Vietnam & Cambodia 10D9N (10 days 9 nights)

ITINERARY BRIEF

* Day 1: HANOI ARRIVAL (D)

* Day 2: HANOI - HALONG BAY (B, L, D)

* Day 3: HALONG BAY - HANOI - PUPPET SHOW (B, L, D)

* Day 4: HANOI CITY TOUR - FLY TO HO CHI MINH (B, L, D)

* Day 5: HO CHI MINH TOUR - CUCHI TUNNELS (B, L, D)

* Day 6: HO CHI MINH - MEKONG DELTA (B, L, D)

* Day 7: HO CHI MINH - FLY TO SIEM REAP (B, L, D)

* Day 8: SIEM REAP ANGKOR TOUR FULL DAY (B, L, D)

* Day 9: SIEM REAP CITY TOUR (B, L, D)

* Day 10: SIEM REAP – DEPARTURE (B)

ITINERARY IN DETAIL

DAY 1: ARRIVE HANOI (D)

Upon arrival at Noi Bai Airport, you will be warmly welcomed and transferred to Hanoi central by private tour guide with signboard.

Then check in hotel & relax (the room may not be available until 14:00 PM).

The rest time (if have), you will be free at leisure or explore Hanoi old streets by your ways.

Have dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

Meals: Dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 2: HANOI - HALONG BAY (B, L, D)

Have breakfast at hotel.

This morning we transfer to Halong Bay. Check-in at waiting lounge on the cruise.

Board with welcome drink and welcome briefing from Cruise Manager

Enjoy a seafood set menu lunch while cruising through Ha Long Bay

Start to discover the floating fishing village while sitting on rowing boats with local people.

Enjoy kayaking, swimming.

Bar opens for Happy Hour (buy 2 get 1 for free) while cruising to area where the boat with anchor overnight.

Cooking demonstration with traditional Vietnamese food on the sundeck.

Dinner will be served with Authentic Vietnamese Cuisines

Free time to joining movies in the restaurant, board’s game or squid fishing

Overnight on Cruise in Halong Bay

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 3: HALONG BAY - HANOI – PUPPET SHOW (B, L, D)

Rise early for morning tai chi on the sundeck

Light breakfast will be served in restaurant

Explore the Sung Sot Cave – one of the biggest cave and most impressive of Ha long Bay

Back to the boat for check out, put your luggage out to corridor and settle your bill at restaurant

Flower carving demonstration on Sun Deck

Brunch will be served in restaurant while the boat is cruising back to harbor

Drive back Hanoi. Upon arrival Hanoi, you will enjoy culture show impressive of Vietnam namely “Water Puppet Show”.

Have dinner at local restaurant.

Free for shopping at old street or night market in Hanoi by your ways (On Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Note: Program may differ slightly base on cruise ships. We will update exactly itinerary of cruise when tour is confirmed & cruise is selected.

Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 4: HANOI CITY TOUR HALF DAY – FLY TO HO CHI MINH (B, L, D)

Have breakfast at hotel.

This morning, we will have half day for Hanoi tour by visiting Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Museum. Enjoy the architectural and historical aspects of Uncle Ho’s final resting-place. Just next door is Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts. Lying to one side of the Mausoleum is the One Pillar Pagoda founded by King Ly Thai To in 1049 the structure has become an important symbol for the people of Hanoi. Continue to visit Thang Long citadel, Temple of Literature (Vietnam’s first university constructed in 1070. It is gardens and well-preserved architecture offers a relaxing glimpse into Vietnam’s past).

Note: On Monday and Friday morning, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

Have lunch at local restaurant.

After lunch, free shopping until time to drive to Noi Bai airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh City.

Upon arrival Tan Son Nhat airport, you will be warmly welcomed and transferred to city central by tour guide with signboard.

Have dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 5: HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR - CUCHI TUNNEL (B, L, D)

Have breakfast at hotel.

Pick you up at hotel, visit The Reunification Palace, War Remants Museum, The Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Central Post Office, Jade Emperor Pagoda.

Have lunch in the restaurant.

Then head to Cu Chi tunnels. Arriving tunnels, a short introductory video showing how the tunnels were constructed will be given. We then spend time exploring the maze of tunnels including innumerable trap doors, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers and kitchens.

Have dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight at hotel in Hochiminh

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 6: MEKONG DELTA TOUR (B, L, D)

Mekong Delta is also known as Vietnam's 'rice basket’-- a fertile area spreading nearly 50,000 sq km. Here the mighty Mekong River ends by splitting itself into nine major tributaries. The Vietnamese name these nine tributaries “Nine Dragons.” Here’s our schedule that is designed to help you experience local daily activities along the Mekong.

08:00 - 08:15AM, Pick up at your hotel, travel by shuttle bus to My Tho – 9:30 AM, and board a wooden motor boat to Unicorn Island. On this boat along the river’s bank, you’ll be passing through natural creeks and quiet villages and watch rural people going to work. You will see an interesting fishermen's port, stilt houses. One of the boat’s stops during this trip is at a large orchard that has many different types of tasty tropical fruits for your enjoyments. Another boat stop is for the Turtle Island 1 hr from the previous one. Here, on a small row boat, you’ll see interesting transportation modes that local people use to move around. From there, we’ll take you to a bee farm where you have a chance to taste a tasteful cup of authentic honey tea while checking out the folk music that is typical to only the people in Southern Vietnam.

After that we’ll take you to a village where you can smell the flavor of coconut candies being made many yards away. This is a great chance to witness how village people make candy and handcrafted items from coconuts. You might learn that those people can amazingly make dozens of useful products out of coconut trees.

Transfer back to Ho Chi Minh City.

Have dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight in Hochiminh city

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 7: HO CHI MINH - DEPARTURE (B, L, D)

Have breakfast at hotel.

Depend on your flight time, you will have free time until tour guide pick up for lunch, then transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for your departure flight to Siem Reap (Cambodia).

Upon arrival in Siem Reap international airport our guide and driver will provide transport to hotel for check in the rest of time free and relax on your own activities,

Dinner at local restaurant

Overnight hotel in Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY8: ANGKOR TOUR FULL DAY (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel, then start your tours by visit to the World Heritage Site; visit the South Gate of Angkor Thom which is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. Continue visit Ta Prohm. Ta Prohm is one of the area’s most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been left relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them.

Lunch at local restaurant

Afternoon continue to seeing the architectural masterpiece of Angkor Wat. We stroll around this massive monument, exploring the many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple.

Dinner at local restaurant

Overnight hotel in Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 9: SIEM REAP CITY TOUR (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel, then visit Preah Ang Check - Preah Ang Chom shrines, the secret place where local people go praying for good luck or safe journey. Then excursion to Chong Kneas Floating Village, take a ride by traditional wooden boat on Tonle Sap Lake to experience the fishermen life. In the wet season, the Tonle Sap Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Asia.  On the way we will make a stop at Artisans D’ Angkor and see their stone and wood carving workshops where the artisans are taught to use traditional Khmer techniques and continue visiting the Old Market where you can see the fresh local produce being sold as well as browse the souvenir stalls.

Lunch at local rrestaurant

Afternoon, drive to Pouk district about 15 Km in the West of Siem Reap town, you visit the silk farm, a fascinating farm/workshop where you can see the entire silk creation process including growing the food for the silk worms, breeding the worms, silk extraction and refinement, traditional kit dying pattern creation and looming. Retail silk and souvenir shop. On the way back, visit the Western Baray (Baray Occidental) measuring 8 km by 2.3 km which provided water for the intensive cultivation of lands around Angkor.

Dinner at local restaurant

Overnight hotel in Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer

DAY 10: SIEM REAP – DEPARTURE (B)

Breakfast at hotel, free time at own leisure until our guide & driver pick you up to Siem Reap Airport for departure flight.

Meals: Breakfast

Included: Private tour guide, private transfer