Vietnam discovery 14 days/15 nights

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Hotel: Vietnam discovery 14 days/15 nights

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Day 1: Hanoi arrival

Upon your arrival in NoiBai airport, our guide and driver will pick you up and transfer to hotel in the city center. Check in and relax time.

Day 2: Hanoi city tour (L)

Our guide will see you at the hotel at 8:30 for our city tour. The first place will be Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and its complex. Here you will be introduced more about Uncle Ho’s life and his important role in Vietnam. After visiting One pillar pagoda, we will move to the Temple of Literature and spend about 1 hour here to know more about Confusius and study system in Vietnam in the past. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant with Vietnam traditional food.

In the afternoon, we will visit the museum of Ethnology which shows you the general about ethnic groups in Vietnam. After that we head to Old Quarter for a short visit on cyclo. Tour will finish after your water puppet show.

Day 3: Hanoi – Halong Bay (L/D)

We will leave for Halong Bay trip at 8:30am. You will have a short break on the way of 3 hours and a half.

When we arrive in Halong, board and check in. A liitle time for relaxing before having lunch on the boat will be given. After lunch, we will visit one of the most beautiful cave in Halong Bay named Sung Sot Cave (surpirising cave), do kayaking and swimming before sunset.

After relaxing and enjoying sunset, we will have a fantastic dinner on boat with great decorations. A quite night on boat in the bay is so wonderful

Day 4: Halong Bay – Hanoi – Train to Sapa (B/L/D)

After breakfast on the boat, we will visit the floating village in Halong Bay to see their daily life. More time on boat will be for relaxing and check out. Lunch will be served before we get back to the wharf to go back to Hanoi. After packing, you will have dinner before getting the night train to Sapa

Day 5: Lao Cai - Sapa – Lao Chai – Ta Van village (B/L)

When you arrive in Lao Cai Station, our guide there will meet you and we go to Sapa where is about 1 hour driving from Lao Cai Station. We will refresh and go for breakfast at a local restaurant. After that we will start trekking down to Lao Chai and Ta Van Village. Night will be spent at the hotel.

Day 6: Sapa – Catcat Village – Lao Cai (B/L/D)

After breakfast, our guide will take you to trek down to visit Cat Cat village. Lunch will be included in Sapa town. You’ll then have afternoon free for shopping or relaxing before going to the train station to get back to Hanoi.

Day 7: Hanoi – Hue – Royal dinner (D)

After refreshments and breakfast in Hanoi, you’ll be transferred to the airport for flight to Hue. When you arrive in Hue, our local guide there will pick you up and transfer to hotel. After that we will visit the Royal Citadel before going to the Royal Restaurant to enjoy special meals and royal music.

Day 8: Hue – Hoian (B)

After breakfast at the hotel, we will take a boat trip to visit Thien Mu Pagoda and Tu Duc Mausoleum. We will head back to the city for hotel check out and lunch. The driver will then transfer you to Hoian. On the way you’ll stop at Hai Van pass or China Beach and take photos. We will arrive in Hoi An in the late afternoon, relax and overnight at hotel in Hoi An.

Day 9: Hoian (B)

Free day

Day 10: Hoian Cooking Class (B/L or D)

Cooking Class can be done in the morning or afternoon class. We visit colorful market of Hoi An, buying some of the ingredients for our cooking lesson. Good bye the market, we take 25 minute boating along Hoi An River to the cooking school. This is a chance to enjoy the view of local people daily life on 2 sides of river. On arrival, we explore the cooking school’s herb and vegetable garden before learning some local’s well-known dishes. It takes us 2 hour learning, each dish is first demonstrated by the Chef, then we prepare the same dish by ourselves. We also know how to décor the plate as Vietnamese food carving. After the lesson, we enjoy our food.

Day 11: Hoian – Danang – Ho Chi Minh City (B)

You’ll have the morning in Hoian for last shoppings before we take a short fly to Ho Chi Minh city. Up on arrival in Ho Chi Minh city, we transfer to the hotel. Free at our leisure today. In the evening, we will enjoy our dinner at the first night in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 12: Cu Chi tunnels and Cao Dai Temple (B/L)

In the morning, 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. We will have 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. Next we drive to Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border. This is home to the unique Cao Dai sect. to join Cao Dai worshippers for their daily noontide ceremony. Lunch and return to Ho Chi Minh City.

Day 13: Mekong Delta day trip (L)

We will start from the hotel at 8:00 am to My Tho Province that is located on the banks of the Mekong river. Upon arrival at the boat wharf, enjoy a refreshing coconut juice before lazily watching daily local life drift by. Stroll through some beautiful gardens and taste all of the fresh fruits which this region is famous for before enjoying a traditional music performance. After lunch in a restaurant we will visit a coconut candy workshop, bee farms and row down a small canal before heading back to the dock. We will get back to your hotel around 5 PM.

Day 14: Free day – Departure

You’ll have this day free to explore the city and to be flexible to your departure. Tour ends when our driver drops you at the airport.