Day 1. Hanoi - Arrival – Sightseeing day tour (L/D)
Upon arrival at Noi Bai Airport, meet our tour guide and we transfer to the city center. If your room is disable, we can leave luggage at your hotel lobby and start our sightseeing tour.
Firstly, we go to visit the outside of the Presidential Palace and Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum visit One Pillar Pagoda.
Lunch is served at a local restaurant.
Secondly, we transfer to West lake to visit Tran Quoc pagoda where locals come to pray for peace, happiness and success…
After tour, we enjoy a 35 minute - cyclo tour through Old Quarter and can stop at Dong Xuan market (one of the largest wholesale markets in the city) for shopping.
Dinner is served at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 2. Hanoi – Mua Cave – Trang An day tour (B/L/D)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
8.00AM: Guide and bus pick you up from hotel and start driving to Ninh Binh, on the way, you experience the peaceful scenery along the Highway 1A, stop for a short break to stretch your legs.
We arrive Ninh Binh and drive to Mua Cave with stunning rice fields with buffalos, goats…along the road till approaching Mua Cave. You walk up to the top of the mountain where Mua cave is located.
You have lunch with Vietnamese Cuisines in our restaurant, spend your own time at the bungalow such as swimming, relaxing until you get on the bus to Trang An.
In the afternoon, You arrive Trang An Wharf – the most exciting boating trip with sampan boats through caves and visit stunning river surrounded by Limestone Karsts with rich fauna and flora.
After visting Trang An you get on bus back to Ha Noi.
~19:00: you are in Hanoi, we drop you off at your hotel.
The rest of day you are free at leisure. Dinner is served at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 3. Hanoi - Halong – Lan Ha Bay – Overnight on cruise (B/L/D)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
Sample itinerary for V’spirit cruise
08:30AM: you will be picked up and transfer to Halong.
~ 11:45 – 12:00 Welcome to V’Spirit Cruises lounge at Tuan Chau International Harbor and complete check-in procedures.
12:00 Transfer to V’Spirit Cruises by a tender boat.
12:30 Embark V’Spirit Cruises, and enjoy a welcome drink while listening to cruise briefing and safety introductions.
13:00 Have lunch at The Dawn Restaurant while cruising from Ha Long Bay to Lan Ha Bay.
Explore the Tra Bau area by kayaking, get closer to the rocky islands and admire the stunning nature of the bay. You have chance to kayak pass by a hidden temple of the fishing villagers if weather 14: 45permits.
16:15 It’s time for swimming and water activities, immersed in the green water of the Bay with floats.
17:00 Join a cooking demonstration to get to know Vietnamese cuisine and create your own special flavors
17:30 – 18:30 Enjoy a Sunset party with some complimentary while waiting for twilight over limestone islands. Take the chance of HAPPY HOUR to have your favorite drinks
19:00 Dinner at the restaurant. Fine dining setting with degustation expedience will create your memorable moments.
21:00 Enjoy evening views of the bay on the top deck, join some game show at the top deck bar to get some nice local gifts. Optional: Try your luck with squid fishing.
** HAPPY HOUR: 17:30 - 18:30.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight on cruise
Day 4. Halong – Hanoi – Aeon Mall Long Bien for shopping (B/L)
6:30 – 7:00: Start your day with a Taichi session on the sundeck or at the Piano Lounge (depends on weather conditions).
7:00 – 7:30: Enjoy light breakfast with coffee, tea, and freshly baked pastries at the Piano Lounge.
7:30 – 8:20: Explore Sung Sot Cave – the largest and most magnificent cave in the bay featuring marvelous and mysterious thousand-year-old stalactites in a variety of unique forms.
8:30 – 9:30: Full breakfast is served at the restaurant.
9:30 – 9:45: Bill settlement and check-out at the reception at the first deck.
10:15 – 10:30: Disembark at the Halong International Cruise Port and we get on bus transfer to Hanoi city.
You will be dropped off at Aeon Mall Long Bien where your group can go shopping and have dinner on your own (~1-2 hours).
After that, we transfer back to your hotel for relax.
Dinner is on your own. Overnight in Hanoi city.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch or Brunch on cruise
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 5. Hanoi – Fight to Phnom Penh – Free time (B/D)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
Today you are free at leisure until being picked up and transferred to airport for your flight to Phnom Penh.
Upon arrival in Phnom Penh, meet our tour guide and we transfer to your hotel for check in and relax. Dinner is served at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Phnom Penh
Day 6. Phnom Penh – Sightseeing day tour (B/L/D)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
After breakfast, we visit Wat Phnom Temple is one of the most important pagodas in Phnom Penh. Built in 1373 on an artificial hill by the wealthy widow Daun Chi Penh by Cyclo ride. You will be also taken along through the old colonial streets of Phnom Penh and get a glimpse of urban life in Southeast Asia.
Lunch is served at a local restaurant.
Afternoon, visit National Museum, over 5000 objects are on display including Angkorian era statu, lingas and other artifacts. Visit Royal Palace is a royal residence now where His Majesty, the King of Cambodia, and the royal families live. it is like a small town of royal dynasties. Continue to Silver Pagoda, serves less as a functioning temple than a repository for cultural treasures such as 90 kg golden Buddha encrusted with 2086 diamonds.
Then Visit Russian Market (Toul Tumpong Market), the Market has gained reputation for cheap clothing, a large selection of Buddha images and woodcarvings, betel-nut boxes, silk, silver jewelry, and classic music instrument.
Dinner is served at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Phnom Penh
Day 7. Phnom Penh - Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (B/L/D)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
After breakfast, we drive out from the city toward Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center located 45km south of Phnom Penh, Phnom Tamao Wildlife Res¬cue Center is a government-run wildlife facility where, with the technical assistance of Wildlife Alliance, nearly 1,200 victims of the illegal wildlife trade are cared for and rehabilitated, including endangered species like Asian elephants, tigers, sun bears, and clouded leopards among many others. We will be met by Wildlife Rescue and Care Programs Director Nick Marx who, along with other WA animal staff will give us a tour of what is now considered to be the best-run wildlife rescue center in Southeast Asia, and have the opportunity to meet Chhouk, our elephant with a prosthetic leg, and the other animals we care for there.
Lunch at local restaurant.
After lunch, we continue road to Tonle Bati and visit Ta Prohm temple (12-13 centuries) and Yeay Peau temple (12th century). Visit the Prasat Neang Khmao, the temple of the Black Virgin (10th century). Late afternoon, return back to Phnom Penh and transfer back to your hotel for rest and overnight.
Dinner is served at a local restaurant.
Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Phnom Penh
Day 8. Phnom Penh - Departure (B)
Breakfast is served at your hotel.
Today you are free at leisure until time to transfer to the international airport for a departure flight without a local expert guide. End of services!
Meals Included: Breakfast
Accommodation: Check out time is before 12.00PM
Tour Inclusion:
- Transportation with A/C as program
- Accommodation with daily breakfast as program
- 01 night on sharing cruise trip in Halong - Lan Ha Bay
- Local English speaking guide as program
- Meals as stated in the itinerary
- All sightseeing tickets as program
- Tissues and water on coach
- Boat trip as per tour (if any)
Tour Exclusion:
- Personal expenses, tips and gratuities (suggest 3- 7 USD/pax/day for tour guide and driver)
- Domestic & international flight tickets
- Travel insurance, personal insurance
- Beverage
- Vietnam visa stamp fee (25 USD/pax/entry; if any)
- Cambodia Visa fee (35USD/pax/entry; if any)
- Other services not mentioned above
- International flights & departure taxes (if any)
- Peak season or public holidays surcharge (if any)
