DAY 01: HANOI ARRIVAL (NO MEAL)

Arrive in Hanoi where our driver is waiting to escort you to the Hanoi hotel for check-in. Free and easy. Overnight at a hotel in Hanoi.

DAY 02: HANOI FULL DAY CITY TOUR

After Breakfast, start a full-day city tour beginning with the Ho Chi Minh Complex. Explore Ba Dinh Square, the Presidential Palace, the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the rural style Ho Chi Minh’s house. Stop by one of Hanoi’s icons, the One Pillar Pagoda. Continue to the Temple of Literature. Move on to one of the following museums of choice: Hoa Lo Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, the National Museum of Vietnamese History or the Museum of Revolution. Afterwards, visit Hoan Kiem Lake or “Returned Sword Lake”. On an islet in the lake, there is Ngoc Son Temple.

DAY 03: HANOI – HA LONG BAY SHUTTLE BUS OF CRUISE

After Breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel for a transfer to Ha Long Bay. Stop halfway to visit a handicraft workshop. Arrive in Ha Long City, Start cruising while having lunch on board and enjoy the mighty bay view. Ha Long Bay means Descending Dragon Bay in Vietnamese. The bay cruise will continue with an up-close sighting of Dinh Huong Island, Ga Choi Island, Dog Island, Sail Island, a visit to Sung Sot Cave and a swimming stop at Titov Beach. Relax to enjoy the bay view at sunset, have dinner after, go fishing and spend a night on board.

DAY 04: HA LONG – HANOI BAY SHUTTLE BUS – FLIGHT TO DANANG

Have breakfast and cruise to visit Human Head-shaped Island and Tortoise Island. Continue to cruise into Bai Tu Long Bay to discover the adjacent bay of “The Little Dragon Bowing to His Mother” as it is named. Check out and have lunch on board while heading to shore. Disembark and transfer back to the Hanoi hotel by shuttle bus. Our driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby and transfer you to the airport for a flight to Danang. Arrive at Danang airport, our driver will pick you up. Transfer to hotel for check-in. Overnight at a hotel in Danang.

DAY 05: BA NA HILLS – GOLDEN BRIDGE

Breakfast at the hotel and visit Ba Na Hills. Upon arrival, take the Cable Car to Ba Na Hills station. Stop at By Night station to visit Vong Nguyet Hills, Linh Ung Pagoda, and The Old Villas of French. Continue moving up by cable car to the Nui Chua Mountain – the top of the Ba Na range, visiting Nginh Phong top, Le Nim Villas, and Orchid Garden. Experience the hill climbing train (the first and unique funicular in Vietnam) and visit an old French cellar (Debay Ancient Wine Cellar), the flower garden Le Jardin D’amour and Linh Ung Pagoda. Free for joining games in Fantasy Park. Visit Golden Bridge - The gold-coloured walkway is lined with purple Lobelia Chrysanthemums. Then take the cable car down. If time permits, you will visit Mable Mountain before transferring back to the hotel. Overnight at a hotel in Hoian.

DAY 06: DANANG – HALF DAY HOI AN – DANANG – FLIGHT TO SAIGON

After breakfast, check out the hotel. and transfer to Hoian Town. Take a walk over the tile-roofed Japanese Bridge, visit taciturn Chinese Assembly Halls, enjoy the attractiveness of ancient houses or listen to the folk music of Central Vietnam at old club-houses. Later, we can stop at shrines or stroll into the market located by Thu Bon River, where you may find the same feelings of the artists, who see the rooftops of Hoian a magical old world with an Oriental feel and source of inspiration. This is also a wonderful town to shop for lanterns, soft silk, raw silk, or get your clothes tailored within a day. Our driver will escort you back to Da Nang airport for a flight to Saigon. Arrived at Saigon airport, welcomed by our driver and transferred directly to the hotel for check-in. Overnight at a hotel in Saigon.

DAY 07: SAIGON – CU CHI TUNNELS – CITY TOUR

After Breakfast at the hotel. Explore Cu Chi Tunnels - the tunnels were functioning underground cities including numerous trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centres & kitchens. Return to Saigon. Start a city tour at the War Remnants Museum, War Remnants Museum, and the Reunification Palace. Nearby the Palace are the Notre Dame Cathedral (view from outside only), built between 1877 and 1883 and the colonial-styled Central Post Office, one of the city’s major landmarks. Late afternoon, visit Ben Thanh market, a symbol of Saigon. Have shopping time there. Overnight in Saigon.

DAY 08: SAIGON DEPARTURE

Free at leisure until transfer to airport for departure flight.