Welcome to Vietnam..!! Upon arrival Hanoi airport clear customs & immigrations, collect your checked baggage and proceed towards the arrival hall where you will be picked up by the local English speaking tour guide and transferred to hotel for check in.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: -
Enjoy early breakfast at the hotel. Check-out & proceed to Halong Bay (3.5 hrs drive from Hanoi) with tour guide – UNESCO World Heritage Area of outstanding natural beauty.
Arrival at Hon Gai international Pier and transfer to cruise ship, Welcome Drink – cruise briefing, safety instructions, check-in cabins - Departure to Halong Bay. Savor a delicious Vietnamese set lunch as Victory Star heads to Bai Tu Long Bay passing the towns of Hon Gai and Cam Pha, Oan Lagoon, Mat Quy (Monster Head) and Am Tich (Teapot) Islets. Transfer from Victory Star Cruise to rowing boat to visit Vung Vieng fishing village – Visit the Floating village (1hour) Rowers are local girls wearing traditional costume. It’s the opportunity to see the fisher’s daily life with the primary features in the charming nature. Return to Victory Star Cruise for free time at your leisure. Continue cruising through the bay. Anchorage for overnight at Ho Dong Tien.
Overnight onboard the cruise
Meals: All Meals
Enjoy sunrise over the Bay or take part in our morning Tai Chi class. Light breakfast. Victory Star weighs anchor to cruise through the Bay passing beautiful spots like Trong (Drum), Trinh Nu (Virgin) and Me Cung Caves, Coc Ngoi (Toad) Islet, etc. Arrive at Sung Sot grotto. Explore the most famous grotto of Halong Bay. Check-out cabins– Luggage collection upon arrival at the pier it is time to say Goodbye the crew team.
Later get the transfer to Hanoi, straight to the airport and board the flight to Danang.
En route to Hanoi Airport with stop at Hong Ngoc Shopping Centre or Dai Viet Shopping Centre.
Upon arrival at Danang airport collect your checked baggage & proceed towards the arrival hall where you will be picked up by local tour guide and transferred by private vehicle to Hoi An 30kms from Danang. Upon arrival, check-in at the hotel.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast, we drive back Danang, around 40 minutes from Hoian to visit Linh Ung Pagoda located on Son Tra Peninsula, the largest in Da Nang in terms of scale and artistic architecture. The pagoda is famous for its beautiful 67-metre-tall Goddess of Mercy statue standing on a lotus-shaped platform. From here visitors can relax their minds, by gazing across the boundless sea below with numerous boats bobbing on the water and to the Marble Mountains in the distance, or cast off all their worries by looking at the gentle face of the Goddess of Mercy statue to the right. Locals believe that this Goddess of Mercy statue, which faces the sea, will take care of fishermen and give them the strength to deal with any storms and high waves. We continue our visit at Marble Mountain also known as Ngu Hanh Son, a cluster of five sacred marble and limestone mountains named Metal Mountain, Water Mountain, Wood Mountain, Fire Mountain, Earth Mountain, Five basic elements according to Eastern Philosophy. Today we will climb up to seeing the view and cave from on Water Mountain.
Drive back Hoian. This afternoon is for Hoi an. Being one of the five World Heritages of Vietnam as designated by UNESCO, Hoi an ancient town is maintaining lots of characters of a former central seaport, before Danang took this role. This afternoon we can stroll around the tile-roofed Japanese Bridge, visiting taciturn Chinese Assembly Halls, ancient houses and Trading houses of Hoian to understand how the Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese architectural styles have mixed up here after the presence of traders from all these countries.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast this morning, the day is free at leisure.. You will have free time for beach relax or shopping in the ancient town, get your clothes tailormade within 1 day or enjoy the street food.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast this morning, the day is free until afternoon. Check-out from the hotel & you will be picked up by the local tour guide and transferred to the airport for your flight Ho Chi Minh City. Upon arrive Ho Chi Minh City collect your checked baggage & proceed towards the arrival hall where you will be picked up by local tour guide and transferred to hotel. Check-in & spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight at Hotel
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast this morning, you will be picked by at hotel and drive heading to Ben Tre the homeland of coconut and family factories with local products like coconut candy, rice paper. Upon arrival, having a walk through the small village road shadowed by tree line. Our tour guide will bring you some useful information about the culture of the local people. Enjoy the fresh tropical fruits served in the heart of the garden accompanied by traditional southern Vietnamese folk music at the plantation. After that you will embark on the small boats rowed the local people through the small cannels with water coconut tree to visit the local factories. There you will taste the honey tea and see the local people produce the coconut candy milk and of course you also can try it or stroll in the garden where the locals feed honeybee. We continue get on the big boat to visit Turtle or Phoenix Island on Mekong Delta. Afternoon, drive back to Ho Chi Minh City with stop to visit Vinh Trang pagoda, a famous pogoda in the area that its architecture is a mix of Chinese, Cambodian, and French culture. Return back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Overnight at Hotel
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast this morning, pick up from hotel. Morning visit Cu Chi Tunnels, one of the few remaining monuments to the Vietnam War. Beneath the ground lie 200 km of tunnels, dug by hand and inhabited by the forces of the Vietnamese guerillas during the conflict. At its peak, prior to the Tet Offensive in 1968, the tunnel complex was base to almost 10,000 troops. To this day, it remains one of the most impressive examples of how fierce the war used to be. You even can try to crawl some dozens of m on the tunnel underground to have the real experience.
Start the city tour at the Reunification Palace, the witness of the fierce Vietnam War ended in 1975. The grand building today is a Museum and Hall of official receptions. Continue visiting War Remnants Museum. Make photo stop at the colonial-styled
Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral, built between 1877 and 1883 and one of the city’s major landmarks. We then stop at Ben Thanh Market one of the most typical symbol of HCMC to experience the daily life of the locals and do shopping the hand-made goods there. Return back to the hotel.
Overnight at Hotel
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast this morning, check out from the hotel & transfer to the airport for your flight to Siem Reap.
Upon arrival at Siem Reap airport collect your checked baggage & later proceed towards the arrival hall where you will be picked up by our local tour guide and transferred to hotel. Upon arrival check-in & spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight at Hotel
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast this morning. You will be picked up by the tour guide to explore South Gate of Angkor Thom known as Big Angkor, 3km2 walled and moated royal city and was the last capital of the Angkorian Empire, The famous Bayon Temple was an architectural muddle, in part because it was constructed in a somewhat piecemeal fashion for over a century. Terrace of the Elephants is an impressive, two and a half meter tall, 300 meter long terrace wall adorned with carved elephants and gradual that spans the heart of Angkor Thom in front of Baphuon - huge temple mountain in the heart of Angkor Thom, Royal Palace Area and Phimeanakas - impressive rite and sandstone pyramid. Terrace of the Leper King is at the north end of the Terrace of the Elephants, a double terrace wall with deeply carved nag as, demons and other mythological beings. Last you will visit Ta Prohm temple which is a wonderful combination of human genius and natural beauty! Giant trees have grown here for centuries.
Afternoon visit Angkor Wat temple, the founder of the temple was Suryavarman II who reined Cambodia from 1113 to 1152 and built the five towers in the 12th century to dedicate to the Hindu God Vishnu. The plan of the pyramidal conception of the temple combined with spaces, alleys, ditches is an ancient masterpiece of architectural design and construction. It is time view lovely sunset from Pre Rup Temple.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast this morning.. You will be picked up by the tour guide to visit Floating Villages, located 10 kilometers south of Siem Reap! Take a ride in a traditional wooden boat on the Tonle Sap, the "Great Lake" of Cambodia and the largest in Asia. Then visit Wat Bo founded in the 18th century, a highly respected pagoda contains very unique wall paintings of the Reamker (Ramayana) that are said to be late 19th century. We continue to one of the city’s lively open markets, Psar Chars, also called the “Old Market”, where anything and everything is for sale.
Afternoon we drive to the Pouk district about 15 Km in the West of Siem Reap town you visit the silk farm, a fascinating farm/workshop where you can see the entire silk creation process including growing the food for the silk worms, breeding the worms, silk extraction and refinement, traditional kit dying pattern creation and looming. Retail silk and souvenir shop. On the way back, visit the Western Baray (Baray Occidental) measuring 8 km by 2.3 km which provided water for the intensive cultivation of lands around Angkor.
Overnight at hotel
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, check out from hotel and transfer to airport for your flight back home.