On your arrival, you are met local guide and driver who will take you to hotel. Then you have your free time.
Evening we enjoy the water puppet show, a unique northern Vietnamese art performance that we cannot be missed on our schedule for today. We will have a chance to learn more about the rural life of Vietnamese peasants and national heroes via a series of history story which were beautifully demonstrated by the artists.
Morning breakfast at hotel then we start our cycling day around Hanoi and also visit to some of the highlights of Hanoi; Temple of Literature, Ethnology Museum, and Women Museum. We will have a light lunch at Vietnamese Noodle Soup (Pho) and then ride around the ancient quarter of Hanoi. After that we ride outskirt of Hanoi along the dike to Bat Trang pottery village which is very well known for its ceramic art and porcelain for our exploring this Vietnamese traditional craft village. Visiting this site and we also join with the artist do make your own pot, cup or dish as a good souvenir gift to take home, we start to ride back our hotel.
A new exciting day waiting us to discover, we depart for Ha Long, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. Hạ Long Bay has an area of around 1,553 km2, including 1,960–2,000 islets, most of which are limestone. The core of the bay has an area of 334 km2 with a high density of 775 islands and islets in all sides reflecting on turquoise water. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments.
There are a lot of photo opportunity on our way to Ha Long as we drive through the rural area, street markets, paddy fields, vegetable farms, poultry farms and lotus farms. We take a rest stop Hong Ngoc shop after 2 hour drive for a coffee break then continue to Ha Long Bay. At midday we board the overnight junk for the cruise. A welcome drink is well prepared for us as we get on board then check in and enjoy a pleasant cruise on the bay. Seafood lunch is served on board while the junk is slowly going among the islands and islets. There are some activities for us to join in in this afternoon; visiting to the cave, swimming at Ti Top beach, climbing up the top of Ti Top Island for panoramic view of the bay, kayaking in late afternoon or joining squids finishing at night. The junk is anchored in a quiet bay for overnight. Dinner and overnight on board.
Morning just join the Tai Chi Class on sundeck for half an hour and then we will have breakfast. We keep on our excursion and visit to Sung Sot cave, fantastic stalactites and stalagmites in all different sides with beautiful natural color. Return to our junk and check out. Enjoy a pleasant cruise back to the pier for disembarkation then drive to Noi Bai Airport for our flight to Ho Chi Minh City. On our arrival, we drive to hotel for check in then free at leisure.
Today we drive out to Hoc Mon district where we ride on our bike to Cu Chi tunnel which is the most complicated underground system in Vietnam built in early 1948 and completed its 250km long around 1960. This is an amazing place where we are absolutely admired the way of the guerrillas’ living and fighting for their mission. Before examining this historic site such as a private entrance of the tunnel, Commander Bunker, Fighting Bunker, Meeting Bunker and Health Care Bunker, we will watch a short documentary film about this special place to have an idea why it was named as an “Iron Land”. After that we walk to see the site. Our first place in our list thing to visit is original private entrance which is 25cm width and 30cm length then we head to Fighting bunker where we actually get down the tunnel. Next we will have a chance to view the booby trap gallery, all kinds of traps were used by guerrillas to stop the attack from their enemy. The smokeless Hoang Cam kitchen where we will have a chance to taste the guerrilla’s food, the steamed cassava associated with peanut, salt and sugar is an incredible bunker to visit. Mr. Hoang Cam designed this special kitchen during the French – Vietnam War in Dien Bien Phu battle field and it became very popular as its smokeless chimney system in a later War.
We just get our tired feet on the bus back to Ho Chi Minh City then free at leisure.
Today we will enjoy the beautiful scenery in Mekong Delta area with hundreds of canal and river system and the most productive farm in Vietnam. On arrival Cai Be town, we take a boat cruise to visit to Cai Be floating market which is very interesting and popular in Mekong region. There are hundreds of trading boats anchoring on both sides of the river and these boats as the floating shops selling all different agriculture produce being hang on the bamboo pole placing at the front of each boat as the sale signal. The buyers who usually has a motor boat or sanpam, a main means of transportation in this floating market to go to the trading boats, buy these produce very early in the morning then take to the local market to sell them again. They are actually like the retailers. Some of them decide to be the vendors just riding their motor boat along the canal for all day to earn their living. This floating market is usually very busy early morning before sun rise and its function is as the whole market on the river. After visiting this market, we continue our boat trip to local village nearby to view how local people making coconut candy, rice –paper, pop-corn, and local souvenirs. Return to our boat then relax while we are cruising across the Mekong River to the island where we take a short walk through the fruit garden and visit the farm. Then we enjoy our lunch at the farm, talk to the host, walk around fruit garden and bonsai garden and just take a little nap on the hammock before boarding the boat again heading to Vinh Long town.
We start our riding on immense rice fields, cycling through numerous rural riverside villages before our bus pick up to Can Tho City for overnight.
Early morning we will take a boat trip to Cai Rang floating market which is more activities of buying and selling, more boats and livelier than the Cai Be. Just enjoy a beautiful buffet breakfast on board while we are cruising to market. We are not only the travelers to visit to this market but also the buyers to purchase extra fresh and tasty fruits for our breakfast in this morning. Return our hotel then check out then we drive to Vi Thanh for lunch after that we paddle to Rach Gia City. The capital of Kien Giang province located on the southwest of Vietnam, this quiet city is known as the home of a national hero, Nguyen Trung Truc during the French and Vietnam War. The local people built a big temple for him and every year they celebrate the festival on his dead anniversary from 27th to 29th of the 8th month of lunar calendar. This festival becomes very popular in Mekong Delta region.
Enjoy our breakfast at hotel then we check out and visit to Nguyen Trung Truc temple. Then we drive to Vam Ray town where we paddle to Ha Tien City which is located on the Southwest of Vietnam in the Thailand Gulf. This beautiful border city with Cambodia has been well known for its nature beauty, Mountains, paddy fields, Rivers, Lakes, Caves, Beaches and Islands since 19th century. A spectacular distance to ride, we go pass by many scenic spots, sugar palm trees, paddy fields, shrimp farm, coast line and mangrove forest as we are reaching our destination.
On arrival. We check in hotel then free at leisure.
Morning enjoy breakfast then we ride to visit to some of the local attraction: Mac Cuu tomb Thach Dong Cave, and Mui Nai Beach. After that we take our bus to Tri Ton town from here we paddle to Chau Doc. On our arrival, we check in hotel then free at leisure.
Morning we take a boat trip to floating village which is the fish farms and they are mainly Basa fish which is exported to Europe and USA. Then we visit to Cham community on the Island and also the Mosque in this village. Return to hotel for check out and drive to Ho Chi Minh City, en route we stop at Crocodile farm for our lunch.
Then take a ferry to cross the Mekong River at Vam Cong then drive to our destination. On our arrival, we check in hotel then free at leisure.
There is activity for today. Just pack up and relax until your departure flight. The guide and driver will pick you up then transfer you to Tan Son Nhat Airport.
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