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11 Day itinerary in Vietnam, Asia

Journey Through The World Heritage Sites In Vietnam

Spending 11 days and immerse yourself in collection of World Heritage Sites in Vietnam from historical monument and local culture to breath taking beauty natural landscapes without limit. Starting with exotic Hanoi, a city filled with thousands of years of culture, then exploring the three UNESCO He... Read More

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Overview

Physical Difficulty

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Recommended Age

Everyone

Operated in

English

GUIDANCE

On Some Day Trips

starting point

Hanoi

trip type

Private

trip attributes

Outdoors & Nature

Start

Night

End

Highlights

1

Exploring Phong Nha Ke Bang, one of the UNESCO listed heritage site

2

Experience privileged moments for your souls and hearts in Halong Bay

3

Getting involve to Vietnam authentic scenes of the countryside

4

Enjoy “A Sensual Vietnamese” where offers a unique cultural experience show

Itinerary

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Day 1

place Saturday: Hanoi Arrival

• Arrival in Ha Noi/Noi Bai International airport then transfer to hotel for check in (Check in time: 14:00) • Afternoon: Start the tour by visit outside Ho Chi Minh complex including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (The Mausoleum is closed in all afternoons, Mondays, Fridays, entire October and November for annual maintenance), his house-on-stilts, the One-Pillar pagoda and continue on to the Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam and the place dedicating to Confucian.

Guide: Included for the day

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Chic Boutique Hotel Hanoi
  • Superior Option: Hanoi Le Jardin Hotel & Spa
  • Deluxe Option: Meliá Hanoi
Day 2

place Sunday: Transfer to Ha Long Bay and Boarding Cruise

• In the morning, drive to Halong Bay – a glamorous natural wonder. Sail onboard a private junk for two days, experience privileged moments for only two souls and hearts in the middle of the legendary and mystic beauty. • Cruise through thousands of limestone cliffs, islands, visit mysterious caves, go kayaking and swim in the emerald water. Enjoy a cocktail on the deck while admiring the sunset over breathtaking scenery, followed by a gourmet dinner with fresh seafood.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Halong Glory Legend Cruise
  • Superior Option: Indochina Sails
  • Deluxe Option: Paradise Sails
Day 3

place Monday: Continue Cruising Ha Long Bay And Transfer Back To Ha Noi

• Start the day with a Taichi exercise program then breakfast is served at your preferred time. Relax on your private boat and continue exploring the bay until it’s time to return to the marina. • On the way back to Hanoi, visit But Thap ancient pagoda. • The rest time is leisure

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Snacks

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Chic Boutique Hotel Hanoi
  • Superior Option: Hanoi Le Jardin Hotel & Spa
  • Deluxe Option: Meliá Hanoi
Day 4

place Tuesday: Exploring Phong Nha National Park

• Pick up at hotel and transfer to Ha Noi airport for flight to Dong Hoi. • Meet our guide at airport and transfer to Phong Nha National Park. Take a boat trip on the Son River to visit Phong Nha cave. • Transfer to Chay Lap. Time at leisure to enjoy and explore the surrounding.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Chày Lập Farmstay
  • Superior Option: Chày Lập Farmstay
  • Deluxe Option: Chày Lập Farmstay
Day 5

place Wednesday: Visiting Paradise Cave - The Longest Dry Cave In The World

• Continue by car to visit the longest dry cave in the world, the Paradise Cave. • Proceed to Hue, on the way stop at Hien Luong Bridge, a witness of Vietnam division from 1954 to 1975. • Arrive in Hue in late afternoon.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Moonlight Hotel Hue
  • Superior Option: Eldora Hotel
  • Deluxe Option: Silk Path Grand Hue Hotel & Spa
Day 6

place Thursday: Hue Arts And Handicrafts For Wellness

• After a short drive from your hotel, take a leisurely stroll around Bao Vinh town with its lively market selling typical commodities, its charming merchant houses inviting you over for a local-style tea break. Join the old ladies with palm leaf conical hats and aromatic vegetable baskets on a ferry ride to reach the handicraft villages, where you will cycle along the flower and rice fields. Visit a local artisan making colorful Thanh Tien paper flowers. • After learning about the aesthetic and ritual aspects, try your hands crafting one and keep it for souvenir. Your exploration is prolonged through authentic scenes of the countryside, households producing objects for offerings like votive paper, incense sticks, roasted kernels, etc. Arrive at a home workshop, where Mr. Ky heartily shares his whole-life journey preserving the art of xylographic printings, the nature-based coloring that Sinh village paintings are famous for. The last stop at a centuries-old village pagoda completes the insight into the local spiritual path for wellness. Beside their worshipping practices, almost everyone needs to reside in Buddha’s teachings and blessings to gain a healthy life and to extricate from unpropitious fates. A dragon boat is waiting to slowly ride you back to modern life. The rest time is leisure.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Moonlight Hotel Hue
  • Superior Option: Eldora Hotel
  • Deluxe Option: Silk Path Grand Hue Hotel & Spa
Day 7

place Friday: Hue Imperial Citadel And Hoi An Ancient Town

• Visit the Imperial Citadel where Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945 and drive to Hoi An from Hue via Hai Van pass (If the weather permit). • Visit the Cham Museum, Marble mountain and Non Nuoc Beach before process to Hoi An • Check in at hotel, free at leisure and discover Hoi An Ancient Town by yourself

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Le Pavillon Boutique Hoi An Hotel & Spa
  • Superior Option: Hoi An Ancient House Village Resort & Spa
  • Deluxe Option: La Siesta Hoi An Resort & Spa
Day 8

place Saturday: Full Day Hoi An Rice, Herd And Fish Talks Tour

• Drive to the docks on the Co Co River where your day’s adventure will start. Board our boat to take you onto the river and head downstream towards our first fishing destination. You will have a chance to learn how to lift the big fishing net out of the water and how to spread the unique fishing net named “RO” into a professional circle to catch fish and others daily activities of the local fisherman. • Then arriving at The Coconut Palm area. Meet a local fishing family who will bring some traditional basket boats for us to board. You will be getting on a unique round boat (Basket Boat) or Thung Chai in Vietnamese. Learning the technique how to drive the round boat and start discovering the floristic composition with relaxing and then having fun with catching the special Purple Crabs. • Go for a short drive through the local countryside we arrive at Organic Herb Tra Que Village, and the home of your host, Mr Tuan. Learn about the history and customs of this charming village while we walk through the organic herb gardens where hundreds of local farmers work their fields using the traditional methods of hundreds of years ago - no electrical machinery here. • We return to the home of Mr Tuan, and this is where the real fun begins. Everyone is given farming instruments, and we set about joining the farmers in preparing the land for sewing or planting. • Many of the local herbs are used by the farmers for traditional village medicines. You will have a chance to enjoy the herbal foot massage with a real farmer concept. • Then enjoy a lovely local lunch. • The rest time is leisure.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Le Pavillon Boutique Hoi An Hotel & Spa
  • Superior Option: Hoi An Ancient House Village Resort & Spa
  • Deluxe Option: La Siesta Hoi An Resort & Spa
Day 9

place Sunday: Depart to Ho Chi Minh City

• Pick up and transfer to Da Nang airport for flight to Sai Gon. • Meet at Sai Gon airport and transfer to hotel for leaving your luggage (Check in time: 14:00) • Afternoon: Visit the War Remnants Museum - a place to display memorabilia during the Vietnam War. Continue to visit Independence Palace (Reunification Palace), a famous architectural work in Ho Chi Minh City and ranked as a special national monument. • Evening: A Sensual Vietnamese • Our guide will meet you at your hotel in Saigon city center and heading to Saigon Opera House. Live Vietnamese cultural shows with sophisticated lighting and mesmerizing live music played from 20 traditional Vietnamese instruments! Seize the opportunity to sit back and be thoroughly captivated, letting an hour fly by unheeded as your senses are taken on a visual, aural, and inspiring journey. The evening would not complete without passing on to table at a Vietnamese contemporary dining room. Typical Vietnamese dishes from Mother’s kitchen have been taken into next height with innovative fusion techniques and presentation. A feast of sights and tastes!

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: The Odys Boutique Hotel
  • Superior Option: Liberty Central Saigon Citypoint Hotel
  • Deluxe Option: Mai House Saigon Hotel
Day 10

place Monday: Ho Chi Minh - Cu Chi Tunnels

• Cu Chi is not only a peaceful countryside but also an iconic and heroic land. Its system of underground tunnels is the best proof of local people's resilience and intelligence that helped to win so many combats. You will drive 70 km southwest of Ho Chi Minh City passing through picturesque rice fields, gardens, rubber plantations. Upon arrival in Cu Chi and after a short introduction to the tunnel network of more than 200km, you will have a chance to crawl into a short section of the tunnels to feel the oppressive narrowness and heat inside. Documentaries and displays of bloody traps will give you a vivid idea of the life and struggle in the tunnels. • Transfer back to Sai Gon, relaxing until enjoy vespa tour in the afternoon • Afternoon: Sai Gon after dark • Immerse yourself into the cosmopolitan nightlife of this busy city by night. Soak up the energy of this urban metropolis at our central city location while watching the world go by, we sip on our first drinks and try out some tasty snacks. We then ride off into the night again to experience live music at two very different venues. Firstly, the laid-back atmosphere of quieter, softly lit coffee shop before heading to a lively rock bar where a new generation of Vietnamese flaunt their style. Bring a healthy appetite and a sense of adventure as our guides show you their city by night.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: The Odys Boutique Hotel
  • Superior Option: Liberty Central Saigon Citypoint Hotel
  • Deluxe Option: Mai House Saigon Hotel
Day 11

place Tuesday: Ho Chi Minh City Departure

• Free at leisure until pick up and transfer to Sai Gon airport for departure flight to next destination.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

What’s Included

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  • Chic Boutique Hotel Hanoi
  • Halong Glory Legend Cruise
  • Chày Lập Farmstay
  • Moonlight Hotel Hue
  • Le Pavillon Boutique Hoi An Hotel & Spa
  • The Odys Boutique Hotel
  • Hanoi Le Jardin Hotel & Spa
  • Indochina Sails
  • Chày Lập Farmstay
  • Eldora Hotel
  • Hoi An Ancient House Village Resort & Spa
  • Liberty Central Saigon Citypoint Hotel
  • Meliá Hanoi
  • Paradise Sails
  • Chày Lập Farmstay
  • Silk Path Grand Hue Hotel & Spa
  • La Siesta Hoi An Resort & Spa
  • Mai House Saigon Hotel

Meals expand_less

  • Breakfast (10)
  • Lunch (5)
  • Dinner (4)
  • Snacks (1)

Transport expand_less

  • • Private transfers and tours by car, minibus or coach with local English-speaking guide

Activities expand_less

  • • Entrance fees, boat fee (if any) , mineral water and towels during this tour

Extras expand_less

  • • Service charges, room tax and handling fee

Not Included expand_less

  • Domestic flights (Supplement will be applied upon request)
  • International air tickets to/from Vietnam
  • Early check in or late check out at hotel
  • Other food and beverage in addition to the above
  • Personal insurance
  • Visa letter and visa stamping fee in Vietnam
  • Expenditure of a personal nature such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, tipping…
  • Others are not mentioned or included in the program
  • Surcharge for Public Holidays in Vietnam (will be advised upon request)
  • Compulsory dinners on peak days, be subject to change without prior notice

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