Overview: Holiday in Vietnam is easy, but having the opportunity to explore the Real unspoiled Vietnam is not. With this package tour your Origin Travel Team will show you Vietnam at a pace and style that compliments your way of travel. A visit charming thousand years old Capital Hanoi and bustling Saigon. Participate in the rich and colorful cultures of Sapa and become a part of daily Mekong River life. Not to be forgotten, are the ancient stories of the past told at the numerous World Heritage sites in Vietnam’s Central. Finally, at least twice on this tour you will find time to relax and let your mind wander by the sea. Cruise amongst the magic of Halong and sun bathe on the gorgeous beaches of Nha Trang. This is Original Vietnam Travel your way.

Code: OVN 21
Routes: Hanoi – Tam Coc – Sapa – Market – Halong Bay – Hue – Hoi An –Nha Trang – Sai Gon – Cu Chi – Can Tho – Sai Gon
Duration: 21 days/20 nights
Tour type: Private

Itinerary in Brief

• Day 1: Sunny welcome to Hanoi Vietnam
• Day 2: Hanoi,city tour of the 1000 year old capital
• Day 3: Hanoi – Cycling 1 day to the suburb
• Day 4: Hanoi – Tam Coc – Hoa Lu – Sapa, night train
• Day 5: Sapa – Ta Phin, trekking and home-stay (4 hours)
• Day 6: More trekking and back to Sapa
• Day 7: Sapa – Visit Market – Hanoi, via night train
• Day 8: Hanoi – Halong Bay
• Day 9: Halong Bay – Hanoi
• Day 10:Your free day in Hanoi
• Day 11: Hue,city tour
• Day 12: Hue,boat trip – Hoian
• Day 13: Hoian,walking tour in the ancient town
• Day 14: Hoian – Nha Trang
• Day 15: Nha Trang, island boat trip
• Day 16: Nha Trang – Saigon, city tour
• Day 17: Tay Ninh and the Cu Chi tunnels
• Day 18: Saigon to the fertile Mekong Delta (Cai Be – Can Tho)
• Day 19: Can Tho – Saigon
• Day 20: Free day in Saigon
• Day 21: Departure Saigon, Tam biet Vietnam

Itinerary in details:

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

Greeting at airport &transfer to hotel. You will have free time at leisure but our guide will be able to offer advice and assistance as required. Accom. at hotel in Hanoi.

Inclusion; Transfer, Tour Guide, Hotel, welcome Dinner

Day 2: Hanoi City Tour

Depart at 8:00 am, after checking out, from your hotel by van. We will begin our day by visiting Uncle Ho,
learning about his great life at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Presidential Palace, and his residential place. Next stop is the nearby Temple of Literature. The site of Vietnam’s first University, built in twelfth century, to teach the royals the Confucius theory. Here we will also have a chance to see a traditional music performance.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant for a taste of authentic Hanoi Pho. In the afternoon, choose one from the numerous museums or temples around Hanoi (Museum of Ethnology, Women’s Museum, History Museum or Quan Thanh Temple).
A late afternoon walk around Hoan Kiem lake and Hanoi’s fascinating Old Quarter for some great fun, shopping, and street side traditional food. This is your chance to be part of typical Hanoian style and its traditional Vietnamese culture. We finish our relaxing but informative day by attending a Water Puppet Show, a favorite experience for all visitors to Vietnam. We can help you get back to your hotel if you wish, but often our guests would just rather spend the early evening enjoying a drink with a view of the city.

Inclusion; Breakfast, Lunch, Transfer, Tour Guide, Hotel,

Day 3: Hanoi, 1 day easy cycling to the suburb

Start at 8.00 am from your hotel. Bike from the historical Long Bien bridge, join in a bit of the local traffic here in the morning, but it’s totally safe. Cross the Red river then ride though different traditional villages where you can see the life of the locals ,it’s a total freedom on your bike so that you can stop to talk to the local at any time, visit the local market, traditional pagodas, temples ….
More riding after a short ferry ride, onto the country road, along the immense paddy field, where our guide will brief you about the wet rice and Vietnamese agriculture.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant en route, you can try some local dishes and take shot nap there. Maybe a short rest after lunch then we keep riding to more villages. Ride up to the dyke looking over the Red river, where you can see the town inner the river call Hanoi.
Ride back through the Long Bien Bridge into the town, our tour ends at your hotel or at a Bia Hoi store.

Inclusion: English speaking guide, professional bikes & helmet, entrance fees, ferry, lunch, water, Hotel

Day 4: Hanoi – Van Long – Hoa lu

8:00 am to leave your hotel for our day trip to Ninh Binh, we arrive to the Nature Reserve of Van Long after two hours drive (110km),we board the bamboo rowboat as soon as we arrive for our 2 hours row along this beautiful nature area, enjoying spectacular scenery surrounded by rice paddies and towering limestone mountain peaks. After lunch served at a local riverside restaurant we make a short transfer (4 km) down a peaceful country road to Hoa Lu, Vietnam’s ancient capital eleven centuries ago. Here, there are two temples dedicated to King Dinh and King Le, the founders of the ancient capital during the 10th century. Return to Hanoi late in the afternoon.
8:30 pm: Transfer from an prearranged meeting spot to the station for your night train to Sapa.

Inclusion: Transfer, guide, entrance fee, lunch, local bamboo boat,AC train tickets

Day 5: Sapa – Ta Phin village (Homestay of Red Dzao People)

Trekking and home-stay (4 hours)The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where your Origin guide will welcome you. Look for the “Origin Vietnam Travel” sign when you exit the train station. Then take a morning drive through the clouds by car / van to Sapa (about 1.5 hours).

When you arrive in Sapa you will be taken to a local restaurant for a morning shower &breakfast. Then we will take a short ride from Sapa to our trekking base where we start our trek through terraced rice fields and Hmong villages. Chances to meet and talk with locals working in the fields are plentiful also this is the best time for us to give for children some books, pencils… We will break for a picnic lunch en route then continue trekking to Ta Phin village of the Dao people (4 hours).

Your Dao host family will warmly welcome you to their traditional home where we will share in an ethnic style dinner and stay the night.

Inclusion; Car / van, Tour Guide, Entrance fee(s),All meals, Home-stay

Day 6: More trekking and back to Sapa

At the first of gleam of daylight, you will see and hear the sounds of morning village life. You can join them in some of their activities, like feeding the animals, cleaning the house, gardening or preparing breakfast. After breakfast, we will complete our trek on a valley route to the main road (4 hours) linking Lao Cai and Sapa. Alternatively, for this long trek, you can choose a short morning wander around the village for about 1hour, resulting in more time spent with the host family and other villagers.

For both options, you will be supported by our car / van back to Sapa (30 minutes).When we arrive back in Sapa we will check in to the hotel, shower, and break for lunch. At 2:30 pm we will visit the gardens of beautiful Ham Rong mountain &take part in a traditional ethnic music performance put on by the ethnic minority people. Then return at your own leisure with free time to discover the secrets of this colorful town. Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town.

Inclusion; Breakfast, lunch, Transfer, Tour Guide, Hotel

Day 7: Sapa – Market around Sapa. Night train back to Hanoi

Morning preparations, breakfast, check-out, then it is time to take a wonderful journey to see hill tribe people carrying with them their hand crafted products or leading animals on the way to market. You will be free to wonder around but please be respectful of the people here as they are reluctant to have their picture taken without permission. This area has not seen many tourists. We will have lunch here, then continue through the untouched villages with frequent stops to visit and talk to the locals. Depend on Sunday or Tuesday, Saturday we will visit Bac Ha Market or Coc Ly Market or Can Cau Market. Depart for the Lao Cai train station at 5:30 pm.
The train leaves Lao Cai at 8:50 pm and arrives after a pleasant sleep in your first class, shared AC soft berth to Hanoi by 5.00 am.

Inclusion; Breakfast, Car / van, Tour Guide, AC train tickets

Day 8: Hanoi – Halong Bay Tour

At 8:00 am we will pick you up, by private mini-van, at the hotel and begin our journey to Halong city. After 3.5 hours driving and viewing simple, countryside, rice paddy life, we arrive at the at port.
Board your private boat, an authentic Chinese Junk, and start your amazing cruise through this World Heritage Site. Lunch is served on board, a selection of the freshest seafood. We visit “the amazing cave”, followed by a swim in the tranquility of Halong Bay and its emerald water.

We will cruise further into a quiet area where we will anchor and stay overnight. Dinner and relax as the sun sets. Then you are free to swim in the phosphorous water, retire to your cabin, or fall asleep under the stars amidst the magic of Halong on the top deck.

Inclusion; Car / van, Tour Guide, Private cabin on junk, All meals ,Entrance fee(s)

Day 9: Halong Bay Cruise – Hanoi

Wake up early in the morning for a great sunrise and a breath of fresh ocean air. Breakfast served on boat then we do a leisurely cruise through thousands of seemingly never ending islands. These are great opportunities to capture some amazing photographs, We stop to visit a floating fishing village and listen to some legendary stories of the fishermen’s daily life. Take one last swim somewhere in the middle of the bay to refresh before cruising back to the Halong city pier. By noon we be ashore and break for lunch at a local restaurant. Then we hit the road back to Hanoi. We arrive and finish our tour at your hotel by 5:00 pm. Board your 19:00 pm night train, AC soft sleeper to Hue.

Inclusion; Private cabin on junk, Car / van, Breakfast, lunch, Tour Guide, hotel

Day 10: Your free day in Hanoi

Today is your free day in the Hanoi capital and all of its fascinating historical charm. Spend your day relaxing or shopping. Some suggestions include waking up early (about 6:00 am) and joining in some exercise around Hoan Kiem Lake; or taking a cyclo tour around the Old Quarter for a different point of view; or visiting the numerous markets, shopping and trying the all of street side traditional foods. Overnight in town.

Note: Board your 19;30 pm night train, AC soft sleeper to Hue.

Inclusion; breakfast, Hotel, train tickets to Hue

Day 11: Hue City Tour

Arrival in Hue at 07:00 am then transfer to your Hotel. After morning preparations we will go on a relaxing cyclo or bicycle tour. We will also visit the Forbidden Purple City and Dong Ba market. Overnight in Hue.

Inclusion; Breakfast, Lunch, Transfer, Tour Guide, Hotel

Day 12: Hue boat trip –Hoian

Get started at 9:30 am from your hotel, we walk and transfer to the boat dock for cruising on the Perfume River viewing the city and the tranquil villages on the riverbank. Walk up to visit the Thien Mu Pagoda, overlooking the Perfume River and the beautiful scenery beyond. Take some time here to learn about the influences of Buddhism in Vietnam.

Leave Hue in the evening by a mini van for Hoian. From here it will take us about 4 hours to get to Hoian. There is fabulous sightseeing en route and we may make stops at: Lang Co beach, Hai Van pass, Cham Museum, and the Marble mountains. Then onto Hoian, overnight in here.

Inclusion; Car/van Tour Guide, Entrance fee(s),Boat cruise, Breakfast, lunch, Hotel

Day 13: Hoian walking in the ancient town

The center of Vietnam is home to many of World Heritage Sites and Hoian is one of them. Here in this ancient town of Hoian,30 km south of Danang, lies on the banks of the Thu Bon River.

Occupied by early western traders in the 16th century, Hoian has a distinct Chinese atmosphere with low, tile-roofed houses and narrow streets. The original structure of some of these streets still remain almost fully intact. All the houses were made of rare wood, decorated with colorful lacquered details and panels engraved

Inclusion; Car/van Tour Guide, Entrance fee(s), Breakfast, lunch, Hotel

Day 14: Hoi An – Nha Trang

Breakfast at the hotel then transfer to the airport in Da Nang for your noon flight to Nha Trang. A taxi takes you to your hotel, it is free to chill out on the beautiful white sand beach.

Inclusion; Car / van, Flights, Breakfast, Hotel

Day 15: Nha Trang island boat trip

Morning pick up from hotel and transfer to the boat station (45 minutes). Hop on the boat and begin a day on the water. The first stop will be at Mun island. This is one of the best places for snorkeling in Nha Trang. Hold your breath for as long as you can and dive deep into this colorful world of fish and coral.

Next stop, Tam Island, for sun bathing and relaxing on the off shore beach. Lunch will be served at a nearby fishing village with a selection of fresh seafood. After the lunch we will visit Tri Nguyen Aquarium then take the boat back to Nha Trang city. Free time in the evening and overnight at your hotel.

Note: We may need to fly to Saigon this afternoon (4:45 pm) if our next morning flight is not available.

Inclusion; Tour Guide, flights, Transfer, Boat, Entrance fee(s), Breakfast, lunch, Hotel

Day 16: Nha Trang –Sai Gon –City tour

We take an early flight this morning at 7:45 am, arriving to Saigon at 8:40 am, transfer downtown and check-in at our hotel before our city tour of bustling Saigon started. Visit the Binh Tay Market in Cho Lon; stopover at Thien Hau, a 150 year old Chinese Temple; then to a Lacquer wares workshop and the Jade Emperor pagoda.

In the afternoon visit the War Remnants Museum, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the historic Central Post Office. We’ll drop you off at your hotel around 5:30 pm

Inclusion; Tour Guide, Car / van, Flight, Entrance fee(s), Breakfast, Hotel

Day 17: Sai Gon Cu Chi Tunnel

Departing Saigon at 8:30 am from your hotel for a morning excursion to Tay Ninh to the Great Cao Dai Temple (a place to worship a mixture of Buddhism, Confucius, Taoism, Hinduism and Christianity). We see the noon mass at the temple (1 hour). Lunch in Tay Ninh. In the afternoon we visit the Cu Chi outdoor museum to learn about the infamous tunnel systems of the Viet Cong.

Take this opportunity to get a unique understanding of the guerrillas underground fight strategies during the war and crawl through 50 – 100 meters of the 200 km tunnel system. On the way back to Saigon, local rice paper workshops, and views of Vietnam countryside and paddy fields are pleasant sights. We’ll drop you off at your hotel around 5:30 pm.

Inclusion; Tour Guide, Car / van, Entrance fee(s), Breakfast, Hotel

Day 18: Saigon to the fertile Mekong Delta

Depart Saigon at 8:00 am from your hotel. Head south to Cai Be. Upon arrival at 10:30 am, board a boat for a journey through the Mekong’s floating market. See how river life goes on here, watch the trading between merchant ships and local farmers. Alive and exciting. Cruise through the secluded canals and cross the Mighty Mekong to an island where we will stop to enjoy fresh seasonal fruit before boating to Vinh Long. Back on the bus for our trip to Can Tho to overnight.

Inclusion; Tour Guide, Car / van, Boat cruise, Hotel, Entrance fee(s)

Day 19: Can Tho –Sai Gon

An early start for a boat trip to Cai Rang floating market, then we have some distance to cover. First a cruise, then a walk on a quiet country road taking in the magnificent scenery and getting a little bit closer to the locals as they go about their daily routine. In the afternoon we head back to Saigon. At your same Saigon hotel by 6:00 pm.

Inclusion; Breakfast, Lunch, Transfer, Tour Guide, Hotel

Day 20: Our free day shopping in Sai Gon

Breakfast at the hotel then a day at your leisure in Saigon. Today is a great day for you to relax, shop, take a cyclo tour, and finish any last preparations before you take your flight home the next day.

Inclusion; Breakfast, Hotel

Day 21: Say good bye Vietnam and Origin Vietnam Travel with a lot of memories

You have free time until we transfer to the Airport for departure. It’s time to b farewell to the beaming Vietnamese smile. We trust you had an unforgettable Vietnam holiday with Origin Travel

Inclusion; Breakfast, transfer

Tour cost

Group size	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	S.S
Cost/ person	3330	1916	1719	1574	1516	1482	1495	1468	1436	1420	617

• Costs are $US NET. Subject to 3% surcharge if paid by credit cards or 2% on travellers’ cheque.
• Inclusion: See inclusive items listed after each day
• Exclusion: Visa, insurance, drinks, personal expenses, others not mentioned in details, tips are welcome!
• What to bring: sun-glasses &hat, sun-block, hiking shoes, camera and a lot of film

Notes:

We use standard 3 star hotel, twin shared room. Upgrade is available on request.

Homestay for this trip is basic but clean

Meals: Vietnamese food.

Guide: English speaking guide (on site).

Time to travel: Good to travel year round but best from September to April.

Please travel responsibly: The small things you do will make a big difference!

Booking Terms &Conditions: Tour itinerary and tour prices are subject to change without notice.

Why book this tour with Origin Travel?

• Attention to your personal needs before and after the tour
• Origin Vietnam Travel brings you SEE and KNOWS the Original of Vietnamese people’s culture, tradition, customs and habits…
• Origin Vietnam Travel team works to help local communities by sharing the benefits of Responsible Tourism.

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