Itinerary details:
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city & arrival
- Arrive to Tan Son Nhat international airport. Welcome by your local tour guide and driver. Pick up and transfer to your hotel.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city tour (B/L/_)
- After breakfast at hotel. At 8:00 am, we depart our hotel for the Reunification Palace, the former Presidential Palace for the president of the South of Vietnam. After that we will visit War Remnant Museum, where we can see countless artifacts, photographs and pictures documenting about the second Indochina war. We also stop at Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post office to get good shots for our memory of the big, modern city of Vietnam. In the afternoon we will visit: Ben Thanh market, Cho Lon, Chinese town and market. Here we can experience our Vietnamese Southern daily life.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang city – Hot spring center (B/L/_)
- Early morning at 4.15am, transfer to the airport for boarding the flight VN1350 to Nha Trang (06.00am – 06.55am). Meeting your tour guide and driver. Pick up and transfer to the center. Enjoy Bun Ca Nha Trang as your breakfast. After short rest, Staring the city tour to visit Long Son Pagoda, Mountain Church and Long Thanh’s Studio & Gallery. After visit Ponagar Tower, Chong Promontory, we end at Dam market for everything for sale. Visit Thap Ba Hot Mineral Spring Center, relax and soak in mud pool or hot mineral water pool (pay ticket which enjoy Mud Bath for yourself).
- Return to your hotel.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Nha Trang.
Day 4: Nha Trang and its off shore island ( B / L / _ )
- Breakfast at your hotel. At 8.30am, pick up at your hotel. Take the morning boat trip to visit the offshore islands including Mun Mot island. See the Tri Nguyen Aquarium.
- Lunch on Tam island. Free time for swimming.
- Return to Nha Trang.
- Dinner on guest’s account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Nha Trang.
Day 5: Nha Trang – Da Lat (B / _ / _)
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 12.00pm, depart for Da Lat via Bidoup national Park. Stop for photos at Rac Lay minority Village, Bidoup Mountain Pass, small waterfalls on the way, Khanh Le river, Shamon Fish Farm, Coffee palation.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Da Lat
Day 6: Dalat city tour (B / L / _)
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00am, visit Lat village – a village of Lat ethnic minority nearby the Langbiang Mountain. On the way, view the sight of Da Lat suburb gardener, could climb and conquer the summit of the Langbiang Mountain. Then to visit Vang Spring, Bac Spring, Dankia Lake. Visit the old Da Lat Railway Station, Hang Nga crazy house, Dalat Flower Garden.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Da Lat.
Day 7: Dalat – Da Nang – Hoi An (B / L / _)
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00am,Take a sightseeing the beautiful scenery of Tuyen Lam Lake by boat. Vist Domain de-Marie church then transfer to the airport for boarding the flight VN1954 to Da Nang (14.55 – 16.15).
- Pick up and transfer to your hotel in Hoi An.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hoi An.
Day 8: Hoi An city (B/_/_)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Make a walking trip to visit Hoi An ancient town. Wander around Hoi An you have an enjoyment of old streets, houses…visit Tan Ky house, Japanese Bridge, Phuc Kien Hall, Sa Huynh Museum, local market. You can also have time to enjoy traditional music performance in old house. Once more special of Hoi An ancient town is spending time to go shopping at silk shops, lattern shops for experience of handicarft villages and make tailor with reasonable price. (Suggestion: Sesan Tailor, Friendly Shop, Metiseko).
- Leisure in the afternoon.
- Lunch & dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hoi An.
Day 9 : Hoi An – Da Nang – Ha Noi (B / L / _)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Full day at leisure until transfer to the airport for boarding the flight VN1516 to Ha Noi (14.15 – 15.25).
- Pick up and transfer to your hotel.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 10 : Ha Noi city (B / L / _)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Morning, visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex, containing the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts and the One Pillar Pagoda , continue to the Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first university. You will also visit the famous prison that American POWs sarcastically dubbed the “Hanoi Hilton” during the Vietnam War. Take a relaxing walk along Thanh Nien street next to the famous West Lake. Visit Dong Xuan market and enjoy traditional food Cha Ca La Vong a Ha Noi specialty. Riding on a rickshaw around 36 streets in the Old Quarter. You will have many chance to see local product handmade as well as doing shopping.
- Enjoy water puppet show in the late afternoon.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 11 : Ha Noi – Ha Long ( B / L / D )
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30am, leave for Ha Long Bay through the Red River Delta. Arrive at Paloma office, Halong City. Tranfer by tender to the Paloma Cruise – enjoy welcome drink. Receive cruise briefing and check in to cabins and begin cruise. Lunch – delicious Vietnamese set menu ( Massage service is available beginning after lunch and thoughout the cruise. Heads to Bai Tu Long Bay passing the towns of Hon Gai and Cam Pha, Oan Lagoon, Mat Quy (Monster Head) and Am Tich (Teapot) Islets and Vung Vieng fishing village. Visit the fishing village by local rowing boat (01 hour) then return to the vessel for free time at your leisure or join one of the following optional activities:
- Kayak into the village or swim near the boat;
Optional onboard activities: Sunbathing, traditional massage, etc.;
Trip by tender to an isolated pristine beach for swimming, etc.
- Paloma cruises through the Bay to its overnight anchorage near Hang Trong.
- Happy Hour (sunset party)& Vietnamese cooking demonstration on the boat
- Sumptuous Seafood Set-dinner onboard.
- Retire to your cabin or join the squid fishing, watching movie, game.
- Overnight aboard Paloma Cruise.
Day 12 : Ha long – Ha Noi (B / L/_ )
- Start your day with Tai Chi on the Sundeck while complimentary tea & coffee are served.
- Paloma weighs anchor to cruise through the Bay passing beautiful spots like Trong (Drum), Trinh Nu (Virgin) and Me Cung Caves, Coc Ngoi (Toad) Islet, etc
- Explore the Surprise Cave (Sung Sot)
- Return to Paloma cruise
- Check out the cabin. Western menu is served onboard. The vessel cruises leisurely back to harbor.
- Disembark at Paloma office, Halong City. Tea & coffee will be served.
- Return to Ha Noi.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 13: Ha Noi & departure (B)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Free until transfer to the airport.
- End of tour.
| Hotel grade | Cost in US$ per person |
| 2 pax | 3 – 4 pax | 5 – 8 pax | 9 – 11 pax | 12 – 15 pax | Single supplement |
| Two stars | 1256 | 1106 | 1012 | 927 | 882 | 247 |
| Three stars | 1345 | 1195 | 1102 | 1016 | 971 | 323 |
| Four stars | 1538 | 1389 | 1295 | 1209 | 1164 | 512 |
Tour price includes:
- Air conditioner private transport for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program
- Domestic flight: Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang; Da Lat – Da Nang – Ha Noi (Economy class)
- Private boat trip in Nha Trang, Da Lat
- Share cruise in Ha Long Bay
- Kayaking paddles
- English speaking tour guide
- All entrance fees, Water puppet show tickets, rickshaws
- Cold mineral water and cool tissue on van
- Hotel accommodation based on two persons share a double/twin room
- Meals as indicated in the tour program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)
- Vietnamese landing visa arrangement
Tour price excludes:
- International flight to/from Vietnam
- International airport tax
- Vietnamese entry visa (US$45/per person)
- Travel insurance
- Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program
- Personal expenses.
