Uncover all the good bits of Vietnam on this fourteen-day adventure through backstreets, villages, cities and waterways, all with a local leader by your side. Trace the east coast and visit UNESCO World Heritage-listed landscapes while you fuel yourself with banh mi and egg coffee. Try some authentic street food, wave to fishermen on the Mekong Delta and get the inside scoop on the best tailors of Hoi An. Take a cyclo tour through the ancient streets of Hue and spend a night under the moon of Ha Long Bay. This is an adventure full of life, colour and flavour that introduces you to the highlights of a fascinating nation with a small group of likeminded travellers.
The tour includes : 2 nights in Hanoi – 2 nights on Ha Long bay cruise – 1 night on train to Sapa – 1 night in Sapa town – 2 nights in Hue – 2 nights in Hoian – 2 nights in Saigon – 1 night in Mekong delta.
Activities : city tours / cruising / trekking / history learning…
Transport : car / train / plane / cruise.
Upon arrival, you’ll be picked up by a friendly local guide and transferred to your hotel.
After breakfast, you’ll be taken around the city by the local guide to learn more about Vietnamese people and history. The city tour this day contains these places : Government complex, temple of the literature, museum of ethnology and the walking old quarter tour.
Take the night train to Sapa at 22:00
At 6:00 you’ll be welcomed by a local guide. It takes you 40 minutes from the train station to your hotel in Sapa. Upon arrival, you’ll have breakfast at hotel before exploring the town. Today activities include : Love Waterfall, Sapa Market, walking tour around Sapa town in the morning and take the cable car to the Fansipan Peak in the afternoon.
After breakfast, you’ll have a trekking tour to Lao Chai-Ta Van Village or Cat Cat Village which is home to the Hmong people. You’ll walk around the rice terrace and learn more about their daily life. At noon you return your hotel to check out the room and the van picks you up to head back to Hanoi. It takes you 5.5 hours to get to the hotel in the evening.
After breakfast, you’ll be picked up at your hotel lobby to head to Halong Bay.
Travel by private minibus to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay, which is dotted with sandy coves, grottoes and 1600 limestone islands, formed over millennia by wind and water erosion. Board a private boat and cruise the bay, exploring Surprise Cave and Ti Top Island Beach. If you like, you can also take on an optional kayaking tour of the bay and see the gorgeous natural scenery from a different perspective. Spend your evening aboard the boat beneath the night sky, watching as the stars come out and maybe grab a drink at the restaurant bar, getting to know your fellow travellers a little better.
In the evening, you’ll enjoy the happy hour, sunset pary, have dinner and take part in some activities on the cruise.
After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to a daily boat to explore further to the bay to do kayaking and go swimming in a quieter area. You’ll be taken back the the main cruise to stay overnight in the late afternoon.
After breakfast, you’ll be taken out to explore Sung Sot cave which was found by the French in 1901. This magnificent cave is dry and it takes you 50 minutes to walk through it to admire the stalactite and stalagmite formed for millions of years.
You’ll check out the cruise at noon time and driven to the airport to take the flight to Hue city.
You will be picked up and transferred to your hotel and spend the rest of the day at leisure.
After breakfast, you’ll be taken out by the local guide to have one day city tour around Hue. Hue was once the capital of Vietnam under Nguyen Dynasty so this is a good place to learn about royal families by visiting the Citadel , king Khai Dinh Tomb King Minh Mang Tomb and take the dragon boat on the perfume river.
Stay overnight in Hue.
In the morning after breakfast, you’ll check out the hotel to head to Hoian from Hue. It takes you 3 hours to get to Hoian. Upon arrival, you’ll have a walking tour in the afternoon to explore Hoian old town.
Stay overnight in Hoian.
After breakfast, you’ll be picked up by driver and guide to visit Linh Ung Pagoda located on Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang city. You will then visit the Marble Mountain complex with cave and pagoda built to dedicate to Buddha.
In the afternoon, you’ll be back to Hoian to join a boat tour to explore the coconut forest . Stay overnight in Hoian.
In the morning you’ll take the flight to Ho Chi Minh City and you’ll spend the rest of the day on your own.
In the morning, you’ll be taken out to explore Saigon one day tour. Saigon was once known as “the pearl of Indochina” with its outstanding role. Now you’ll be guided around the city to see the Independence Palace , the museum of war , Ngoc Hoang Pagoda and walking tour around Ben Thanh Market…
Stay overnight in Saigon.
After breakfast, you’ll be picked up at hotel lobby to head to the west of Saigon to visit Mekong Delta. Your first stop is at Vinh Trang Pagoda which was built to dedicate to Buddha. The next place is the coconut candy factory visiting. Then take a little sampan to dodge through the coconut farm and take some photos with the python if you’re brave enough.
Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.
Back to Saigon in the afternoon.
Depend on your flight time, you’ll be picked up at hotel lobby to head to the airport to fly home and the tour ends. Junetours will see you next time and we wish you all the best luck with your life !