UNIQUELY VIETNAM VACATION - 17 DAYS

Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport, our private Vietnam Tour guide and driver will welcome your Vietnam Holiday, pick up and transfer  to the hotel for check in. 
Free at leisure and overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

If you wish to see a mixture of culture and history, join us in our private day trip to Cu Chi Tunnels and Cao Dai Temple.
After breakfast, our tour guide and driver will pick up and transfer you to Cu Chi tunnels (km from Ho CHi Minh city). Upon arrival Cu Chi tunnels, you will have a chance to see the underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese fighters during their struggle for independence Cu Chi Tunnels where you will understand more about the Vietnam War or American War.
After that, we move to Cao Dai temple at 12:00 this is the time for all of people to attend the Caodaism ritual praying. The Temple with its ceremonies is a unique example of the combination of the Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam.
Overnight in a Ho Chi Minh hotel.

Boarding at Can Tho at Ninh Kieu pier. Welcome drink, introduction to the ship and crew, check into the cabins. Departure downstream of the Hau river. Lunch on board while en route.
Tour near Tra On floating market.
Turning into Nicolai canal, towards the Mang Thit and Co Chien rivers. Rest on the upper deck in a scenery of rice fields, sugar cane, woods on the near banks.
By mid-afternoon, the Bassac casts anchor for a visit on shore: past the first tree line, quiet discovery of the peaceful life in the delta's countryside, of rice fields, fruit trees and the welcoming inhabitants.
Boarding back, complimentary drink as a welcome back on board. Rest on the deck or around the bar enjoying the sunset.
The crew serves dinner while the Bassac is cruising Mang Thit river towards her anchorage point for the night.
The Bassac sets anchor for the night on river Mang Thit.

06:30 Departure towards Cai Be. The passengers take their breakfast while enjoying the scenery on the banks.
The Bassac crosses Co Chien river then branches into Cho Lach canal for 30 minutes through the traffic of sand and rice barges, in a scenery of fruit drying facilities and wooden ship building yards.
Arrival near Cai Be, check-out and transfer to a rowing boat for a quiet visit through a small canal.
Rendez-vous with a local boat, which will take you to shore for a visit of Cai Be's handicraft.
End of services by mid-morning on shore at Cái Bè.
Please note you will leave the Bassac for good upon boarding the small boat for the last visit, typically about 8:30. Pick up and drive back to HCM.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh hotel.

Free at leisure until we pick you up and transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for flight to Danang city (operated by Vietnam Airlines), where takes a short transfer to Hoi An ancient town.
Overnight in Hoi An.

We will pick you up at your hotel to Hoi An market by car or taxi at predetermined time.
Here, the Chef will lead you into the market and will introduce you to the dishes on the menu.
Do you have any allergies and are there any healthy ingredients on the menu? The chef will guide you how to choose fresh fruit, clean food and how to identify. After buying some ingredients from the cooking class menu.
At this time, you will get on a big boat, go along the Thu Bon River to reach the coconut forest, fishing village, where you will be taught how to catch for purple crab by local people. On the river is a scene of a fishing village that is caught by local fishermen and brought to the market to sell. Arriving at Cam Thanh village, you will be transported by basket boat of local people. Here they will teach you how to catch purple crabs and how to make rings or locusts, or flowers … from the leaves of nipa.
About 40 minutes by basket boat, you will return to our restaurant and the chef will guide you. You learn how to cook your own dishes. At the restaurant, cooking and enjoying your own dishes takes place over two hours. End of tour and car or taxi take you back to the hotel.

Free day at leisure and discover Hoian ancent town on your own way.
This evening, you will enjoy Hoi An Memories Show that is a new but really outstanding outdoor performance that is scale up to a capacity of 3,300 people. It is featured with Vietnam traditional Ao Dai, the graceful and prosperous Hoi An Ancient Trading Port since 400 years ago. Our tour guide will give you the tickets one day before and you will go on your own. The theatre is just around 2-3Km from your hotel that you can access easily.
Overnight in a Hoi An hotel.

After breakfast, we leave Hoi An for Hue, the old capital city of Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty ruled from 1802 to 1945.
In Hue, we will visit the Imperial Citadel giving you a better understanding of the beauty of Vietnamese Royal architecture and culture.
Then taking beautiful dragon boat trip along Perfume River before visiting  Thien Mu Pagoda – one of the most popular attractions in Hue. 
Back to your hotel at around 17:00 and overnight in Hue. 

Breakfast at hotel!
Check out then continue visiting King Khai Dinh Tomb.The tomb was started building in 1920 and it takes 11 years to be completed. The truth is that the rulers had to raise national tax to 30% in order to complete the tomb. The prominent features of Khai Dinh tomb is about the intermingling of oriental and occidental, roman and gothic, ancient and modern.
Around noon, transfer back to Hue airport for flight to Hanoi. Upon your arrival at Noi Bai airport, pick up and transfer to your hotel for check-in. 
Overnight in Hanoi.

Today, we will start the city tour with the first stop is Ho Chi Minh Complex including Ho Chi Minh Mausuleum the place to commemorate the great hero - the old father of the Vietnamese nation, who read the declaration of independence on Ba Dinh square on 2nd September, 1945.
Next to is the Presidential Palace and house on stilts - where our Uncle Ho worked when he was alive. Nearby is One pillow Pagoda - special with unique architecture of lotus flower that you can not miss in your journey.
Continue the trip by transfering to Temple of Literature which was the first university in Vietnam. It was constructed in 1070. Initially, the school was only for the children of the king and the children of the great nobles ( called Quoc Tu),  and nowadays to celebrate the doctorates and ranked scholars of Vietnam.
Have lunch at local restaurant on your own account.
In the afternoon, we will visit Museum of Ethnology - preserve and display many cultural artifacts of all 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam . If you do not have the opportunity to explore the whole our beautiful country you can imagine how beautiful are our people.
Before ending a meaningful trip today, we will take an hour cyclo trip to explore Hanoi old quarter with 36 different streets and enjoy and amazing Water Puppet show - a typical cultural and artistic feature of Vietnam's wet rice agriculture.
Overnight in Hanoi!

06:40am: The staff of hotel will help you to arrange a taxi  to transfer you to Sapa Express bus station where you will start 5,5 hours drive to Sapa.
Coffee break on the way then continue to Sapa at 12:30
Upon your arrival Sapa, the local tour guide and driver there will pick up and transfer you to hotel for check in.
Lunch on your own account.
In the afternoon, our driver and guide come back to pick you up for the trip to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H'Mong minority to enjoy cool air at the waterfall and experience their daily life on the foot of Hoang Lien Son Mountain range. 
Back to Sapa and free time to explore Sapa town and overnight.
Overnight in Sapa

After breakfast, the most beautiful Sapa tour is started with the trekking to visit Y Linh Ho, then trek to Lao Chai and Ta Van village of the Black H'mong and the Day minority where you trek down the world's most beautiful terraced rice fields, visit some local family on the way and learn about their unique culture, life, customs and habits.
With your tour guide and the house owners, we will set up a temporary cooking class to learn how to cook Vietnamese food for dinner.
Enjoying your dinner and getting to know local typical traditional customs, cultural…
Overnight in a Homestay.

Leaving Ta Van village after breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced  field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Dao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Su Pan village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Dao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts.
Drive back to Sapa for relax and overnight in Sapa.

The Bac Ha market is one of the largest markets in the northwest region of Viet Nam and is only open on Sunday. It is situated about 110km from Sapa or about 2.5 hours away by bus and is worth every second of the ride.
You will have a guide on the tour that will be available for any help you might need while you have approximately 2 free hours to explore the colorful market. The market itself is a gathering place for the many ethnic minority tribes such as the Flower H’Mong, Dzao, Tay, Nung and Phu La to trade and sell their wares and it is always full of life. It is most well-known for providing handmade goods, many different types of lacal wines, local food as Thang Co Ngua ( Horse stew), and for trading animals including horses, dogs, brids, snakes, goats, and especially water buffalo. 
After shopping in the market, you will have lunch in Bac Ha by your own account and visit Flower H’Mong village near the market. You will spend over a half-hour in the village where you can learn more about the culture and ways of life the ethnic minority tribes unique to  this region.
Drive back to Lao Cai where you take the Express bus back to Hanoi.
Upon arrival Hanoi in the evening, the staff of Sapa Express bus will help you to arrange a taxi for you come back to hotel. (you will pay for taxi by your own account)
Overnight in Hanoi.

8:00 Our guide and driver will pick you up and depart for Halongbay
12:00 Get on board and start the journey to discover beautiful Halong - where thousands of large and small islands emerge from the water with different shapes.
Where you explore strange caves where there are many stalagmites and stalactites formed by precipitation of calcium carbonate.
Enjoy the famous typical seafood dishes of Halong sea
Kayaking will also be an extremely interesting experience when you visit Halong bay.
Overnight on the Luxury Cruise.

Enjoying the Sunsine on the sea will bring you an extremely different feeling, followed by Tai-chi exercise on the cruise before having a nutritious breakfast.
Continue your journey to discover Halong bay by visiting and exploring floating fishing villages on the bay, or you also relaxing and resting on the white sandy beach lying littered on beautiful islands.
End of the trip by Farewell the cruise then getting on car back to Hanoi
Overnight in Hanoi.

Breakfast at hotel!
Then, you are free at leisure!
Pick up at your hotel and transfer back to the airport for flight back home!
We hope that you have enjoyed your time with us and look forward to welcoming your next Vietnam Tours. 
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