Vietnam Memories 14 Days

Hightlight:

Hanoi traditional villages: Pay a visit to some lesser-known traditional handicraft villages. Passing through small local markets, rice fields, seeing the real pictures of Vietnam in the countryside.

Halong Bay: Overnight on the cruise, discover cave, tunnel, island, see stunning landscapes of Halong Bay

Mai Chau: Riding bicycle around the village and discover lifestyle of local people, enjoy the ethnic minority’s performances and local food

Hue: Visit traditional village of Hue, cruising along the river and see Hue ancient city of VIetnam, discover a peaceful village by cycling or walking around it. 

Hoian: Becoming a farmer and fisherman and do many rural activities of local people like riding buffalo, caching fish, rowing the boat and discover a peaceful Hoi An…

Ho Chi Minh cooking class: Discover a rural countryside with many special things then take part in cooking activities and make the most amazing foods, become a master chef then enjoy what you have done. Receive certificate, souvenirs, recipes…

Mekong Delta: Take an excursion to Mekong Delta, with a boat trip on the Mekong River, row sampan in the small canals…

Itinerary in brief

Day 1: Check in Hotel in Hanoi ( Meals: welcome dinner)

Day 2: Hanoi pristine traditional handicraft villages ( Meals: B, home local lunch)

Day 3: Hanoi - Halong bay – Glory Legend Cruise ( Meals: B, L,D)

Day 4: Halong Bay – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

Day 5: Hanoi – Mai Chau( Meals: B,L,D)

Day 6: Mai Chau – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

Day 7: Hanoi – Hue ( Meals: B)

Day 8: Hue traditonal village tour ( Meals: B,L)

Day 9: Hue – Hoi An ( Meals: B)

Day 10: Hoi An farmer and fisherman tour ( Meals: B,L)

Day 11: Hoi An – Danang – Ho Chi Minh city ( Meals: B)

Day 12: Ho Chi Minh cooking class ( Meals: B,L)

Day 13 : Ho Chi Minh city – Mekong Delta ( Meals: B,L, farewell dinner)

Day 14: Ho Chi Minh departure – Home ( Meals: B)

Day 1: Check in Hotel in Hanoi  (Meals: Welcome dinner)

You arrive Hanoi and check in hotel in Hanoi centre. You get welcome drink and check-in. Today, you are free at your leisure time. You have a welcome dinner at a local restaurant, enjoy the best food of Hanoi here. 

Night 1: Overnight in hotel in Hanoi

Day 2: Traditional handicraft village and welcome home local meal ( Meal:B, L)

8.00 am: Our tour-guide and driver are going to pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to “ special pristine handicraft villages”. At 9.30 am: Arrive the villages, then we are strolling around the villages

+ Trinh Luong Rice flour making village: Situated in the west of Hanoi, the village is very well-known for making flour for many generations. It is used for making many kinds of cakes in northern Vietnam like “ Gio” cake, rice cake ( Banh Cuon)…We visit here and explore a traditional village of outskirt Hanoi. We are walking around the village and pass by small grocery stores,  see the bustle of the local then we pay a visit to the communal house. At communal house we show our respect to a village’s saint who taught the local to make rice flour. After that, we are going to visit a local family and know how to produce it.

 +Thuong Mao Carpentry village: Overcoming many years of making wood here, the village is very famous in northern Vietnam and has got many talented artisans working on furniture for houses across the country, from prominent buildings to architecture projects in the big cities. We visit the most crowned family and discover how they produce beautiful products.

+Nhan Trach joss-paper ( ghost money) making village: This village is very famous for making joss-paper in northern Vietnam. The entire villagers just focus on making it at home for hundreds of years. They specialize in providing it for big joss-paper stores in Hanoi and families which have got funerals. We are going to visit it and then you could practice how to make it.

12.00 – 13.00pm : Come back and have local lunch. We will enjoy the traditional Vietnamese food. At 14.00pm: We are going to visit Van Phuc silk village. Situated on the bank of Nhue River, about 10km southwest of Hanoi Old Quarter, Van Phuc silk village is renowned for its traditional weaving and premium quality silk products. At the age of more than 1,200 years, Van Phuc is proud to be the most ancient silk village which provides the best silk in Vietnam. Here, we will know more about the culture of silk village and see how to make silk from silkworm. At 16.30pm: You arrive your hotel and say goodbye to the tour-guide. 

Night 2: Stay overnight in the hotel in Hanoi

Day 3: Hanoi - Halong bay – Glory Legend Cruise (Meals:B, L,D)

7.30 – 19.30pm: Our tour-guide will come to pick you up at your hotel and drive to Halong City. We stop at Hai Duong province for refreshment about 30 minutes on the halfway At 12.00-12.30pm:  Arrive our harbor,  take break and welcome drink at Glory Legend Cruise Lounge and then get on boat for lunch. At 15.00-15.30pm: Visiting Luon cave, the perfect combination of lime-stone mountains and jade-green sea by bamboo boat with local people or kayaking based on your preference, then we visit Titop island for swimming and taking pictures on the top of island.

17.00pm: Attend the Cooking class on sundeck – How to make Vietnamese spring rolls – traditional Vietnamese food. Then enjoy Happy Hour (Buy one drink-get one free). It is time for chit chat and relaxing. Watch the magnificent sunset over Halong Bay.At 19.30 – 23.00pm: Dinner – Deluxe Vietnamese and International BBQ Set Menu Dinner and some activities like: movies, music, fishing, playing cards… 

Night 3: Stay overnight on the boat in Halong Bay

Day 4: Halong Bay – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

06.00 – 08.00am: The day starts early onboard with Tai Chi session on the sundeck.

08.00 – 11.30am: We visit Sung Sot Cave, one of the most biggest caves in Halong bay with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. Then, back to Glory Legend Cruises. Check out and settle your bill at reception.Have a lunch while cruising back to the Tuan Chau Wharf. Disembark to Tuan Chau Wharf. Say goodbye to the crew. From 12.00 to 17.00pm: Return to Hanoi by shuttle bus. 

Night 4: Stay overnight in the hotel in Hanoi.

Day 5: Hanoi – Mai Chau ( Meals: B,L,D)

7:30-8:00am : Our tour-guide picks you up at your hotel and then leave Hanoi for Mai Chau.

10:00am : Short break

11:30-12:00 : Scenic photo stop of Mai Chau valley/arrive in Mai Chau

12:15pm : Traditional lunch in our home(vegetarian available)

14:00-16:30pm : Bicycle ride with your tour guide, see farmers working in fields, locals weaving scarves and visit surrounding peaceful villages.

16:30-18:00pm : Free time for cycling, walking, shopping

18:00pm : Enjoy the dinner at the homestay. Enjoy the Thai’s ethnic Perfomance and drink the traditional wine “ruou can”. Overnight in communal dorm or private Bungalows at Riverside Bungalows. 

Night 5: Stay overnight in the bungalow in Mai Chau

Day 6: Mai Chau – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

7:30-8:00am : Wakeup and eat breakfast

8:30-11:30am : Hike to 1000 Step Cave and local market

12:15 – 15:00pm : Lunch and free time to relax before getting on the van to Hanoi

18:30-19:00pm : Our tour-guide drops you off at your hotel 

Night 6: Stay overnight in the hotel in Ha noi

Day 7: Hanoi – Hue ( Meals: B)

You enjoy your breakfast in the hotel and check out the room. For this morning, you are free at your leisure, you could discover Hanoi Old Quarter, buy something for your family, enjoy some food here. Our driver is going to pick you up and transfer you to the airport for Hue. 

Night 7: Stay overnight in the hotel in Hue

Day 8: Thuy Bieu Village Tour ( Meals: B,L)

09: 00 am: Our driver will pick you up from your hotel. Embark on boat at Toa Kham wharf for a cruise along Perfume River.

- Visit Dong Ba market and buy necessary food for cooking class with our chief.

- Visit a Thien Mu pagoda – the symbol of Hue city.

- Back to the boat for a scenic cruise to Thuy Bieu village – the Garden of Eden in Hue.  

- Arrive Thuy Bieu, a nice walking or biking around village.

• Visit local garden ,  old ancestral temple and communicate with local people.
• Visit incense making family to discover the daily life of local people while they are working strenuously with joy and enthusiasm.
• Visit joss paper making family to know more about a tradional custom of Vietnamese people and know why they use joss paper, also known as ghost money,  for the died people.
• Visit paper painting family  to see the countryside painting art of the young local artists.

- Come back to Thuy Bieu restaurant for cooking class, you will prepare lunch by yourself with our chief’s instruction.

- Have lunch with Hue traditional dishes you have just cooked.

- Relax by soaking your foot in medicinal herb water – a traditional therapeutic practice.

- Enjoy excellent massage by blind people. Back to hotel around 14:00 pm. End of the tour. 

Night 8: Stay overnight in the hotel in Hue.

Day 9: Hue – Hoi An ( Meals: B)

You enjoy breakfast in your hotel and then check out your room. This morning, you are free at your leisure time, discover Hue city on your own, buy some souvenirs for your relatives. In the afternoon, our driver is going to pick you up then transfer you to Hoi An.

Night 9: Stay overnight in the hotel in Hoi An.

Day 10: Hoi An farmer and fisherman tour ( Meals: B,L)

8.00am: Our guide will pick you up by bicycle. Today, we are going to do many activities and enjoy them as a real Vietnamese farmer. We go to the rural areas to participate in field plowing and water buffalo riding with farmers .After that, we continue on the boat to visit coastal fishing village in Cua Dai for traditional fishing activities of the local fishermen. Here, we could learn to how paddle Viet bamboo baskets and explore water coconut ecological system. Then we enjoy local lunch at the local people’s family. At 12.30pm: Our tour-guide takes you back to the hotel by bike and says goodbye.

Night 10 : Stay overnight in the hotel in Hoi An.

Day 11: Hoi An – Da Nang – Ho Chi Minh city ( Meals: B )

Today, you have your breakfast in the hotel. You are free at your leisure, you could discover Hoi An town on your own, buy some souvenirs for your friends or relatives, relax on the Cua Dai or An Bang beaches. Our driver is going to pick you up and transfer you to the airport for Ho Chi Minh city.

Night 11: Stay overnight in the hotel in Ho Chi Minh city

Day 12: Ho Chi Minh cooking class ( Meals: B,L)

Today, you enjoy your breakfast at your hotel and then wait for our tour-guide for cooking class. For today’s cooking class, we are going to see a lot of interesting things just in Vietnam. Our tour-guide is going to  pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City at 7:30am and then transfer you to Ho Chi Minh agricultural villages at 8:30am. Today, we explore a real Vietnam by visiting  Ho Chi Minh agricultural villages from 8:30am – 10:00am. We are coming over some rural places:

+ Visiting many places for agriculture in Vietnam like buffalo, cow areas, rice fields, farms…

+ Challenges on the garden by becoming a real vietnamese farmer with a vietnamese traditional hat and picking up a lot of herbs  and spices ,vegetables and mushrooms in the garden

- Cooking challenges 10:00am -13:30pm

+ Hands on cooking class with three dishes, 1 dessert and enjoy what you have done

+ Enjoy great healthy cooking dishes

+ Receive a cooking certificate, recipes, souvenirs.

14.00 pm: You arrive your hotel.

Night 12: Stay overnight in the hotel in Ho Chi Minh city

Day 13: Ho Chi Minh – Mekong Delta ( Meals: B,L, farewell dinner)

8.00-8.30am: Our tour-guide will pick you up at your hotel. Drive from Saigon through rice paddies and small villages to Mekong Delta river. Upon arrival in My Tho, enjoy around 3-hour Mekong Delta cruise trip and rowing sampan in small canals, then we have a short walk to visit a small village, discover some local workshops and coconut processing chains. Taste some local fresh fruits and special honey tea of Mekong Delta. Lunch served at a garden restaurant on Mekong Delta river bank with countryside scenery. Visit Vinh Trang pagoda which is an unique pagoda in Vietnam and the mixture of Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian architecture. Back to Ho Chi Minh city around 17.00pm. After you come back your hotel, you could take a shower and relax. At 19.30pm, our driver is going to transfer you to a local restaurant and enjoy a small farewell dinner. 

Night 13: Stay overnight in the hotel in Ho Chi Minh city

Day 14: Ho Chi Minh city- Home ( Meals: B)

You enjoy your breakfast in the hotel and check out your room. Today, you could go shopping around your hotel, discover a busy city on your own, our driver is going to pick you up and transfer you to the airport. Say goodbye to Vietnam, see you one day! End of service!

*)Note:

Surcharge  30 USD / Person for 3-star package, 40 USD/person for 4-star package, 50 USD/person for 5-star package for check-in on Lunar new year, Christmas’s Eve, New year’s Eve

Itinerary may be changed due to unexpected weather conditions

Hotel and cruise will be replaced by similar standard option only in case of full booking.