Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive Ha Noi (D)
Arrive at Ha Noi airport. Meet the tour guide at the airport and transfer to the hotel. Then visit to the city with a guide. Take a cyclo tour around Sword Lake and the Old Quarter.
Have dinner and overnight in Hanoi.
Day 2: Ha Noi City Tour (B, L)
Have breakfast at the hotel. Full-day city tour: the old quarter, Ngoc Son temple (Jade Moutain) which was built on Jade Island in the 19th century. Visit Ly Quoc Su pagoda, a vestige of the dynastic temple of Ly. Have a look at the cathedral located at the side. Visit the Temple of the Literature, the oldest school, established in 1070. One of the five courses is the most perfect example of Vietnamese architecture, with her wood sculptures. Visit the famous pagoda with the single pillar “Chua Mot Cot – One Pillar Pagoda”, built in the 11th century, by King Ly Thai To. Walk in the streets of the 36 corporations, the street of silk, the street of hemp, etc. In the evening, enjoy the water puppet show.
Stay overnight at a hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 3: Ha Noi -Halong Bay – Cat Ba Island ( B, L )
Departure towards Halong Bay, Cruising on the bay, enjoy the landscape of 3000 islands in the sugar loaf shape, scattered over 1550 km2 which constitute this archipelago bathing in the surprising green emerald water. Multiple caves, like Thien Cung Grottos, the Cave of the Wonders, Surprise grotto. Many fine sand splits and beaches in an enchanting decoration. Visit a part of the islands and caves (approximately 6 hours by boat). Lunch on board with seafood.
Stay overnight at a hotel in Cat Ba Island.
Day 4: Cat Ba Island – Hai Phong – Ha Noi (B, L)
AM: Drive to visit Cat Ba National Park. Bathing at Cat Co Beach. Lunch.
PM: Get hydrofoil to Hai Phong City. Drive back to Ha Noi. Dinner and night in Ha Noi.
Day 5: Ha Noi – Hoa Binh – Mai Chau (B, L)
8:00 AM: Pick up at your hotel in Ha Noi. Drive to Hoa Binh (about 2 hours). Short stop for a break and coffee. Drive on to Man Duc for lunch. Leave Man Duc to Muong village where you can do a short walk for 2 hours then drive on to Mai Chau with a few stops on the way to take pictures.
Go around the valley before having dinner at a stilt house in a Thai minority village. Night in the village. A clean and comfortable mattress, blanket, and pillow are provided.
Day 6 : Mai Chau – Ninh Binh (B, L )
Breakfast. Discover the Thai people. They are the minority of Viet Nam, a visit that will make you enter a true patriarchal society. Lunch then continue to Ninh Binh by a very beautiful road of countryside. Check in the hotel. Dinner and night in Ninh Binh.
Day 7: Ninh Binh – Tam Coc – Hoa Lu – Ha Noi (B, L)
Hoa Lu is called “Ha Long Bay on land”, it is a landscape similar to that of Halong Bay (without the sea but in the rice fields). You will embark in small boats at Van Lâm, led by young women, to sail on the Ngo Dong River which curves among the rice fields and the mountains of limestone and threads under three mountains, to arrive at Tam Coc caves (three caves). Superb landscapes and the meeting of the life on the river of the fisherman and Vietnamese farmers. In the afternoon, return to Hanoi. Night in Hanoi.
Day 8: Hanoi – Hue (B, L) Flight
Breakfast and transfer to the airport for flying to Hue. Pick up and transfer to the hotel. AM: Boat trip on Perfume River to visit handicraft village: making conical hat and bronze casting. Visit Thien Mu Pagoda considered as Royal Pagoda of the Nguyen Dynasty and Imperial Citadel. Lunch.
PM: Visit the Mausoleums of Tu Duc and Khai Dinh King. Visit a typical garden house in Hue (Hue has another name “city of the garden”). Visit Dong Ba market. Night at hotel.
Day 9: Hue – My Son Holyland – Hoi An (B, L)
Depart for Lang Co, a small village of fishermen. Taking photographs from HaiVan Pass ( The pass of Sea and Cloud). Visit Cham Museum in Danang. Lunch.
Drive to MY SON. Very spectacular, the site Cham of My Son Afternoon visits Marble Mountain. Arrive Hoian. Overnight in Hoian.
Day 10: Hoi An (B, L )
Breakfast. Start the visit to this charming small town, the first commercial center in Vietnam since the 15th century, with more than 800 classified buildings: Japanese Covered Bridge, TanKy Old House, Assembly Hall Chinese. PhucKien Pagoda, Hoian Museum and Market. After lunch, continue the visit. In the evening, walk on the Thu Bon River at sunset. Overnight at hotel.
Day 11: Hoi An – Da Nang – Ho Chi Minh (B, L) Flight
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for the morning flight to Saigon.
Arrival in Saigon. Transfer to the hotel. Lunch at the restaurant. The afternoon is free for personal discovery. Night at hotel.
Day 12: Ho Chi Minh City Tour (B, L)
Breakfast. Begin of the city tour: post office, cathedral, Reunification palace, center town, then continuation towards Cholon by Trishaw, visit Thien Hau temple, Binh Tay market. Lunch. The afternoon is free for personal discovery. Overnight at hotel.
Day 13: Ho Chi Minh City – Cai Be Floating Market – Ho Chi Minh (B, L)
Breakfast and drive to Mekong Delta. Morning is reserved for a boat trip at Caï Be, on the innumerable channels connected. You will discover a watery life. Thousands of people live there, on water, in water, for and thanks to water. Lunch on an island. Afternoon, back to Saigon. Night at hotel.
Day 14: Ho Chi Minh City – Departure (B)
Breakfast at the hotel. Free time for shopping. Transfers to the airport 2 hours before the departure flight to your home.
