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Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi Arrival – ½ day City Tour
Day 2: Hanoi – Halong
Day 3: Halong – Hanoi
Day 4: Hanoi – Duong Lam – ½ Day City Hanoi – Train to Hue
Day 5: Hue – City Tour Hue
Day 6:Hue – Danang – Hoi An
Day 7:Hoi An
Day 8: Hoi An – Danang – Saigon
Day 9: Saigon – Cai Be – Saigon
Day 10: Saigon – Phan Thiet – Muine (Or Ke Ga)
Days 11 – 13: Muine (or Ke Ga) – Freeday
Day 14: Muine (or Ke Ga) – Saigon – Departure
Overview
We offer a complete circuit where you'll discover the most beautiful stages of Vietnam from north to south.You will start by the north with a visit to the capital of Vietnam: Hanoi, rich historic heritage followed by a cruise on the famous Halong Bay, a jewel ...After a night aboard a sleeper train in first class, you will arrive in the center of the country to visit Hue Imperial City, followed by a memorable stop in Hoi An, charming town listed as World Heritage of Humanity.You can reach the south by a domestic flight of just 1 hour and visit the economic heart of the country Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, frenetic, modern and charming at the same time.You will experience the authenticity of the Mekong Delta with a cruise on the Mekong River with stops in orchards and craft villages, discovering the floating markets, a treat!To finish off this Vietnamese adventure you will go bask in Phan Thiet near a beautiful beach ...
Itinerary detai
Day 1: HANOI ARRIVAL – ½ DAY CITY TOUR
Pick up and transfert to City centre.
Panoramic bus tour of the city, through the colonial neighborhoods. Hanoi capital of unified Vietnam, has kept the old-fashioned charm of the French colonial era. The modernization of the city taken by the French in 1882 lasted until 1955 and the city has not changed much since. Some remarkably preserved or restored buildings stand a harmonious architectural together. The Vietnamese capital is undoubtedly the most charming city in the country with all its authenticity, large shaded avenues, many lakes and manicured gardens.
Lunch at your expense, then transfer to your hotel around 14:00. Trishaw ride in the old quarter of Hanoi on Lake of the Restored Sword. Welcome dinner (outside drinks) with musical entertainment. Overnight at hotel.
Day 2: HANOI – HA LONG
The tour guide and driver will get back and pick you up for the morning drive overland to Halong City, your entry point to the Bay of the World Heritage by UNESCO. Thousands of islands rise dramatically from the waters of Halong Bay and, to further their beauty, intricate cave systems naturally exist throughout these limestone karst formations. The traditional styled junk will cruise in between the towering islands, visit a limestone cave in the afternoon and do some kayaking and swimming (depending on the weather) Your accommodation tonight is a truly special experience – sleeping on a boat surrounded by high limestone karsts. Overnight on board.
Day 3: HALONG – HANOI
Wake in the heart of Halong Bay and breakfast on board. Continuation of the cruise among the surrounding islands. Arriving at the jetty around noon. Disembark and transfer to Hanoi.
Then in the early evening you will attend a puppet show on the water at Thang Long Theatre, typically Vietnamese art in which each puppet is a popular character and every scene has to do with everyday life. Dinner in a local restaurant in Hanoi. Overnight at hotel.
Day 4: HANOI – DUONG LAM – ½ DAY CITY HANOI – TRAIN TO HUE
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning road to the ancient village of Duong Lam. This cultural site, still unknown, retained the old structure of Vietnamese villages with its front door, banyan, her temple, her communal house and his house dedicated to ancestor worship, houses in laterite. The culinary specialties of the village are the Mia chicken, soy sauce, peanut candies, roasted sweet potatoes, rice cakes ...
Visit the Mong Phu communal house and walk through the narrow streets of laterite. You will visit houses that manufacture soy sauce and traditional sweets and Mia Pagoda, built in 1632, and Buddha statues.
Lunch (outside drinks) at the restaurant in Hanoi or homestay in an old house from the 17th century, with the warmth of family members (subject to availability by the family) in Hanoi.
Return to Hanoi in the early afternoon and guided tour of the Vietnamese capital. You visit the Temple of Literature. It is the largest building of its kind in Hanoi and is the most complete representation of traditional Vietnamese architecture. It was built in 1070 to worship Confucius (Chinese philosopher at the origin of the three major religions of China and whose doctrine was based on the moral development of the human being). Upon construction, the temple served as the intellectual and spiritual center. Tour first booked the royal family and mandarins, the school became accessible to all the people at the successful completion of the entrance examination, considered difficult, based on the talent, skills and loyal commitment to the imperial power.
In the evening, transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to Hue '7:00 p.m. to 8:00. Overnight on train.
Day 5: HUE – CITY TOUR HUE
Arrive in Hue to 8:30 and meet your tour of the Centre. Transfer to hotel for breakfast.
Discovery tour with a guide of the ancient capital. Visit of Emperor Tu Duc Tomb, probably the most romantic, it represents the perfect harmony between nature and architecture. He served as his retreat where he came compose poems or fish. This park is home to more than all the elements of a tomb, all buildings of a royal residence: the king's residence palace, palace of the women of the harem, pavilion for reading, kiosk for fishing and chess and a stage for theatrical performances of the composite royal troupe. Then visit a factory of conical hats and incense sticks. Lunch during the tour. You will visit the Imperial City, built on the model of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the construction of the citadel began in 1805 and ended in 1832. Surrounded by a long and thick wall of 600 meters, ten gates, four main allow its access: the Peace in the North, that of humanity in the East, that of Virtue in the West, that of the South to the South through which one enters the imperial residence. It opens onto a large courtyard in the center of which stands the Golden Bridge across "the pond of gold water" pool filled with goldfish and water hyacinth. This courtyard leads into the palace of Supreme Harmony, built in 1805, then you will visit the Pagoda of the Celestial Lady, built on the banks of the Perfume River, she knows from afar with its octagonal tower. According to legend, a heavenly lady dressed in red appeared and asked the lord to build a pagoda in order to control the subterranean forces and dominate the region.Overnight at hotel.
Day 6: HUE – DANANG – HOI AN
Breakfast at the hotel then drive to Danang via the Cloud Pass or via the quick tunnels according to local requirements.Turan called at the time of French rule, Danang is from the nineteenth century the main port of the region outperforming that of Hoi An. To just before the war, the economy was booming, there are great restaurants and shops luxury of wide avenues ... Today, Danang gradually found its former glory, although economic activity remains still limited. With its tropical climate and warm temperatures year round, Danang city is very nice and quieter than Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi. Lunch in Danang. Continue to Hoi An and transfer to hotel.
The old town of Hoi An is one of the major attractions of the Danang area with over 800 buildings of historical interest. This ancient trading port, especially flourishing of the fifteenth century in the nineteenth century, is far from stealing its inclusion in Unesco in 1999. The old Hoi An neighborhoods very well preserved, reflect the fusion of cultures between local traditions and influences foreign, that has occurred over the centuries through trade perpetrated in the traditional port of Southeast Asia.
You will end the day with a visit to a factory house of natural silk and silk products. Dinner Hoian specialties in town. Overnight at hotel.
Day 7: HOI AN FREE
Breakfast at the hotel.Free day without a guide or driver and meals at your expense.Several cultural activities are available from your hotel (information and reservation at the hotel) bike rental to get to the countryside of Hoi An, cooking classes, introduction to gardening in the vegetable garden of Tra Que ...
Day 8: HOI AN – DANANG – HO CHI MINH CITY
Breakfast at the hotel.Transfer to Danang airport for flight to Saigon. Arrival at the airport, welcome by your guide South.
Ho Chi Minh City, renamed in 1976 after the departure of the Americans, the former capital of South Vietnam kept as the name Ho Chi Minh for the majority of its 4.5 million inhabitants. It is the largest city in the country and has established itself early as the economic capital, it includes 12 urban districts and six rural districts spread over 2000 square kilometers. It does not flow time of day or night without the streets resound with the incessant honking and roar of thousands of motorcycles plying the city. The French presence is still very marked by long shady avenues lined with colonial houses, monuments and gardens. Discovering colonial districts and the main historic sites of the city: photo stop before the Reunification Palace, the former Presidential Palace under the old regime. At dawn on April 30, 1975, entering Saigon, the tanks of the vanguard North Vietnamese immediately converged to the building, then called the presidential palace. Shielded smashed the gates, then a soldier jumped and ran hoist the Viet Cong flag on the balcony of the 4th floor. The Reunification Palace remained unchanged since. Municipal Theatre located on Lam Son Square between Caravelle and Continental. The theater was built in 1895 and opened in 1900. The building had a ceiling mobile and could receive up to 800 people. The government had set up the National Assembly. Since 1975 he has regained its original function. The City Hall, controversial at the time of its construction (1901-1908), this huge building resembles a yellow and white birthday cake. The central station which is an important testimony of French architecture in Vietnam. Founded between 1886 and 1891, it recalls the Parisian buildings. And its glass roof, built by Gustave Eiffel's workshop, similar to the Paris Orsay railway station. Its façade mixture, meanwhile, both French and Vietnamese cultures. On either side of the entrance, are displayed two cards of Cochin - name given to South Vietnam by French settlers - in 1936 both of which have survived the ravages of successive wars that have plagued the country.
Notre Dame Cathedral was built in red brick on the Paris by a French architect between 1877 and 1880 on the ruins of a pagoda. Masses are still celebrated here in Vietnamese (three daily and six offices every Sunday) for the faithful still relatively numerous. Its square hosts a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Lunch at restaurant in town. Then discovery of Chinatown Cholon, the "grand bargain" in French, to the southwest of the city that has developed a style with its crowded streets, signs in Chinese ideograms and human moving masses Binh Tay market is full goods (meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, ingredients for Chinese traditional medicine). Visit a traditional factory lacquer fame in Ho Chi Minh City, quality home by the tourist office. Dinner at restaurant in town. Overnight at hotel.
Day 9: SAIGON – CAI BE – SAIGON
Breakfast at hotel and departure to visit the Mekong Delta. An extensive network of thousands of channels characterized life in the Mekong Delta which spans 40,000 square kilometers. The yellow color of the water is due to land which fertilizes throughout the year fields and rich Delta orchards. The immense rivers and rice fields are dotted with lotus ponds. The main means of transport is the ship.
Road to the town of Cai Be. All aboard for a boat ride on one of the arms of the Mekong River, visit the floating market of Cai Be where you can admire the displays of fruits and flowers and orchards. Walk on the island Binh Hoa Phuoc and discover its orchards tasting tropical fruit will be offered. Visit of a traditional candy factory with tasting. Lunch with the locals in an orchard.
Back to Saigon. Overnight at hotel.
Day 10: SAIGON – PHAN THIET – MUI NE (OR KE GA)
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning drive to Phan Thiet (with driver and without guide). 200 km (about 6h30-7h drive) from Ho Chi Minh City, Phan Thiet was touristically discovered in 1994, after the flood of observers during a solar eclipse. The beaches occupied until then by the fishing villages began to accommodate vacationers and very little time, it became a tourist town. Many hotels were built along the coast.Free day and free meals (at your expense). Overnight at hotel.
Days 11 – 13: MUI NE(OR KE GA) – FREE DAY
Free beach holiday in formula breakfast (other meals are at your expense). Overnight at hotel.
Day 14: MUI NE (OR KE GA) – SAIGON – DEPARTURE
Breakfast at the hotel. According to the flight schedule, free time for shopping. Transfer to the airport for your flight home. Meals and overnight in flight.
