Imprints of Vietnam

Xin Chao! Welcome to Vietnam. Upon arriving in Hanoi, Our tour guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel downtown for check-in. The rest of the day you are free at leisure.
    
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi City

 

08:00    Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel lobby. Start your tour with a visit to Ho Chi Minh Complex including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Presidential Palace, Stilt House and One Pillar Pagoda. Then, visit the Temple of Literature - Confucius temple, this is also known as Vietnam's first university dating from 1070.

12:00    Lunch at local restaurant.

Continue the tour to the Museum of Ethnology, which displays a wide variety of artifacts dedicated to Vietnam's 54 ethnic minorities from the mountains to the coast.
After that, it is a walking journey through traditional craft streets in the 36 old quarters, visiting Ngoc Son Temple located on Hoan Kiem Lake, a unique landmark of Hanoi at sunset on the lake.

17:00    Back to the hotel, free time to walk around.

20:30    Pick you up at your hotel. Transfer to Hanoi rail way station and boarding on the overnight train to Sapa.

Overnight on the train
 

08:00    Arrive at Lao Cai station early in the morning, our guide and driver will pick you up and drop you off in 1 hour at the hotel, you will have breakfast at the hotel.

Then you'll start your journey with our guide to Muong Hoa valley, where you'll walk on small paths through fields, bamboo gardens, small villages like Lao Chai of the Hmong, Ta Van of the Day.

12:00    Have lunch at a traditional house of a Day family in Ta Van, then continue walking through the bamboo forest, and rice fields to Giang Ta Chai, the home of the Red Dao, visit to see indigenous people. make oriental medicine

The car will pick you up on the road to continue through Su Pan, and stop on foot to take some beautiful pictures before returning to the hotel in Sapa
 
Late afternoon chill with a cold beer on the hotel balcony or relax with a massage service after a long day of walking (service not included in the tour).

Overnight at 3 or 4-star hotel in town.
 

08:00    In the morning, you depart for Bac Ha market for 2 hours in a private car or a 16-seat car. Bac Ha is the largest market in the region, where many ethnic groups gather to buy, sell and eat. Visit the house of King Hmong, the leader of the tribes in the area.

12:00     Lunch in Bac Ha town.

In the afternoon, visit Pho village, a Chinese village, you are located in the valley of plum forest and the people here are famous for making wine from corn, so every spring comes a white valley in a color of plum flowers. It is an occasion for everyone to gather and drink corn wine by the red fire during the New Year to spring.

Then the car will pick you up to return to Lao Cai city 

Dinner at Lao Cai and board the train overnight to return to Hanoi.
 

04:30    Early in the morning, the car picks you up at Hanoi Railway Station and takes you back to the hotel to rest and have breakfast.

08:30     Your guide picks you up and departs for Ninh Binh with about 2 hours driving through the countryside of the Northern Delta of Vietnam.

10:00     Arrive in Ninh Binh, you will visit Hoa Lu ancient capital, located in a small valley surrounded by limestone mountains and canals winding around rice fields. Now there are only 2 temples left here to worship King Dinh & King Le, two kings who were instrumental in gaining independence and protecting the country's sovereignty, reigning from the year (986 to 1009 AD) before moving the capital to Hanoi's location. nowadays.

12h00     Lunch at local restaurant with pure Vietnamese food

13h30     After lunch, you will board a boat along the canal to visit Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, you will comfortably relax and breathe the cool air in a majestic and peaceful natural setting. The boat will take you along flooded rice fields, through deep limestone mountains and unspoiled valleys and rainforest sub-regions.

Visiting Mua Cave and starting to climb to the top of Ngoa Long Mountain, you will have a breathtaking view of the rice valley with a precious view of nature.

16:30:     Get on the bus back to Hanoi

Overnight at Hotel in Hanoi

08:30    Our driver will pick you up at your hotel for Halong cruise in about 3 hours.

11:30    Cruise representative will greet you and offer you cold drinks, after introducing the yacht and guiding you through the check-in procedures.

You'll enjoy a seafood lunch on deck while the cruise delves into the heritage area. The journey will pass through hundreds of large and small islands with typical names of Ha Long before stopping at a small island where you can kayak or swimming on the jade green water, without waves.

The cruise will take you to visit a cave under the limestone mountains to a small clear bay, which is home to schools of fish during the breeding season before returning to the yacht for a light drink at sunset over the bay.

19:00        Dinner will be prepared with delicious dishes in a peaceful and interesting space

 

07:00     Start your day with a tai chi class in the fresh air with small dew drops in the air, then sip a hot cup of coffee in the morning birdsong over the sparkling bay.

Then you will move on a yacht to visit Sung Sot cave with hundreds of years old stalactite columns sparkling in the early morning sunlight through the holes of the cave.
Back on the yacht, you'll pack your luggage on deck and check out.

The yacht will continue to move to new areas in the heritage area and relax on the deck overlooking the panoramic view of the slow-moving bay in the fresh breeze.

The farewell lunch for the crew was thoughtfully prepared while the yacht continued to move to the berth.

11:30:     The farewell lunch for the crew was thoughtfully prepared while the yacht continued to move to the berth.
  
Cruise docked and you get on board and disembark.

Our driver will wait for you at the cruise terminal and help you load your luggage into the car for departure to Noi Bai International Airport.

Overnight at hotel in Hue

 

08:00    This morning, we will sail along the romantic Perfume River to the ancient Thien Mu Pagoda, the Buddhist center in Hue and the former residence of the monk who burned himself to death to protest the anti-Buddhist law. government of Ngo Dinh Diem during the war in Vietnam.

After that, we will move to the area of the Imperial Citadel and the Forbidden City, the residence of the royal family and the center of political power of the feudal kings of the Nguyen Dynasty.

12:00    Have lunch at local restaurant.

In the afternoon, you will visit the mausoleum of King Tu Duc, one of the mausoleums with beautiful architecture built in a carefully maintained tropical garden.

End of the journey is a visit to the village of making traditional conical hats, one of the indispensable accessories of a woman when wearing a traditional Ao Dai.

Overnight at hotel in Hue 

 

08:00    This morning, we drove over the majestic Hai Van Pass, enjoying the view of the Pacific Ocean, stopping to visit the famous Lang Co fishing village.

On the way through Da Nang, you will use your feet to visit the Cham Museum, one of the places that preserves the most artifacts of the prosperous civilization of the Champa dynasties.

12:00     Arriving at Hoi an, after having lunch at a local restaurant, you will join a walking tour to visit places such as overseas Chinese area, Japanese area, ancient houses of local traders such as Tan Ky ancient house, Bridge Pagoda connecting the Chinese and Japanese, Phuoc Kien Assembly Hall, Hoi An Market ...

Then you will be able to take a wooden canoe down the Thu Bon river in the sunset to the Thanh Ha pottery village across the river to see the local people's hundreds of years old baking techniques.

 

08:00    In the morning, go to the traditional herb village Tra Que, where people still grow according to the natural method (organic), you will join the people in growing vegetables and see the village's general environmental protection method.

Then meet a local family and take a cooking class, go grocery shopping, go to the garden to pick vegetables and practice making fun and informative Vietnamese dishes, then enjoy lunch together family.

13:30    In the afternoon, you will come to a complex of 70 temples and towers with unique architectural and cultural features of the Champa kingdom within 9 centuries. The temple complex is a place to store spiritual and cultural values with many influences of Hinduism and Buddhism of a kingdom that no longer exists. This temple valley complex has been recognized by Unesco as a world cultural heritage that needs to be preserved since 1999.
 

All day rest walking around shopping or relaxing at An Bang white sand beach
 

You are free at your leisure until being transferred to Danang airport for a short flight to Ho Chi Minh city.

Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport, you will be escorted to the hotel for check-in. Lunch & dinner today are on your own arrangement.

You may also take an optional show or a night tour in Saigon.

Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
 

08:00    Our guide & driver pick you up at your hotel.

Cu Chi half-day tour is located about 70 km from Saigon, you will visit the Cu Chi tunnels, the former stronghold of the Viet Cong with a 3-story deep tunnel network extending over 200 km. The network and its sections are deep on many levels, including numerous trapdoors, specially constructed living areas, warehouses, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers, and kitchens.

The Cu Chi Tunnels played an important role in the Vietnam-American War as they allowed the Viet Cong to control a vast countryside just 30 to 40 kilometers from the old Saigon.

Today the remaining tunnels have become a major tourist attraction, offering visitors unique experiences and a taste of what life underground during the war must have been like.

12:00    Your lunch will be served at a local restaurant along the way.

An afternoon with a journey to explore Ho Chi Minh City, including the Reunification Palace, the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until April 30, 1975. Then there is the War Remnants Museum that formerly the Museum of War Remnants, which stores images of the South Vietnam War, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the city center post office, representing colonial architecture from the 19th century.

Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

08:00    Our guide & driver will pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, traveling to Cai Be.

Upon arrival, start the boat trip to visit Cai Be floating market. Then, you’ll come to Tân Phong island for biking/walk on village paths to see the local daily life. On the way, you can make some stops to see how they make rice paper for spring rolls, sew coconut leaves for cottage roofs and especially see how they wave the dried water hyacinth to make many products: baskets, bags, hats, wallets, and shoes

12:00    Have lunch at a local restaurant with Mekong river specialties. Then back to your boat crossing the Mekong river & some canals to An Binh Island, where you will check in at the local homestay. 

17:00    Dinner made by your & members of local families.

Stay overnight in An Binh(Vinh Long)
 

08:00     After breakfast and check out for a walk along the village to enjoy the fresh air in the morning & stop having tea at the Coconut workshop.

Then, continues the cruise along the Hoa Tinh canal to see some families making brick, wave bamboo baskets, sewing conical hats, and process to make rice
noodles. Stop at Vinh Long market in the town, where you have a great chance to take photos of fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs, snakes, rice-field rats, tropical fruits, and vegetables. 

Return to the car to visit Vinh Long Temple of Literature, which is a school for Confucian-influenced Confucian scholars or That Phu Mieu Chua Ong Temple, a meeting and worshiping place for overseas Chinese businessmen before leaving for Ho Chi Minh City

12:00    Stop for Lunch at Local Restaurant in My Tho.

16:00    Arrival to Ho Chi Minh City, free to walk around the city or shop for souvenirs

Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

You are free to relax until our driver picks you up and takes you to the airport for your departing flight.

End the tour and say goodbye see you next time