Days 6
You are warmly welcomed by our Tour Guide at Noi Bai airport and transferred to your hotel (check in at 14:00PM, free early check in subject to availability). You are presented the Vietnam daily life in the past and present within 1 hour cyclo tour around Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son temple and Old quarter streets. Attend the Water Puppet Show and enjoy welcome dinner.
Overnight in Hanoi.
After breakfast at hotel, you will leave Hanoi for Halong Bay.
8h30 - 9h00: You will be picked up by our driver at your hotel lobby and we will take you to Halong bay in 4 hours. On the way to Halong bay, we spend 20 minutes for relaxing and buying some sourvenirs.
Arrive Sun Harbour, you will be welcomed on boat with a warm greeting and cold water.
You will get on board and enjoy seafood lunch. It is available for vegeterian if you inform us in advance. While enjoying your lunch, don't forget to watch the scenery surounding you with blue sky, pass uninhabited islets and outcrops have been given imaginative names by the locals, due to their perceived shapes, including Cock Fighting and Thumb.
Take a short rest on cruise. After relaxation on boat, you will explore the largest cave and the most beautiful of Ha Long Bay - Surprising cave ( Sung Sot Cave). The name of cave expresses the feeling of tourist when they see the cave at the first sight. Your day tour to Halong bay has more and more amazing things for you.
Next, we leave for Luon Cave which means creepy cave, the cave is famous for its green complex and in-mountain waters and islands. From outside, Luon cave looks like a giant bowl which is turned down to the sea surface. Because of the limited height, the only way to visit Luon Cave is by a bamboo boat or a kayak. Trying kayak is surely your memorable time cause it is really interesting and easy to see the beautiful landscape in the Cave. Especially, when the tide rises, you have to stoop down to pass through the cave.
Moving to Titop island - the heart of Halong bay in this day tour. You will spend time to have a steep climb of a few hundred steps to the observation deck on the summit of Titop moutain that reveals a panoramic view of Halong Bay - it is still definitely a worth the effort. With the 360° view panorama you can enjoy the summit viewing and photographing of Halong bay. The island is also home to a lovely little beach of the same name. It’s an ideal stop-off point to get stuck into some beach activities such as: swimming, sunbathing, playing beach volleyball, etc.
Then, come back to the boat, it is time to head back habour. While cruising, we have chance to contemplate the sunset on the cruise's rooftop during enjoying tea and fruits.
Upon at Sun marina Harbour, the driver will take you back Hanoi by bus.
20:00 - 20:30: Arrive in Hanoi, you will get off the bus at hotel lobby and end your interesting Halong bay day tour with us.
After breakfast at the hotel, our tour guide will come to the hotel and pick you up to start the Hanoi city tour. You will start with a visit to Ho Chi Minh Complex. Here you can visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where the corpse of Uncle Ho was kept there. Next you will visit the Presidential Palace - a nice French architecture in the garden and Ho Chi Minh House on stilts. Visiting the house you will see the simple life of Ho Chi Minh - the president in Vietnamese's spirit forever. You will finish this area with One Pillar Pagoda - one of the most attractions in Hanoi you cannot miss with the special architecture.
Have lunch and you will continue to the Temple of Literature - The first University of Vietnam. The next destination will be the Museum of Ethnology to learn more about Vietnam Culture. Next you will explore Hanoi by traveling through the Old Quarter with 36 ancient streets in a traditional cyclo. This slow - speed tour will give you a great chance to fully enjoy the classic and modern of the capital. You will end the tour at about 04.00 PM, then it is your free time to go shopping, relax in Hanoi.
You will take the late afternoon flight to Ho Chi Minh City.
Our driver will wait for you at Tan Son Nhat Airport and then transfer you to the hotel for check-in.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Have breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Today our guide will pick you up at the hotel lobby and take you to the Mekong Delta and we will explore the unique life of local people here.
The program will start with a visit to the Cai Be floating market. Then, visit the local workshop to see how to make rice paper, coconut , pop-rice... Enjoy some sweets with a cup of hot tea. Then, the rowing boat will take you deeper into the countryside on smaller canals to enjoy the peaceful time.
Lunch will be served at a local house (Ba Kiet / 10 Huong…) After lunch, we’ll come to Tan Phong island for biking / walking on village paths to see the local daily life: orchard, school, church, pagoda, traditional houses and maybe the ancestral ways to pick up fruits in Mekong Delta... On the way, we can make some stops to see how they make rice-net for spring-rolls, sewing coconut-leaves for cottage roofs and specially see how they wave the dried water-hyacinth to make many products: baskets, bags, hats, wallets, shoes...
Come visit Mekong garden, we will enjoy some cups of tea while listening to the traditional music. The cruise will back & end at Cai Be pier at around 3.30PM. Then drive back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.
After breakfast at hotel, our guide will meet you at your hotel lobby at about 8h30 am. A one and half hour drive takes you to Cu Chi Tunnels where human knowledge has been enriched by experiencing an web-like tunnels system of more than 200km in length which used to be the shelters of guerrillas during the war against American troops.
After the lunch in the local restaurant, in the afternoon, you will have a city tour including the Reunification Hall, formerly known as the Presidential Palace. It was towards this modern building that Communist tanks rolled on the morning of April 30, 1975, as Saigon fell. This fascinating building is filled with history still fresh in the minds of many locals.
The tour also includes the War Remnants Museum, the Old Post Office, Chinatown and Ben Thanh Market – the central market for the city and one of the liveliest areas.
About 04.30 PM, the tour finishes and you will be dropped off at your hotel and then you are free to relax.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City
On your last day in VietNam, you are free to chill out and go shopping. Depending on your departure flight, your private driver will pick you up from the hotel and transfer you to the airport in time.
End of the long trip enjoying every moment with your loved one from the north to the south of Vietnam, hope you have had a sweet trip and so much incredible experience in Vietnam, goodbye and see you next time.
International flights are not included in this trip . If you have difficulty booking the international flight, please contact us for assistance.
Reach out to our local travel experts.