15 Days Vietnam Relaxing & Cultural Tour

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

Today you leave for Hanoi, the flight is not included in the trip, but we look forward with pleasure to you, looking for the best and cheapest ticket. After a long flight you arrive in Hanoi. You will be picked up from the airport by our driver and taken to your centrally located hotel in the old quarter. Many of Hanoi's highlights are just a few minutes' walk from the hotel. Hanoi is an old city with a lot of culture, history and delicious local cuisine. So you're going to enjoy yourself here.

Day 2: Hanoi City Tour 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast you can go all the way again. Today you have the whole day to explore the city itself.

Today you can also explore the city with a guide. He then takes you to the Ho Chi Minh complex with the mausoleum where former party leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence of Vietnam and is now laid out, so that the locals can still worship him daily. You will also visit the Presidential Palace and the House-on-Stilts. Furthermore, the guide takes you to the Temple of Literature. Originally built as a temple for Confucius, dating back to 1070, this was the first university in Vietnam. The temple emphasizes the importance of education within Vietnamese society.

After a delicious local lunch you go to the Museum of Ethnology. This museum is widely recognized as the best in the country and has an extensive exhibition dedicated to the 54 cultural groups of Vietnam. There are even traditional houses reconstructed.

Finally you visit the Hoa Loa prison (also known as Hanoi Hilton), a historic place and famous prison in the French district of Hanoi. Hoa Loa was known because the French colonial government and later the North Vietnamese hunters used this prison during the Vietnam War.

Day 3: Hanoi Free And Easy 

Meal: Breakfast

Even today you have the time to explore Hanoi further.

Day 4: Ha Noi - Trang An/ Ninh Binh

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast at local restaurant, then transfer to the Trang An- the first mixed world heritage in vietnam, take a boat to travel along the stream visiting Trang An ecological tourist site: the limestone, valleys and rivers gather together constituting a mysterious and amazing scene. Visit caves with stalactites of all shapes and colors, after lunch, back to hanoi, dinner at local restaurant.

Day 5: Ha Noi - Sa Pa - Cat Cat Village

Meals: Breakfast, 

6.00– 6H30: Pick up from your hotel/stay, get on a big bus and depart for Sapa Town.

9.30: Follow the highway to Lao Cai city with the first comfort break

11.00: Second comfort break at Lao Cai city before approaching Sapa

13.00 APM: We will pick you up from the bus office in Sapa and transfer by car to the hotel for having lunch, checking in.

14h30PM: Our tour guide takes you for a trek to Cát Cát village. We gonna go for 3km down hill to see stunning and beautiful mountains, local family with fabrics and wearing. Then we keep trekking down hill that can see an amazing waterfall ranked on a stream. We will also have a chance to see a building-hydro power plant was built by the French before. And nowadays, people hold on some performances of local dance and sing.

17PM: We trek in 1 hour up hill to Sapa and enjoy the views along the way back

19PM: Dinner at your own expense go for a walk at night in Sapa town.

Day 6: Sa Pa - Fansipan - Ha Noi (B) 

Meal: Breakfast

7:00 AM : Have breakfast

8 AM: We pick you up by a Van /car to Sunworld Fansipan Legend relic. We walk in 5 minutes to the station and check in on the cabin of cable car. It takes us 20 minutes to go along up hill to the second station. You would have 2 options to go up to the peak of Fansipan wich is walking in over 600 steps or mountain train. The best views of mountains in Vietnam is appeared after you are on the roof of Indochina.

11.30 AM: We gonna pick you up from the car parking and come back the hotel for lunch(at your own expense), checking out. We arrange to take you by car to the bus for the way back to Ha Noi by bus in the afternoon. Arrive in Ha Noi about 8pm.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Around 8 o'clock you will be picked up at your hotel where the 3.5 hour ride to the port of Halong Bay begins. At the beginning of the afternoon you arrive at the pier and board the comfortable  on cruise. Lunch is served on board while the boat starts to sail through the beautiful bay. It is not for nothing that Halong Bay is on every travel program and is one of the most famous pictures when you think of Vietnam. This unique bay, where limestone rocks rise majestically from the sea, is in its entirety on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This afternoon you can choose from two different activities. So you can visit a fishing village by local bamboo boat where you get a unique insight into the life of the local fishermen. Or if you prefer to go kayaking you will be taken to a small beach where you can see the steep rocks close by paddling. Back on board the Oriental Sails Cruiser you can enjoy the sunset with a drink in hand before dinner is served.

Day 8: Halong Bay - Hanoi – Danang (B/L)

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

06.15 – 07.00: Breakfast is served. It can be a great idea to enjoy the meal with the magnificent view of the sunrise in Ha Long Bay.

8.00 -9.30: The cruise gets closer to the center of the Natural Preservation Area. Join our guide on a short trip to Luon Cave. This magic work of nature shows you the formation of karst mountains. You can discover this time masterpiece by kayaking on your own. If you are lucky, you can catch great photos with mischievous monkeys jigging up and down around the cliffs.

10.00: Whilst cruising back, delightful lunch will be served.

11.35: We return to the south of the bay, where our visitors disembark in Tuan Chau Marina. And leave for Noi Bai Airport.

16.30: Arrive Noi Bai Airport and take your flight to Danang City.

Arriving at Danang International Airport, welcomed by our driver then transfer to check in . Overnight in Danang

Day 9: Danang - Marble Mountain - Hoi An Ancient Town (B/D)

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast at hotel. Free morning to relax and shopping Lunch by your own expense

Afternoon:

14h00 Pick you up at hotel Depart for Marble Mountain; discover the stunning natural caves, the mysterious pagodas and the Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village.

16h30: Head to Hoian Ancient Town – the World Cultural Heritage Site; visit the Fukian Assembly Hall to encounter ancient architecture, the Japanese Covered Bridge, Sa Huynh Museum, Tan Ky Old House, Nguyen Hoang night market... 17h30: Free time to check out the tailors for stitching garments

Evening:

21h30: Return back to your hotel. Overnight in Da Nang

Day 10: Danang - Bana Hills 

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, transfer to Ba Na Hills check in at Dream stream Cable car station, take a cable car (cabin) to visit Ba Na mountain, where you can see the endless tree lines of the forests, can enjoy breath king views of the lush jungle, good air and waterfall along the way, some beautiful village by France style, Linh Ung pagoda (Buddha), Golden Bridge, Debay Wine Cellar, Le Jardin D’Amour, … and join some action game at Fantasy Park. Lunch at your own expense. Back to Danang.

Please note: Optional entrance fees for Wax Museum (~USD 5), Debay Ancient Wine Cellar (~USD 5), and coin games are not included in my quotation, joining them will be at your own account. Overnight in Da Nang.

Day 11: Danang Free And Easy

Meal: Breakfast

Even today you have the time to explore Danang further.

Day 12: Danang - Ho Chi Minh City

Meal: Breakfast

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the airport and take your flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat International airport, meet our Representative and transfer to hotel for check in. In the afternoon, welcome by our tour guide and transfer to city center to visit The Hundreds Years Red Cathedral, Old Post Office, The People’s Committee Hall, The French Opera House. Dinner at your own expense, overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Day 13: Ho Chi Minh- Cu Chi

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, a one and half hour drive takes you to Cu Chi where human knowledge has been enriched by experiencing a web-like tunnels system of more than 200km in length which used to be the shelters of guerrillas during the war against American troops. Back Ho Chi Minh. A Short sightseeing tour of Ho Chi Minh City: The Hundred Years Red Cathedral (Notre Dame Cathedral), The Old Post Office and The People’s Committee Hall. Visit War Museum, the famous lacquer ware factory and the handicraft center.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, a two hour drive to My Tho where will expose the colorful outskirt life, picturesque rice fields along the journey. Upon arrival, boat trip to Mekong River with islet stop at Thoi Son to taste seasonal fruits, enjoy traditional folk songs. Then, visit the authentic life of the local and challenge your bargaining power at cottage handicraft shops. An adventurous sampan ride in palm shading creeks will be the next experience of the riverside region Lunch to be served with the Mekong Delta specialty – Deep Fried Elephant ear fish. Return to Ho Chi Minh City in the afternoon

Day 15: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure Home 

Meal: Breakfast

Today is the last day of your tour in Vietnam, at the appropriate time you will be picked up and taken to the airport. End of services.

LANDTOUR PACKAGE WITHOUT AIRFARE

Price based on DBL/TWN/TRP sharing (Rate in USD Per Person)

*** Validity: from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025

HOTEL USED OR SIMILAR

*** In case if the hotel listed is unavailable, other similar class hotel shall be provided.

• Child under 12 years old sharing with 01 adult: 90% of adult fare
• Child under 12 years old sharing with 02 adults with extra bed: 75% of adult fare
• Child under 12 years old sharing with 02 adults without extra bed: 50% of adult fare
• Child under 02 years old sharing with 02 adults without bed: FOC

• Prices quoted in USD and subject to change without prior notice.
• Please be informed that the quotation does not imply or constitute availability.
• In case if the hotel listed is unavailable, other similar class hotel shall be provided.
• Compulsory Gala Dinner will be applied during Christmas Eve and New Year Eve.