8-Day Vietnam Tour From Ho Chi Minh City to Mekong Delta, Halong Bay & Hanoi

Today we'll pick you up at the airport and transfer the city center where we'll check in to the hotel. Free time for leisure.

Get a chance to taste the real Vietnam and let the splendid views cover your senses. This trip allows you to visit the local factories and see how local products are made. Also, you will meet the friendly local people and have a lot of wonderful experiences on land and at the river while see the floating market and fish farm. Let's discover a hard-working land with traditional people, which will give you more appreciation on life! At 7:30am our tour guide will transfer you to the city of My Tho by bus. During 1.5 hours bus drive to My Tho join activities of local people and enjoy nice scenery of green rice paddy fields. We visit Vinh Trang pagoda - biggest pagoda in Mekong delta. Continue going to My Tho, where we take a boat trip along Mekong River. During a boat cruise along Mekong River, you can see fish cages, floating houses on the river. The boat take you to small canal, where is the place you totally escape from the busy town. The boat cruise in the coconut trees canal takes you to a coconut island in Ben Tre. We disembark and have a walk around the village. Stop at a local family to enjoy tropical fruit, taste honey tea, honey wine and listen to Vietnamese traditional music, performed by the villagers. Continue walking on the village’s road to a coconut candy shop where you'll learn how to make candy and see hand crafted items made from coconut trees. Take a walk through village and discover various fruits, flowers, trees, and local houses Then, we'll head to the local restaurant and enjoy local Vietnamese food by the tree shade. After lunch enjoy a half an hour to walk or bike around the village. Lastly travel by ferry back to the bus and return to Saigon at around 4:30pm.

At 8:30am we'll depart from Ho Chi Minh City to Cu Chi Tunnels for a 60km drive. Cu Chi is known as the military base of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War resistance the US forces. The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery contains ducks and water buffaloes swimming in the rivers along the side of road. You will find it hard to imagine the destruction, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines, when Cu Chi was "A Free Target Zone ". You'll see the remnants of this at Cu Chi, displaying the evidence of the fierce battleground that took place here. Ever wonder what it feels like to fire an AK-47? Visit Cu chi tunnels, you have a chance to find out!

After breakfast, you are free until the airport transfer for your flight to Hanoi. Upon arrival we'll transfer you to your hotel in the tourist area of Hanoi Old Quarter.

07.45 – 08.15 approx - Our guide will meet you at your hotel. The shuttle bus or private car pick up - Enjoy the peaceful scenery as we travel through the countryside, farmlands and Red River delta - Get your camera ready to take photos. Comfort break. The time from Hanoi to Halong bay is approximately 3 ½ hours. 12 – 12.30 approx - Arriving Tuan Chau marina. Welcome aboard the cruise. Refresh with our welcome drink. Meet the captain, crew in the cruise briefing - Check into your cabin. Time to refresh and unwind - Set sail as lunch is served - Join us for a typical local lunch in the dining room or at the outdoor dining area. Mingling yourself in the stunning views of the Bay and it’s dramatic limestone islets as we sail through the calm emerald waters heading to Maze cave Afternoon - Arrive at Surprise cave (hang Sửng Sốt), explore the cave and find out how the cave was named Surprise. - Reach to the peak point of the cave for a breath taking panoramic view of the bay - Back to the boat, our cruise will take you to a stunning tranquilizing isolated lagoon for swimming or just simply relaxing on the boat with our spa service and mingle in the picturesque seascape. - Heading back toward the sleeping area Early evening - Summit on the sundeck watching the sunset, enjoy our pre-dinner local wine appetizer. It’s ideal time to make acquaintance with new friends, sharing your traveling experience or simply watching the sunset - An authentic Vietnamese menu is served - After dinner, reward yourself with a large selection of cocktails at our bar, or take for you one of our onboard activities: book reading, games, movies, and squid fishing…

06:30 For the early risers join us for a Tai Chi session on the sundeck. Tai chi helps focus the mind and condition the body, joining Tai Chi session to full charge your energy for the day. 07:00 – 08:00 Local breakfast is served 08:00 - Our guide will brief you information and the highlights about this fascinating floating village and its local community - Take your option either exploring the village yourself on kayak or comfortably capture the daily life of the fishermen on bamboo boat rowed by the locals. 09:00 Check out the cabins, at your leisure while our cruise taking you pass by other beautiful highlights in the bay. 10:00 You will join with our short class of Cooking demonstration, how to make spring rolls before an early lunch is served. 12:00 Return to the shore and disembark from the cruise as our crew say farewell. Transfer to minibus or private and return to Hanoi. Arrival back at your hotel approximately 4:30 Overnight in Ha Noi.

At 8.00am, we’ll pick you up from your hotel take you to visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex, which includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – the final resting place of the beloved national hero, Uncle Ho – and President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived off and on from 1958 to 1969. 9.30: You’ll visit the One Pillar Pagoda, which is actually a group of structures that collectively make up a pagoda built over the water in the middle of a square lake. After that, you’ll have a chance to explore the Tran Quoc Pagoda on the shore of west lake. From there, it’s onto the Temple of literature, which was Viet nam’s first university and is dedicated to Confucius. 12.30: You have lunch at the restaurant in the Old Quarter. Afterwards, you’ll visit Hoan Kiem Lake - the heart and soul of Hanoi. You'll stop in at Museum of Ethnology. This superb museum showcases the depth of Vietnamese cultural diversity with an astounding collection of 15,000 artifacts gathered from throughout Vietnam. Maps, displays and dioramas are labelled in Vietnamese, French and English. Displays portray a typical village market, the making of comical hats and a Tay shamanic ceremony; videos show the real thing. You can also check out a traditional Black Thai house reconstructed in the museum. There's also a centre for research and conservation where scientists from all over the world study traditional Vietnamese cultures. 15.30 - 16.00: Take the car come back your hotel. Optional Activities (included in the price): Water Puppet Show From 15.30 to 16.15 Electric Car or Cyclo around Hanoi's Old Quarter. Come back your hotel at 17.00

Have breakfast at hotel and relax until it is time to transfer to the airport.