Daily Travel Company sincerely introduce you the Vietnam tour package 27 days as follows:
- Beginning from Ho Chi Minh city, tourist visit Cu Chi tunnels, Cao Dai temple an down to Mekong Delta for seeing a lively life of local people in the South. Proceed to central highland for seeing Da Lat The city’s temperate weather stands in contrast to Vietnam's otherwise tropical climate. Through the coasts to Da Nang and Hue city a heritage of Vietnam. Up to the North for Ha Long Bay, Tam Coc caves and Sapa. Getting a new experience to stay together with hill tribes.
Itinerary details:
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city & arrival (D)
- Arrive to Tan Son Nhat airport, meeting your tour guide and driver. Pick up and transfer to your hotel. Having rest at your until 15.00pm from your hotel, riding on a rickshaw for an adventure winding through the sights, sounds & smells of this historic metropolis - the ideal way to experience the city. Stopping at the 30 – 40 park, taking a walking tour to visit some French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office. Visit Ben Thanh market where anything and everything is for sale.
- Welcome dinner at restaurant.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Day 2 : Ho Chi Minh – Cao Dai Temple – Cu Chi tunnels (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at your hotel. At 8.30am, drive west to Tay Ninh, the centre of Caodaism. On arrival we attend the fantastic mid-day temple service when the followers fill the hall wearing colored robes, a symbol of the curious combination of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. On the way back, stop to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Vietcong during the American war.
- Drive back to HCMC around 6.00pm.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh .
Day 3 : Ho Chi Minh city (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 7.30am, Start a sightseeing tour to the Reunification Palace, which was the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of the war in April 1975. Tour of Chinatown and visit Thien Hau pagodas, Quan Am Pagoda and Giac Lam Pagoda. After seeing the Emperor Jade Pagoda and the War Remnants Museum, visit the Opera House, the city Hall, a Vietnamese Mosque and do shopping at Dong Khoi street.
- Dinner on guest's account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Day 4 : Hochiminh – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Leave Ho Chi Minh city, enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields. On arrival at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view stilt houses, fruit plantations and fishing villages along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shade of water coconut trees along natural canals. Have a short cycling tour, then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of "Southern Vietnamese folk music", performed by the locals. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantations and villages.
- Proceed to Can Tho, visit Binh Thuy historical village.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Can Tho
Day 5: Can Tho – Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh ( B/L/_ )
- After breakfast, take a leisurely boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong river (Bassac River), then proceed to visit Cai Răng floating market which are the liveliest in the whole religion. Have you ever tasted Vietnamese vermicelli soup? Well, now go and see how it is made. Then wander around the village and meet the friendly local people and experience how to cross a "Monkey bridge" which is built by only one stem of bamboo. Visit the orchard garden.
- Stop for lunch.
- Back to HCM city.
- Dinner on guest's account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Day 6: Ho Chi Minh – Da Lat( B/_/_ )
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 9.00am, pick up at your hotel and transfer to the bus station for going to Da Lat. Enjoy the beautiful landscapes along the road. Arrive to the bus station in Da Lat, pick up and transfer to your hotel.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest's account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Da Lat
Day 7: Da Lat city ( B/L/_ )
- Breakfast at the hotel. 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. Take a sightseeing the beautiful scenery of Tuyen Lam Lake by boat, visit the old Da Lat Railway Station, Hang Nga crazy house, the last stop is Central Market for shopping.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Da Lat
Day 8: Da Lat – Nha Trang ( B/_/_ )
- Breakfast at the hotel. Depart for Nha Trang via Bidoup national Park. Stop for photos at the Ngoan Muc pass and Canh Ranh bay, visit the Po Nagar Cham tower.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Nha Trang
Day 9: 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 and snorking.
- Return to Nha Trang.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Nha Trang.
Day 10: Nha Trang – Da Nang – Hoi An (B/_/_ )
- Breakfast at the hotel. Free until transfer to the airport for boarding the flight VN1942 to Da Nang (09.20 am – 10.20 am). Pick up and transfer to Hoi An ancient town.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hoi An.
Day 11: Hoi An city – My Son (B/L/_ )
- 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.
- Leave for visiting My Son Hollyland – the ruins of Cham people and was an imperial city during Cham dynasty. Here you have more chance to learn about of architecture of Cham people. You can see a large complex of religious relics that comprises more than 65 architectural works. In 1999, UNESCO labeled the Cham architecture in My Son as a World Cultural Heritage Site. Having chance to enjoy the traditional music performance of Cham girls.
- Back your hotel.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hoi An
Day 12: Hoi An – My Lai village - Hoi An ( B / L / _ )
- Breakfast at your hotel. Our guide and driver welcome you at your hotel in Hoi An and then leave Hoi An Ancient Town for Quang Ngai Province. Along the way, you can see Chu Lai Combat Base on Highway 1. Arriving Quang Ngai you will start to visit My Lai Museum for learning about the war in this area in the past. You will reach to My Lai Massacre where you spend an hour there to see the complex of Massacre with Monument. The House of Evidence where documents, photos, and objects which testify to the massacre such as shirts, a pair of sandal of a killed child, all kinds of cups and plates, cookers and pans holed by cartridge, and wooden bells used for reciting prayers. You will have a deep impression of the part in Vietnam War. Have lunch at local restaurant.
- Pm: You spend more time to walk around the village to learn more experience of local people here. After that, the driver and guide take you back Hoi An. Arrive Hoi An ancient town in the afternoon.
- End of tour in your hotel in Hoi An.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hoi An.
Day 13: Hoi An – Da Nang - Hue ( B / _/ _ )
- Breakfast at your hotel. Depart for Hue via Da Nang. On the way, visit the Marble mountain, the Cham museum and China Beach. Over Hai Van Pass – to enjoy the wonderful panorama from the top of the Pass.
- Lunch & dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hue.
Day 14: Hue city – Ha Noi ( B / L/ _ )
- Breakfast at your hotel. Cruise on the Perfume River to visit Thien Mu pagoda and the mausoleum of Emperor Khai Dinh and the mausoleum of Emperor Minh Mang in a setting of gardens and lakes. Visit the royal tomb of Emperor Tu Duc, the Imperial Citadel from where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945, and the ruins of the Purple Forbidden City.
- Visit Dong Ba market before transfer to the train station for the night to Ha Noi.
- Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.
Day 15: Ha Noi city arrival (B/L/_)
- Arrive to the train station. Pick up and transfer to your hotel. Check in on arrival and having rest until 11.00am leave Ha Noi for Bac Ninh. Visiting Dinh Bang pagoda and Dau Pagoda. Then BUT THAP pagoda, DONG KY – carpentry village. Here they made furniture inlaid with mother of pearl and finished off with layer of clear lacquer. In laying the mother of pearl is highly labour intensive, see how it is delicately sawed info fine fish-bone sliver and paints takingly set into wood.
- Return to Ha Noi.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi
Day 16: Ha Noi - Mai Chau (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at your hotel. At 8.00am, depart for Hoa Binh province and up then to Mai Chau valley. This scenic drive takes around four hours. One the way, visit Thay Pagoda and Tay Phuong Pagoda or Sung Phuc Pagoda. Continue your trip to Mai Chau. Along the way we pass fields of tapioca and sugar cane as well as rice paddies. Upon arriving in Mai Chau valley, we take a short walk around Lac & Poom Coong villages to have the first sights of the White Thai community culture. In the evening, assist to the traditional music and dance show which is performed by The Thai young girls and boys. They all come from this village. Try also some rice alcohol made of traditional plants and local sticky rice.
- Overnight at stilt-house.
Day 17: Mai Chau – Ha Noi (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at the Thai stilt house then we leave the village for half day hiking around. We will pass many different Thai hamlets, through rice fields, hill sides…Stop sometimes to visit local houses and talk with local people. Return to Ha Noi. On the way visit Tram Gian Pagoda.
- Enjoy water puppet show in the late afternoon.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 18: Ha Noi (B/_/_)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Full day at leisure.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi
Day 19: Hanoi – Halong (B/L/D)
- Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30am, pick up at your hotel. Depart to Halong, enjoy the peaceful scenery as we travel through the countryside, farmlands and Red River delta.
- 10H00: Stopover on the way for a refreshment break
- 12h00: Arrive at Tuan Chau wharf – Break and photography time
- 12h30: Board Glory Cruises for departure. Welcome drink will be served
- 13h00: Lunch is served while cruising through the bay
- 15h30: Visit exciting Cua Van fishing village. The village is free of busy roads and streets, electric lights, houses and high rise buildings. Instead, there are only herds of little boats and rafts. You will have the chance to discover the traditional culture and customs of the fishermen.
- 16h30: Enjoy kayaking or swimming (if the weather permits).
- 17h00: Back on board and continue cruising to Drum Cave (Hang Trong) to dock.
- 19h00: Dinner is served.
- 21h00: Take some leisure time to enjoy chatting at the bar or enjoy some night fishing.
- Relax and spend a romantic night on Glory Cruise
Day 20: Halong – Hanoi – Lao Cai (B/L/_)
- 07.00: Coffee and tea will be served
- 08.00: Continue cruising
- 08h15: Visit splendid Sung Sot Cave
- 09h00: Check out and enjoy a fantastic cruise on the bay, passing Dinh Huong Island, fishing villages, Ga Choi Island, Dog Island and Sail Island.
- 09.30: Buffet brunch (breakfast/lunch) while cruising back through Halong Bay to the pier
- 11h30: Arrive at the pier. Time to say goodbye to the crew.
- 12.00: Return from Halong to Hanoi.
- 14h00: Stop over in Dong Trieu town to visit a ceramics workshop.
- 16.00: Arrive in Hanoi. Leisure for shopping until transfer to the train station for departure to Sapa on the night train (21:00 - 05:00).
- Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.
Day 21 : Arrival Laocai - Cancau market - Bacha ( B/L/D )
- 05 : 00 am - Arrive to Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colorful costumes - different colors of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifestyle" and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. on the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town.
- Dinner at the local restaurant.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Bacha.
Day 22: Visit Bacha market - Sapa ( B/L/D ) - Sunday
- Breakfast at the hotel. Take a walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H'mong king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colorful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. on the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai.
- Reach Sapa late in the afternoon.
- Dinner at local restaurant.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 23: Sapa - Giang TaChai( B / L / D )
- Breakfast at the hotel. Head for the valley by jeep to visit two villages of the H'mong and the Dzay. Picnic lunch en route or with a local family. Visit the Red Dzao in GiangTaChai village, stopping off to see a picturesque waterfall and suspension bridge.
- Walk up to the road and take the jeep back to Sapa.
- Dinner at local restaurant.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 24: Sapa – Coc Ly market – Sapa – Lao Cai ( B/ L/ D ) Tuesday
- Breakfast at the hotel then leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai.
- Transfer to Lao Cai train station for boarding the Express train to Hanoi (19.30pm – 04.30am).
- Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.
Day 25: Return Ha Noi (B)
- Return to Ha Noi. Pick up and transfer to your hotel.
- Full day at leisure.
- Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi
Day 26: Ha Noi – Hoa Lu – Tam Coc caves (B/L/_)
- Breakfast at the hotel. Pick up at your hotel at 8.00am then leave Hanoi for Hoa Lu – Tam Coc, you have chances to view the landscapes along the roadsides. Arrive in Ninh Binh province at 10.30am, then we visit Hoa Lu, an ancient capital of Vietnam from 968 AD to 1010 AD during the Dinh and early Le Dynasties. In Hoa Lu ancient capital left behide two small temples of the Kings each one nearly a thousand years old
- Short break for lunch at a restaurant near Tam Coc. After lunch, we take sampans to visit Tam Coc, which is literally known “ Three Caves” First Cave is the longest one which is considered a real rainbow in the water in the morning time stretching on both sides of the Ngo Dong River. The quiet movements of the oars create a sort of musical rhythm inside the cave. As the boat leaves the cave, you can see what seems to be an old man with a white breard fishing, fairy flying in the clouds, peasants collecting fuel and a group of white goats grazing on the hills. Then we move to the Second Cave and the Third Cave.
- Return to Ha Noi.
- Dinner on guest’s account.
- Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.
Day 27: Ha Noi & departure (B)
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Full day at leisure until pick up and transfer to the airport.
- End of tour.
Tour price includes:
- A/c private transport for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program.
- Domestic flights : Nha Trang – Da Nang( Economy class )
- Bus ticket: Ho Chi Minh – Da Lat
- Train ticket: Hue – Ha Noi (4 pax/cabin)
- Train ticket: Ha Noi – Lao Cai – Ha Noi (4 pax/ cabin)
- Shuttle bus transfer Ha Noi – Ha Long – Ha Noi
- Shared cruise on Halong Bay
- Kayaking paddles
- English speaking tour guide
- Private boat trips in Mekong Delta, Da Lat, Nha Trang, Hue, Chay River
- Private sampan in Tam Coc caves
- All entrance fees, bicycles, water puppet show tickets, rickshaws
- Hotel accommodation based on two people 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
- Vietnam entry visa
- Travel insurance.
- Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program.
- Personal expenses
Thank you for visiting our Vietnam tour package 27 days. We are looking forward to serving you.