HIGHLIGHTS VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA THAILAND IN 15 DAYS

Xin Chao! Welcome to Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam. Upon your arrival time, you will meet our tour driver at outside of arrival hall for airport transfer to your hotel in Hanoi. Rest and overnight at your hotel in Hanoi

Accommodation: options

1. Hanoi: Hanoi Boutique Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Hanoi: Rex Hotel – Premier Deluxe – 4 star hotel

3. Hanoi: Apricot Hotel – Sketch – 5 star hotel

08h30: Arrive Tran Quoc Pagoda –  the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.

09h00 – 9h15: Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of  Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Godess of Mercy – It is the most unique padoga in the world

11h00: Visit one of these Vietnam Museum of Ethnology to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in Vietnam  (Tuesdays – Thursdays – Saturdays & Sundays) Bat Trang ceramíc village to explore the daily life of the local & learn about the process how to make a perfect product  (Mondays – Wednesdays  – Fridays)

12h30: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine with 8 delicious dishes.

13h30 – 13h45: Continue visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century

15h45: Leave for Hoan Kiem Lake to visit Ngoc Son Temple, which honors General Tran Hung Dao in 13th certury.

16h15: Tour finishes. Back to hotel

Accommodation: options

1. Hanoi: Hanoi Boutique Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Hanoi: Rex Hotel – Premier Deluxe – 4 star hotel

3. Hanoi: Apricot Hotel – Sketch – 5 star hotel

Departure for Ha Long Bay is around 8:00 AM in a shared van (about 4 hours) from your hotel. Arrive at the port around noon. Welcomed on board, you are taken to your cabin before the trip briefing. You enjoy a fresh and local Veg/ Seafood lunch while cruising to explore the magic Halong Bay. Stop for a swim and visit the mysterious cave. Relax at our secluded island-beach or explore by kayak. Later you return back to the boat just in time to watch the beautiful sunset from the top deck before enjoying the bay’s freshest seafood dinner.

Options:

1. Halong: Hera Cruise – 3 star cruise

2. Halong: La Pandora Halong Cruise – 4 star cruise

3. Halong: Dora Cruise – 5 star cruise

Early risers can enjoy the sunrise and the quiet breath-taking beauty of Bay’s landscape with towering limestone. You have breakfast at around 8:00 AM before our short rowboat by the locals of the bay.

Lunch on the boat as we slowly cruise back to boat pier. Hit the road to get back Hanoi around 04:30 PM. Dinner at your own account before our driver take you to airport for flight to Da Nang. Upon your arrival time, you will meet our tour guide at outside of arrival hall for airport transfer to your hotel in Hoi An.

Options:

1. Hoi An: Silkian Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Hoi An: Lasenta Hoi An Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Hoi An: La Siesta Hoi An Resort – 5 star hotel

The tour will begin at your hotel or our office. 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, harvesting the vegetables with hundreds of years rudimentary tools of the farmers. You will enjoy the E Water, a speciality of Tra Que vegetable village, you can feel the strong medicinal flavour from many kinds of vegetables. You could will be a famer with many interesting activities.

Finish your time in Tra Que vegetable village, you will ride your bicycle leisurely passing the rice fields, villages, to come to the art of making lanterns.

- You will visit craftsmen with skillful hands, showing you how to create the 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, finish your trip.

Options:

1. Hoi An: Silkian Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Hoi An: Lasenta Hoi An Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Hoi An: La Siesta Hoi An Resort – 5 star hotel

Breakfast at hotel. Free time at your own leisure. Overnight at hotel in Hoi An.

Accommodation:

1. Hoi An: Silkian Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Hoi An: Lasenta Hoi An Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Hoi An: La Siesta Hoi An Resort – 5 star hotel

Breakfast at hotel. Then we will take the flight to Ho Chi Minh. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed by our private driver and transfer you to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh. Free time at your own leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Ho Chi Minh: Prague Hotel – 3 star hotel

Ho Chi Minh: Harmony Saigon Hotel – 4 star hotel

Ho Chi Minh: Majestic Sagion Hotel – 5 star hotel

Get started at 8:30 AM from your hotel venturing out to the Cu Chi countryside. See what life was like for the guerrilla warriors who lived and fought underground during the war. Crawl through 50 m of the 200 km tunnel system below. This morning will also see a visit to a rice paper workshop.

In the afternoon see the real HCM City through the eyes of a local. Visit the bustling Cho Lon market and a hidden Chinese pagoda, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Central Post Office, and City Hall. We drop you off at your hotel around 5:30 PM.

Accommodation:

1. Ho Chi Minh: Prague Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Ho Chi Minh: Harmony Saigon Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Ho Chi Minh: Majestic Sagion Hotel – 5 star hotel

Getting started at 8:30 AM from your hotel, then a drive about 70 km out of HCM City to see Mekong Delta life around My Tho. Drift down the busy branches of the Mekong and into its peaceful canals. Visit an island orchard, and experience daily life of the farmers here. Try exotic seasonal fruits unique to the region and explore the quiet island on foot. Take a local cruise, stopping to learn how to make coconut-candy. Visit a bee farm to try some local honey with rice wine or tea then head back to HCM City. Tour ends around 4:30 PM.

Accommodation:

1. Ho Chi Minh: Prague Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Ho Chi Minh: Harmony Saigon Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Ho Chi Minh: Majestic Sagion Hotel – 5 star hotel

Breakfast at your hotel then meet our driver at the lobby for transferring to airport for flight to Siem Reap. Upon your arrival time, you will meet our tour guide at outside of arrival hall for airport transfer to your hotel in HCM City. In the afternoon, we will transfer to Tonle Sap Lake for taking boat trip to visit at Kampong Pluk, where we will have the opportunity to learn about life on the lake. On the way,  we will pass floating houses and impressive flooded forests, portraying life on the water. Return back in town, we will go to visit Artisans d’Angkor.

In there, we can take a tour through the workshops and watch students as they learn how to create silk fabrics and garments, stone and wood carving, lacquer ware, polychrome products, silver plating and silk paintings. 

Accommodation:

1. Siem Reap: Hari Residence Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Siem Reap: Somadevi Angkor Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Siem Reap: Angkor miracle Hotel – 5 star hotel

After meeting our tour guide, then we drive to Angkor Thom that was the masterpiece of King Jayavarman VII. We begin to visit Bayon Temple. At the exact center of Angkor Thom, this is an eccentric expression of the creative genius and inflated ego of Cambodia’s most celebrated king. We continue to visit Terrace of the Leper King. This intricately carved platform was the royal crematorium and the statue that was originally thought to be the leper king is now believed to be Yama, the god of death. We continue along the Terrace of Elephants. At the southern end lies the Baphuon, once of the most beautiful temples at Angkor, dating from the reign of Uditayavarman 1 in the 11th century. You'll break for lunch at a local restaurant before the 15-minute drive to Ta Prohm, the monastery temple of Tomb Raider fame. We journey out to the Mother of all temples, Angkor Wat. Believed to be the world's largest religious building, this temple is the perfect fusion of symbolism and symmetry and a source of pride and strength to all Khmers. We venture into Angkor Wat to enjoy its  magnificence in peace and quiet. We begin by unraveling the mysteries of the bas-reliefs that tell of tales from Hindu mythology and of the glories of the Khmer empire.

Accommodation:

1. Siem Reap: Hari Residence Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Siem Reap: Somadevi Angkor Hotel – 4 star hotel

3. Siem Reap: Angkor miracle Hotel – 5 star hotel

Have breakfast at the hotel and rest before your private driver escorts you to the airport to take the flight to Phuket. When you arrive at Phuket airport, your driver will pick you up and transfer you to your accommodation. The rest of the time is free for leisure. 

Accommodation:

1. Phuket: Meir Jar Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Phuket: Novotel Phuket Avista Kata – 4 star hotel

3. Phuket: Avista Grand Hotel Karon – 5 star hotel

Have breakfast at the hotel and free time at your own leisure in a beautiful beach in Phuket.

Accommodation:

1. Phuket: Meir Jar Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Phuket: Novotel Phuket Avista Kata – 4 star hotel

3. Phuket: Avista Grand Hotel Karon – 5 star hotel

Have breakfast at the hotel and free time at your own leisure in a beautiful beach in Phuket.

Accommodation:

1. Phuket: Meir Jar Hotel – 3 star hotel

2. Phuket: Novotel Phuket Avista Kata – 4 star hotel

3. Phuket: Avista Grand Hotel Karon – 5 star hotel

Transfer to Phuket airport for departure to next destination. It’s time to say goodbye, we thank you for traveling with us and warmly welcome you to come again.