8.30am, you meet your tour guide and driver at your hotel lobby. This day, you will visit Ho Chi Minh Complex that includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, Presidential Palace, House-on-Stilts, and One Pillar Pagoda. After that you visit the Temple of Literature that was originally built as a temple to Confucius, this is the site of Vietnam’s first University dating back to 1070. The temple highlights the importance that Vietnamese society place then and now on education.

Have a lunch break at a nice local restaurant where you sample a set menu lunch of typical Hanoi cuisines. Then get back on the car for half an hour driving to Museum of Ethnology. This museum is widely acknowledged as the best museum in Vietnam. It has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam’s 54 Ethnic minority peoples. As well as the comprehensive array of exhibits inside, there are also traditional tribal houses reconstructed within the ground.
Then, drive back to the center of Hanoi to visit Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake. Ngoc Son temple is set on a tiny island on the Hoan Kiem Lake, its history dating back to the 13th century. The temple is reached by crossing the The Huc Bridge which literally means the ‘Place Touched by Morning Sunbeams’. The Hoan Kiem Lake is the local point of the city and the source of many legends.

Continue the afternoon tour with a 45 minute Cyclo Tour through the Old Quarter: Also known as the 36 streets, this bustling area of narrow streets is home to literally thousands of small businesses and shopkeepers. Originally each of the 36s names’ was related to the products being sold there. It’s a great place to explore on foot with numerous photo opportunities.

Before heading back to hotel, you top off enjoying a 45 minute Water Puppet Show at the indoor Thang Long Water Puppet Theartre. The city tour finishes at around 5:30 Pm at the hotel.

We will wake up in the early morning to the calming sound of the waves crashing on the nearby islands. Enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning and relax. Sitting on the upper deck, you can enjoy the breath-taking beauty of the rocky islands rising from the crystal-clear water of the bay.

Morning: You check out and meet our tour guide and driver at hotel lobby to depart to Noi Bai airport for boarding a short flight from Hanoi to Danang.

Upon arrival, our local guide and driver in Danang will welcome you at the airport and transfer you to Hoi An town. Have a lunch of typical Hoian cuisines at a local restaurant and check-in hotel.

Afternoon: Continue with a walking tour dicovering the old quarter of Hoi An. Recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site for its well-preserved ancient houses. Set out to explore the quaint cobblestone streets of the town with more than two-century-old Chinese houses. Sites include Chua Ong Pagoda, Chinese Assembly Halls, the 200 years old Tan Ky ancestral house and the Japanese Bridge.

8:00 Meet your local guide at the hotel lobby to begin an exciting halfday tour discovering rural Hoian. A short bicycle competency test will be given. For those uncomfortable with a pushbike, then other methods of transport can be arranged. The tour starts by cycling along level ground to the Thu Bon River to visit a local fishing village. Ride along country lanes at a peaceful pace viewing local life and pause to see farmers toiling in their rice fields using centuries of farming practices. Peddle your way through palm forests, across bridges, fields of water buffalo.... Biking along country lanes at a peaceful pace viewing local life and pause to see farmers.

9:00 Take a short break in a local family at Cam Thanh Village before enjoying 1.5 hours ride on traditional Basket Boat (round boat) in the Water Coconut Palm Forest. Learn how to sail the basket boat and spend your time to catch fishes and “purple crabs” in the Canal. 10:30 Continue to drive to Tra Que Organic Vegetable Village where a large variety of vegetable are produced for the local community. At the village, you will be shown the environmentally sustainable practices which the local villagers have used for centuries and is still being used extensively today.

11:30 Visit a local family and after a short, informative and fun cooking lesson, you enjoy a delicious lunch. After the lunch, you cycle back to your hotel.

2:00 Arrive to hotel. The rest of day is your free time at leisure.

Optional Saigon Jeep Tour By Night

If you are active travellers, why not adding a Jeep Tour Saigon By Night to fullfill the evening? This tour gives you the opportunity to live a real Vietnamese experience exactly as the inhabitants of Saigon. It’ll take you to different places to show you unusual faces of the city. Of course you will see the main avenues and monuments nicely lighted at night, but it will take you as well to other vibrant areas, animated streets, secrets places or up to date addresses of the night life.

Remark: Feel free to ask our travel consultant to add this optional tour into the quotation for you.

8:00am: Start your sightseeing tour of Angkor complex where you spend a full day exploring the wondrous ancient ruins.

South Gate of Angkor Thom is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King and the largest as well as the most complete temple of Angkor Wat.
This architectural masterpiece was constructed in the 12th century and covers an area of about 210 hectares.

You stroll around this massive edifice. Seeing many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple and the jungle covered temple of Ta Prohm is an incredible sight.

There are enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers which embrace themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man's creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature. Transfer back to your hotel around 5:00pm

8:30am: Your local guide and driver will meet you at hotel lobby, travel to the countryside on road to Phnom Kulen Mountain. Climb uphill 12km to the waterfalls. This is a nice trail on Kulen mountain which take us to a special stream with thousands Lingas in the water. Enjoy swim or relax at the waterfalls. Enjoy lunch break own your own arrangment at the waterfalls.

Return from the top of the mountain and then stop at Bansrei Temple - the Citadel of the woman. It was built in year 967. You can see laterite walls and beautiful sculptures on red sand stone. Come back and overnight at your hotel in Siem Reap.

Have breakfast then check out your hotel

08:30 AM: Meet your local guide and driver at your hotel lobby. Set off your exploration with a visit to the Royal Palace also known as the National Museum to learn more about the long-lasting history and culture of the region.

Afterwards, transfer to the pier and take a long-tailed boat for an upstream cruise. During the cruise, you will be treated a stunning of nature along the river. From the distance you can see limestone cliffs where the hidden Pak Ou Caves are located. The cave is home to thousands of Buddha statues which make the region a revered one. Take your time to explore numerous images hidden in the cave.

Then, make travel back to Luang Prabang city. Stop en-route to visit Ban Xang Hai village to learn more about the making process of the traditional Lao rice whisky. It is a great chance to taste its unique flavor. Move to Ban Xang Khong village - famous for its wood paper and Lao silk weaving. Afterwards, you travel back to hotel around 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Dinner is on your own.

Breakfast is at the hotel. This day you enjoy last minutes in the city to go shopping or try a cup of Lao coffee. Hotel room is at your disposal until 12:00 noon only. Our driver and tour guide will take you to the airport for boarding your onward flight. Trip ends.