Best of Vietnam Saigon – Mekong Delta – Danang – Hoi An – Hanoi – Halong Bay – Angkor Wat (9 days / 8 nights) ==== ========================
DRAFT ITINERARY:
Day 1 : Arrival in Saigon
Day 2 : Saigon – Mekong Delta - Saigon
Day 3 : Saigon – Fly to Danang at 11:30am – Hoi An walking
tour
Day 4 : Hoi An relaxing on the beach or shopping by your own
Day 5 : Hoi An cooking class – Fly to Hanoi at 16:35pm
Day 6 : Hanoi City tour – Halong
Day 7 : Halong Bay boat trip – Hanoi – Fly to Siem Reap at 18:15pm
Day 8 : Angkor Wat full day tour
Day 9 : Siem Reap – Departure
DETAIL ITINERARY:
Day 1 Arrival Saigon
Include: Upon you arrive in Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon, our driver will pick up and transfer you to hotel for check in. A/C private car The rest time relaxing after a long flight. Hotel in Saigon Stay overnight at hotel in Saigon
Day 2 Saigon – Mekong Delta – Saigon (B, L)
Include: Leaving busy Ho Chi Minh city we drive to Cai Be, boat through the busy floating market for seeing how people A/C private car of lower Mekong Delta do business on the water. We then cruise through the lush green vegetation of the canals to Hotel in Saigon an orchard, where we are treated to a delicious lunch complete with tropical fruits. After lunch we keep on Private boat cruising along river to see peaceful tranquil life of Tour guide villagers, admire marvelous natural setting of Mekong Entrance fees Delta region. About 03:00PM, the boat will arrival at Vinh Meal : breakfast, lunch Long Market, walking around to explore Vinh Long Market. On the way back to Ho Chi Minh with stop at Bonsai Garden. Arrival at your hotel in the late evening.
Stay overnight at hotel in Saigon
Day 3 Saigon – Fly to Danang at 11:30am – Hoi An
walking tour (B) Include: At 930am, our driver will pick up and transfer you from the hotel to the airport to catch a short flight to Danang A/C private car at 11:30am (VN324), upon arrival in Danang at 12:40pm, you will be met and transferred to resort in Hotel in Hoi An Hoi An for check in. Flight ticket : Saigon -Danang Tour guide PM : we will take a half day walking tour in Hoi An Old Entrance fees Quarter, enjoy the walking tour through the narrow Meal : breakfast winding streets of the Old town, visit FuKien assembly hall, the 200-year-old Tan Ky house, the Japanese cover bridge, Hoi An Museum, and the handcraft workshops. Stay overnight at hotel in Hoi An
Day 4 Hoi An relaxing & shopping by your own ( B)
Include: Free time for you relaxing on the beach and shopping in Hoi An Old Quarter, one of the cultural heritage of the Hotel in Hoi An world by your own. Meal : breakfast Stay overnight at hotel in Hoi An
Day 5 Hoi An Cooking Class – Danang fly to Hanoi at
16:35pm ( B, L) Include: We will have meeting point at restaurant. After taking the welcome drink, we visit Hoi An’s colorful market and Cooking class package experience the amazing sights, sounds and aromas of this busy market. We will have our opportunity to Hotel in Hanoi interact with local sellers and purchase some of the Speaking English Local chief ingredients to be used in the coming cooking lesson. Meal : breakfast, lunch After that we board the Red Bridge boat for a leisurely cruise about 25 minutes along Thu Bon River to Cooking Flight ticket : Danang – Hanoi School. This is a chance to view local river life and make Boat Trip sure your camera is in your hand. Up on arrival, we explore the cooking school’s herb and vegetable garden before learning about some Hoi An and Vietnam’s well- known dishes. The cooking lesson runs for about 2 hours, each dish is first demonstrated by the Chief before we prepare the same dish ourselves. Included in the class is a brief introduction to Vietnamese food carving (plate decoration). After the lesson we enjoy our products then.
Recipes (our food contains no MSG):
1. Making fresh Rice paper 2. Fresh Rice Paper Rolls of Shrimp 3. Crispy Hoi An Pancakes with Shrimp, Herbs & a Vietnam Travel Peanut Sauce 4. Marinated Beef on a Sizzling Plate Travel Vietnam 5. Vietnamese Eggplant in Clay Pot 6. Food Decoration - Pineapple Boat, 3 Colored Highlights of Vietnam Flowers & Vietnamese Hand Fan Steamed Ocean Fish on a bed of Freshly Chopped Vietnam Highlights Vegetables (not included in the demonstration)
Vietnam Tours Our class finishes at approximately 1pm. We
transfer back to central Hoi An. Vietnam Flight Until 14:30pm, our driver will pick up and transfer you Vietnam Highlight to Danang airport to catch a short flight to Hanoi at 16:35pm (VN316), upon arrival in Hanoi at 17:45pm, you will be met and transferred to hotel for checkin. Stay overnight at hotel in Hanoi
Day 6 Hanoi City tour – Halong Bay (B, L)
Include: At 8:00 AM: pick up at your hotel to Hochiminh Complex for visit Hochiminh Mausoleum, Hochiminh Museum and A/C private car One pillar pagoda, Tran Quoc Pagoda. Continue to visit Hotel in Halong Literature temple, the first University in Vietnam in 16th century and History Museum. Have lunch in one of Tour guide famous restaurant in Hanoi before walking tour in 1000 Entrance fees Years Old Hanoi Old Quarter then enjoy Water Puppet Meal : breakfast, lunch Unique show at 4 PM. After show, we head for Halong, upon arrival in Halong, check in hotel. Stay overnight at hotel in Halong Day 7 Halong Bay Boat Trip – Fly to Siem Reap at 16:55pm (B, L) Include: This morning, we board our private boat for 4 hour cruise on the pristine emerald water of Halong Bay. The cruise A/C private car brings us through many green limestone islands to some beautiful caves. We will visit Thien Cung – the heaven Hotel in Siem Reap palace cave- one of the most beautiful caves in Halong Private boat bay, come back Noi bai airport in Hanoi for our flight to Flight ticket : Hanoi – Siem Siem Reap at 16:55pm (VN845), upon arrival in Siem Reap at 18:50pm you will be met and transferred to Reap at 16:55pm hotel for check in.Stay overnight at hotel in Siem Reap Tour guide Meal : breakfast, lunch Entrance fee
Day 8 Angkor Temple Complex – Angkor Thom, Angkor
Wat and Ta Prohm (B) Include: Today, after breakfast, we will start our visit of the amazing temples complex of Angkor. We will begin to A/C private car explore the complex of Angkor Thom. Angkor Thom was Hotel in Angkor wat built by King Jayavarman VII at the end of the 12th century, a short while after the completion of Angkor Tour guide Wat. Angkor Thom, which means “Great City”, is Meal : breakfast surrounded by a massive perimeter wall and a moat with Entrance fee five monumental gates and covers an area of more than ten square kilometers. The most important monuments are located in the centre of the city, namely the Bayon, the Baphoun and the Terrace of Elephants. The Bayon is a fascinating piece of architecture and one of the most photographed. It is a bizarre structure, with a total of 54 towers elaborately decorated with 216 enormous and enigmatic smiling faces. The numerous other structures of this fortified city are the Terrace of the Leper King, the Phimeanakas, Preah Palilay, Tepranom, Preah Pithu, Vietnam Travel North & South Kleang and Prasat Sour Prot. Then, we will visit Ta Prohm. The principal singularity of Ta Phrom is Travel Vietnam that it has not been cleared from the thick jungle, as the rest of the Angkor Complex has been. It looks nearly the same as in the descriptions of the first French explorers, Highlights of Vietnam shrouded in undergrowth and in the huge roots of old Banyan trees. This afternoon we will visit Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is located about six kilometers north of Siem Vietnam Highlights Reap, south of Angkor Thom. Angkor Wat was built in the first half of the 12th century (113 – 5BC). It is a largest Vietnam Tours monument of the Angkor Group and the best preserved and it is an architectural masterpiece. Its perfection in composition, balance, proportions, relief’s and sculpture Vietnam Flight make it one of the finest monuments in the world. In the end of afternoon, we will enjoy sunset at the hilltop temple of Phnom Bakheng. Overnight in the hotel in Vietnam Highlight Siem Reap.
Today Breakfast included
Day 9 Tonle Sap Lake Floating village – Departure Siem
Reap (B) Include: Today this morning we will enjoy Tonle Sap Lake, Asia’s largest inland lake also the biggest harvest fresh water A/C private car fish in the world, which swells to ten times its normal size during the wet season; here we have a two-hours Private boat boat trip observing how local people go about their daily Tour guide lives, during the boat trip we stop to visit a bird garden Meal : breakfast and a fishing farm, and also our boat driver will stop for us to visit the floating school which is a lot of the poor Entrance fee children study in this school, and they are the fisherman’s children and a local market will also prove a rewarding experience for today. In the afternoon free at leisure to explore the center market known as Old market.
Free time until transfer you to the airport to catch your
flight back New York.
End of service Acommodation categories base on 4 star hotels and resorts :
City Hotel Website
Saigon Rex hotel **** http://www.vietnamdhtravel.com/?vw=hotels&ot her_cat=19&id=202&title=Hotel%20and%20res ort%20promotions Hoi An River Beach Resort **** http://www.vietnamdhtravel.com/?vw=resort&ot her_cat=40&id=79&title=Hotel%20and%20resor t%20promotions Hanoi Flower Garden hotel **** http://www.vietnamdhtravel.com/?vw=hotels&ot her_cat=18&id=48&title=Hotel%20and%20resor t%20promotions Halong Halong Pearl hotel **** http://vietnamdhtravel.com/?vw=hotels&oth er_cat=17&id=111&title=Ha Long Hotels Siem Reap Prince D’ Angkor hotel **** www.princedangkorhotel.com
Trip Price Includes:
- Private tour - Accomodation at hotels & resorts as in places in the program - Meals as indicated in program (B – breakfast, L – lunch, D – dinner) - Private transportation at places as indicated in program - Air tickets: Vietnam Airlines (tax, service charge include) • Saigon - Danang • Danang - Hanoi • Hanoi – Siem Reap - All admission cost at places mentioned in itinerary - English speaking tour guide - Visa arrival in Cambodia - Private boat in Mekong Delta, Halong Bay, Tonle Sap as indicated in the program - Entrance fees Trip Price Excludes: - Other meals and drinks/ personal expenses - International air fares/ airport taxes - Flight ticket : NYC – Saigon, Siem Reap – NYC (950 usd/ ticket) - Insurances
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