Vietnam in Depth

Day 1: SAI GON ARRIVAL (-/-/-)

Welcome on arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport by our guide and transferred to your hotel (check in time: 14:00)

• Overnight in Saigon

Day 2: SAIGON CITY TOUR (B/L/-)

Begin your experience in bustling Saigon, the country’s commercial center and home to a growing number of upscale restaurants and shops. Visit Chinatown, the Opera House and Hotel de Ville. You will also visit War Remnants Museum. You can enjoy shopping at Bitexco’s highlight is that inside this building is a modern commercial centre. Explore colorful outdoor markets and Dong Khoi Street, the city’s main shopping boulevard.

• Overnight in Saigon.

OPTION 1: SAIGON BY NIGHT – STREET FOOD TOUR (JOIN GROUP) – EXCLUDED ON OUR PRICE

Price: Kindly contact us for more detail 

DAILY NIGHT DEPARTURE:  6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

DURATION: 4 to 4,5 hours  

As you may know, Saigon is the largest and most vibrant city in Vietnam, home to over 10 million people and over 5 million scooters. The majority of Saigon residents commute by scooter or Vespa, and we would like to share with you an intriguing way to experience the city at night on a special vintage Vespa. This will be entertaining and will also transport you back to Saigon in 1950. In Saigon, are you trying to find anything special to do? Come on, join us!

First, you will be picked up from your hotel by an experienced driver in a vintage Vespa before being driven to our venue, where you may enjoy a welcome drink at a local bar for free while taking in the view of Saigon.

Then, we give you a tour of the city so you can see the city’s landmarks and narrow streets where locals go about their daily lives. We’d want to introduce you to some of our local favorites, such Vietnamese pancakes and spring rolls, at our first stop for dinner, a local eatery.

After that, we continue our discovery of Saigon to local Seafood restaurant, another experience for you to taste the seafood with great ambience of the local. The trip is not done yet, the fun things is still waiting for you after.

We would like to bring to the local acoustic music cafe to have some dessert of drink, to enjoy some music performed by Vietnamese singers.

Our last stop before get back to the hotel will be bar, where you can enjoy Rock music or Jazz, now you can say you experience the Saigon Night Life.

Highlights – local street food sea food, pancake … roof top bar to see sunset, live music bar, rider to see city night life

OPTION 2: A O SHOW – TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE CULTURE SHOW (EXCLUDED ON OUR PRICE)

Price: Kindly contact us for more detail

A O Show, one of a must-see shows in Hoian and Saigon, is a unique merge of bamboo circus, acrobatics acts, contemporary dance, traditional Vietnamese music and theatrical visual art. The name “A O” derives from “Lang Pho” which means village and city. The show stands out on the contrast between the charming beauty and cultural richness of Vietnamese life in the countryside and the nation’s racing urbanization. This one-hour show is a chance for those who want to transcend time and space for a front-row immersion in the artistic and emotional life of Vietnam.

Day 3: SAI GON – TAY NINH – CU CHI – SAI GON (B/L/-)

This morning we drive to Cao Dai Temples in Tay Ninh to observe the midday service. Near the Cambodian border, is home to the unique Cao Dai sect, whose patron saints include Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo and Winston Churchill to name a few. The trip to Tay Ninh is combined with a visit to the Cu Chi Tunnels; the tunnel system stretched over 200km. The network included innumerable trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers and kitchens.

• Overnight in Saigon

Day 4: SAI GON – CAI BE – CAN THO (B/L/-)

Leave Saigon for drive to Cai Be Upon arrival, board a motorized boat to visit the popcorn cake, rice paper making family before visiting Cai Be. Take a walk for about half an hour to enjoy the rural peaceful atmosphere of the countryside life, on the way we can also stop en route to learn more about fruit trees. Continue driving to Can Tho for overnight.

• Overnight in Can Tho

Day 5: CAN THO – SAI GON (B/L/-)

Visit Cai Rang – the market is unique culture of local people living along this mighty river. Instead of shopping in the town, they shop and barter on the river that is more convenient to access by waterways.

Then, transfer back to Saigon

• Overnight in Saigon

Day 6: SAI GON – FLIGHT TO DA LAT (B/-/-)

A short flight takes you to Da Lat City – The former French colonial hill station town of Da Lat was founded over 100 years ago by a French scientist, Dr Alexander Yersin. In the afternoon, we will visit the Summer Palace of the last emperor of Vietnam and the Crazy House. You may also wish to pay a visit to one of Da Lat’s most notable residents, Thien Vien Truc Lam. 

• Overnight in Da Lat

Suggestion Flight:  VN1382  SGN  DLI   11:00 12:15 (Airfare excluded on our price)

Day 7: DA LAT SIGHTSEEING (B/L/-)

Visit Domaine de Marie, Dalat Flower Garden, then visit to Lang Biang will reveal a land of serene natural beauty surrounded by greenery of vegetable terraces. The mountain village of Xa Lat situated at the foot of the Mount Lang Biang is the home of Lat ethnic minority group.

• Overnight in Da Lat

Day 8: DA LAT – TRANSFER TO NHA TRANG (B/-/-)

We will head eastward, making our way towards the coast. We’ll pass through pine forests and small market garden communities before reaching to Nha Trang City in the afternoon.

Then, visit the Po Nagar Towers, an outstanding of ancient Cham architecture.  

• Overnight in Nha Trang

Day 9: NHA TRANG BOAT CRUISE (B/L/-)

Experience the coast of Nha Trang aboard a boat as you set out in the morning for the first stop at the Tri Nguyen Aquarium. You will then head out to Hon Mun Island where you can swim and snorkel for beholding various kinds of multi – colourful corals and fishes (snorkelling fees paid by yourself), continue to Hon Mot Island for relax. 

• Overnight in Nha Trang

Day 10: NHA TRANG – FLIGHT TO DANANG – TRANSFER TO HOI AN – HOIAN ANCIENT TOWN (B/-/-)

At Leisure and then you will be taken to the airport in Nha Trang to take 1-hour flight to Da Nang City, where you will visit Marble Mountains en route to the charming Hoi An. 

Upon arrival, visit old town with Japanese Covered Bridge Pagoda, first constructed in 1593 by the Japanese community in the city as a link to the Chinese quarters across the stream. Next see the Sa Huynh Museum, Tran Family Chapel, Lantern Workshop, you will also see the Phuoc Kien Assembly Hall, a Chinese pagoda built around 1690. 

Enjoy drop Hoi An flower garlands and colour lanterns

• Overnight in Hoi An

Suggestion Flight:  VN946 CXR DAD   08:30  09:40 (Airfare excluded on our price)

Day 11: HOI AN – BANA HILL WITH GOLDEN BRIDGE – HOIAN (B/-/-)

After breakfast at hotel, transfer to Ba Na Hills

Arrive at the cable car station Suoi Mo. Sitting in the cabin, in mid air, looking upon the endless tree lone of the forest. Experiencing the pristine ecological system of the Ba Na mountain will leave you a sense of unforeseeable discovery

Visit the Le Jardin, old wineries (excluded expenses) – remains of French Villas and Linh Ung pagoda with 27m high Buddha statue. Leave Le Jardin for Gare Debay, the second cable car station, to go to the top of Ba Na

Visit and play game at the Fantasy Park- Ba Na Hills Fantasy Park- the third largest indoor amusement park in the world (Only some free games depending on Ba Na policy)

Free around Ba Na Hill till go down to the foot of mountain

Then transfer back to Hoian

• Overnight in Hoi An

Day 12: HOI AN – HUE CITY TOUR (B/L/-)

Leaving Hoi An for Hue by road, passing through Da Nang, driving over the Pass of Ocean Clouds before dropping down to the wonderfully photogenic fishing village of Lang Co. Then, you will reach Hue – the former imperial capital of Vietnam, to visit the ancient Forbidden City from where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945.

• Overnight in Hue

Day 13: HUE CITY TOUR – AFTERNOON STREET FOOD (B/-/-)

Take a Dragon boat trip along the Perfume River visiting Thien Mu pagoda before continuing on to the Royal Mausoleum’s of Tu Duc Emperor who ruled Hue more than 100 years ago. There are pavilions in a tranquil setting of forested hills and lakes. The tomb was constructed between 1864 and 1867.

Then, enjoy afternoon street food such as: “Bun Bo Hue”, “ Bánh Nậm”, “ Bánh Khoái”, “ Bánh Bèo”, “Nem Lui” & “Che Hem”

• Overnight in Hue

Day 14: HUE – FLIGHT TO HA NOI (B/-/-)

Transfer to airport for morning flight to Ha Noi. The colonial capital city Hanoi is a unique Asian city with tree-lined boulevards, French colonial architecture, peaceful lakes and oriental pagodas and temples.

Upon arrival, visiting Ho Chi Minh Complex, a lovely park complex which Ho Chi Minh’s final resting place (Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum closes on Mondays and Fridays and every afternoon. So, you will visit outside of Ho chi Minh Mausoleum, Ba Dinh square, Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s House on stilt, One pillar pagoda as normal. 

Then, walking around Hanoi Old Quarter, visit Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple

• Overnight in Hanoi

Suggestion Flight:  VN1542  HUI  HAN   10:20  14:40 (Airfare excluded on our price)

Day 15: HANOI-HOA LU -TRANG AN-HANOI-NIGHT TRAIN TO LAO CAI (B/-/D)

Depart 2 hour driving along green fields and villages in the two side of the high way number 01. Your first stop is Hoa Lu, used to be the capital of Vietnam in the 11st centuries, visit the temple of Dinh & Le dynasty, learn about history of Vietnam in the war with China and about the first Vietnamese government. Have a great view of rice paddy field, and lots of fresh air

Start a boat trip to visit Trang An – Landscape Complex is a spectacular landscape of limestone karst peaks permeated with valleys, many of them partly submerged and surrounded by steep, almost vertical cliffs. Exploration of caves at different altitudes has revealed archaeological traces of human activity over a continuous period of more than 30,000 years. They illustrate the occupation of these mountains by seasonal hunter-gatherers and how they adapted to major climatic and environmental changes, especially the repeated inundation of the landscape by the sea after the last ice age. The story of human occupation continues through the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to the historical era.

Return to Hanoi in the late afternoon, have dinner at local restaurant, then transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for night train to Lao Cai

• Overnight on train (1 pax/ticket on 4 soft berth cabin)

– If you need to arrange 01 pax/2 ticket/way, kindly add extra cost 48 CAD/ticket/way x 02 ways = 96 CAD/pax

-No English Speaking Guide Escorted on the train

Day 16: LAO CAI ARRIVAL – SAPA – CAT CAT VILLAGE (B/L/-)

There will be a vehicle waiting at Lao Cai station to transfer you to Sapa to enjoy a free morning to explore around town. In the afternoon, there will be a walking tour to the hill tribe villages of Cat Cat, home to the H’mong hill tribe minority people.

• Overnight in Sapa

Day 17: LAOCHAI TAVAN VILLAGE – LAOCAI – NIGHT TRAIN TO HANOI (B/-/D)

Following breakfast, we explore the Sapa market and then set out on our 3-4-hour trek that will take us along paths and trails and through several hill tribe villages of Lao Chai and Ta Van, home to H’mong, and Dzay people. This is an absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by some of the friendliest people you can meet. Back to Lao Cai for a night train journey to Ha Noi.

• Overnight on train.

OPTIONAL: AFTERNOON FANSIPAN CABLE CAR (EXCLUDED ON OUR PRICE)

Price: Kindly contact us for more detail

You will transfer to Fansipan Cable Car Station that takes you about 15 minutes instead of 3-day climbing two to four days as before. After arriving at the station, visitors will take about 20 – 30 minutes to climb 600 more ladders to reach the top of Fansipan peak, and touch the landmark in the roof of Indochina. It is no longer a dream far away with many people as before since the cable car Fansipan was born. Besides the Fansipan peak, you can also visit the beautiful Fansipan Legend with Bamboo Garden, Bao An Thien Tu, Bich Van Thien, shopping center, etc.

Day 18: HA NOI ARRIVAL – HA LONG BAY CRUISE (B/L/D)

Upon arrival Hanoi Railways Station in the early morning, have breakfast, then you leave Ha Noi for Ha Long Bay via Red river Delta. Passage into the magical bay where thousands of sculpted limestone islands rise from the waves like dragons’ teeth. Visit an interesting fishing village with an opportunity to interact with fishermen who have been living in the bay for almost three generations. Enjoy watching the peaceful sunset and cooking demonstration.

• Overnight on cruise

Note: the itinerary of Halong will be changed based on which cruise you choose and depending on the weather without prior notice.

Day 19: HA LONG BAY CRUISE – HANOI – WATER PUPPET SHOW (BRUNCH/-)

Wake up on the bay to the sounds of waves and bird welcoming the new day. You will have an opportunity to view the sunrise over the bay. Visit a beautiful limestone grotto then walk back to the boat for a final glimpse of Ha Long Bay.

Then, transfer back to Hanoi, enjoy Traditional Water Puppet Show

• Overnight in Hanoi

Note: the itinerary of Halong will be changed based on which cruise you choose and depending on the weather without prior notice.

Day 20: HANOI DEPARTURE (B/-/-)

Enjoy your free time until transfer to the airport for your onward flight (check out time: 12:00 noon)