Welcome to Vietnam. Our guide and driver will wait for you at the airport. Then we transfer to the hotel in Hanoi and one of the best Vietnam package tours starts from now.

After check in hotel and the relax time, our guide will pick you up to a restaurnat to the Welcome Dinner.

Overnight in Hanoi.

Note: if your flight arrive early afternoon, a street food tour is a great choice.

Today we will venture out to explore Hanoi. First up we will drive to the Ho Chi Minh complex where we will spend time at Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum, his former stilt-house, the Presidential Palace, the Ho Chi Minh Museum and One Pillar Pagoda. Followings we visit the Temple of Literature, which originally built as a temple to Confucius.

Next, we visit the Museum of Ethnology, which is widely acknowledged as the best in the country and has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam’s 54 Ethnic minority peoples. We enjoy a 1-hour cyclo tour of the French inspired “old quarter”. We will then sit down to enjoy a performance of the city’s famous Water Puppets. Transfer back to hotel for refresh (late checkout until 6PM).

Joining Vietnam Package Tours highlight 17 days give you a chance to visit not only Vietnam’s main cities but also small villages which reveal a real Vietnamese life. This evening, have dinner at restaurant before take overnight train to Sapa to explore this point.

We will be met by local guide and driver upon our arrival at Lao Cai station then transferred to a local restaurant for breakfast. After breakfast, we will follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat village. On the way, we will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station for a while before trekking on a dirt trail through rice paddy terraces. We will also enjoy spectacular scenery while walking along a narrow river. We eventually arrive in Y Linh Ho village of Black Hmong minority, where we can take a rest and have lunch nearby the river. After lunch, we head Muong Hoa valley, pass through Lao Chai and Ta Van village of Black Hmong minority and then transfer back to hotel for overnight.

This morning, we will visit Ham Rong Mountain – home to numerous kinds of flowers and orchard gardens. Wandering stone paths leads tourists to wild peach forest, then orchid gardens with more than 6000 orchid plants belonging to 194 kinds. Then a visit to Heaven Gate, the highest stretch of road in Vietnam as well as the provincial border of Lao Cai and Lai Chau provinces. Enjoy fantastic view over the valley! Then you can visit one more village in Sapa: Ma Tra or Ta Phin.

Check out hotel at 12 noon. This afternoon is your free time in town until transfer train station back to Hanoi.

Upon arrival Hanoi, guide will pick up and take you to a day use hotel for relax and refresh. Then, our shuttle bus will pick up and transfer you to Halong Bay. Arrive at Tuan Chau harbour and refresh at the Oasis Bay Lounge for about 20 minutes before boarding. Transfer to cruise. Welcome drink, cruise briefing, safety instructions, and check-in cabins.

Special lunch will be served on board while passing by Dog islet, Fighting Cock islet (symbol of Halong Bay), Hoa Cuong fishing village, Swan islet. After having lunch, the Oasis Bay will continue exploring the wonders of Halong Bay.

Visit Ti Top island: hiking & swimming in emerald coloured water. In the late afternoon, we return to the main boat and continue cruising to the quiet area. In the late afternoon, we enjoy Sunset Party on sundeck and admire the best moments of the day when the sun starts to set. After dinner, free time for socializing with other guests, take part in board games, fish for squid, or just laze around. Overnight on board.

Get up early in the morning to enjoy fresh air of the bay and start the day with Tai Chi class. Coffee & tea with assorted homemade pastries, fresh juices. Relax or Visit Sung Sot Cave, hiking up and down 600 steps to the magnificent limestone formations of the most beautiful and biggest cave in Halong bay. Check-out cabins and settle bills. Relaxing time and cruising. The Lunch will be served while Oasis Bay is cruising back to the habor. Shuttle bus pick guest up at Oasis Bay Lounge. Transfer to Hanoi and meet our guide to transfer to Noi Bai airport for flight to Hue.

Today is your leisure time until transfer to airport for afternoon flight to Hue. Meet our guide at airport and transfer to hotel.

Pick up at hotel at 8:30 AM, we will board the Dragon Boat on the romantic Perfume River heading out for the countryside. Being the ancient capital, Hue is surrounded with ancient tombs of emperors past. And then visit to the most beautiful tombs will be on the itinerary for today. The charming Lady Pagoda (Thien Mu Pagoda) will be the first stop of the day. We will enjoy a great view on the Perfume River and surrounding area include Van Mieu and Vo Mieu. Arrival Thuy Bieu Village, you can take bicycle or walking to visit ancient hour, the house to make insens, family to make peanut candy in the village.  After 2 hour biking, we stop to enjoin lunch with Hue traditional cuisine before relaxing with excellent massage by blind people.

This afternoon, visit the Imperial Citadel where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945. We will then depart to the Hue Royal Fine Art Museum, which is housed within the former Dien Long An Royal Palace. We will finish our day with the local Dong Ba Market to see the daily life of local people. Overnight in Hue.

After breakfast at the hotel, we travel by vehicle to Hoi An along scenic highway 1A. Along the way we will stop to contemplate the stunning views north, to Lang Co Beach and South to Danang city. Danang city is with Cham Museum, the Marble Mountain – the five elements of the Universe (water, wood, water, fire and earth). We arrive in Hoi An in the afternoon, relax and take our walking tour to visit a beautiful Hoian acient town. Start with the Japanese Covered Bridge, the Pottery Museum, Tan Ky old house, the Cantonese congregation. Continue to the silk street of Hoi An, the temples and pagodas of Chinese appearance. Then we are back to our hotel. Overnight in Hoi An.

We are picked-up at hotel by local tour guide and driver then depart for the ancient Cham ruins of My Son. Once there, we visit the Tra Kieu capital which was the former administration center of Champa Kingdom. Discover the majestic ancient ruins at My Son including ancient towers which were built from the fourth century. Back to town by noon time and leisure at hotel.

We transfer back to Danang airport to take a short domestic flight to Ho Chi Minh city this morning. After 1 hour flight, we are welcome by local tour guide and driver in Ho Chi Minh city then transfer to hotel.

Today, we visit all the highlights in Ho Chi Minh city. We will start a day with the Reunification Palace, a palace of old President in South of Vietnam during the American war. Then we keep going to the War Remnants Museum where is   poignant display of the futility of war. Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office is our next destination. The two sites are places which we can’t ignore when we visit the city.

After lunch, we travel to the district 5 to visit Cho Lon (China town) and Thien Hau Pagoda. We then head back to the center to do shopping at famous Ben Thanh market, this bustling and well-organized market is very popular with tourists, primarily due to its central location. It has a wide selection of goods ranging from fake Nike shoes to beautiful silk Ao Dai. Overnight in Saigon.

Morning, we head to the Cu Chi tunnels, otherwise known as the “Iron Triangle” or “Iron Land”. This is one of the most interesting activities in Vietnam Package Tours hightlight 17 days. Before entering the tunnels, we will see a short introductory video showing how they were constructed. Followed by 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. After that we transfer back to Ho Chi Minh.

We are pick-up at hotel then travel to Vinh Long town where we have a stop at the local market. Here we can experience as well as have nice photos of fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs, nakes, rice field rats, tropical fruits, vegetables…. After that, we take boat to visit the brick kilns where we can see how the local people create beautiful potteries from clay. Then, come to visit the orchard & traditional house; enjoy some kinds of fruits and tea when listening to the traditional music at a local home.

The rowing boat continues on taking us deeper into the countryside on smaller canals so we can enjoy the peaceful time. It is so interesting to see traditional houses made of wood and palm tree leaves. Besides, you can see how they catch fish or pick up fruits by ancestral ways in Mekong Delta…

One more thing to do in this trip is biking! It will be so amazing to bike on village paths to see the local farms, houses, « monkey » bridge, real life…

You will spend the night in Can Tho City.

Early morning today, we will take the boat trip to visit the famous Cai Rang floating market with the busy sense right at the time. This is a biggest floating market in Mekong Delta. Here it is, we can see the daily life and local people selling their products on boats.

After that, you will be back to the hotel and have free time until check out. At noon, we will head back to Ho Chi Minh City and have lunch en-route. Arrive at our hotel in the afternoon and have free time at leisure. We will spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City.

Today is leisure time at hotel.

Leisure time until transferring to airport for departure flight. Vietnam Package Tours for 17 days end with a lot of unforgettable memories.