15-Day Vietnam Cultural Tour with Halong Cruise and Sapa Trek

Welcome to Hanoi! 

Upon arrival at Noi Bai International Airport, you will be welcomed & transferred to your hotel in Hanoi. Take some time to rest and recharge after your long flight, preparing for the exciting journey ahead.

• Note: Please keep in mind that check-in begins at 14h00.

The remainder of the day is yours to explore the charming Hanoi Capital.

Meal: 

Accommodation Options : Overnight in Hanoi Old Quarter

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Overnight in Hanoi Old Town (Central location):
+ 3-Star Hotel: La Passion Hanoi Hotel or Similar
+ 4-Star Hotel: Authentic Hanoi Hotel or Similar
+ 5-Star Hotel: Pan Pacific Hotel or Similar

In the morning, be picked up from hotel and transferred to Halong Bay. Take a boat trip to explore one of the world’s great natural wonders, cruising the thousands of limestone islands filled with caves of all shapes and sizes. The sails of cruise and samfans gliding along the clear and emerald waters of the bay form a magnificent picturesque scene that blends with the sky.
In the afternoon, you also get a chance to visit Sung Sot cave, swim and relax in Titop island and enjoy Sunset Party on sundeck.
After dinner, socialize with other guests, take part in board games, fish for squid, or just laze around. Stay overnight on board

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Accommodation Options: 
+ 3-Star Cruise: Le Journey Cruise or Similar
+ 4-Star Cruise: Sapphire Cruise or Similar
+ 5-Star Cruise: La Casta Cruise or Similar

Do TaiChi in early morning and enjoy the peaceful morning of Halong Bay. Kayak around Drum cave; visiting Ba Hang fishing village, Dog Islet, and more. While heading back to the harbor, watch the fruit carving demonstration and participate in the Cooking Class before enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch. Disembark from the junk at noon and transfer to Hanoi. Return at hotel around 15.00 pm. Recheck in at hotel. 

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Overnight in Hanoi

At 7.00 am, be picked up at hotel. Please ask hotel for breakfast take away. You can store some luggage at hotel.

Today you will visit Sapa. The journey via Express Road takes 5 and a half hours.  Arriving Sapa, have lunch then you’ll check in to your hotel.

After that, in the afternoon, visit Cat Cat village (light trekking required), where you may wish to try the local apple wine or purchase a hand-woven blanket, and Sapa town.

Free and easy in the evening time.

• Meals: B, L, D
• Hotel: Hotel in Sapa

After breakfast, start a 5- hour trek to visit Lao Chai – Ta Van village, exploring the local ethnic minorities life, admire the spectacular natural scenery with the terraced rice fields. Visit Sapa’s ancient rock formations with engraved images big and small, the unique patterns of the ancients, as well as admire the picturesque bridge to the clouds clear over the Muong Hoa stream.

Lunch at restaurant in the middle of village.

Return to hotel in Sapa around 14.00pm. Relax.

14. 15 pm, we return Hanoi

20.00: Check in again in hotel in Hanoi

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

 Take a 1- hour- flight to Danang. Be picked up airport and transferred to Hoian by private car.

Arrive Hoi An and check in. The rest of the day is spent at your leisure, discovering the beauty of  Hoi An.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Have breakfast at hotel.

08:00 Our guide picks you up at your hotel and depart to My Son Sanctuary – The World Cultural Heritage. 

09:00 Arriving in My Son – the Holly land surrounded by the marvelous mountains, 48km west of Hoi An. My Son was chosen as a religious center, built in the late 4th century under the Cham’s King Bhadravaman. It is a huge religious complex with over 70 towers and temples of different architectures. We will have 2 hours to discover the site by walking throughout the landscape, learning histories with our local English speaking guide, enjoying the traditional performances of Cham Pa People.

11:00: Get back to bus and move to a local house to learn how to make rice-paper, you will enjoy your own hand-making product later on.

11:30: Back to the bus and have lunch at another local house, relax with cold herbal tea,  nice foods and fresh air.

12:30: Take a boat trip to Hoi An with nice and cool breeze on boarding, beautiful river scenery on the biggest river in the Central of Vietnam named as Thu Bon River.

13:30: Arrive at Hoi An, we will drop you at your hotel.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

At 9.00 am, take a orientation walking tour to explore the ancient town. Visit the complex of architectural monuments of various forms: Tan Ky Old House, Assembly Hall, Japanese Bridge,  local markets, Harbor...

Having Lunch at Local and joining class of lantern making.

After that transfer back hotel.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

Today, You can able to enjoy either the beach for relaxing, or explore the old town with bike or rickshaw or relax at hotel swimming pool by yourself 

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

At 10.00 am, our driver pick up you at the hotel and take you to  Hue. The journey takes you around 3 hours via Hai Van Pass. On the way to Hue, you will have chance to stop at 3-4 stops for taking photos. 

Arrive Hue, check in Hotel. Rest of the day is your leisure time.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hue

Pick up you at your hotel at around 8:00 and then take a full day to discover Hue:

Visit Emperor Minh Mang Mausoleum and Emperor Khai Dinh Mausoleum. Stop on the way to see how conical hats and incense sticks are made. Lunch at a local restaurant.

In the afternoon, visit Imperial capital during Nguyen Dynasty: the Royal Citadel, Forbidden City, Hue Royal Museum and the seven – storey Thien Mu Pagoda on the riverbank. Return by boat on the gentle Perfume River

Tour will end 16:00. Be back the hotel for the rest.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hue

Enjoy breakfast at hotel. then wait for our driver transport to Hue airport.

You will  take flight to Ho Chi Minh city (formerly Saigon).

Arrive in Ho Chi Minh and check in hotel.

The rest of the day is spent at your leisure.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

8h00 Am: Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and then start tour. Enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields.

On arrived at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses, fruit plantations and fishing villages along the river bank.

Proceed to Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shadow of the water coconut trees along natural canals, then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music”, performed by locals.

Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste the delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantation and village.

After that, we return Ho Chi Minh city

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

at 8.00 am, our tour guide meets you at hotel and departs for Cu Chi tunnels.

Explore the fascinating network of underground tunnels used as supply routes, hideouts and living quarters by guerrilla fighters during the Vietnam War.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

This day, you can either check out and take an international flight home, stay on longer in Vietnam or continue your travels in other destinations in Asia.

The Airport transfer is included this day.

• Meals: B