15 Days - Scenic Vietnam Tour
Rates are based on a minimum of 7 people traveling
Day 1
Hanoi Arrive – Water puppet show
Welcome to Vietnam – upon your arrival at Noi Bai airport, you’ll be met by IBMT representative with guide and transferred to your hotel. – Relax, settle in, you’re here for two nights. Tonight, we’ll enjoy a traditional Water Puppet Show and share a welcome dinner.
Meal: Dinner
Day 2
Hanoi - City Tour
After breakfast, we start to visit Ho Chi Minh complex, including Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum - the final resting place of Vietnamese great father or Uncle Ho, President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house - where Uncle Ho lived and worked from 1958 to 1969, then visit Ho Chi Minh Museum where tourists will learn about his devotion for Viet Nam. We continue our trip to Tran Quoc pagoda, Budhist relics and national heritage, lying on one side of West Lake. We drive to Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam, which is considered to be the first university in Viet Nam. It is an ancient architecture, built with fairly big scale that still exists until present time in Ha Noi capital. After lunch, we will visit with 2 options as below
Option 1: Bat Trang ceramics & pottery village (On Mondays – Wednesdays – Fridays)
Option 2: Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (On Tuesdays – Thursdays – Saturdays & Sundays)
Overnight in Ha Noi
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3
Hanoi – Halong Bay
After breakfast, you’ll take a 3.5-hour-drive to Halong Bay, one of the great natural of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Upon arrival, the boat crew will welcome you and transfer you to the junk for check-in and enjoy a cruise around Halong Bay with a delicious local seafood lunch served on board. At the same time, you can behold thousands of limestone islands and grottoes rising from the clear, emerald water.
After lunch you’ll join some activities on boat to discover the beauty of the bay such as visit a cave, doing kayaking or enjoy swimming in the sea before getting back to the junk for relaxing and dinner. In the evening, you can join night fishing with locals. Overnight on board.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4
Halong Bay
Today, you continue your exploration of Halong Bay. Start the morning with a relaxing Tai Chi session on the Sundeck followed by a cup of coffee or tea with some assorted homemade pastries. After breakfast, prepare to transfer to Day boat, Paradise Explorer for cruising off the beaten track of the bay. Relax or visit Titop Island, where you can take part in array of exciting activities such as swimming and climbing to the top of the island. Visit Luon Cave by boat or by kayak, a stunning cave by the bay where local villagers are found.
Return to your boat, and continue cruising to the other part of the bay while enjoying a Vietnamese lunch that will be served on board. Afternoon, visit dark and bright Cave by rowing bamboo with the local people or explore it yourself.
Return to main boat for Happy Hours, evening pre dinner cocktails, and end your day with dinner. Late evening, there will be some activities, like movie night, squid fishing and many more, or simply relax. Overnight on board.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5
Halong Bay – Hanoi - Flight to Hue
In the morning, your breakfast will be served while floating on the sea to explore the beauty of Halong Bay before disembarking time. Joining some more activities on boat and then checking out cabin. The early lunch will be served before getting back to the main dock and back to Ha Noi for flight to Hue. Overnight in Hue
Meal: Breakfast, Brunch
Day 6
Hue City tour - Tam Giang Lagoon
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel, visit Tu Duc tomb, the most beautifully designed complexes among the tombs of the Nguyen dynasty. Embedded in a lush pine forest and you continue to visit conical hat and incense stick making village. Continue visit Citadel then Thien Mu Pagoda (Heavenly Lady), departure from Hue Center to Tam Giang Lagoon. Get on boat and cruise to Son Island to start your trip on Tam Giang Lagoon. Late afternoon, you change into smaller boat, to have the discovery of Sam and Chuon pond rammer. This is a chance to take beautiful photos. Floating on the water, you will have time to see the changes of time and life as well as the local life of fishing village in this area. An interesting to visit cho house. You take part in games “Be a fisherman on the lagoon. Back Hue city, overnight in Hue
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 7
Hue – Hoi An
Depart to Hoi An, via Danang. On the way stop at Lang Co Beach to take photos after that, we take you over the beautiful Hai Van Pass - Vietnam geographical and psychological boundary between north and south. The peak of the pass lies perpetually shrouded in clouds. Check in the hotel. It's a leisure time for you to explore city your own. Overnight in Hoi An
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 8
Hoi An - Tra Que Village - Cooking Class Boat tour
After breakfast, guide picks up 9.00 am from your hotel by car. Starting to the countryside throughout beautiful arrow roads, rice paddle field, old temple, water palm forests, enjoy the fresh air with the nature. You go to Cam Thanh Coconut Forest, join in special bamboo Basket boat on Cua Dai river, exploring the seven hectares water palm forest, learn how to catch purple crabs… Then ride to An My Paddy Field, see the buffalo – the symbol of countryside in Vietnam. Continue to the local house in Tra Que Village, enjoy welcome drink. Taking part in a cooking, learn how to make traditional rice milk and having super lunch with local food at the local family. This will be a true experience of the trip. After lunch, meeting local farmers, talking with them and share about their local farming, experience daily life, Listening to the tour guide introduced and explained about the process of the wet rice how to grow it and have chance to work as a really farmer. Overnight in Hoi An
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 9
Hoi An - Flight to Nha Trang
After breakfast, it's a leisure time until driver will transfer you to the airport to take a flight to Nha Trang. Overnight in Nha Trang
Meal: Breakfast,
Day 10
Nha Trang - Island Tour
A day start from your hotel to Cau Da port. Tri Nguyen Aquarium on Mieu Island is the first place to visit, many sea species of Nha Trang/Khanh Hoa province make a small ocean world there. Mun Island is the best island for snorkeling where you can see lots of lives colorful corals and fish. You will also be able to see caves in which the sea swallows make their nest. Then relax, swim, or participate in water sports or other activities at Mot Island, Tranh Beach Island or on a small island calling “Mini beach”. After fresh lunch at the island, on the way back you will visit a fishing village before going back to your hotel
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 11
Nha Trang - Leisure Day
After morning breakfast, at hotel in Hoi An - It's a leisure day for you to go on the beach or discover Hoi An by your own.
Meal: Breakfast
Day 12
Nha Trang – Flight to Ho Chi Minh
Good Morning! After breakfast, it's leisure morning until driver comes and will transfer you to the airport to take a flight to Ho Chi Minh. Overnight in Sai Gon
Meal: Breakfast
Day 13
Ho Chi Minh City tour – Cu Chi Tunnel
After morning breakfast, start the day with an unforgettable visit to the Cu Chi Tunnel complex, the incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the long struggle for independence. Later, our city tour encompasses the Reunification Palace, War Remnants Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the imposing Ben Thanh market. Overnight in Sai Gon
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 14
Ho Chi Minh – Mekong Delta - Ben Tre - Phong Nam - Sai Gon
Pick up to Hung Vuong Pier (Ben Tre city). Take a boat on Ben Tre River – one of tributaries of Mekong River, Sight-seeing lively activities along river as fishing, water transferring...Stop at brickwork to see how to make bricks in handy traditional style by printing and baking. Visit one of the plenty of coconut processing workshops, where the people to open coconut by hand (husking coconut), coconut candies are made and have a chance to learn the coconut candies making process located along canal (Ms Lan coconut candy workshop), taste tropical fruit, honey tea. Turn on natural scissors creeks where, they look smaller and smaller to go to village. Take a walk to family workshop making sleep mats. Afterward, you have an option, being on a cart powered by a motorbike and traveling through some tranquil villages where vegetables gardens to be able to touch on real life and find out about tropical culture from Peasants. Afternoon, taking a rowing-boat along water palm creek and boat back to Hung Vuong Pier, then drive back to Sai Gon. Overnight in Sai Gon
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 15
Sai Gon - Departure flight to back home
Good morning! It is now time for you to wrap this tour full of good memories of your beautiful vacation. It will be our pleasure, to plan your next tour for any of our world wide tours. After breakfast, according to your departure flight transfer to the airport will be provided for your return flight.
End of services!
Price Includes:
- Vietnam Visa pre - approval letter
- A modern and spacious tourist air conditioned vehicle
- Hotel accommodation with daily breakfast (Check in time 2.00 PM)
- English speaking professional guide (one place - one guide)
- All admission fee at attractions as mentioned in the itinerary
- All meals as mentioned in the itinerary (B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner)
- Boat trips as mentioned in the itinerary
- 02 Mineral water & cold towels during sightseeing tours
Price Does not Includes:
- International flight to Cambodia,
- Visa stamp fee at the airport ($30 per person),
- Personal shopping and extra meals,
- Overseas travel insurance
- Compulsory Driver and guide tips.
Hotels
| LOCATION | HOTEL/SIMILAR SERVICE | TYPE OF ROOM |
| Hanoi – 4* | Tirant Hotel | Deluxe |
| Ha Long – 4* | Athena Elegance Cruise | Superior |
| Hue – 4* | Eldora Hotel | Deluxe |
| Hoi An – 4* | Koi Resort and Spa | Bungalow |
| Nha trang – 4* | Novotel Nha Trang | Standard |
| Nha trang – 4* | Citadines Bay front Nha Trang | Studio Executive |
| Sai Gon – 4* | Citadines Regency Saigon | Studio |
| Novotel Saigon Centre | Superior |
| LOCATION | HOTEL/SIMILAR SERVICE | TYPE OF ROOM |
| Ha noi – 5* | Mövenpick Hotel Hanoi | Superior |
| Ha Long – 5* | Paradise Cruise Ha Long | Deluxe |
| Hue – 5* | Azerai La Residence Hue | Superior |
| Hoi An – 5* | Royal Hoi An, Mgallery By Sofitel | Deluxe |
| Nha Trang – 5* | InterContinental Nha Trang | Deluxe |
| Sai Gon – 5* | Pullman Saigon Centre | Superior |