Incredible Vietnamese Holiday Experience (5N/6D)

Day 1: Arrival Hanoi Vietnam
Our English-speaking guide will meet and welcome you at Noi Bai international airport. Transfer you to Hanoi downtown for check-in. Check in time is 14:00. The rest of day is free time at leisure.

Stay: Golden Silk Boutique or similar

Day 2:  BAI DINH - TRANG AN - MUA CAVE

 Our guide will meet you at your hotel/stay and start a 110km modern Bus journey through the verdant landscape of the countryside. Short brake enroute to Glimmering Bai Dinh pagoda complexes, the largest pagoda, not only in Vietnam but also in Southeast Asia. Scenically set on the foot hill of Dinh Mountain surrounded by amazing views of the exquisite river valley below and the limestone karsts dotted around which will take your breath away. These pagoda complexes stunningly boast an array of the most massive and magnificent architecture of Vietnamese tradition refined ever built that it takes a full day to explore. So you will visit some of the highlights that owned the national:500 stone statues of “La Han” (Arhats),2 huge bronze bells, one weighs 27 tons, other weighs 36 tones.Visit The Quan Yin statue with thousands of arms and eyes, Visit Gautama Buddha statue.  Enjoying the lunch at our restaurant with the great local cuisines.

 Leaving for the Trang An Grottoes, an out-standing natural beauty of a majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometers rises dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountains are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous freshwater ponds, and jungle. Embarking on a traditional sampan gently rowed down the exquisite river through numerous caves: Lam Cave, Vang Cave, Dai Cave, Thanh Truot Cave,...and Cao Sơn Temple, Suoi Tien Temple, Vu Lam Temple. Visiting Mua Cave and starting an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa long mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with a precious view of nature.

 Returning to our bus and then come back to Ha Noi

Stay: Golden Silk Boutique or similar

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

Day 3:  HANOI - HALONG BAY TOUR 

After breakfast Our bus and guide pick you up from hotel / stay and follow the new expressway to depart for Tuan Chau Island, Halong City, stop over for a rest on the way. Arrive Tuan Chau Harbor, welcome on and safety briefing. The Ship will take you on an 6-hour journey via 2 day-sleeper boat cruise route which renowned for its striking, passages uninhabited islets and outcrops have been given imaginative names by the locals, due to their perceived shapes, including Cock Fighting and Thumb, while enjoy Vietnamese mouth-watering lunch on boat.  Arrive Bo Hon archipelago, you will visit Surprising Cave to see a lot of stalagmites and stalactites with different shapes of sea lives, then go kayaking or bamboo boat in Luon Cave to discover the beautiful lagoon. Visit Titov Island with sandy beach adjacent to the towering limestone mountain with excellent backdrop of the Bay and climb up Titov Peak for a panoramic view of the bay like paradise.

Return Alova Premium Cruises for relaxing and cruising back toward Tuan Chau harbor. There is a lot of time for sunbathing on the upper deck, you can enjoy the great fun of group touring fellows among world iconic natural scenery.

Stay: Alova Premium Cruise or similar

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

Day 4: HANOI FLIGHT TO HO CHI MINH CITY + HCM HOTEL

Have breakfast at the hotel. A private minivan will pick you up for transfer to Noi bai airport flight. Car pick up and transfer to hotel in HO CHI MINH

Stay: Harmony Hotel or similar

Meals: Breakfast

Day 5:  MEKONG DELTA TOUR 

Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hote. Enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields. On arriving 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. Meet the bus and return to HCMC. This trip provides a fascinating insight into daily life in the Mekong Delta and you are guaranteed to take home your own private collection of beautiful memories.

Stay:  Harmony Hotel or similar

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

Day 6: HO CHI MINH DEPARTURE 

Relish a healthy breakfast on the final day of your trip. Complete the hotel check-out formalities after which you can visit the local markets and buy souvenirs. Later, proceed for departure home.

Note: Driver will meet you before 3 hours of your flight home.

Meals: Breakfast