Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (D)
Welcome to Vietnam, you will be collected by our local guide at NoiBai Airport and transfer to hotel for check-in. The balance of the day at your leisure.
In the evening, transfer to the restaurant to enjoy the dinner. Then transfer back to the hotel for overnight.
Meals included: Dinner with Indian food
Day 2: City Tour (B, L, D)
After the breakfast, meet the guide and start the trip with Tran Quoc Pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.
Visit Ho Chi Minh’s complex, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father; his house-on-stil and One Pillar Pagoda – modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi.
Arrive Ethnology Museum to learn about cultures of 54 ethnic groups living in Vietnam.
After the lunch, we will visit Temples of Literature constructed in 1070 - dedicated to Confucius, sages and talented scholars. It is the most famous temple in Hanoi, also functioning as Vietnam's first university.
Leave for a legendary HoanKiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to a former general commander Tran Hung Dao for his struggle against Mongolians.
In the evening, transfer to the restaurant to enjoy the dinner. Then transfer back to the hotel for overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner in the restaurant with Indian food
Day 3: Halong Bay Day Cruise (B, L, D)
In the morning leave Hanoi for Halong Bay, arriving around noon. Board a traditional junk for a spectacular five-hour cruise of the bay with a fresh seafood lunch served on board. Enjoy the aquamarine waters and lovely limestone formations that have made Ha Long bay one of Southeast Asia’s premier destinations as you visit a few of the most famous caves and see the sunset on the bay. Return to the harbor and transfer to hotel for check in. Dinner in the restaurant. Night at the hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch on the cruise with local food, dinner in the restaurant with Indian food
Day 4: Hanoi - Fly to Ho Chi Minh (B, L, D)
Enjoy free time at leisure until your driver come and pick you up for the airport to take the flight to Ho Chi Minh City
Welcome at the airport by your local guide and transfer to your hotel for check in. The balance of day is free at your leisure.
Dinner will be served in the restaurant. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner with Indian food
Day 5: Cu Chi Tunnels - City Tour (B, L, D)
This morning we will leave the city to visit the amazing tunnel network of Cu Chi. This incredible system, covering almost 250km in length was shelter to over 16,000 Vietcong guerrillas during the wars. Initially started in 1948 to provide shelter against the French air and ground sweeps, the network went on to serve as communication routes, storage facilities, hospitals and living quarters for Vietnamese fighters throughout the American war. If you are interested (and game) you can even descend into the tunnels to learn more about the harsh conditions faced by Vietcong guerrillas who lived there.
Take a short rest after the lunch, then set out on a tour of the former capital of French Indochina. Historic landmarks include the Old Saigon Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Opera House.
Continue your tour by visiting the Reunification Palace which was used as the headquarters of the Saigon Government during the American war in the 60s. After that visit the Ben Thanh Market for shopping activities.
Dinner will be served in the restaurant. Then transfer back to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner with India food
Day 6: Mekong Delta Day Trip (B, L, D)
Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, and drive 1,5 hours to My Tho. We will stop along the way for refreshments and toilet.
Upon arrival, we board a motor-boat and cruise along a vast network of canals and channels to enjoy wonderful views of the Mekong River, including four famous islands “Dragon, Unicorn, Turtle and Phoenix”.
Stop at one of the floating fish houses, in nets and wire baskets under their house, the villagers cultivate freshwater fish and shrimp - a major export product of the region.
Cross the River to the other side, you will stop at a traditional workshop to witness a step-by-step process on how to make coconut candy, honey farming… while trying some yourself and listening to traditional music. Enjoy what local people offer by hand rowing a sampan along the shady, breezy canal. We will transfer to local transportation called XeLoi to travel throughout the villages.
Take a rest after lunch before boarding the motor-boat back to My Tho. We drive to VinhTrang Pagoda, an ancient southern architectural gem built in the middle of the 19th century. There are many Buddha statues including some that are over a hundred years old.
We drive another 1,5 hours back to Ho Chi Minh city then have the dinner. Overnight at the hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner with Indian food
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh - Fly to Siem Reap (B, L, D)
Enjoy free time at leisure until your driver come and pick you up for the airport to take the flight to Siem Reap
Welcome at the airport by your local guide and transfer to your hotel for check in. The balance of day is free at your leisure. Dinner will be served in the restaurant. Overnight at the hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner with Indian food
Day 8: Siem Reap - Angkor (B, L, D)
08:00:After meeting our tour guide, then we drive to Angkor Thom that was the masterpiece of King Jayavarman VII. Following the occupation of Angkor by the Chams from 1177 to 1181, the new king decided to build an impregnable fortress at the heart of his empire.
We begin to visit Bayon Temple. At the exact center of Angkor Thom, this is an eccentric expression of the creative genius and inflated ego of Cambodia’s most celebrated king. Its 54 towers are each topped off with the four faces of Avalokiteshvara (Buddha of Compassion), which bear more than a passing resemblance to the king himself.
We continue to visit Terrace of the Leper King. This intricately carved platform was the royal crematorium and the statue that was originally thought to be the leper king is now believed to be Yama, the god of death. We continue along the Terrace of Elephants, originally used as a viewing gallery for the king to preside over parades, performances and traditional sports. At the southern end lies the Baphuon, once of the most beautiful temples at Angkor, dating from the reign of Uditayavarman 1 in the 11th century.
We visit Ta Prohm "Tomb Raider" fame. Ta Prohm has been abandoned to the elements, a reminder that while empires rise and fall, the riotous power of nature marches on, oblivious to the dramas of human history. Left as it was ‘discovered’ by French explorer Henri Mouhout in 1860, the tentacle-like tree roots here are slowly strangling the surviving stones, man first conquering nature to create, nature later conquering man to destroy.
We journey out to the Mother of all temples, Angkor Wat. Believed to be the world's largest religious building, this temple is the perfect fusion of symbolism and symmetry and a source of pride and strength to all Khmers. Built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, this is most famous temple at Angkor.
Then transfer to the restaurant to enjoy the dinner. Transfer back to the hotel for overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch and dinner with local food
Day 9: Siem Reap – Departure (B)
Enjoy your breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Siem Reap airport for the departure. Your room is still at your disposal until 12.00.
Meals included: Breakfast at the hotel
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