Tour Includes:
13 Nights Accommodation
Meals as per itinerary
Transportation in air-conditioned vehicles
Local English speaking guide
Entrance fees
ITINERARY AT A GLANCE
Day 1: Arrival in Hanoi
Day 2: Hanoi original city tour
Day 3: Hanoi – Mai Hich
Day 4: Mai Hich – Pu Luong nature reserve
Day 5: Pu Luong – Ninh Binh
Day 6: Ninh Binh – Halong
Day 7: Halong – Hanoi – Hue
Day 8: Hue and the unsuspected beach
Day 9: Hue – Bach Ma national park – Hoi An
Day 10: Hoi An, half day adventure
Day 11: Hoi An free
Day 12: Hoi An – Saigon – Mekong delta
Day 13: Mekong delta – Saigon
Day 14: Saigon half-day city tour on vintage scooter
Day 1: Arrival in Hanoi – You are welcomed in Hanoi and driven to your hotel in the city. Drop off your luggage and freshen up a bit and follow the guide (optional) on a short orientation walk around the old quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake. Rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight at local Hotel
Day 2: Hanoi original city tour (B/L) – The guide meets you at 9am in your hotel’s lobby. We transfer to the Temple of Literature, a little architectural gem, first university of Vietnam and temple devoted to Confucius. We then walk north to reach the Ho Chi Minh complex and visit the gardens of the Presidential palace, the one-pillar pagoda and the house on stilts where Ho Chi Minh lives his the last days of his life. Done for the classics, now let’s see Hanoi more like locals do. We then hop on a small electric cart to ride around the largest lake of the city. We exit the labyrinth and end up the afternoon with a slice of pure real Hanoian daily life: a cool beer and some fresh peanuts at a popular bia hoi. We drive back to the hotel, end of the day at leisure.
Day 3: Hanoi – Mai Chau – Mai Hich (B/L/D) – The guide meets you in the lobby at 7am for departure. We head west to the valley of Mai Chau. It takes about 4 hours including a refreshments and legs stretching break on the way. Mai Chau is a circus surrounded by high limestone mountains and filled with rice fields. From the top of the last pass we drive up, we will stop and you can see the whole valley dotted with hamlets of wooden houses on stilts. We let the touristy spots of Mai Chau behind and travel a bit farther in a remote sub-valley. Arrival at our Lodge, drop the luggage and then cycle about 3km to a small village nearby, where we have lunch at a traditional guesthouse. In the afternoon. Dinner at the lodge.