5 Days 4 Nights Vietnam Classic Tours

Day 1: HANOI – HALF DAY CITY TOUR

Upon arrival at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport you will be welcomed by our guide holding a sign with your name on it. After approximately 50 minutes to 1-hour transfer, you will be at your hotel for check-in.

The half-day city tour begins with a visit to the Ho Chi Minh Complex and Ba Dinh Square, an important point of pilgrimage for many Vietnamese. The area surrounding the complex is a traffic-free zone filled with botanical gardens, monuments, memorials and pagodas, and includes the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (outside), Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh Museum. Travel back in time to the nearby simple cottage on stilts where Ho Chi Minh lived and worked during his humble beginnings as a revolutionary. Walk a few blocks out of the Ho Chi Minch Complex to the 11th century Buddhist One Pillar Pagoda, an elegant construction rising from the center of a square shaped lotus pond on a solitary pillar. Continue to the Temple of Literature, known as the first university of Vietnam built in 1070 by the Ly Dynasty to honor Confucius, sages and outstanding Vietnamese scholars. Following the complex’s visit, head for a walk around at the Old Quarter, famous for its ancient streets representing traditional trades from the past.

Meals: No Meal
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

Day 2: HANOI – HA LONG OVERNIGHT ON BOAT (B/L/D)

Following breakfast leave Hanoi for a 2.5-hour drive to Ha Long Bay including a 20-minutes stop on the way. Arrive at the jetty in Ha Long City towards noon and proceed with check-in formalities. Be welcomed onboard and have lunch will be served while cruising towards the bay itself. In the afternoon, enjoy some visits and/or activities (depending on each boat’s itinerary) or just spend some time relaxing on board. Towards the end of the day the boat sets anchor for the night among the karst formations. Dinner is served on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch (Local Food), Dinner (Local Food)
Overnight on Ha Long cruise

Day 3: HA LONG – HANOI – HO CHI MINH CITY (B/BR)

Enjoy the fresh morning in the middle of the bay, the sun rises on Ha Long in the morning and breakfast is served (brunch on some boats) while the vessels cruise slowly through the magnificent rock formations and back towards port. Disembark and transfer back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi late in the afternoon.

You are free at leisure before being transferred by our guide & driver to Noi Bai International Airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Arrive at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, welcome by our guide and transfer to your hotel for check-in.

Meals: Breakfast, Brunch (Local Food)
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Day 4: HO CHI MINH FULL DAY CITY TOUR & CU CHI TUNNELS (B)

Morning, take a half-day tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels, 75 km Northwest of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, which were once a major underground hideout and resista nce base of Viet Cong forces during the two wars against the French and later on Americans. The tunnels, entirely hand-dug, formed a highly intricate network of interlinked multilevel passageways at times stretched as far as the Cambodian border and totaling over 120 km in length. Its complexity was beyond imagination containing meeting rooms, kitchens, wells, clinics, schools, depots, trenches and emergency exits all aimed for guerrilla warfare. The tunnels were deep and strong enough to withstand destructive bombings and self-contained enough to outlast prolonged sieges.

Afternoon, continue the tour to visit Reunification Palace, the home and the workplace of the President of the South Vietnam; Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, a neo-Roman cathedral built over 130 years ago by the colonial French with materials entirely imported from Marseilles. Call in Saigon Central Post Office, a fine colonial building which was designed and built in the early 20th Century by the famous French architect Gustave Eiffel. Move on to Cho Lon or the city’s China Town where you will visit the Jade Emperor Temple (Phuoc Hai), a rare Taoist structure in Vietnam built in 1909 in dedication to the Lord of Heaven.

Meal: Breakfast
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Day 5: HO CHI MINH CITY DEPARTURE(B)

Our tour guide will meet and pick you up at your hotel to transfer to Tan Son Nhat International Airport on air-conditioned vehicle.

Meals: Breakfast. End of our Service!

SERVICE INCLUDED

• Accommodation in a double or twin room with daily breakfast (01pax staying in Single Room)
• One-night cruise on a wooden junk in Ha Long Bay (if have)

ü  Boat trip in Ha Long bay (4 hours)

–   For Group 1- 9 pax: Sharing boat and Lunch at local restaurant 

–   For Group 10 pax up: Private boat and lunch on cruise

• Lunch or dinner as specified in the itinerary (B=Breakfast/ L=Lunch/ D=Dinner)
• Services of a driver and private air-conditioned vehicle during all tours and transfers.
• Experienced English-speaking guide during all tours and transfers
• Private boat for sightseeing as mentioned in the program,
• Entrance fees for all visits as mentioned in the itinerary
• Mineral water is available as complementary

OUR SERVICE EXCLUDED

• International & Domestic flight tickets
• Visa stamping fee at the airport (25US$ in Vietnam for single entry, 30US$ in Cambodia for single entry paid by cash at the airport)
• Vietnam visa approval letter on arrival USD5$ per pax
• Meals, if not specified in the itinerary
• Tipping for guides, drivers, hotel staff, restaurant staff, boat rider, etc.
• Travel insurance (we highly recommend that you purchase adequate insurance). We strongly recommend the purchase of a travel insurance (covering emergency medical evacuation) for trips to South East Asia.

REMARKS

•   Kindly note that we not include any meal except breakfast at hotel. If you want to add on, please see below for supplement