VAT.FS10 – 11D10N – Saigon – Hoian – Bana – Hanoi – Halong

Pick up at the airport and transfer to center, check in hotel. Free time for leisure. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

Get a chance to taste the real Vietnam and let the splendid views cover your senses. This trip allows you to visit the local factories and see how local products are made. Also, you will meet the friendly local people and have a lot of wonderful experiences on land and at the river while see the floating fish market and fish farm. Let’s discover a hard-working land with traditional people, which will give you more appreciation on life!
7h30 a.m Our tour guide welcome you at Vietnam Adventure Tours office, then transfer to the City of My Tho by bus. During 1.5 hours bus drive to My Tho join activities of local people and enjoy nice scenery of green rice paddy fields. We visit Vinh Trang pagoda – biggest pagoda in Mekong delta. Continue going to My Tho, where we take a boat trip along Mekong River. During a boat cruise along Mekong River, you can see fish cages, floating houses on the river.
The boat take you to small canal, where is the place you totally escape from the busy town. The boat cruise in the coconut trees canal takes you to a coconut island in Ben Tre. We disembark and have a walk around the village. Stop at a local family to enjoy tropical fruit, taste honey tea, honey wine and listen to Vietnamese traditional music, performance by the villagers.
Continue walking on the village’s road to coconut candy shop, learn how to make candy, show some handicraft made by coconut tree. Take a walk through village with two sides there are so many kind of fruits, flowers, trees, local houses, children in Mekong delta, take your time to have nice photos and enjoy nature scenery. Then, we head to the local restaurant. Lunch is set with special Vietnamese food at here. Enjoy lunch under tree shadow you will feel the life is so beautiful.
After lunch you relax half an hour to walk around the village or biking, travel on the river to back the ferry, transit to the bus back Saigon, arriving in Saigon at around 4:30pm. Tour ends with the sweet memories.
Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

08:30 We depart from Ho Chi Minh City to Cu Chi Tunnels for 60km from Ho Chi Minh City. Cu Chi is now considered a heroic district for its role in the anti – American war in Vietnam. It is legendary for its tunnels system of over 220 km and is a popular spot for both Vietnamese and foreigner.
The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery contains ducks and water buffalos swimming in the rivers along the side of road. You will find it hard to imagine the destructions, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines, when Cu Chi was “A Free Target Zone “. The remnants you will see that Cu Chi still has her evidence to prove the fierce battleground that took place there. Ever wonder what it feels like to fire an AK-47? Visit Cu chi tunnels, you have a chance to find out!
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

Have breakfast at hotel. The driver transfer to the airport, take a flight to Da Nang (Hoi An).
Check in hotel, free to discover the ancient town: Japanese Bridge, lantern road, traditional tailor shop, enjoy the specialities. Besides, you can view sunset at Cua Dai beach.
Spend overnight in Hoi An.

OPTION 1: MYSON HOLYLAND
8:30 Bus and guide pick up at your hotel. Depart for My Son – located in a lush valley, My Son was a capital and religious center of Cham people, now remaining with redbrick towers and sanctuaries. My Son, considered in the same league as some of Southeast Asia’s greatest archaeological sites, including Angkor in Cambodia, Bagan in Myanmar, Ayutthaya in Thailand and Borobudur in Indonesia. These towers and sanctuaries were built from the 7 to 13centuries. Upon arrival, spend 2 hours in My Son, enjoy the Champa dance performance and visit the old beauty and stunning structures of the Cham monority Kingdom six centuries ago.
Then leave My Son for Can Cau boat station. Take a motorized boat excursion to visit Thanh Ha pottery village where you can learn and enjoy the daily life of Thanh Ha people. Observing the steps of making a pottery product: vase, pot, kettle, cooking pot,… Embark on the boat for going back to the port.OPTION 2: PLANTATION, COOKING CLASS, MAKE LANTERN, BIKING AT VILLAGE
8:30 Am
Depart at your hotel, you will ride by bicycle to the home of a craftsman in the old street in Hoi An Town. Where you will discover the daily life of Hoi An people and see how they make a lantern. You will have a chance to enjoy making the lantern and keep it as a souvenir.
Join cooking class and have a lunch.Continue biking to Tra Que Vegetable Village, experience a day of living and working with the local farmers in this village. You will take a trip around the vegetable garden and join the farmers in preparing the land and fertilizing it with seaweed from the local lake. Continue doing activities such as: raking, sowing, watering greens, picking greens and many more gardening activities.
Biking back to your hotel, end tour. End of services. Finish your VietNam Life in Hoi An.
Overnight in Hoi An.

07.30am Depart for Ba Na Hills, pass the sea-shore on Nguyen Tat Thanh street, one of the most beautiful roads of Da Nang City and Red Beach, where the French first landed in Da Nang. Arrive the cable car station at the foot of Bà Nà Mountain. Enjoy the first leg Cable car, which achieve two Guinness World Records in 2009, longest non-stop cable car (5,042m) and highest non-stop cable car (1,292m). Sitting in the cabin, in mid air, looking upon the endless tree line of the forests, bring you with spectacular views of the lush jungle and Fairy waterfalls along the way. Experiencing the pristine ecological system of the Bà Nà Mountains will leave you a sense of unforeseeable discovery. Visit the Le Jardin, old wineries, remains of French Villas and Linh Ung Pagoda with 27m high Buddha statue. Leave the Le Jardin for the second cable car station to visit the top of mountain and see the remains of old villas. Conquer the Peak of Chua Mountain at the height of 1.487m. View the whole Da Nang City under the cluster of white clouds. Leave Peak of Chua Mountain, visit the trail of Dreaming Stream, Rainbow Waterfall, Suspension Bridge, Golden Valley, and ruined Opera House.
Afternoon: Have a sightseeing and enjoy many games at Fantasy Park (fee extra, the greatest indoor entertainment in Viet Nam)
Have lunch at restaurant, play with wild monkeys and take photos. Freely. Return to cable car station at the foot of Ba Na Mountain. Back Da Nang hotel, check in and free time.
Spend overnight in Da Nang.

After breakfast, you are free until airport transfer. You take a flight to Hanoi and stay in a touristic area of Hanoi Old Quarter. Discover an old quarter in the afternoon at free time.
Overnight in Ha Noi.

(Your hotel – Tuan Chau marina – Halong bay – Lunch – Amazing cave – Isolated peaceful lagoon for swimming – Local wine appetizer – Dinner – Onboard night activities)
07.45 – 08.15 approx
– Our guide will meet you at your hotel. The shuttle bus or private car pick up
– Enjoy the peaceful scenery as we travel through the countryside, farmlands and Red River delta
– Get your camera ready to take photos. Comfort break. The time from Hanoi to Halong bay is approximately 3 ½ hours.

12 – 12.30 approx
– Arriving Tuan Chau marina. Welcome aboard the cruise. Refresh with our welcome drink. Meet the captain, crew in the cruise briefing
– Check into your cabin. Time to refresh and unwind
– Set sail as lunch is served
– Join us for a typical local lunch in the dining room or at the outdoor dining area. Mingling yourself in the stunning views of the Bay and it’s dramatic limestone islets as we sail through the calm emerald waters heading to Maze cave

Afternoon
– Arrive at Amazing cave (hang Sửng Sốt), explore the cave and find out how the cave was named Amazing.
– Reach to the peak point of the cave for a breath taking panoramic view of the bay
– Back to the boat, our cruise will take you to a stunning tranquilizing isolated lagoon for swimming or just simply relaxing on the boat with our spa service and mingle in the picturesque seascape.
– Heading back toward the sleeping area

Early evening
– Summit on the sundeck watching the sunset, enjoy our pre-dinner local wine appetizer. It’s ideal time to make acquaintance with new friends, sharing your traveling experience or simply watching the sunset
– An authentic Vietnamese menu is served
– After dinner, reward yourself with a large selection of cocktails at our bar, or take for you one of our onboard activities: book reading, games, movies, and squid fishing

(Tai Chi – Breakfast – Vạn Giá floating fishing village – Cooking Demonstration – Lunch – Farewell at your hotel)
06:30
For the early risers join us for a Tai Chi session on the sundeck. Tai chi helps focus the mind and condition the body, joining Tai Chi session to full charge your energy for the day.

07:00 – 08:00
Local breakfast is served

08:00
– Our guide will brief you information and the highlights about this fascinating floating village and its local community
– Take your option either exploring the village yourself on kayak or comfortably capture the daily life of the fishermen on bamboo boat rowed by the locals.

09:00
Check out the cabins, at your leisure while our cruise taking you pass by other beautiful highlights in the bay.

10:00
You will join with our short class of Cooking demonstration, how to make spring rolls before an early lunch is served.

12:00
Return to the shore and disembark from the cruise as our crew say farewell.
Transfer to minibus or private and return to Hanoi.
Arrival back at your hotel approximately 16:30
Overnight in Ha Noi.

8:00 AM, Our guide and car will pick you up at hotel then we start driving along Hanoi Old Quarter to visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Museum. We have chance to enjoy the architectural and historical aspects of Uncle Ho’s final resting-place here. Just next door is Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts. Lying to one side of the Mausoleum is the One Pillar Pagoda founded by King Ly Thai To in 1049.Its structure has become an important symbol for the people of Hanoi.
The next journey is to visit Quan Thanh Temple (Taoist, dating from the Ly Dynasty)
After that, we will enjoy lunch time at a restaurant before continue to go to the Ethnology Museum, and then head to the Literature Temple and Quoc Tu Giam_ Vietnam’s first university constructed in 1070, it’s gardens and well-preserved architecture offers a relaxing glimpse into Vietnam’s past.
Final destination is Ngoc Son Temple for enjoying Hoan Kiem Lake with overview. Then we will be leisure and ended services.

Have breakfast at hotel. Relax time in Ha Noi until transfer to the airport for the flight back home. See you again!