9-Day Vietnam Experience Tour from Ho Chi Minh City: Mekong Delta, Tra Que Vegetable Village, Halong Bay and Hanoi | Service Charges and Government Tax Included | Meals Mentioned Included

What you'll experience

Highlights

9 days

Day-by-day itinerary

1. 1

   Day 1 — Ho Chi Minh

   Your trip begins with your arrival in Vietnam. Your private driver will meet you and our guide greet you at the airport. You will be escorted to the hotel by private transportation. Check in to the hotel and get over the jet lag.
   You can mooch through the streets of the city. Historic charm, architectural marvels, and various products are splashed all over this area.
   After enjoying the first day yourself and return to the hotel for a relaxing sleep.
   Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

   Meals: B: Excluded, L: Excluded, D: ExcludedStay: QUEEN ANN HOTAL
2. 2

   Day 2 — Cruising on Mekong Delta

   Kickstart your day with a hearty breakfast and a trip to Mekong Delta follows, depart for My Tho, the town that lies on the left side of the Mekong River. Boarding the sampan and cruising down the river around the four beautiful islands known as Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, and Tortoise islands.
   Stop over at Unicorn Island, go walking around the country lane and see orchards, and enjoy tropical fruits, and folk song music performed by the local people. Visit the fruit plantation.
   Ride a hand-rowed sampan through the Thoi Son canal and treat yourself to the beauty of the countryside, visit the family business, visit a honey-bee farm, and enjoy a honey tea and coconut candy workshop.
   Have lunch at a local restaurant. Break time.
   In the afternoon, time for cycling (walking) around the Tan Thach village, and meeting the local villagers to experience the local daily life in the Mekong delta. Hammock relaxing and enjoying the cool breeze for those who can’t join the cycling trip. Return to Ho Chi Minh.
   Overnight in Sai Gon.

   

   Mekong Delta

   Meals: B: Included, L: Included, D: ExcludedStay: QUEEN ANN HOTAL
3. 3

   Day 3 — Ho Chi Minh - Fly to Da Nang (Flight Included)

   Have breakfast at the hotel, have some free leisure time until there will be a private cab to transfer you to the airport, and be ready for the next flight to Da Nang. Get transferred to your hotel in Hoi An.
   In the afternoon, you can relax or walk around Hoi An ancient street that used to be a busy international trading port in the 17th century and was recognized to be a world cultural heritage site by Unesco in 1999.
   Overnight in Hoi An.

   Meals: B: Included, L: Excluded, D: ExcludedStay: KIM AN HOTEL
4. 4

   Day 4 — Lantern Making - Be a Real Farmer at Tra Que Village

   Our tour guide will greet you and provide your bicycle for your trip. Cycling through the paddle fields and shrimp farm.
   After that we will head to Tra Que vegetable village, you can relax and enjoy the peaceful countryside then stroll along the vegetable villages. As a special treat, you will be involved with digging, sowing, planting, and harvesting the vegetables with hundreds of years of rudimentary tools of the farmers. You will enjoy E Water, a specialty of Tra Que vegetable village, you can feel the strong medicinal flavor from many kinds of vegetables. You could well be a farmer with many interesting activities.
   Finish your time in Tra Que vegetable village, you will ride your bicycle leisurely passing the rice fields, and villages, to come to the art of making lanterns.
   You will visit craftsmen with skillful hands, showing you how to create brightly colored lanterns. Expertly guided you could make yourself a lantern as a gift to your family.
   Finish your learning, the tour guide will take you back to your hotel, and finish your trip.
   Overnight in Hoi An.
   We have an optional tour for who can't take a cycling trip.

   

   Tra Que Vegetable Village

   Meals: B: Included, L: Included, D: ExcludedStay: KIM AN HOTEL
5. 5

   Day 5 — Hoi An Free Day or Optional Bana Hill Tour

   Have a leisurely day on your own.
   Or
   Take an optional: BANA HILL - GOLDEN BRIDGE TOUR WITH BUFFET LUNCH
   07:30 am - 08:00 am: Our Minivan and a tour guide pick you up at the hotel lobby. Reach Ba Na Hills via Cable Car.
   Spend your time on the most modern Cable Car in Southeast Asia, visit Dream Stream Cable car Station and see the panorama of Quang Nam - Danang City on high.
   After finishing the first cable car, you will visit The Golden Bridge - which has the most exotic structure and also the world's most prominent pedestrian bridge highlighted by the British Guard newspaper, France wine cellar, Le Jardin D’amourn(consists which of 9 gardens) Linh Ung pagoda.
   Continue the 2nd Cable Car to visit the French Village (enjoy Street Music, watch Art’s statue), Campanile, Nine Floor Goddess Shrine, Tombstone Temple, Linh Phong Monastery, Linh Chua Linh Tu Temple & Tru Vu Tea Shop. Watch Carnival Performance Show, Square Du Dome ...
   Challenge the most popular adventure ride - Slide of Tube Car (free ride)
   The new funicular railway will take tourists from the Kingdom of the Sun to the new construction launches - The Castle of the Moon.
   Lunch at Restaurant (Buffet).
   Join in Fantasy Park with Walking in Fairy Forest, discovering Dinosaur Park, play 5D wild west, enjoy 4Da death race ride, watch 3D mega 360 degrees, ride on Journey into the underground, enter Jurassic Park, challenge Freefall Tower and participate in an adventure in Horror House and over 90 free games.
   15:00: Return to the Cable Car for leaving Ba Na Hills.
   16:45 - 17:45: Our Minivan brings you back to your hotel.
   Overnight in Hoi An.

   

   Linh Ứng Pagoda

   Meals: B: Included, L: Excluded, D: ExcludedStay: KIM AN HOTEL
6. 6

   Day 6 — Da Nang - Fly to Hanoi (Flight Included)

   Relish the remaining moment in Hoi An before your private driver escorts you to the Da Nang airport to take the flight to Hanoi. When you arrive in Hanoi, your driver will pick you up and transfer you to your accommodation in the city center. The rest of the time is free at leisure.
   Overnight in Hanoi.

   Meals: B: Included, L: Excluded, D: ExcludedStay: SAN PREMIUM HOTEL
7. 7

   Day 7 — Discover the Natural Wonders of the World

   In the morning, check out from the hotel and get pick-up by the Cruise. Take a route most scenic to reach Halong Bay, taking you across the Red River Delta with emerald green rice paddies stretching for as far as the eyes can see. On arrival at Halong, you get to enjoy a cruise on the Bay to better explore the limestone rocks and the karst grottoes.
   After you are done with your exploration of the bay, it is time to enjoy an utterly delicious seafood lunch, after which a trip to the famous limestone cave in Halong Bay, you’ll get to spend some time here, kayaking or swimming, so that you can get closer to the floating villages and shops. Towards the evening, you will return to the boat for an early dinner, followed by some time at leisure. You can opt to attend the activities taking part in the boat or relax for the day.
   Overnight on cruise.

   

   Halong Bay

   Meals: B: Included, L: Included, D: IncludedStay: LE JOURNEY CRUISE
8. 8

   Day 8 — Halong Bay - Hanoi

   Rise early for a lesson in Tai Chi or just to enjoy a hearty breakfast. The boat will make its way back to the port stopping at the Limestone Cave, full of stalagmites and stalactites. From here, it’s clear sailing back to the main harbor and the return to Hanoi around 17:00. Free at your leisure time.
   Overnight in Hanoi.

   

   Halong Bay

   Meals: B: Included, L: Included, D: ExcludedStay: SAN PREMIUM HOTEL
9. 9

   Day 9 — Hanoi

   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 for your loved ones. Later, proceed for departure and board your flight back home. Trip Ends.

   Meals: B: Included, L: Excluded, D: Excluded

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Cancellation policy

Important info

Special notes

• If I bring a big luggage and 1 carry on with wheels, will it be ok?
  - The luggage allowance is 20 kg per person. Carry on is allowed, but should not exceed the standard dimensions for carry on luggage. (small suitcase on the wheels will be ok.)
  Does the tour end in Hanoi? Do you drop off us at the airport?
  - The tour ends in Hanoi and you can depart from there. We will drop you at the airport.

Pricing notes (children, single supplement)

* Price for Single Occupancy applies when one person stays in one standard hotel room.
* Price for Double/Triple Occupancy applies when two/three people stay in one standard hotel room respectively
* Price for Child applies when child of 3-11 years stays as the 3rd person in one standard hotel room.
* Infants below the age of 2 must pay an additional charge of $100.00 for a seat in coach, and share a room with two/three adults (one infant per room maximum).
* Maximum room capacity: 3 people including adult and child/infant.
* We have the right to change your accommodation into split rooms.

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