12 Days tour from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Day 1: HANOI ARRIVAL (D)

Welcome to Hanoi, the 1,000 year old capital of Vietnam !
Arrival at Hanoi Airport: private transfer to your hotel by our driver. Check in your hotel in Hanoi.
Welcome dinner with local foods.
Overnight in Hanoi.

Day 2: HANOI CITY TOUR FULL DAY (B,L)

7.30 - 8.30: Pick you up at your hotel. Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, including Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, President Ho Chi Minh's stilt house,one Pillar Pagoda Tran Quoc pagoda, Ethnology Museum or Bat Trang village
Have lunch at the restaurant.
Visit Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple.
Tour End. Drop off to your hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.

Day 3: HANOI – MUA PEAK – TRANG AN NATURE RESERVE (B,L)

8:00 – 8:30: Pick up at your hotel in the Old Quater then depart to Ninh Binh. On the way you can see the picture of rural in VietNam with fertilizer green fields, buffalos are eating grass, ducks are swimming…
11:15: Arrive Mua cave which is constructed following the model of “miniature Great Wall” in China with nearly 500 steps up to mountains to conquer. You will spend abour one hour to do hard trekking up to the top of the mountain for overviewthe impressive panoramic view of Tam Coc, Trang An & Ninh Binh city.
12:30:Get on bus to Restaurant, then have luch with local buffet.
13:30: Depart to visit Trang An eco-tourism, take boat trip to visit cave complex: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Nau Ruou in mystery and wildness, see scenery of mountain and rivers Ha Long on land of Ninh Binh. Or you can choose to visit Kong Films, take a photo shoot at Aboriginal village one of the main scenes in Hollywood blockbuster movie "Kong Skull Island"
16:30: Getting on the car return to Hanoi.
19:00: Back to Hanoi drop you back your hotel in Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi.

Day 4: HANOI – HALONG - OVERNIGHT ON JUNK (B,L,D)

07:45 08:30 Tour guide pick you up at all hotels in Hanoi Old Quater then go for HaLong Bay.
Have a break 20 minutes en-route to free your legs.
Embark Halong international harbor, board to cruise by a tender.
Enjoy a welcome drink, receive cruise briefing.
Savor lunch on board and visit Sung Sot “amazing” cave with millions of surprising stalactites and stalagmites.
Stop at Titop for swimming, sun-bathing…
Drop anchor in a calm water area, relax on the sundeck at sunset, taste some local wine, fruits.
Join in a “cooking session” on board with our chef making some special dishes with suggested recipe.
19:00 Have dinner on board. Have fun with karaoke singing, or try your luck with squid-fishing.
Overnight on cruise in the middle of HaLong Bay.

Day 5: HALONG BAY – HANOI – FLIGHT TO DA NANG (B,L)

07:00 Enjoy a new day with complimentary tea and coffee served. Have breakfast on board
Visit a Pearl farm, see the real pearl products and understand process of pearl making in HaLong.
Have breakfast on board and enjoy the peaceful morning of Halong Bay.
Kayak among the hidden areas of the bay, around the Drum Cave.
Return to the boat. Freshen up and check out of your cabin.
Continue your cruise exploring the Bay, passing Ba Hang fishing village, Dog Islet, and more.
Enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch on Cruise
12: 30: Say goodbye to Ha Long Bay then return to Hanoi. Have a rest en-route again to free your legs.
17:00 Drop you off at your hotel in Hanoi. Then our driver will pick you up at the airport to take flight to Da Nang. so-called “the most worth-living city of Vietnam”.
Private airport pick-up in Da Nang city is provided. Check in in hotel & stay at seaview room. Free time for relaxing & walking around the beautiful beach city.
Overnight in Da Nang.

Day 6: DA NANG – BA NA HILLS – GOLDEN BRIDGE (B,L)

Pick you up from your hotel for the journey to Ba Na Hills.
Check in at the Suoi Mo Cable car Station. You will admire the heights from the most modern cable car system in Southeast Asia.
Enjoy the funicular railway, visit Golden Bridge, Linh Ung pagoda, France wine cellar, D'amour flower garden.
Have a lunch with buffet
Free time to visit & play games at Fantasy Park, explore French Village, King Peak at an altitude 1.487m, and admire the stunning panoramic views of Ba Na & Da Nang
15h00: Return to Cable car & our sharing bus transfers you back to your hotel.
Overnight in Da Nang.

Day 7: DA NANG – MARBLE MOUNTAINS - HOI AN – OVERNIGHT IN HOI AN

After breakfast, you check out and move to Hoi An ancient town. On the way, you visit Non Nuoc stone village, one of the 4 handicraft villages in Da Nang expertizing in stone carving. Walk up to visit Marble mountains famous for pagoda inside caves, and Thuy Son peak, the biggest and most beautiful one of Marble mountain. The Mountain of Water which is home to pagodas dating back to the 17th century and a number of caves is one the most frequented climbs with a steep hike up stone steps to Tam Quan Gate and its superb vistas to Mount Kim Son or Metal Mountain and the coastline from the Riverview Tower located next to the gate. The Riverview Tower dates back to the 18th century and the reign of the Emperor Minh Mang. Enjoy the view towards Non Nuoc beach.
Continue driving to Hoi An – an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port recognized as the UNESCO world’s heritage.
Start walking to the old town, buy entrance tickets and begin the tour. Follow the narrow lanes lined with centuries-old houses influenced by Chinese, Japanese, French and European architectures and visit numerous places of interest:the 400-year old Japanese Covered Bridge, Phuc Kien Assembly Halls, the local fish market… After your walking tour, if you have free time, you can do shopping at the old town.
Lunch is pre-arranged with local foods.
Check in your hotel and overnight in Hoi An.

Day 8: HOI AN – WATER COCONUT VILLAGE

After breakfast, you’re free at leisure.
13:00 Transfer from your hotel/ restaurant to Bay Mau coconut village, 4km from Hoi An town.
Originally, there were 7,000 square meters of free-growing coconut forest. Situated near a mangrove estuary, it is a unique salt marsh ecological area with a submerged forest ecosystem.
Go on rattan boat to the core of coconut forest.
Know more about the history of the forest during the Vietnam War.
Boat riding race (fun, if you want to join)
Relax in foot massage.
17:00 Return to your hotel in Hoi An.
Overnight in Hoi An.

Day 9: HOI AN - DA NANG – FLIGHT TO HO CHI MINH CITY

Enjoy breakfast and free activities. You will have a time for shopping & relaxing. Check out and our driver picks you up for Da Nang airport. Take the direct flight to Ho Chi Minh city in the South Vietnam.
Upon arrival, you meet our driver then private airport pick-up is provided. Enjoy fine dining and overnight in hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 10: HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR – CU CHI TUNNELS

After breakfast, you visit Cu Chi tunnels. Located 60km from the city center, Cu Chi is now a popular spot for both Vietnamese & foreign tourists - the network of over 200km of tunnels became legendary when they played a vital role in the War. In their heyday, the tunnels were functioning underground cities including numerous trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers & kitchens. Today, ducks and water buffalos happily co-exist in the rivers along the side of the road. However, the peaceful rural rice paddy scenery belies the area’s violent history. Visitors will find it hard to imagine the destruction, damage & defoliation over this whole area, caused by bombing and mines. Start our tour in the morning, before entering the tunnels visitors can watch a short introductory video showing how the tunnels were constructed. You will spend the next hour exploring the tunnels. Afterwards, enjoy tea, cassava (guerrilla’s food during the war).
Free shooting by AK47 riffle or M16 carbin in “free target zone” (bullet fee is paid by yourselves).
Enjoy buffet lunch at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, you visit Reunification Palace, formerly known as the Presidential Palace. The place symbolizes the end of Vietnam War when a North Vietnamese army tank went through its gates. Then taking a short stroll to see Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office, they are the beautiful examples of architecture from the French colonial period. Stopover at Ben Thanh market for your free shopping. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.