry of Vietnam, to go to the Phong Dien market, and the Cai Rang floating market, one of the most popular in the Delta, despite Not being the largest is the one with the most commercial activity with hundreds of boats, ships, and even canoes packed with fruits, vegetables, rice, clothes, ... It is curious to see how ships that sell the same products tend to group. Then we can visit a local house with its fruit orchard, its bomb crater converted into a lake, (which today supplies the family with fish) and there we will taste some of the varieties of seasonal fruit. We will return on our boat to Can Tho, where we will visit the local market and from there we will go back to Ho Chi Minh.

On your last day on Vietnam, at the agreed time, transfer to the airport for your return flight. End of our services. Good flight!