The Vietnam moment

The Vietnam moment overview

This unique journey through Vietnam links the fascinating cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh with the breath taking countryside go through the rural scene get to the magnificent Ha Long Bay

Brief Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

- Being personally welcomed and transfer to hotel by Vietnam Travel Leader staff

Day 2: Hanoi City tour

- Enjoy a full day sightseeing tour of Hanoi‘s highlights with Vietnam Travel Leader  tour experts

Day 3: Hanoi - Ha Long Bay – Hanoi

- Travel to Halong bay by private comfortable transportation, enjoy 4 hour Halong bay cruise. Then return to Hanoi later this afternoon

Day 4: Halong – Hanoi - Saigon

-Being transferred to Hanoi airport for flying to Saigon

Day 5: Saigon city tour

- Enjoy a full day sightseeing tour of Saigon‘s highlights with Vietnam Travel Leader tour experts

Day 6: Saigon Departure

- Departing Saigon for your onward flight.

Itinerary 

Type of trip: Private

Trip Duration: 6 Days

Starting: Hanoi capital city, Vietnam

Finishing: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city), Vietnam

Destinations: Hanoi – Halong –– Saigon

Day 1: Arrival in Hanoi (D)

Upon arrival to Hanoi airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our  car and tour guilde. They will pick up and transfer you to hotel, approximately a 45-minute drive from the airport.

Check in hotel. The afternoon is at leisure to recover from the long trip.

Meet the group in the hotel lobby at 6:30 pm to walk to your welcome dinner. Tonight we have scheduled a special menu of Hanoi typical cuisines for your first taste of Hanoi.

Meals: Dinner
 

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 2: Hanoi city tour (B/L)

Breakfast at hotel.

Today features the most highlights of Hanoi including Ho Chi Minh Complex, Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the Presidential Palace, His House-on-Stilts, One Pillar pagoda…

In the morning:

08:00 – 08:30 a.m: Our guide and driver pick you up from your hotel and start to visit Ho Chi Minh complex, including Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house – where Ho lived on and off from 1958 to 1969

Then visit Ho Chi Minh’s museum where tourists will learn what he had done for Viet Nam and some other countries and a lot of information about President Ho Chi Minh.

The next place is One Pillar Pagoda which is a group of structures consisting of a pagoda and a tower built in the middle of a square pond.

Leave One Pillar Pagoda for the Temple of Literature the first college of Viet Nam dedicated to Confucian. Have lunch at a restaurant.

In the afternoon:

After lunch, drive to visit Tran Quoc Pagoda, Which is on the shore of West Lake, the Museum of Ethnology. The last place of city tour is Hoan Kiem Lake (Restored Sword Lake), Ngoc Son Temple. Drop off at your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Day 3: Hanoi – Halong bay ( B/L/D)

Breakfast at hotel.
 

08:00 – 08:30 Pick up at hotel for three and a half hours road trip with short refreshment on half way to Halong Bay.

12:00   Arrive at Bai Chay Wharf

12:15 Transfer by tender to the Marguerite Junk boat – enjoy Welcome Drink. Receive Junk Facilities and Cruise Instruction as well as Cruise Briefing before check in to cabins and begin cruise Off the Beaten Track.

13:00   Lunch - deluxe Vietnamese Set Menu.

15:00  Arrive at the Surprise Cave area. Transfer by tender to the Surprise Cave. Walk up the 100 steps to the entrance of the cave and tour on foot for approximately 45 minutes.

16:00   Return to the boat. Enjoy kayaking program to the nearby Cave, lagoon and surrounding waters as well as exploring the daily life of the local people in floating village

17:00   Enjoy snack party before swimming or relaxing on board

18:30   Take part in our cooking class with crispy spring rolls

19:30   Dinner - deluxe Vietnamese Set  Menu Dinner.

20:30   Evening activities include: film entertainment in the dining room, board games and playing cards are available, squid fishing from the boat with our crew.

Day 4: Halong bay – Ho Chi Minh city ( B/ L)

07:00  Coffee, tea and light breakfast pastries served in the dining room.

8:00    Enjoy riding on the rowing boat to the tunnel cave

09:00  Check-out of cabins. Enjoy relaxing, sunbathing on sundeck while our boat cruise back on different route

10:45  Enjoy lunch Set Menu served in the dining room while enjoy the bay scenery as  Fight Cocks, Incense Burner, Stone Dog

12:00  Transfer by tender to the pier, relax inside the pier building while waiting for return transportation.

12:20  Transfer back to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi approximately at 16:30

17h00: On arrival Hanoi, our car will pick up and tranfer you to Noi Bai airport to take a flight to Ho Chi Minh City

20h00: Arrival Ho Chi Minh City. Car will pick up you and tranfer to hotel. Check in hotel. Overnight at Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

Day 5: Ho Chi Minh city sightseeing ( B/L)

Breakfast at the hotel. This morning, we leave Saigon for driving through pleasant countryside before arriving at Cu Chi. 

Located 60km from HCMC, Cu Chi is now a popular spot for both Vietnamese & foreign tourists, the tunnels were functioning underground cities including numerous trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities,..

Today, ducks and water buffalos happily co-exist in the rivers along the side of the road. However, the peaceful rural rice paddy scenery belies the area’s violent history.

Visitors will find it hard to imagine the destruction, damage & defoliation over this whole area, caused by bombing and mines. There is plenty of evidence of the fierce battle that took place here during the 1960s when Cu Chi was a "Free Target Zone".

Start our tour in the morning, before entering the tunnels visitors can watch a short introductory video showing how the tunnels were

constructed. You will spend the next hour exploring the tunnels. Afterwards, enjoy tea, cassava (guerrilla’s food during the war).

Return to Sai Gon. Have lunch with Saigon cuisines 

After lunch, you enjoy a half day city tour of Saigon highlights. Star at  the Notre Dame Cathedral church that was built between 1877

and 1883. The nearby Old Saigon Post Office is another example of French colonial architecture and is also the country’s largest post office.

Then, we move on to see the Reunification Palace. This was one of the most important buildings in the city. Here on April 30th 1975 the ‘American War’ officially ended when tank number 843 of the North Vietnamese Army crashed through the gates of what was, at the time the residence of the President of the Republic of Vietnam.

After that, we continue to visit War Remnants Museum - Formerly known as the Museum of American War Crimes, this is a poignant display of the futility of war.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

 

Day 6: Ho Chi Minh city departure (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Meet our guide and driver to transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for boarding your onward flight back to home.

Meals: Breakfast

Price & Inclusion

This is a sample itinerary so the cost really depends on the number of people in your group and time of travel.

Please enquire for availabilities & the most up dated price.

 

Tour Cost included

- Full transportation by private car or bus as tour program indicated.

- Full meals as indicated in the itinerary

- English- speaking tour expert

- Entrance fees.

- Twin-share accommodation with daily breakfast; (AC room)

- Boat trip 2 days 1 night in Ha Long Bay

- Domestic air ticket Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh city

Tour Cost Non Included

- Visa

- International flight ticket

- Airport taxes

- Personal insurance

- Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency.

Children Policy

- Free Of Charge for child under 5 years old sharing cabin with parents, maximum 1 child per room.

- Children under 5 years old : free of charge 

- Children from 5 – under 10 years old sharing bed with family charge 50% rate , put extra bed charge 75% rate

- Children from 10 years old: pay as adult rate

The Vietnam moment

The Vietnam moment

The Vietnam moment