Amazing Vietnam

YAY! You made it. Congrats and a warming welcome! On Day 1, you are welcomed at Noi Bai international airport by the Origin Travel team and we will be there to receive you, and we are so excited to have you there! We will handle everything for you right from transferring you to downtown, check-in hotel and more. You are free to enjoy and have your own exploration on the first day around Hanoi city and visit one-of-a-kind things of Hanoi Old Quarter, Hoan Kiem Lake, night life, etc.

This is your first day, and the Amazing Vietnam begins!

O/N in Hanoi

Full day free activities:

The fun starts today! After having breakfast at the hotel, you’re going to enjoy and spend your full day exploring Hanoi history city – the city with more than 1000 years of rich history and culture. You would love to taste authentic “Pho Hanoi” – a great meal in Hanoi.

Today is your full day free to explore Hanoi city as your own way

Evening activities:

And then at 20:30 pm our driver and guide drops you off from the hotel to Hanoi Railway Station for taking the night train to Lao Cai – Sapa. Spending night on train – AC soft sleeper – coach 4 leave Hanoi at 22:00 pm

Optional Hanoi city tour with additional charge: Visit city tour with many interesting and must-see visiting sites as below if you wish to add it in your package Vietnam travel with us

• Exploring Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, The President Palace and his Residential place on stilt house
• The Temple of Literature – an amazing place where the first university of the country since the 12th Century is situated. This is a unique chance to experience the history of education of Vietnam and enjoy the world’s best moments.
• Exploring museums: Museum of Ethnology, Women Museum, History Museum and Quan Thanh Temple. The Ethnology Museum is very popular where you can see and get knowledge of 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam and its cultures. Interesting, right?
• Love the water puppet show at theater and get an unforgettable experience of Hanoi special culture.
• Enjoying best moments while walking around Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi Old Quarter – getting to know the local life at night, shopping and much more!

Morning activities:

Our guide and driver welcome you at Lao Cai Train Station and transfer you to Sa Pa town after having a shower for yourself. It takes you 45 minutes by car to reach Sapa town.

Ready for more fun? Today you will have a full day trek through the village of H’Mong, Dao, Zay minority groups at Lao Chai & Ta Phin. And it’s going to be incredible!

First you will leave Sa Pa town to Lao Chai village. And from the village you start your trekking time through awesome roads along rice terrace fields and passing through the villages with soil and land roads to reach Lao Chai village and continue to Ta Van village. Have some fun while meeting and talking to local minority people en route. Have a picnic lunch on the way.

Afternoon & evening activities:

This afternoon you continue your trek to reach Ta Van Village. Check in the stilt house of Zay people. Home stay at the stilt house of a hill tribe family in Ta Van village, get more of their culture and customs. Also, you will just love to enjoy their nightlife and share experiences with them. Finally, have some dinner with the family and taste their local foods. O/N in Ta Van village.

Morning activities:

Wake up early and experience the village life. Have breakfast at homestay. One more Trek! Are you ready? We are! It’s time for you to leave Ta Van village for back Sapa town, and you have one more day to trek and experience Hmong village at Cat Cat village and have the whole Sapa town from Ham Rong Moutain’s summit. This is really amazing!

The trekking route to Cat Cat village is 3km from Sapa town, up and down hill to have some fun in the beautiful rice fields, Hidro – electric power station, traditional handicraft village of Hmong minority people and much more!

Back to Sapa town and have lunch at a restaurant.

Afternoon activities:

This afternoon you enjoy and trek up Ham Rong Mountain to have the panorama of Sapa town with clouds surrounding the summit. In the morning and late afternoon the image of Sapa in fog you can see clearly from Ham Rong mountain right in town centre. Furthermore, feel free to enjoy traditional music show of tribe people either in Cat Cat village or Ham Rong Mountain

Back to Lao Cai and you are free to have your own dinner at a restaurant in Lao Cai.

Evening activities:

Evening you take the night train to leave Lao Cai for return to Hanoi city. Spending the night on a train on AC soft sleeper coach 4 berths leave Lao Cai at 21:00 pm. O/N on train

Morning activities:

Return Hanoi Train Station at Tran Quy Cap Street early morning around 5.30 am then our tour guide and driver pick up, transfer to restaurant for having breakfast. And then have 75 minutes massage to fresh yourself to get new energy.

WOW-Wonder! Now you will be spending a two-day tour to discover Halong Bay – World Heritage Site and New Seven World Wonder. This is going to be exciting!

Next at 9:00 am our driver will welcome you and transfer you to Halong Bay while experiencing beautiful landscapes along the road with peaceful villages. This is an exciting time! You spend 2.5 hours to reach HaLong Bay. Make a check in cruise on arrival.

Afternoon activities:

Afternoon is the time you get on board, have a welcome drink as you board of the Athena Cruise. Our Cruise Manager will give you a briefing and safety instructions as well as review the itinerary for the day before you check in.

After that you have the buffet lunch while the boat is cruising towards the North East of Ha Long Bay .

The rest of the time this afternoon you relax on the boat instead of participating in other activities. Next you kayak to visit Vung Vieng fishing village. Enjoy happy hour – buy one get one free in our bar will be started from 17:30 to 18:45

From the sundeck you can participate and compete in our Master Chef Cooking Demonstration with traditional Vietnamese food: Deep Fried Spring Roll and the decorative technique of creating flower carvings from fresh fruit or vegetables.

Evening activities:

Have a set menu multi-course Dinner on board. Then you have free time on the boat. Also you can enjoy squid fishing from the first deck of the boat, enjoy the topdeck and drink service or you can return to your room. O/N on board

Morning activities:

Wake up early and enjoy the sunrise over the river. You also have a Tai Chi demonstration on the Sundeck; tea and coffee are available at this time.

Beauty at its best! Wow, you have half a day on a cruise through Halong Bay to get more enjoyment and experience its beauty, and trust us, you have never seen anything like this before!

Have breakfast at a restaurant on board. And then you visit and discover Thien Canh Son cave in Ha Long Bay. Here is the chance for you to witness its beautiful stalactites and stalagmites.

Note: There are about 400 steps to get up to the cave.

You check out from 09.00 to 09:30. This is also the time you can put your luggage on the first deck for us to transfer to our tender and settle your bill with reception.

While the cruise sails back to the harbor, you have brunch at the restaurant on the 2nd deck.

Disembark to Hon Gai Pier at 10:30 am.

Afternoon activities:

Our driver transfers you back to Hanoi and you get back to the hotel in Hanoi at around 15.30 pm. And then you travel ahead to Hanoi airport to take a flight to Hue City.

Once you arrive in Phu Bai airport our on-site guide welcomes and transfers you to downtown. Check in at the hotel. Free to have your own dinner.

Evening activities:

This evening is the time you are free to get more experience around Hue city by walking, enjoying street foods, drinking beer, etc. O/N in Hue.

Morning activities:

Ever heard about perfume hair? Today’s time on Huong River (Perfume River) will give a chance to discover more of the beauty along the river with the beautiful scenery of a fishing village close to Thien Mu pagoda. This is really awesome!

Be royal! You’d love to know that Hue City is in Central Vietnam where there’s been the Royal Palace of the Nguyen Dynasty since the 19th Century.

Travel out of your hotel at 8:00 am and travel to the boat landing for making a boat trip to visit Thien Mu pagoda. The river bank will give you an impression of the green color of trees while the boat is sailing upstream.

Next, you continue to visit the Imperial City where the Royal Family lived and worked. You’ll love the Citadel which was the Royal Place of Nguyen Dynasty since 19th century with many constructions including Flag Tower, Five Phoenix Tower, Thai Hoa Palace, Nine Urn Dynasties…

Have lunch at a garden restaurant to taste Hue foods.

Afternoon activities:

Go on your journey to Tuy Ly Vuong Garden ancient house. He was the 11th son of Minh Mang King (the second King of Nguyen Reign). This ancient house remains as original architecture until now where you can learn the history as well as Hue Garden House architecture. Now the 5th generation of Tuy Ly Vuong are living and preserving the house.

After that you travel to Sinh picture village and Thanh Tien paper flower to discover more handicraft villages in Hue city.

Evening activities:

Evening is more free time to wander around the city and get more enjoyment of Hue nightlife with street foods. Hue is famous for street foods to taste and experience. O/N in Hue

Optional:

+ In Fact there are 6 tombs in Hue city with each different style and architecture. If you would like to have more exploration King Mausoleum, you can ask guide and driver to take you for visit (you pay extra charge for entrance fee and transport by yourself at Gia Long, Minh Mang, Khai Dinh, Thieu Tri, Dong Khanh mausoleum). If travel to one of these tombs you pay additional charge for entrance fee

+ Additional charge: Royal Dinner which you can be a King/Queen and taste RoyalDish as past to get exciting experience.

Morning activities:

Enjoy the unique Golden Hand Bridge and Ancient Love! Today you will be leaving Hue for Bana Hill and Hoi An ancient town and you will get an amazing chance to discover the coastline and National Highway No1 passing through rice fields, villages, and beautiful beaches. This is going to be awesome!

Leave Hue city in the morning and enjoy National Highway No 1 and see rice fields, water buffalo. Keep yourself relaxed at Lang Co beach. After that you check out the fishing village in Lang Co and learn more of their daily life as fishermen.

Go ahead to Da Nang city and pass through Hai Van Pass. From the summit it will give you the spectacular view of Lang Co Beach, windy road pass and Da Nang city.

You will travel to Ba Na hill to discover the beauties of this famous site with French village, Fantasy Park, Wine tunnel. Especially walk through Golden Bridge and view the whole panorama of Da Nang city

Have lunch at restaurant in Ba Na Hill

Afternoon activities:

Take the cable car back where the driver is waiting and travel ahead to Da Nang city centre. You continue to visit Marble Mountain on the way to Hoian town and get a panorama of Danang city and beach from the top of the mountain. This is just magical!

And then you travel ahead to Hoi An, along the road are the resorts which give you the impression of beautiful beaches from Da Nang to Hoi An. Check in at the hotel on arrival and free to enjoy your own dinner.

Evening activities:

This evening is your free time to wander around Hoi An old town to get the impression at this famous shopping and tailor shops apart from old houses. O/N in Hoian.

Morning activities:

Having a lovely experience with the cooking lesson in a local restaurant of Hoian! No better way than to learn how to cook Vietnamese cuisine as well as know how to choose fresh ingredients for your dishes. Surely that will be a fabulous experience of Vietnamese traditional cuisines.

Start from morning at 8.00 am and walk to local market inside Hoian town. En route is the chance to enjoy the tranquil atmosphere in the countryside. Then you stroll to the local market, and together experience the daily life of Hoi An through its symphony which is made of fresh greens, aromatic spices or the warm welcome of vendors. Drop somewhere to collect a few ingredients for our recipes.

Come back to the restaurant to prepare all the materials just bought from the market. You will have opportunity to cook traditional dishes:

• Rice pasta rolls.
• Braised eggplant in clay pot.
• Spicy grilled pork.
• Grilled fish in banana leaf.

Enjoy your just-been-made dishes, added with a salad, bread and dessert to fulfill your lunch. Be awarded a certificate which is signed and stamped by the restaurant’s manager to affirm your pass of this cooking course.

Afternoon activities:

Roam around old streets with our guide to experience and learn of unique architectures. You have some fun enjoying a traditional music show. And next you have a boat trip on Thu Bon River to get more peaceful atmosphere surrounding Hoian and visit the traditional Thanh Ha Pottery village. The rest of time is your free time to chill out on the nice sandy beach of An Bang – 5km from Hoi An ancient town. Free to enjoy your own dinner.

Evening activities:

Get your free time in Hoi An and do shopping as well as make tailor as your own expectation. Hoian offers you many different things to do at night and enjoyment. O/N in Hoi An.

Morning activities:

Leave Hoi An and travel to Da Nang airport. And then you take a flight from Danang to get a new experience on the famous Nha Trang beach city – stunningly beautiful.

Afternoon & evening activities:

Gain a deeper understanding of the magical Nha Trang Bay with a more in depth view of the beach, incredible islands. Get your own first night in Nha Trang beach city with fresh seafood, wandering around the streets along the beach side. O/N in Nha Trang.

Morning activities:

It is your day to discover Nha Trang islands and the city to enjoy its true beauty. Nha Trang is not only a famous beach city of Vietnam but also in the world – and is well known for its beautiful scenery, nice white sandy and diverse undersea world of corals.

Let’s start your day trip today at 8:00 am with our guide and driver. Travel to Cau Da Pier to get on a boat and make a visit to Tri Nguyen Aquarium, Mun Island. Enjoy snorkeling to see the diversity of coral reefs and undersea world with different plants and fish. Back the pier and have lunch at a restaurant.

Afternoon & evening activities:

Let’s get the discovery and knowledge at Cham Posanur Tower right in the city centre to learn more of Champa culture. The last activities is relaxing and leisure at Thap Ba Hot Spring and have mud bathing to refresh yourself

Evening is your free time to enjoy Nha Trang beach city as your own way at pub, bar, walk along beach road, etc. O/N in Nha Trang.

Morning activities:

You will leave Nha Trang beach city and will reach one of the famous cities in Central Highland Vietnam. Da Lat is also called the city of Eternal Spring or City of Love and is one of Vietnam’s most well known vacation destination. You will be feeling romance all the way. At the height of 1500 meters above sea level and about 305 km from Ho Chi Minh city, Dalat has a cool climate which is ideal for a honeymoon. Ready to feel the air of love?

You will leave Nha Trang city in the morning and pass through spectacular and beautiful landscapes. You will visit Dantala waterfall near Da Lat to get more natural scenery of Da Lat city.

Afternoon activities:

Love the cool climate in Da Lat city and fresh yourself. You will check in Dalat train station, flower garden, Xuan Huong Lake, Dalat market. Then the rest of time you feel free to walk through streets and enjoy night street foods

Evening activities:

Free wander around Da Lat street, night market and enjoy BBQ foods as well as street food that give you a great experience at the city with four seasons in one day. O/N in Da Lat.

Morning activities:

Now get the enjoyment for a full day tour to Da Lat city and have a chance to discover more of this beautiful spot. A lot of attractive destinations in Da Lat will make you fall in love with the natural beauties as well as architecture and French style.

First you will visit Bao Dai palace where the last Emperor of Vietnam – Bao Dai (1913-1997) stayed and ruled over Vietnam from 1949 to 1954. Next, you will visit Mong Mo hill to see natural beauty to get more enjoyment.

Have lunch at restaurant

Afternoon activities:

Afternoon is the time for more to discover Da Lat city. Feel free to take a cable car to visit Truc Lam Zen Monastery – The largest Zen Monastery of Vietnam. Enjoy Tuyen Lam Lake – and have an unforgettable time. Also, explore the night market in Da Lat city for more enjoyment. Furthermore, Dalat is famous for farms with products such as potato, tomato, strawberry, etc. You will have a chance to visit one of these farms to discover its beauties.

Evening activities:

Spend more time free wandering around Da Lat street, night market and enjoy BBQ foods as well as street food that give you a great experience in the city with four seasons in one day. O/N in Dalat.

Morning activities:

After relaxing a bit and enjoying the fresh air at the highland for green color, now it’s time to leave for Ho Chi Minh City – the busiest city of Vietnam and well-known as an unsleeping one. You’re going to get yourself busy in this amazing city!

Start your journey to Ho Chi Minh city in the morning, and get a chance to see tea and coffee plantations. Stop in Bao Loc – Lam Dong to enjoy tea break and have a chance to see Prenn waterfall or Damry waterfall.

Have lunch at local restaurant

Afternoon activities:

You arrive in Ho Chi Minh city in the early afternoon. Also have some free time this afternoon to walk around Ho Chi Minh city or just relax at a hotel after 5 hours by car to reach the city.

Evening activities:

Spend your first night in Ho Chi Minh city and experience the busy life in this big city of Vietnam. O/N in HCM

Optional with additional charge: Saigon Dinner cruise is one of the exciting experiences when you have dinner on cruise and sail along Saigon River. This is also the chance to see Saigon at night.

Morning activities:

You are going to spend your full day in Ho Chi Minh City – the young and dynamic of Vietnam with a lot of French style architectures, big markets having special products. This day is going to be a glorious one!

Enjoy your visit to The Independent Palace or called Reunification Palace. And then visit Bitexco Tower where you can view Ho Chi Minh city from the sky deck.

Afternoon activities:

Get more discovery of Ho Chi Minh city at Fito Museum where you can learn about traditional health care and treatment. And then visit Ao Dai Museum and learn more of traditional customs of Vietnam.

Evening activities:

Free to enjoy shopping at Ben Thanh night market for more discoveries of local people purchasing activities and buy some souvenir gifts for you as well. O/N in HCM

Morning activities:

It’s time to leave Ho Chi Minh City and make a full day trip to visit Tay Ninh Cao Dai Temple – a center of religion in Southern Vietnam. Feel free to be a part of the prayer time.

First of all, this morning you leave Ho Chi Minh in the morning and enjoy Tay Ninh Cao Dai temple to join the praying at noon to get more knowledge of their culture in the south of Vietnam.

Have lunch at restaurant

Afternoon activities:

And then, this afternoon you leave Tay Ninh and travel ahead to Cu Chi where you discover Cu Chi tunnels to experience the Vietnam War between American and Vietnam to admire the underground network tunnels of more than 200km length. Reality, this underground network will bring you back to the past and get the Vietnamese against the enemy. Although the war is in the past now, it shows you the catch in reality what Vietnamese did now as the real lesson for history.

Evening activities:

More free time in the evening to enjoy Saigon street foods, enjoy at a pub & bar to get the nightlife of Saigon. O/N in HCM

Morning activities:

Now, begin the new day and you will be leaving Ho Chi Minh in the morning and starting your journey to Mekong Delta. En route is the chance to visit Vinh Trang Pagoda – the greatest pagoda of Tien Giang Province with an area of 2,000m2 with many beautiful trees. In fact, It is a beautiful structure with a mixture of Chinese, Vietnamese and Angkor (Cambodian) architectural styles.

You will travel to My Tho and take a motor boat to enter My Tho city through Bao Dinh natural canal. Enjoy My Tho’s colorful street fruit market alongside the canal to soak up the lively atmosphere.

Also, feel free to cruise on Tien River to visit Tortoise Island, view the fishing port, the traditional stilt houses and boat building workshops, and the other three evocatively-named islands – Dragon, Phoenix and Unicorn islands.

Enjoy lunch at restaurant in Island after joining a cooking class with local family

Afternoon activities:

Especially, this afternoon you enjoy the coconut candy mill; take an amazing rowing boat trip along the small canal. Cruise to Ben Tre province “the home of coconuts” to get more experience at this famous land of coconut candy and know how they produce it. Taste honey tea before going back to My Tho. Then again, you get on your journey to Can Tho City which belongs to the Mekong Delta area and have more chances to see tropical fruit gardens with different fruits along the road.

Evening activities:

More free time in the evening to discover Can Tho city with famous Ninh Kieu pier in poetic Vietnam. O/N in Can Tho

Morning activities:

Now is the time to visit and get more insights of the floating markets of the Mekong River. No better way to enjoy river life! This is a totally out-of-the-world experience.

You will leave your hotel in early morning to visit Cai Rang Floating market to see the busiest time of the market. Factually, the transport has developed so the floating market is not as crowded as in the past nowadays. In spite of, Cai Rang market is not as crowded as before, it is still one of the must-see attractions in the Mekong Delta. And then, walk though a “Monkey Bridge” which only has in Vietnam with only tree to make bridge for passing though channels. Enjoy the chance to walk around the peaceful village to get more the atmosphere.

Visit Binh Thuy Ancient House to learn more of architecture in building the house and remains until today.

Continue to visit Muoi Cuong Cacao Garden to know more about the special tree which makes famous chocolate.

Have lunch at a restaurant.

Afternoon activities:

After lunch time, you leave Can Tho for Ho Chi Minh city and pass through many fruit tropical gardens. Check in at the hotel and be free to enjoy your own dinner.

Evening activities:

At the same time as the previous night, you have more free time in the evening to enjoy Saigon street foods, enjoy at a pub & bar to get the nightlife of Saigon. O/N in HCM.

Your last day! And a great experience! After having a long trip in Vietnam you will have some free time to walk around Ho Chi Minh city to get more experience or just relax at a hotel before the driver drops you off at the airport for taking flight departure Ho Chi Minh.

It’s time to say goodbye. It’s time to get back to your busy life! And we are sure that you will have an amazing trip with Origin Travel and we do hope to see you again in the future. You are incredible, and we are so glad to be a part of your Vietnam tour! Once again, we really thank you for choosing us!