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VIETNAM INSPIRATION 10 DAYS
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Vietnam - Hanoi & surrounding areas, Halong Bay, Da Nang, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh & surrounding areas
03:00
Day 1: Good morning Hanoi
Chao Ban! Welcome to Hanoi, we meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel for check-in. Today is free at your leisure to rest or explore, discovering your own first impressions of Vietnam (depending on what time you arrive). Overnight in Hanoi.
Inclusion: Transfer, hotel (Center Point Hotel – Deluxe room)
09:00
Day 2: Hanoi, visit the hidden heritage and cyclo to see The Old Quarter
Depart at 8:00 AM from your hotel by van. We begin our day by visiting Uncle Ho at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and residential grounds learning about his great life. Next stop is the nearby Temple of Literature, the site of Vietnam´s first University. Here we also have a chance to see a traditional music performance. Lunch is served at a local restaurant for a taste of authentic Hanoi Pho (noodle soup).
In the afternoon, choose from one of the numerous museums or temples around Hanoi (Museum of Ethnology, Women´s Museum, History Museum or Quan Thanh Temple).
In the late afternoon, take a cyclo trip around Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi´s fascinating Old Quarter. This is your chance to be in the midst of typical Hanoi an life and Vietnamese culture. We finish our relaxing but informative day by attending a Water Puppet Show - a favorite experience for all visitors to Vietnam. We can help you to get back to your hotel if you wish, but often our guests would rather just spend the evening enjoying a drink with a view of the city. Tour finishes at about 4:30 PM. Dinner on your own.
Inclusion: Transfer, guide, entrance fee, lunch, puppet show ticket, Vietnam cyclo ride, (Center Point Hotel – Deluxe room)
09:00
Day 3: Hanoi – Ha Long, welcome on the boat
Departure for Ha Long Bay is around 8:00 AM in a shared van (about 4 hours) from your hotel. Arrive at the port around noon. Welcomed on board, you are taken to your cabin before the trip briefing. You enjoy a fresh and local seafood lunch while cruising to explore the magic Bai Tu Long Bay. Stop for a swim and visit the mysterious cave. Relax at our secluded island-beach or explore by kayak. Later you return back to the boat just in time to watch the beautiful sunset from the top deck before enjoying the bay’s freshest seafood dinner.
Inclusion: Transfer, guide on boat, morning shower, entrance fee, kayak, boat / junk, all meals, permits, boat (White Dolphin Cruise)
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Day 4: Explore Bai Tu Long bay, back to Hanoi - Night train to Danang
Early risers can enjoy the sunrise and the quiet breath-taking beauty of Bay’s landscape with towering limestone. You have breakfast at around 8:00 AM before our short rowboat by the locals of the bay.
Lunch on the boat as we slowly cruise back to boat pier. Hit the road, stopping for a water puppet show at a traditional Vietnamese village before arriving back to Hanoi around 5:30 PM.
Hotel then pick up around 6:30 PM for the night train to Hue. Boarding is at 7:30 PM. You are in a shared AC soft sleeper cabin.
Inclusion: Transfers, guide on boat, entrance fee, boat/junk, breakfast, lunch, train ticket (Livitrans Express – shared cabin)
09:00
Day 5: Danang – Hoi An
Arrival in Danang at around 11.30 AM. Station pick up then transfer to your hotel in Hoi An.
Our afternoon is continued with sightseeing to the famous cultural sites around Hoian, we end our trip at around 5:00 PM at your hotel.
Inclusion: Transfer, guide, entrance fee, hotel (Hoa Mi Hotel – Deluxe room)
08:00
Day 6: Hoi An free
Your fee day in Hoi An to spend as you wish.
Inclusion: Breakfast and hotel (Hoa Mi Hotel – Deluxe room)
10:00
Day 7: Hoian – HCM City
Breakfast at the hotel then transfer to the airport in Da Nang for an early morning flight to HCM City. Touchdown then transfer and check-in to your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Inclusion: Transfer, breakfast, domestic flight ticket, hotel (Elios Hotel – Superior room)
08:00
Day 8: Cu Chi tunnels – city tour (joining tour)
Get started at 8:30 AM from your hotel venturing out to the Cu Chi countryside. See what life was like for the guerrilla warriors who lived and fought underground during the war. Crawl through 50 m of the 200 km tunnel system below. This morning will also see a visit to a rice paper workshop.
In the afternoon see the real HCM City through the eyes of a local. Visit the bustling Cho Lon market and a hidden Chinese pagoda, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Central Post Office, and City Hall. We drop you off at your hotel around 5:30 PM.
Inclusion: Transfer, guide, entrance fee, breakfast, lunch and hotel (Elios Hotel – Superior room)
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Day 9: HCM City – Visit the fertile Mekong delta (joining tour)
Getting started at 8:00 AM from your hotel, then a drive about 70 km out of HCM City to see Mekong Delta life around My Tho. Upon arrival Ben Tre, drift down the busy branches of the Mekong and into its peaceful canals. We visit a brick kiln and a coconut shell husking workshop. See the daily life of farmers and try the hard work taking shell of the coconut that is unique to the region.
More boat cruise inner the natural waterways, we visit a coconut-candy workshop, a main product that made Ben Tre famous then visit a local market and farmer workshop making sleeping mats, an old tradition hand weaving sedge mat or rush mat.
And now, the Mekong adventure is on, see what life is really like for locals by explore this quiet island by bicycle or more relaxing way by hop on a Lambretta triporteur an old 1960 traditional tricycle in south Vietnam which is winding around the coconut palms, bitter melon or cucumber farms to a farmer house that we break for lunch and relax.
In the afternoon, we walk a bit more of coconut farms and fruit orchards of this village then enjoy the local hand – rowing sampan slowly cruise under the canopy of water coconut palms along the canals. Our boat picks us again and cruises back to the boat landing in Ben Tre town. Head back to HCM City. Tour ends around 5:00 PM.
Inclusion: Transfer, guide, entrance fee, local boat trip, breakfast, lunch, hotel (Elios Hotel – Superior room)
03:00
Day 14: Departure HCM City, Goodbye Vietnam
Breakfast at hotel. Depending on your flight you may have some more time for shopping. Then we transfer you to the airport for your flight home. Goodbye, and hope to see you again soon!
Inclusion: Transfer, breakfast.