Impressive Vietnam: Vietnam Tours 12 Days - SIC 12 Days 11 Nights

06.30 – 6.45: Start your day with Tai Chi exercises or a photo hunt.

07.00: Have breakfast on board while the boat starts cruising to the Natural Preservation Zone.

08.45: Take kayaking in 30 - 45 minutes.

09.30: We board the cruise again. Take time to refresh and relax before checking out. Bags can be left in luggage store.

Continue cruising throughout the Bay, passing Ba Hang Fishing Village, Stone Dog Islet, and so on…

Join with our cooking class, to learn how to make our specifically (Spring rolls) before an early lunch is served.

11.30 – 12.00: Disembark at the harbor in Tuan Chau Island. Transfer by minibus or private car to return Hanoi.

16.30 -17.00: Arrival in your hotel, free at leisure. Overnight in Hanoi

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

07.45 – 08.30:  Tour guide picks you up at suggested places around Hanoi Old Quater. Depart for Ninh Binh province (90km south of Hanoi). Have a break 20 minutes en-route to free your legs. Arrival you’ll start  get a quick break at the restaurant before preparing your bicycle for a bike ride to Mua Cave. Then, you’ll climb 486 steps at Mua Cave for panoramic views and photo opportunities before biking back to the restaurant for lunch.

13:30: We take the sampan boats (2 people share a boat) in Tam Coc dock to drift down the river among the villages, mountains and lush rice fields. Passing through 3 caves "Hang Ca - First cave, Hang Hai -Second cave, Hang Ba - Third cave" to get a strange feeling.  Before  transferring back Ha Noi, we visit temples of King Dinh and King Le.

After the tour, you will be dropped off at a local hotel, to be ready for transfer to Hue by sleeping bus.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

08.00 – 08.30: Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel in the city center to start the tour.

08.45: Firstly, visit Thanh Toan Bridge – a rare tiled roof bridge in Vietnam. This wooden arched bridge has been built for the local villagers who are into farming and fishing. It connects the local market and the village houses.

09.30: Visit Minh Mang Tomb which is considered as the most majestic of all of the Royal Tombs. The impressive architecture that complements with the nature gives you a good impression of the Emperor who lives within the walls of the 18 hectares tomb.

10.30: Visit Khai Dinh Tomb - the smallest but the most expensive tomb of all. Every corners of the tomb is very detailed which reflects how luxurious the emperor was. It is a blend of Western and Eastern architecture.

12.00: Have lunch a local restaurant with Vietnamese cuisine.

13.15: Visit Hue Imperial Citadel - home of Vietnam's last royal dynasty - Nguyen Dynasty. This is the highlight of the tour. You will learn the rise, struggles and fall of the Nguyen Dynasty and how it affected the whole country.

15.30: Visit Thien Mu Pagoda (Heaven Fairy Lady Pagoda) - the oldest pagoda in Hue city.

16.00: Get on a dragon boat to cruise on Huong River (Perfume river) and back to the city.

16.30: Drop you off at your hotel in Hue city. Farewell and see you again.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

In the morning: After breakfast, transfer to bus for Hoi An Ancient Town

Arrival in Hoi An at noon time, check in & free at leisure

In the afternoon: take a visit of Hoi An Ancient Town

You will be collected at your hotel lobby at 13.30. Start taking a tour around city: Walk to the ancient city, visit the Kwan Temple, Phuc Kien Chinese Assembly Hall, Tan Ky Ancient House, Japanese Cover Bridge and Historic & Cultural museum in Hoi An. Then you have a traditional music performance & visit Hoi An’s handicraft workshop before coming back to the hotel. Tour ends at your hotel in Hoi An at round 17.30 or 18.00. Comeback to hotel for relaxing and overnight

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and dinner; all entrance fees

08.00: Picking you up at your hotel by mini- van, we will bring you over the countryside where bike are available to ride (If you don't know how to ride bicycles, you can take optional choice with our scooter "XE OM" services and with extra charge about 6 USD/passenger). You start the day by cycling to the local farmer in Cam Thanh Ecological Village. Here you are greeted by a local host and then you join with them how to grow wet rice with their family.

Starting farming work like plough and raking with buffalo, riding water buffalo, learning how to transplant rice, flooding farm, grinding rice, pounding rice.

After then, Our guide and van will bring down to a local fishing village. You will be boarded on boat . Joining to go fishing with local fishermen at Phuoc Hai Local Fishing Village to experience local cast net CHAI. Continue to visit water coconut palm jungle, enjoying the basket boat and visiting the water coconut palm forest. Learn how to learn origami such as grasshoppers, flowers, rings, caps, bracelets toys made from water coconut leaves..., Having a fun to catch crab around the water coconut palm forest and after then boarding back boat, and locals will cook for your lunch/dinner (morning time you will get lunch and afternoon time you will get dinner on boat) and cold beer or soft drink we will bring you back to your hotel.

14.00: Ends of our Eco tour.You will be transfer back to Hotel, and other driver will pick you up to the airport for flight to Hochiminh city. 

In Hochiminh city, driver will welcome you at the airport, transfer to the hotel for check in. Overnight in HCMC 

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

08.30 - 09.00: We start to visit 3 most interesting places in Ho Chi Minh City below:

War Crime Museum is the first place we will travel today; well-known for the story of war from the Vietnamese aspect. Exhibits have photographs, machinery, and weapons that reflect the harsh realities of war. 

Thien Hau - Taoist Temple is the second place we visit; Vietnamese language called "Chua Ba Thien Hau". This magnificently decorated temple is determined to Thien Hau, the Goddess of the Sea and patron of sailors. She is said to peregrinate over the oceans on a mat and ride the clouds to wherever she wants. If you visit temple on Lunar New Year, you will be witnessed a large mutil - ethinic crowd , lion dances...

The last place is China Town - called "Cho Lon" which was built in the late 18th century, this intricate section of Ho Chi Minh City bustles with restaurants, temples, exotic stores, and markets and Binh Tay Market. This is the principal marketplace in China Town, where an excellent deal of wholesale trading develops. Explore the bustle of this indispensable part from the daily business in the city. And in Vietnamese market, you may bargain for discount  when you want to buy some souvenir  items....

Have lunch in a local restaurant.

13.00: Afternoon tour is Cu Chi Tunnels 

After lunch, we will leave Tay Ninh and travel to Cu Chi Tunnels. Once in Vietnam, you must visit this spot. This is where guerilla warfare optimized and exemplified. You’ll learn the clever design of the tunnels and the strategic use of trap doors. Even with B-52 bombers dropping 30-ton loads of explosive, turning the jungle into a pockmarked moonscape, 30 thousand American troops failed to conquered the area! You’ll have a chance to crawl around a portion of the 121 km long, multiple-layered tunnel. You’ll learn how thousands of guerillas managed to stay underground many days at a time, also their great technique to conceal smoke from their cooking. There’re a lot more to enjoy, even a chance to fire real AK bullets…

Arriving Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City at 18.00 - 19.00. 

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

7.30 - 8.00: Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel in the city center to start the tour.

Depart from Saigon and head to Cai Be. Upon arrival, board aboat to visit Cai Be floating market and discover local life.

Visit a small family business to see how coconut candy and pop-rice are made.

Take a short row on a local sampan, enjoy fresh seasonal fruits and beautiful lunch in the heart of the garden.

Cruising to Vinh Long and visit a local pottery kilns factory.

Proceed to Can Tho. Have dinner on your own then spend the night in Can Tho.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

Check out early in the morning then cruising along the Mekong River to Cai Rang Floating Market. This is the largest of its type in the whole Mekong Delta. 

Heading up a quiet canal for a short bike ride along countryside paths to enjoy the peaceful scenes of paddy filed, the monkey bridges or walk through the farms and houses of a nearby village to see fragrant tropical fruit orchards and pause for a cup of tea with friendly locals.

Before having lunch, drive to visit a Khmer Pagoda.

Then head back to Saigon. Drop off at your hotel at about 17.00. 

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast and lunch; all entrance fees

7.30 – 11.30: Have breakfast at hotel and free times to discover Saigon city by yourself.

11.30: Check out and clear all the bills. Then, our driver (no guide) will come to pick you up at your hotel for the airport. Check in on board for your flight back home. We say good bye and wish to see you again in Vietnam

Includes: Hotel; transport (no guide); meals: breakfast