Price from: $US907
Duration: 12 days
Tour route: Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnel – Mekong Delta –
Hoi An – Hanoi – Dong Trieu – Halong Bay – Sapa – Hanoi.
Tour overview:
On this 12 days trip, visitors will discover and admire the
most beautiful scenery from South to North of Vietnam. The interesting
destination like: Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta, Red River Delta, Hoi An,
Halong Bay, Sapa....will bring many special surprises for the trip.
BRIEF ITINERARY:
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city – Arrival
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city tour – Cu Chi tunnel
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh city – Vinh Long (home-stay)
Day 4: Vinh Long - Ho Chi Minh City – Fly to Danang, transfer
to Hoi An
Day 5: Hoi An – Walking tour
Day 6: Hoi An – Danang - Fly to Hanoi – Transfer to Dong
Trieu (paddy home with soft cycling)
Day 7: Dong Trieu – Halong Bay (overnight on deluxe junk
cruise)
Day 8: Halong Bay – Hanoi
Day 9: Hanoi – City tour – Night train to Sapa
Day 10: Sapa
Day 11: Sapa – Night train to Hanoi
Day 12: Hanoi – Departure
Detail Itinerary:
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city – Arrival (D)
Transfer via: International Flight on your own arrangement
Accommodation: Sapphire Luxury hotel
Site visited: Ben Thanh market, Cho Lon, Chinese town and
market
Up on arrival in Ho Chi Minh city, we are welcome by Asia
Charm Tours’s tour guide at the airport, then we transfer to our hotel in
central city. Check in hotel and relax.
In the afternoon, we will visit Cho Lon, Chinese town and
market. Here we can experience our Vietnamese Southern daily life.
In the evening, we enjoy our welcome dinner at a fine local
restaurant in town. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city tour – Cu Chi tunnel (B, L)
Accommodation: Sapphire Luxury hotel
Site visited: Notre Dame cathedral, General Post Office,
Formal Presidential Palace, Museum of War Remnants, Cu Chi Tunnel
After breakfast at hotel, at 8:00, we depart our hotel for
the Reunification Palace, the former Presidential Palace for the president of
the South of Vietnam. After that we will visit War Remnant Museum, where we can
see countless artifacts, photographs and pictures documenting about the second
Indochina war. We also stop at Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post
office to get good shots for our memory of the big, modern
city of Vietnam. Our delicious lunch will be served at a nice restaurant in the
central city.
After lunch, we will leave Saigon for the Cu Chi tunnels,
otherwise known as the "Iron Triangle" or "Iron Land". On
our way there we will drive through pleasant countryside; rubber plantations
and rice paddies. Before entering the tunnels, we will see a short introductory
video showing how they were constructed, followed by an exploration of the maze
of tunnels, some of which have been widened to allow tourist access. Also on
display are various mantraps and the remains of an American tank as well as
numerous bomb craters made by 500lb bombs dropped by B52 bombers. After that we
transfer back to Ho Chi Minh city. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Accommodation: Ut Trinh home-stay or equivalent
This morning, we transfer to Cai Be where we will enjoy our
boat trip around Cai Be colorful floating market with various local barges full
of fruits and vegetables.
After the market we stop at local workshops to visit rice
paste, coconut candy, pop-rice, pop-corn production or we visit the handicraft
village where the local people make special products of rice-net for spring
rolls, fish sauce, soya sauce, cooking salt, sewing coconut-leaves for cottage
roof…. Then we stop for lunch.
In the afternoon, the rowing boat will take us deeper into
the countryside along the canals. It’s time we feel the peaceful air while
passing traditional houses which made of wood, palm tree leaves; farmers
catching fishes or picking up fruits by ancestral way in Mekong Delta. Arriving
at home-stay, we check in and enjoy the last but not least activity of the day
is biking. It will be so amazing to bike on village paths to see the local
farms, houses, real life and the ancestral ways to pick up fruits in Mekong
Delta..
In the rest of the day, we learn cooking some dishes with the
owners, then enjoy dinner and have cup of tea or rice wine when talking
together. We can ask the locals about the culture, people, and history of this
Island. They do not mind to answer some personal questions. Overnight in a
private room of local house
Day 4: Vinh Long - Ho Chi Minh city – Fly to Danang, transfer
to Hoi An (B, L)
Transfer via: Vietnam Airlines – Asia Charm Tours’s
arrangement
Accommodation: Vinh Hung 2 hotel
Have a breakfast and walk along the village to enjoy the
fresh air in the morning; after that, we take boat trip to visit the brick
kilns where we can see how the local people create beautiful potteries from
clay.
Our boat will go along the floating village where we will see
how the people farm catfish on Mekong river. Stop boat trip, we can visit Vinh
long market in the town. This is the best choice for us to take pictures of
fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs, snakes, rice-field rats, tropical fruits,
vegetable...
Then we transfer back to Saigon airport for our flight to
Danang. Arriving in Danang, we are welcome by another tour guide and transfer
to Hoi An. Check in and relax. Overnight in Hoi An.
Day 5: Hoi An – Walking tour (B)
Accommodation: Vinh Hung 2 hotel
Site visited: Hoi An Town
At 8:30, with the tour guide picks up; we will start walking
tour around the ancient town to visit the Japanese Covered Bridge, the Pottery
Museum, Tan Ky old house, the Cantonese congregation, the silk street of Hoi
An, the temples and pagodas of Chinese appearance. In the afternoon, we are
free at our leisure. Overnight in Hoi An.
Transfer via: Vietnam Airlines – Asia Charm Tours’s
arrangement
Accommodation: Dong Trieu paddy home
Sites visited: paddy field, local people activities….
Morning today, we transfer back to Danang for our flight to
Hanoi. After 1 hour flight, we arrive at Hanoi airport where Hanoi tour guide
is waiting for you.
Then we will leave Hanoi behind for Dong Trieu town, which is
located 120 km Northwest of Hanoi and pass through the green fields of the Red
River Delta. On the way we will have a chance to visit one of the Humanity
Centers, which support local disabled children. Arriving at Dong Trieu town we
will be introduced to our Japanese push bikes and then cycle through this
peaceful area of country lanes and rice fields. We will also visit some
schools, Dong Trieu's ceramic villages, and chat with the local people. This
evening we will become the guests of a local family.
Day 7: Dong Trieu – Halong Bay (overnight on deluxe junk
cruise) (B, L, D)
Accommodation: Classic Sail cruise
Sites visited: Halong Bay
Today we bid farewell to our local family hosts and leave for
Ha Long Bay, the spectacular World Heritage Site. Arrive in Halong around
12:00. The crew welcomes you on board the CLASSIC SAIL. Enjoy welcome drink,
check-in to your cabin. Lunch with fresh seafood is served at 1:30pm. Starting
cruise into mystic Halong Bay to see the amazing karsts with different
formations: Incense Burner, Finger Islet, Fighting Cock, Stone Dog…Stop in
floating fishing village- Van Gia village with its unique way of life for
kayaking
under trolling around the cave. Then head to the island for
swimming, sun bathing, kayaking through Bright and Dark Caves. There will be
traditional games available for evening entertainment. Dinner and overnight on
CLASSIC SAIL junk.
Day 8: Halong Bay – Hanoi (B)
Accommodation: Hanoi Sky hotel
Sites visited: Halong Bay
Enjoy sunrise in the bay with a cup of tea or coffee with
light breakfast. Sitting on the upper deck, you can relax while taking in the
breath-taking beauty of the rocky islands rising from the crystal-clear water
of the bay. After breakfast take 1 hour walking around one of the biggest and
most beautiful cave in Ha Long Bay.: Amazing Cave. Check out from 10:00 to
10:30. Cruising back to the jetty while brunch is served from 10:30 to 11:30.
We continue cruising through the bay, along the way seeing more of the
fascinating formations. Board arrives at harbor by 12:00 for the drive back to
Hanoi.
Day 9: Hanoi – City tour – Night train to Sapa (B, L)
Transfer via: King Express or Fansipan Express – Asia Charm
Tours’s arrangement
Sites visited: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the Presidential
Palace, the Ho Chi Minh museum, One pillar pagoda, The Temple of Literature,
The Museum of Ethnology….
Today we start our one day city tour from the lobby of the
hotel. We will drive to Ho Chi Minh Complex, where we will spend a couple of
hour to visit: Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, his former stilt-house residence, the
Presidential Palace, the Ho Chi Minh museum and one pillar pagoda. Keep going
to see the Temple of Literature: Originally built as a temple to Confucius,
this is the
site of Vietnam's first university dating back to 1070. The
temple highlights the importance that Vietnamese society placed then and now on
education.
Lunch will be at a fine local restaurant in Hanoi.
In the afternoon, we will visit one of the most interesting
museums in Vietnam; Museum of Ethnology, which is widely acknowledged as the
best in the country and has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam's 54
Ethnic minority peoples. Following by that we will wander around the city by car
to see the real life of Hanoian as well as the difference parts the city. Then
we go back to hotel for short relax before transferring to Hanoi Railways
station for our night train to Sapa. Overnight on train. Note: Train departs
Hanoi at around 20:30 and arrive Lao Cai Railways station at around 06:30
Day 10: Lao Cai – Sapa - Cat Cat – Sapa - Trekking distance:
5km (B)
Accommodation: Holiday View hotel
Sites visited: Cat Cat village, Sapa town…
The train arrives at the Lao Cai train station at
approximately 06:30. There will be a vehicle waiting to transfer us to Sapa.
Driving to Sapa is only 38 km but it takes around one hour to make our way up
the mountains. Once at Sapa, we will check into the hotel (if the room is
available – check in time after 12:00). After freshening up and having
breakfast we are ready to explore Sapa town. We embark on a lovely walking tour
to the hill tribe village of Cat Cat, home of the H'Mong hill tribe minority
people. As we walk to the villages nestled in the valley below Sapa we will
meet some of the local minority people on their way to and from Sapa. Here we
have the opportunity to share cultural experiences with families that live in
the area. Overnight in Sapa.
Transfer via: King Express or Fansipan Express – Asia Charm
Tours’s arrangement
Sites visited: Lao Chai village, Ta Van village
Breakfast in the hotel we then, embark on a lovely trek that
will take usalong buffalo paths and trails and through several hills tribe
villagesLao Chai & Ta Van, home to Black H'mong, and Dzay people. This is
an absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by some of
the friendliest people you can meet. Once on the valley floor you can really
appreciate the wonderful scenery that surrounds you. The walls of the valley
are covered with multi-layered rice terraced fields and scattered villages.
Return to Sapa and then to Lao Cai railway station by car. The guide sees you
off there and takes you on the train.
Day 12: Hanoi – Departure (B)
Transfer via: International Flight on your own arrangement
Arriving at Hanoi Railways station at around 4:30AM, we will
transfer to a hotel for our short relax and enjoy our breakfast before
transferring back to the airport for our flight to home. Trip ends.
Please kindly contact us for the detail:
Asia Charm Tours
Head office: 20 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi, VIETNAM.
Tel: (+844) 3929 0712 - Fax: (+844) 3929 0713
Hotline: (+84)906.288.138 - Email: info@asiacharmtours.com
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Please kindly contact us for the detail:
Asia Charm Tours
Head office: 20 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi, VIETNAM.
Tel: (+844) 3929 0712 - Fax: (+844) 3929 0713
Hotline: (+84)906.288.138 - Email: info@asiacharmtours.com
http://www.sapa-tours.net/
http://asiacharmtours.com/
http://www.vietnamhalongcruise.com/
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