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Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days (Code: NS801)
.Tour starts at: Hanoi city
.Tour ends at: Ho Chi Minh city
.Tour style: Private tour / Join in group
.Tour price: $ (Depends on number of guests)
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BRIEF TOUR ITINERARY:
– Day 1: Hanoi airport pick up – Hanoi food tour – Overnight at Hanoi (-/-/-)
– Day 2: Hanoi city tour – Water puppet show – Overnight at Hanoi (B/L/-)
– Day 3: Hanoi – Halong bay cruise – Overnight on boat (B/L/D)
– Day 4: Halong bay cruise – Hanoi – Flight to Ho Chi Minh – Night at Ho Chi Minh (B/L*/-)
– Day 5: Tour Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnels – Night at Ho Chi Minh (B/L/-)
– Day 6: Ho Chi Minh – Mekong – Can Tho – Night at Can Tho (B/L/D)
– Day 7: Can Tho – Mekong – drive back to Ho Chi Minh – Night at Ho Chi Minh (B/L/-)
– Day 8: Ho Chi Minh departure (B/-/-)
NOTE: B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner, L* = brunch
TOUR PRICE: ….. USD PER PERSON
(Subjects to change upon number of guests and touring needs)
TOUR DESTINATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
– Hanoi: (30 minutes drive from Noi Bai Airport) – Hanoi Old Quarter, Dong Xuan Market, Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Saint Joseph Cathedral, Train Street.
– Halong Bay: (3 hours drive from Hanoi to the East) – The famous natural wonder of the world. Spectacular scenery with thousands of islands dotting the blue water. Spend the night on the cruise would great experience of a lifetime.
– Ho Chi Minh City (Sai Gon) is the largest economic, political and cultural center in South Vietnam. Sai Gon – Ho Chi Minh City is also a major tourist center, with historical monuments and museums marking the war against France and the United States.
– Mekong Delta region is located in southern most of Vietnam, shares it’s border with Cambodia, Pacific ocean and Gulf of Thailand. Mekong Delta comprises 12 provinces are An Giang, Bạc Liêu, Ben Tre, Ca Mau, Dong Thap, Hau Giang, Kien Giang, Long An,
– Cu Chi Tunnels of Sai Gon are honored in the TOP 7 most adventurous destinations in Southeast Asia and TOP 12 most attractive underground wonders in the globe.
TOUR INCLUSIONS/EXCLUSIONS:
– Round trip airport pick up / drop off by private vehicle
– Tours and transfers as mentioned in the program
– Accommodation based on shared twin/double/triple room
– Meals as indicated in the program (diet/vegetarian must be informed in advance)
– Experienced English speaking guide (for other languages supplements apply)
– All sightseeing fees, entrance fees for mentioned visits/activities
– Drink water
- Airfares
- Vietnam entry visa (If any)
- Personal expenses (Laundry, telephone, etc …)
- Tips & travel insurance
- Bank charge fees for payment
- Other services not mentioned
- For any modification of itinerary, the prices can be revised.
- Please note that all the above services & tours have yet to be booked, they are proposed for your information only and we will not make any reservations before we receive your confirmation to do so.
- If one or some proposed service(s) is (are) not available at the moment of booking, we will try to find other possibilities/options or other similar service(s) in order to avoid changes to the program.
- Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees in the public places like a temple, pagoda, HCM mausoleum …
- Should bring the necessary things such as : cash, cell phone or camera, raincoat/ umbrella ,sun block …( depending on the weather)
- The rates quoted above do not include compulsory fees for special events, peak season such as Christmas and New Year or Gala Dinners etc.
- Prices are subject to change at any time as a result of VAT, Fuel Excise or other tax and sightseeing fee increases and USD currency fluctuations.
VIETNAM TOUR HANOI TO HO CHI MINH 8 DAYS 7 NIGHTS
(Hanoi – Halong Bay – Ho Chi Minh – Cu Chi – Mekong Delta)
FULL ITINERARY - VIETNAM TOUR HANOI TO HO CHI MINH 8 DAYS
DAY 1: HANOI AIRPORT PICK UP – HANOI STREET FOOD TOUR – NIGHT AT HANOI
Welcome to Hanoi – you will be picked up at Noi Bai Airport on your arrival for 45 minutes drive to your hotel at Hanoi city center.
Check in hotel (early check-in subject to availability)
Followed by guided Hanoi Street food tour:
Start the Food tour at one of the inner city’s finest local “Pho”, Vietnam’s national dish. Large choices of “Pho Bo” (beef noodle soup) and “Pho Ga” (chicken noodle soup).
Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our taste buds with the famed Hanoi dish Banh Cuon (Rolled rice pancake) at a local eatery. Watch in awe as the skilled chefs demonstrate for you how this tasty dish is put together.
Can’t be missed with Bun Cha – It is basically a cold noodle soup with pork. You’ll be served by a plate of rice noodles, fresh herbs, and a bowl of cold broth with grilled pork. The rice noodles and fresh herbs are pretty common in a Vietnamese restaurant. The broth and the pork are the ones make this dish unique.
Our next stops are at outdoor barbeque stalls. We sit down with the Hanoi locals and sample various meat, vegetable and bread specialties that are flame grilled over hot coals for extra flavour.
It’s then time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced and condensed milk – Hoa Qua Dam.
The tour will ending up with traditional Vietnamese coffee – (Ca Phe Nau Da) or Egg Coffee (Ca Phe Trung). Or, if coffee is not your style, a cold beer awaits!
Guide take you walk back to hotel – Free time on your own
Dinner on your own
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi – End of Day 1 – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
Note: Today tour can be changed upon your arrival time to Hanoi (Tour cost will be revised)
DAY 2: HANOI CITY TOUR – NIGHT AT HANOI
Breakfast at hotel
8.00 – 8.30: Get pick up at your hotel (at area of Hanoi Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake) to start for Hanoi city tour.
08:45 – visit Tran Quoc Pagoda – Tran Quoc pagoda is located on the east of the West Lake, built from the reign of King Ly Nam De.
09:30 – visit Ho Chi Minh Complex which features the life of Ho Chi Minh and the nation’s founder and resume visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the colonial Presidential Palace, originally the French Governor Office, the rural style Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts and Presidential Palace where Ho Chi Minh lived and worked. Stop by one of Hanoi’s icons, the One Pillar Pagoda, built in the 11th Century.
11:15 – visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology – The museum has become an attractive destination for domestic and foreign visitors due to the simple exhibits which displays both the aspects of tangible and intangible culture, lifestyle and creativity of Vietnamese ethnic groups.
(Vietnamese Woman Museum will be the alternative on Monday hence Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is closed)
12:30 – Have lunch at our restaurant
13:45 – visit Temple of Literature is the first university in Vietnam, built in 1070. Today, Temple of literature has become a popular destination of Travel Hanoi, the place of awarding merit to students who have excellent study achievement.
15:30 visit Hoa Lo Prison (Hanoi Hilton) – French colonists built the prison in 1896 to detain those who fought against the French colonial regime, which was called the Maison Centrale.
16:30 – drop off at your hotel
Optional with extra charge: Attending a Water puppet show, The puppet performs on the water and is controlled by artisans behind the curtain. The stories in the water puppet show clearly the life and culture of the Vietnamese.
Free time
Dinner on your own
Overnight at a hotel in Hanoi – End of Day 2 – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
DAY 3: HANOI – HALONG BAY CRUISE – OVERNIGHT ON BOAT
Have breakfast at the hotel – check out hotel
8.15 – 8.30 AM: You will be picked up at your hotel (around Hanoi Old Quarter) and transferred to the pier in Ha Long
12:00 – 12:30 PM: Arriving at Halong Bay, you’ll be welcomed to embark on the cruise. It’s time to learn about the cruise briefing and safety instructions while sipping a welcome drink.
1:00–2:00 PM: While cruising through the karst rock formations into the world of natural heritage, you will have lunch at the luxury restaurant on the cruise.
3:00–4:30 PM: In the afternoon, the itinerary will continue with the exploration of limestone caves. Depending on each cruise, tourists will have chances to visit different caves (Sung Sot Cave / Thien Canh Son Cave / Dark Light Cave).
6:30–7:00 PM: At twilight, almost all Halong Bay cruises offer a Cooking Class or Fruit And Vegetable Carving lesson. The head chef will show you how to make and decorate some traditional Vietnamese dishes.
7:00–11:30 PM: It’s time for a special dinner fraught with appetizing Western dishes and Vietnamese traditional food, depending on the set menu of each cruise.
Overnight on cruise – End of Day 3 – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
DAY 4: HALONG BAY CRUISE – HANOI – FLIGHT TO HO CHI MINH – NIGHT AT HO CHI MINH
6:30 – 7:00 AM: Enjoy coffee, tea, and breakfast served in the dining room. You can wake up earlier to catch the sunset moment from the cruise which gives more stunning views than on land.
After breakfast, join the Tai Chi lessons, the traditional Chinese material art, to refresh your second day on Halong Bay cruise trip. Upon completing breakfast continue the journey and head out to explore the bay.
7:45–9:00 AM: The next destination will be a fishing village where you can meet up with the hospitable and rustic people, as well as get a glimpse of the local life and traditional cultures of the native people. The best way to explore floating village is by bamboo boat or kayak tour.
Sliding through the water in a nifty kayak gives travelers more independence, and allows them to reach places that cannot be reached in cruise ships. But if you cannot take on a Halong Bay cruise kayak, do not worry as bamboo boat is here for you. You will be taken on a graceful glide to explore the beauty of this UNESCO Natural Heritage Site.
10:00 am: It’s time to return the boat for packing and check-out procedures. Simultaneously, the brunch is served whilst the boat cruises back to the pier.
12:00 am: Get pick up at the pier for 3-hours drive back to Hanoi
16:00: Drop off at Hanoi Airport – take 2 hours flight to Ho Chi Minh (air ticket book by guest)
Get pick up at Tan Son Nhat airport for 20 minutes drive to hotel – Check in hotel
Free at your leisure
Dinner on your own
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh – End of Day 4 – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
Note: Flight ticket Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh is booked by guests (flight time should be after 6.00 pm)
Recommended air firms for domestic flight from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh
– Vietnam Airlines: https://www.vietnamairlines.com/vn/en/home
– Vietjet Airlines: https://www.vietjetair.com/en/
DAY 5: HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR – CU CHI TUNNELS – NIGHT AT HO CHI MINH
Breakfast at hotel
08.00 Pick up at your hotel. You will have a chance to discover that the daily life takes place on the streets, which are lined with shops, stalls and vendors with their wares spread out on the footpath and the bustling Ben Thanh Market – a fantastic place for practice bargaining skills.
Next, we continue to visit the War Remnants Museum, which has a wealth of images from the wars, and is dedicated to Vietnamese and foreign journalists and photographers who perished during the French and American conflicts.
Take yourself back to war period with vivid illustrations such as The Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral. The next place is Central Post Office, another fine example of French architecture and Vietnam’s largest post office.
Have lunch at a local restaurant
After lunch take 1.5 hours drive to Cu Chi Tunnels – It is an impressive network of tunnels with a length of over 250 km. This strategic place was used by 15,000 Viet Cong fighters during the war. This main axis system has many branches connecting to underground hideouts, shelters, and entrances to other tunnels.
Get back to hotel around 6.00 pm
Free time
Dinner on your own
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh – End of Day 5: Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
DAY 6: HO CHI MINH – MEKONG – CAN THO – NIGHT AT CAN THO
Breakfast at hotel – Check out hotel
07:30 – 8:00 AM – Pick up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city and start the trip to My Tho. Upon arrival, visit Vinh Trang pagoda which sated back to the late 19th century. Then 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 in the village paths to contemplate orchards, enjoy tropical fruits, and Vietnamese folk music performed by the local people.
Visit the fruit plantation.
Be rowed in a small sampan through the Thoi Son canal and treat yourself to the beauty of the countryside, visit the family business & bee-keeping farm, enjoy honey tea and coconut candy workshop.
Have lunch at the local restaurant. Break time.
The afternoon is time for cycling around the Tan Thach village, meeting the local people to experience their daily life in the Mekong delta.
Relaxing on hammocks to enjoy the cool breeze is for those do not want to join the cycling trip. Proceed to Can Tho City
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight at hotel in Can Tho – End of Day 6 – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
DAY 7: CAN THO – CAI BE MARKET – DRIVE BACK TO HO CHI MINH – NIGHT AT HO CHI MINH
Breakfast at hotel
Morning: Take a leisure boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River (Bassac River) then visit to Cai Rang floating market which is the liveliest one in the whole of region.
Together with Cai Be and Phung Hiep, Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City, Vietnam is one of the three biggest floating markets in the Mekong Delta. The shops and stalls at the market are boats of different sizes.
Once visiting Cai Rang floating market located in Can Tho province, you will be amazed by how crowded and lively this market is. During the early morning market hours, larger sized boats anchor and create lanes that smaller boats weave in and out of.
Walking trip to visit the fruit plantation and local noodle factory. Visit Binh Thuy communal house and Munir Ansay Pagoda – a Khmer pagoda, renowned for its unique structure.
Have lunch at a local restaurant
After lunch we drive back to HCM
17:00 – drop off at hotel
Free time
Dinner on your own
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh – End of Day 7: Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days
DAY 8: HO CHI MINH – TAN SON NHAT AIRPORT DROP OFF
Breakfast at hotel
Free at your leisure until get picked up for transfer to airport.
Our selected hotel is very centrally located so you can spend your time to explore the town on your own way, shopping at local market.
Unlike Ha Noi, the weather in Sai Gon is divided into two distinct seasons: Dry season and rainy season. But the sun of Sai Gon is not too hot, the rain does not last too long. Therefore, you can travel to Sai Gon at any time of the year as this is a busy, vibrant city all year round to experience the city’s life, to explore famous tourist attractions in Ho Chi Minh.
TOUR REMARKS – Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days:
– In this tour Vietnam Tour Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh 8 Days, you will visit Beautiful Vietnam’s tourist destinations including: Hanoi (Day 1 and Day 2), and Halong Bay (Day 3, Day 4). Ho Chi Minh and Cu Chi (Day 5), Can Tho and Mekong Delta (Day 6 and Day 7). Day 8 (last day) you are free for shopping and walking around.
– The tour’s destinations are in Northern region and Southern region of Vietnam. Tour will start at Hanoi city and ends at Ho Chi Minh city, so you must book flight ticket from your city to Hanoi and from Ho Chi Minh back to your city.
– This tour is daily departure so you can book it whenever you want to travel, our team will pick you up from Noi Bai Airport (Hanoi) on the first day upon your arrival, drive you for the tours and drop you off at Tan Son Nhat Airport (Ho Chi Minh) on the last day.
– Tour itinerary / hotel / cruise can be changed on requests to meet your flight schedule, your budget and your travel desire. For any modification of itinerary, the prices can be revised.
– If one or some proposed service(s) is (are) not available at the moment of booking, we will try to find other possibilities/options or other similar service(s) in order to avoid changes to the program.
– In this tour, some meals are not included. No worries! our selected hotels are in very center of the city, you can easily find a good place to eat. It’s more flexible and save your cost. (Full board can be arranged on request).
– We serve Vietnamese foods. Western foods, Chinese foods, Indian food, Halal food, Seafood is available on request with extra charge.
– Check-in and check-out time followed by hotel’s regulations, any late check-out or early check-in will be surcharged additional cost.
– You can book this tour privately for more comfortable and flexible or join in a group tour to lower the cost.
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