Day 1: Arrive Hanoi(D)
Meet &
greet upon arrival at Hanoi Airport.Transfer to your
hotel. Overnight at the hotel in Hanoi.
Day 2 :Hanoi City tour (B,D)
Sightseeing in Hanoi including visit to HCM Mausoleum,
One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature, Ngoc Son
Temple. Lunch at local restaurant. Afternoon visit to
Museum of Ethnology followed by 1 hour cyclo ride
through the mazes of old quarter. Tonight we will enjoy
water puppetshow.Dinner and overnight in Hanoi.
Day 3: Hanoi –Danang - HoiAn (B/L)
After
breakfast, transfer to airport for departure flight to
Danang. Upon arrival in Da Nang you are met and
transferred to Da Nang city to visit Cham museum, then
transfer to Hoi An, the world heritage town. En route
to Hoi An we have a stop to visit the Marble
Mountains.Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight at hotel
in HoiAn.
Day
4: Hoi An - Sightseeing (B)
Take a full-day tour of this quaint town, visiting
ancient merchants' houses, a Phuc Kien temple, the
400-year-old Japanese Covered Bridge, and the colourful
riverside market. Visit a workshop where artisans make
Hoi An's famous lanterns. Guests learn how the lanterns
are made then have achance to create their own lanterns,
from designing the frame to gluing the cloth. Ovenright
in Hoian
Day 5 : HoiAn –Hue (B/L)
Transfer
by car to Hue via Hai Van Pass with a stop at fishing
village for lunch. Arriving to Hue, there will be a
transfer to our hotel for a freshen up. Boat trip along
Huong Giang river to Thien Mu Pagoda ,one of the most
poignant displays here is a car belonging to a former
monk, who in 1963, drove to Saigon and set himself
alight to protest against the South Vietnamese regime
and its treatment of Buddhists and Minh Mang Tomb.
Dinner and overnight in Hue
Day 6:Hue – Saigon (B,D)
This
morning we set out for the exploration of Hue's famous
highlights, including the Citadel and the Forbidden
Purple City. Built in the 19th century by the Nguyen
dynasty, the City was home to the former Emperors of
Vietnam from 1802 until 1945. Also worth visiting are
the tombs of the former Emperors, in particular that of
Emperor Tu Duc.Transfer to airport for departure flight
to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Upon arrival, transfer to
hotel. Saigon sightseeing including Reunification
palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and China town. Dinner and
overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 7:Ho Chi Minh city tour – Cu chi Tunnel (B,L)
This
morning we drive to visit the Cuchi Tunnels. At the
height of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched
from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the
Cambodian border of over 250 kilometers of tunnels. The
tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the
1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet Cong,
control a huge rural area. It was an underground city
with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories,
field hospitals, command centers. In places, it was
several stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who
virtually lived underground for years.... getting
married, giving birth,going to school. The ground here
is hard clay, which made this whole thing possible. But
even so, the planning and construction was incredible.
People dug all this with hand tools, filling reed
baskets and dumping the dirt into bomb craters. They
installed large vents so they could hear approaching
helicopters, smaller vents for air and baffled vents to
dissipate cooking smoke. There were also hidden trap
doors and gruesomely effective bamboo-stake booby traps.
Today, the trees and bushes have grown back. And since
1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for
visitors. Overnight at hotel in HCM city.
Day 8 : Departure(B)
There
will be a transfer to airport for your flight home
today.
Cost
in USD per person based on private tour (
valid until 30 Apr 09)
