Day 1: Ho Chi Minh arrival (D)
Upon arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, our tour
guide will meet and transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day is free time
until the guide picks you up for the welcome dinner with traditional Vietnamese
dishes.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam
Golf and Country Club (B)
Breakfast is at the hotel. Travel to the Vietnam Golf and Country
Club for one round 18 holes of golf. In the afternoon, we return to Ho Chi Minh
City, take a short tour of the city, visiting the former Presidential Palace,
the Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Saigon Post Office and Thien Hau Pagoda in the
city's bustling China town.
Day 3: Mekong Delta (B/L)
Breakfast
is served at the hotel. Escaping from the high-rise hotels, shopping malls and
chic restaurants of Ho Chi Minh City,
we drive to My Tho with paddy fields, thick orchards and canals. Upon arriving,
we board a private boat start exploring the vast Mekong River.
We will pass by the floating market, Fish Quay along the water way to Turtle Island,
a beautiful island with many orchards. Here we can enjoy a variety of fresh
tropical fruits while listening to traditional South Vietnamese folk songs performed
by local artists. We then visit a coconut candy workshop before taking a short
horse cart ride to visit a Bee Farm where we try some honey tea, tastes local
confectionery. After that, we will have a short rowing sampan boat ride along
the water coconut shady canal to our main boat then go to Phoenix Island
that was the lonely bastion of Coconut Monk. Here we enjoy lunch of local
cuisines with delicious Elephant Ear fish, before go back to the harbor. Drive
back to Ho Chi Minh by late afternoon
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam Golf
and Country Club (B)
Breakfast is served at
the hotel. Then we transfer to Thu Duc for one more round 18 holes of golf at
Vietnam Golf and Country Club. The rest time of the day is free for relaxing at
the hotel or shopping.
Day 5: Ho Chi Minh - Phan Thiet (B)
Breakfast is served at
the hotel. Then transfer to Phan Thiet by bus. Check-in to the hotel and the
rest of the day is free for relaxing, enjoying at the hotel or on the beach.
Day 6: Phan Thiet (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Today you enjoy a round 18 holes of
golf at Ocean Dunes Golf Club. In the afternoon, take a half-day city tour of
Phan Thiet, visiting the wonderful Sand Dunes and Cham Tower.
Day 7: Phan Thiet (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Play one more round of golf at Ocean
Dunes Golf Club. The rest time of the day is free for you to relax and enjoy
the beach by swimming, massage, sea bathing or playing tennis.
Day 8: Phan Thiet - Dalat (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Travel to Dalat by coach. You are
taking a scenic morning's drive from the coastal plain and the beach city of Phan Thiet to the cooler climates of Dalat a former French
hill station and the most famous highland in Vietnam for its attraction and
romance. Dalat is the city of Spring,
each day in Dalat includes all the four seasons, splendid spring in the
morning, bright summer at noon , cloudy autumn in the afternoon and cool winter
at night. With its ideal climate and poetic landscapes, Dalat is the place for
relaxation.
Day
9: Dalat (B)
Breakfast is served at
the hotel. Then, play one round 18 holes of golf at Dalat Palace Golf Club. In
the afternoon, you can either relax and enjoy yourselves at the hotel or take
half-day tour of Dalat to enjoy the peaceful and romantic Dalat by a visit
Tuyen Lam Lake and Truc Lam Pagoda by one-way cable car and have a stop at XQ
Cultural Villages famous for hand-embroidered painting with an introduction to
the 3 different culture and tradition of South. On the way back to the hotel, you
can ride the stage-coach on the 5km road around Xuan Huong Lake to view it from different angles,
enjoy the fresh air and blue sky.
Day 10: Dalat (B)
Breakfast is served at
the hotel. All day is free for you to discover Dalat or take part in the cooking
class with either French or Vietnamese food menu at the hotel.
Day 11: Dalat - Nha Trang (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Transfer to Nha Trang, the city of sun and fun by bus. On arrival Nha Trang city, check-in to the hotel. The rest of the day is free to enjoy the beach.
Day 12: Nha Trang (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Take a half-day tour of Nha Trang city, visiting Oceanographic Institute where you can see a collection of so many kinds of sea animals, Long Son Pagoda with a great Buddhist statue on the top of a mountain from which you can see the whole view of Nha Trang city, Cham Tower which was built from the year of 813 to 817. This tower is the typical work for the construction of Cham ethnics. Before ending the tour, stop at Dam Central Market.
Day 13: Nha Trang - Hanoi (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Then enjoy the last minutes in Nha Trang before transferring to Cam Ranh airport in the afternoon to take the flight to Hanoi, a unique city with tree-lined boulevards, French colonial architecture, peaceful lakes and oriental temples.
Day 14: Hanoi (B)
Today, we will visit Hanoi with Ho Chi Minh Complex that includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the Presidential Palace, House-on-Stilts, One Pillar pagoda. After that we will visit the Temple of Literature - a temple to Confucius, this is also known as Vietnam’s first University dating back to 1070. After having lunch at a nice restaurant, we continue our trip to visit Museum of Ethnology that is widely acknowledged as the best museum in the country and has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam’s 54 Ethnic minority peoples. As well as the comprehensive array of exhibits inside, there are also traditional tribal houses reconstructed within the ground. Then, we go back to the center of Hanoi to visit Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake. Enjoy one hour Cyclo Tour through the Old Quarter of Ha Noi that also known as the 36 streets and guilds, this bustling area of narrow streets is home to literally thousands of small businesses and shopkeepers. Originally each of the street’s names was related to the products being sold there. It’s a great place to explore on foot with numerous photo opportunities. At the end of the day, you can enjoy the famous traditional water puppetry show in Thang Long Theatre where you will have a chance to experience an overview of daily life in Vietnam's rural areas in dramatic form. Back to the hotel.
Day 15: Hanoi - King's Island Golf Resort (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. Enjoy a round of golf in one of the finest golf resort - King's Island Golf Resort in the morning and later come back to Hanoi.
Day 16: Hanoi - Ha Long (B/L/D)
After breakfast, check out and drive to Ha Long bay otherwise known as the most spectacular scenery area of Indochina area. Arrives at Ha Long bay after 3 and a half hour, we embark on a private Junk for an exploration of the legendary Ha Long Bay. An aboard seafood lunch will be served while we enjoy the cruise through the amazing bay. This exciting two days cruise will provide us a fantastic view of the picturesque scenery blending with the sky and some 3,000 limestone islands and islets rising amazingly from the clear and emerald water. The limestone karsts formations are littered with beaches, grottoes and beautiful caves. In summer, along the way we will anchor for a leisurely swim in a secluded cove and an enjoyable visit to one of the best hidden grottoes beneath towering cliffs. Watching sunset on the Bay and late afternoon we come back to the harbour to check in the down town hotel.
Day 17: Ha Long - Hanoi (B/L)
In the morning, we wake up with the sound of the ocean, enjoy sunrise. After breakfast, we have chance to see the tunnel cave by our kayak or bamboo Sampan. We visit Bai Tu Long bay, Con Coc Island, Turtle Island, Ha Long fishing village, we also have chance to view Bai Tho mountain and the famous suspension bridge, Bai Chay. After lunch on boat we will disembark at the Wharf and transfer to Hanoi.
Day 18: Departure (B)
Breakfast is served at the hotel. The rest of the time is free until transfer to Noi Bai airport (Hanoi) for your onward flight.