12 Days Vietnam Unveiled

The whole day today will be free for relaxing at the hotel, strolling or shopping in the town or whatever takes your fancy.

When the sun goes down, we start the local food discovery by motorbike in the evening.

At 17:30, your English-speaking guide will pick you up at your hotel. You’ll review the itinerary and dining options before heading to a local restaurant for dinner. Enjoy specialties like beef noodle soup, sugarcane juice, and grilled beef in betel leaves, followed by a visit to Nguyen Thien Thuat Street for diverse street food experiences. Explore the vibrant night scene, visit the district’s flower market, sample Vietnamese pancakes, and browse Nguyen Trai Street for shopping. Marvel at the nighttime view from Nguyen Van Cu Bridge before immersing yourself in district 4’s unique lifestyle and traditions. Conclude the evening with a BBQ seafood party in district 4, filled with seafood delights and local dishes. Finally, your guide will escort you back to your accommodation.

Please note:
– Please inform your local guide about any food allergies you may have.
– It is recommended that you leave your handbags, passports and jewelry at your hotel for safekeeping.
– A camera is always encouraged. Please take extra care of your camera to avoid theft.
– We recommend that you should wear something comfortable and cool. Shorts, T-shirts and light pants are also suitable.

• Overnight: in Ho Chi Minh City.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Street-food Dinner.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.
• Transfer: Motorbike and driver with high quality open-faced helmet.
• Tour Guide: Shared English-Speaking Tour Guide.

These days are your day to relax and enjoy Ho Chi Minh City at your own pace. Here are some simple suggestions for how you can make the most of your free time:

– Enjoy the Food: Ho Chi Minh City has delicious street food. Try different local dishes like pho, banh mi, and fresh spring rolls. You can go on a food tour to taste a variety of flavors.

– Visit the Ben Thanh Market: Go to the Ben Thanh Market, where you can find a variety of items like clothes, crafts, spices, and souvenirs. Walk around and see what catches your eye.

– Take a Relaxing Walk: Enjoy a peaceful stroll along Nguyen Hue Walking Street or by the Saigon River. Admire the buildings and watch the people going about their day. You can also find a cozy café to sit and relax.

• Overnight: in Ho Chi Minh City.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Street-food Dinner.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

Optional Tours

Mekong Delta One Day Tour
SIC Price: AUD $80 per person.

Cu Chi Tunnels Half Day Tour
SIC Price: AUD $60 per person.

This morning you will be free to relax at the hotel, strolling or shopping in the old quarter or whatever takes your fancy.

In the afternoon, you will be picked up and driven to Ho Chi Minh City’s International Airport for a short flight to Da Nang – The City of Bridges, located in Central Vietnam.

Upon arrival at Da Nang International Airport, you will be picked up by your new private driver and tour guide and taken to your hotel in Hoi An – The Ancient City of Colorful Lanterns.

• Overnight: in Hoi An.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

This trip will take you to join a cooking class and share your great experience of going to the local market to buy fresh ingredients and cook Vietnamese traditional dishes. Besides, you will feel peaceful when visiting the beautiful vegetable gardens, having an opportunity to ride a bike or take a boat trip to discover and experience rural life.

Leave your hotel around 09:00 AM in the morning, you will conquer the street along the Thu Bon River and visit Hoi An colorful market to choose ingredients and make dishes with them. Finish buying ingredients at the market, embark on a small boat to ride along the Thu Bon River (or cycle 15 minutes) for about 25 minutes to catch the cooking school on the other side of the river.

Today’s activities end at around 13.00 and depart to your hotel. The rest of the day is your leisure time.

Please note:
– Surcharge for a private class is AUD $40 per person (this rate is applied for a group of 2 people above).

• Overnight: in Hoi An.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Lunch at Cooking Class.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

There are no activities for today. You can relax at the hotel, stroll or shop in the town or whatever takes your fancy.

Then, check out of your hotel at the hotel’s check out time and we will depart Da Nang City and head to Hanoi’s International Airport for a short flight to Hanoi City – Capital of thousand years of civilization, Vietnam.

Upon arrival, you will be met by a new private driver and tour guide, who will drive you to the hotel in the city centre for check in.

Then we start our walk through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our taste buds with the famed Hanoi dish with Pho for dinner, a Vietnamese Noodle shop. Some of the local people call this world-famous Noodle soup “Mac-Noodles” since it is as popular here as MacDonalds is in other parts of the world! At the restaurant, your tour guide will explain the routine during Vietnamese mealtimes and tell you which special ingredients are needed for you. You can choose beef noodles or chicken noodles.

Some local restaurants with the traditional flavour and taste which is recommended by Michelin guide, you can choose one of them:

• Phở Gà Nguyệt (Chicken noodle)
• Phở Bò Lý Quốc Sư (Beef noodle)

• Overnight: in Hanoi.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Street-food Dinner.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and around 08.00 AM, our joining bus (without tour guide) will pick you up to go to Ha Long.

Enjoy the landscape of the countryside and a short break on the way. Embark on the cruise followed by a short cruise briefing. Savour a delectable lunch as you cruise among the limestone islands. Take a small sampan among the hidden bays around the Luon Cave. Cruise to Ti Top Island, go swimming or relaxing at the beach or climb up to the top of the island for a panorama view of Halong Bay. Enjoy the sunset with dinner. After dinner, fish for squid or just laze around.

Please note:
– Depending on cruising conditions, itineraries may change without prior notice.
– Wi-Fi is available at the restaurant/Piano Lounge areas, however, Internet connectivity may be intermittently interrupted due to the geographical condition of the bay.
– Detail program of each cruise is different, it will be confirmed later by each booking.

• Overnight: in Halong Bay.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Lunch, Dinner.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

Start your day with Tai Chi class and breakfast at sunrise. Explore the amazing Sung Sot Cave – the nicest cave in Halong Bay. Continue your cruise exploring Ba Hang fishing village, Dog Islet and more. While heading back to the harbour, watch the cooking demonstration before enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch.

Check out the cruise, then our joining bus (without tour guide) will pick up & transfer you back to Hanoi. Spend the remainder of the day at your leisure.

• Overnight: in Hanoi.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Brunch.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

Transfer for a two-hour drive to Ninh Binh, a fascinating place where apart from inspiring scenery “towering limes time mountains and the lush rice fields” you have access to the most rural and authentic side of Vietnam. Ninh Binh boasts of the most majestic and impressive natural landscapes in Southeast Asia, yet so many travelers overlook it.

08.00 AM, we will pick you up at your hotel in a private car, before spending two hours on the road to Ninh Binh, where the Tam Coc – Bich Dong is also known by other names as “Nam Thien De Nhi Dong” (The second beautiful cave in Vietnam) day tour will begin.

Arrive at Mua Cave, the most beautiful place to view in Ninh Binh, where you can see the city far from standing in front of Tam Coc in the back and the limestone mountain along to the south of Vietnam.

Stop in Ninh Binh Province is Hoa Lu, the ancient Vietnamese capital of 44 years during the reigns of two separate kings. These kings now have two temples dedicated to their triumphs: King Dinh Temple and King Le Temple, sites of unique, ancient architecture and focal points of the annual Hoa Lu Festival.

As we continue onto Tam Coc at midday, we will have lunch in a local restaurant featuring local delicacies of Ninh Binh like eel and goat. We board a sampan boat on the Ngo Dong River and a villager will row us down Tam Coc’s serene waters on a two-hour boat trip, taking in views of what is affectionately called the ‘inland Halong Bay’.

Bich Dong Pagoda will be our next stop, and we will climb its ancient stone staircase, passing the natural cave that houses a couple of shrines and emerging outside to a wonderful view of Tam Coc.

• Overnight: in Ninh Binh.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Lunch.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

One of the best ways to experience nature and local life in Vietnam. Experience the real life of a local farmer in Vietnam via rice planting, buffalo riding, fishing… Enjoy the breath-taking landscape of rural northern Vietnam as well as a deep knowledge about Vietnam history.

Highlights:
– Get a close-up look at the life of local farmers via their daily activities.
– Practice traditional rice farming.
– Experience buffalo riding with locals.
– Fishing with unique “nơm”.
– Buffalo cave exploring.
– Waterfall bathing at buffalo cave
– Cooking class with traditional Vietnamese cuisine.

After breakfast at the hotel, the driver will pick you up at your hotel to take you to have an experience for the real life of a local farmer in Vietnam via rice planting, buffalo riding, fishing …

09.00 – 9.30 AM Feeding buffalo, showering for buffalo and riding buffalo.
09.30 – 10.00 AM Catching fish with local people.
10.00 – 10.30 AM Planting Vietnamese rice with local people.
10.30 – 11.00 AM Waterfall bathing and visit the Buffalo Cave.
11.00 AM – 13.00 Cooking class and enjoying the meal with the local family.
13.30 – 14.00 Relaxing at the point before moving to visit Van Lam Lace Embroidery Village.

Van Lam Village was founded in the 13th century, and it has become famous for items from embroidery year by year. At the gate of Van Lam village, you can see an ancient temple that was built to show respect and gratitude to the person who taught and inspired the embroidery craft to people here. Nowadays, this village is known as an embroidery trade village with about 80% of people in Van Lam knowing embroidery skills, many embroidery enterprises are established and more than 700 embroidery households.

When you have a great chance to visit Van Lam, you should walk and see how they make embroidered crafts with their skillful hands. You can buy or take some photos of Van Lam embroidery products that are famous not only in Vietnam but also in the US, Japan, and German, etc…

16.30 – 17.00 Transfer back to Hanoi.

• Overnight: in Hanoi.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Lunch.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

Breakfast is at your hotel.

Class time: 08.00 AM, 09.00 AM, 14.00, 15.00 (you can choose one of the most suitable times for you)
Duration: 60 minutes – 90 minutes.

The driver will come to your hotel (without tour guide) to take you to the class to learn about Vietnamese coffee history and its stories. Learn to make two most famous coffee drinks in Vietnam which are egg coffee and coconut coffee.

After making your own cups of coffee, enjoy them in our café with some fruit or a small snack, depending on the day.

Finishing the class, the driver will take you back to your hotel (without tour guide). The rest of the day is your leisure time.

• Overnight: in Hanoi.
• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel, Coffee & Fruit or A small snack at the class.
• Accommodation: 3⭐️, 4⭐️, 5⭐️ hotels as mentioned or similar.

There are no activities planned for today, so you are free until the driver picks you up and transfers you to Noi Bai International Airport for your flight back home or to your next destination. Home sweet home.

Please note:
– Regular check-out time in the hotel: latest at 12.00 (late check out service is not included).

• Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel.