Highlights of Vietnam
Length: 15 Days / 14 Nights - Coach, Boat, Airplane - Price from US$
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Tour Price: Package price based twin share for year 2008 from 772$
Trip Includes: - Hotels (13 nights); 01 on board; Meals: All breakfast, 12 lunch and 01 dinner; Domestic flight: Hanoi - Hue; Da nang - Nha Trang; Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh; English speaking guide as Itinerary; Private air-conditioning coach; Private boats: Halong bay, Hue and Siem Reap; All Entrance free; Puppet show; 01 bottle of water/ day
Not include: Personal charges; International air tickets; Airport tax, Insurance and Visa; Tips ect...
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 DAY 1: HANOI Arrival
You are met on arrival at Hanoi Airport and transferred to your hotel. The rest of your day is at leisure for independent exploration - a walking tour of the old quarter is a wonderful way to spend some of the day. Enjoy water puppet show.
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a charming city of about 4 million people, famous for its beautiful lakes, shaded boulevards and verdant public parks. The city centre is an architectural museum piece, its blocks of ochre buildings retaining the air of a provincial French town of the 1930s, contrary to the fast living and bustling air of Saigon. As Vietnam develops to compete with other South East Asian countries, Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake reflects the modern office buildings, old Buddhist temples and tangle of ancient streets.
DAY 2: HALONG Bay (B/ L/ D)
After breakfast, transfer to Halong, short stop en route at the Humanity Centre a program for disabled young people to learn crafts such as silk embroidery. Upon arrival at Halong Bay, transfer to our junk. After lunch on board the captain will find a secluded spot and now the choice is yours - you can swim in the clear water of the bay, soak up the sun on the upper deck or try your hand at some kayaking. In the evening the cook prepares a delicious meal as you weigh anchor in the heart of the bay. For those who are interested, there is the opportunity to do a spot of night fishing.
Overnight: On board the junk. Twin bed cabin on sailing junk with air-conditioning and private facilities.
DAY 3: HANOI (B/ L)
Rising to the tranquil beauty of the bay you have time for an early morning dip followed by breakfast. Your cruise continues as you move around the bay finding more secluded lagoons for swimming or kayaking. In the afternoon you head back Hanoi.
DAY 4: HANOI - HUE (B/ L/ D)
Explore Hanoi at leisure before you transfer to the airport for a flight to Hue in the late afternoon. You are met upon arrival and transferred to your hotel.
Founded as a royal city in 1687, Hue is the gateway to the treasures of Vietnam's royal past and remains one of Vietnam's major tourist attractions. This city is widely known for the magnificent architecture of its citadels, palaces, royal tombs, pagodas and temples built under the Nguyen dynasty in a poetic background of greenery on the banks of the Perfume river.
DAY 5: HUE (B/ L)
Enjoy a full day of sightseeing Hue's fascinating heritage with your local guide, visiting the Imperial Citadel and two of the most impressive Emperor's tombs. In the evening you take a cruise on the Perfume River.
DAY 6: HUE - HOI AN (B/ L)
Today you are driven by private car to Hoi An via Lang Co lagoon and Hai Van pass, wonderful places to take photos, visiting Marble Mountain and China Beach en route. Upon arrival, our guide will provide you with a walking tour around Hoi An.
Hoi An is a delightful riverine town 30 km south of Danang. Known as Faifo to early Western traders, it was one of South East Asia's major international ports during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Today, parts of Hoi An look exactly as they did a century ago. More than perhaps any other place in Vietnam, it retains the feel of centuries past, making it the sort of place that grows on you the more you explore it. Your guide provides you with a walking tour of Hoi An. Hoi An's narrow streets are filled with colourful lanterns, tailors and inviting restaurants.
DAY 7: HOI AN free (B)
Today is at leisure for further independent exploration of this charming town - bicycle is a great way to get around: Working as farmer at Tra Que vegetable village or learning to make lantern (contact us for more). You can head out to Cua Dai beach, a 4km. easy ride from the town centre, take a day trip to My Son relics or just enjoy shopping.
DAY 8: HOI AN - NHA TRANG (B/ L)
Today morning, we will transfer to Da nang and take a short flight to Nha Trang. Upon arriving, we transfer to our hotel. The afternoon is to enjoy beach close to our hotel. Overnight stay in Nha Trang.
DAY 9: NHA TRANG Aquarium boat trip fishing villages (B/ L)
Today a leisurely boat trip around the islands close to shore, snorkel or swim if you wish. Excursion by boat to various islands and the seawater aquarium on Mieu Island this is an important fish-breeding farm where over forty species of fish, crustaceans and other marine life are raised in three separate compartments. We will visit an island fishing village where you will be rowed ashore in small Vietnamese round boats and be served a succulent meal of seafood and other dishes.
DAY 10: NHA TRANG - HO CHI MINH (B/ L)
After breakfast, transfer to Danang Airport for a flight to Ho Chi Minh City. You are met on arrival at Saigon Airport and transferred to your hotel. This afternoon is at leisure to explore this exciting city.
(With a population of approximately 6 million, Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam. The huge number of people rushing about their daily business creates a vital and dynamic atmosphere. Saigon is characterised by a vast variety of sights and sounds, from ancient pagodas, mosques and cathedrals to the former Presidential Palace and the War Museum, from historic Dong Khoi Street (the Rue Catinat from Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American) to the bustling markets of Ben Thanh and Cholon (Chinatown). Much of the city life takes place on the streets which are lined with stores, shops, stalls, and vendors with their wares spread out on the footpath selling everything from soup to sophisticated electronics. The French influence is evident in the excellent baguettes and coffee!)
DAY 11: HO CHI MINH - CU CHI Tunnels (B/ L)
Visit the Cu Chi tunnels a place famous for its tunnels with 200km long. The Cu Chi tunnels played a vital part in the American war, allowing the Viet Cong to control a large rural area only 30 to 40 km from Saigon. The network, parts of which were several storeys deep, included innumerable trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centres and kitchens. Cu Chi is also known to many people as a "special school" of Vietnam, from daily life to important meeting was held underground. Children were born and brought up underground, under bombs. Cu Chi is not thought as tunnel only but most importantly the symbol of will of people.
An afternoon tour round Ho Chi Minh city, the biggest, busiest and most active city of Vietnam features China town, Thien Hau temple, Notre Dame Cathedral and HCMC Central Post Office.
DAY 12: SIEM REAP - ANGKOR WAT (B/ L)
Upon arrival at Siem Reap airport, met and transfers to direct to ecological site, Visit the antique capital of Angkor Thom (12 century) : the South Gate with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, the Bayon Temple, unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara, the Phimeanakas, the Royal Enclosure, the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. Lunch at local restaurant
Visit the most famous of all the temples on the plain of Angkor: Angkor Wat. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and architecture. Angkor Wat’s five towers symbolize Meru’s five peaks - the enclosed wall represents the mountains at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat, the ocean beyond. Enjoy wonderful sunset from Angkor Wat Dinner at included. Accommodation at hotel.
 DAY 13: TEMPLES OF ANGKOR (B/ L)
(Optional for view a wonderful sun-rise at Phnom Bakheng, at early morning before breakfast)
Visit to Ta Prohm, one of the area’s most beautiful temples. Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Neak Pean, a fountain built in the middle of a pool (representing the paradisiacal Himalayan mountain-lake), Ta Som, built in late 12th century C.E. the most distant temple on the grand circuit, small but classic. Preah Khan temple, Built by the King Jayavarman VII. Preah Khan is, like Ta Prohm, a place of towered enclosures and shoulder hugging corridors. Unlike Ta Prohm, however, the temple of Preah Khan is in a reasonable state of preservation and ongoing restoration efforts should maintain and even improve this situation. Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit to the unique interior brick sculptures of Prasat Kravan, Srah Srang ("The Royal Baths" was once used for ritual bathing), Banteay Kdei (surrounded by 4 concentric walls), , Ta Keo, constructed in late 10th early 11th century C.E, the first temple to be constructed wholly of sandstone. Dinner not included. Accommodation at hotel.
DAY 14: SIEM REAP (B/ L)
Breakfast hotel, Visit to Banteay Srei temple (10th cntury), regarded as the jewel in the crown of classical Khmer Art. Then contnue your visit to Banteay Samre, build in the third quarter of the 12th century. it consists of a central temple with four wings preceded by a hall and accompany by two libraries, the southern example remaerkably well presserved. Then end your visit at Rolous Group: Preah Ko, Lolei and Bkhong temple. Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit to floating village of Chong Khneas, located 10 kilometers south of Siem Reap. Visit the village and take an excursion in a traditional wooden boat on the Tonle Sap Lake, the "Great Lake" of Cambodia, one of the largest in Asia. Dinner not included. Accommodation at hotel.
DAY 15: SIEM REAP - DEPARTURE (B)
Breakfast at hotel, Visit to Visit Les Artisans D' Angkr, home of handicraft center, Old Market, a lively outdoor market where you will find antiquities, silver and gold jewelry, gems, silk, kramas, stone and wood carvings, as well as T-Shirts, CDs and other souvenirs before transfer to Siem Reap Airport for departure flight.
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