AGAPE TRAVEL VIET NAM
(Vietnam tour)
DAY 1: WELCOME TO HANOI
Meal provided: No
Welcome to Vietnam.
Upon arrival at Hanoi Airport, obtain your visa and clear Immigration and Customs.
After collecting your baggage, exit the airport to meet outside a local tour guide and driver.
Settle in and enjoy the rest of day at leisure. Stay overnight in Hanoi
DAY 2: HANOI CITY TOUR
Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
Start a new day by visiting Ho Chi Minh Complex, an important place of pilgrimage. A traffic-free area of botanical gardens, monuments, memorials, and pagodas, it’s usually crowded with groups of all ages, from all over the nation, who has come to pay their respects. Within the complex, you can visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum (Outside visiting for maintenance every Monday & Friday), Ba Dinh Square, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, Ho Chi Minh Museum
Closed by, the famous One Pillar Pagoda which is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter. It is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist symbol of purity, since a lotus blossoms in a muddy pond.
After that, continue to visit the Temple of Literature (Vietnamese name is Quoc Tu Giam) – Vietnam’s first University, which was built in 1070 in honor of Confucius, his followers, and Chu Van An, a moral figure in Vietnamese education. Have lunch at a local restaurant In the afternoon, you are transferred to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. Almost no foreign tourists to Hanoi refuse to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, where they can look at a vivid picture of the miniaturized Vietnamese ethnic community’s life. Take a cyclo in Hanoi Old Quarter – 36 streets and guilds to discover the ancient feature of Hanoi and daily life. Stop to visit Ngoc Son Temple which is located at the northern end of Sword Lake (aka Hoan Kiem Lake). From the shore, walking on the Welcoming Morning Sunlight Bridge leads to the island. Drop off at your hotel. Stay overnight in Hanoi
*note: The city tour program is flexible. Your guide will be more than happy to adjust the tour itinerary to suit you. You can skip one site or add another if you so wish.
DAY 3: HANOI – SAPA
Meal provided: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
7:00am – Breakfast.
After breakfast, picked up and depart for Sapa.
We will visit the hills of famine and cold, and waterfalls of love. This will be a 3 kilometers long walk. Along the road, we will also visit a waterfall. Here we will stop for site seeing and pictures taking
Drop off at your hotel. Stay overnight in Sapa.
DAY 4: LAO CHAI & TA VAN – CAT CAT VILLAGE
Meal provided: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
7:00am – Breakfast.
8:30am – We will take our car and tour the Hmong Village Lao Chai, Tan Van. We will walk about 7 kilometers to tour the city and back to the road to Sapa. We’ll arrive in Sapa around noon for lunch and check in to our hotel.
3:00pm – We will visit a Hmong village named Cat Cat. We will walk about 4 kilometer visiting Hmong people, their houses, the waterfalls, and get back to Sapa at around 5:00pm. Dinner will be at 7:00pm.
Drop off at your hotel. Stay overnight in Sapa.
DAY 5: SAPA – FANSIPAN BY CABLE CAR – HANOI
Meal provided: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
This morning, you will be transferred to the Sapa Cable Station for very amazing trip to Indochina’s Rooftop – Mount Fanxipan by cable car. This is particularly interesting in these northern mountains of the country, where travelers seek the rice terraces and traditional arts of a minority peoples. Cultivating the land to an altitude of around 2,200 meters are the ethnic minorities the lowland Vietnamese generically call ‘Meo’ – savages – and above them looms the bulk of Hua Xi Pan: “giant protruding rock”. You can challenge yourself when hiking 600 stone stairs more to reach the rocky peak of The Roof of Indochina. Below you spread the foothills of the Himalayas, blanketed with rainforest and the first tendrils of fog.
Drop off at your hotel. Free time till being picked up by the sharing Limousine. Return to Hanoi.
Check in the hotel and stay overnight in Hanoi.
DAY 6: HANOI – HA LONG BAY BY SHUTTLE BUS – Vietnam tour
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
08.00 – 8:30: Our guide will pick you up at your hotel lobby in Ha Noi, being on a modern shuttle bus heading to Ha Long Bay.
12.00: Arrive at Swan office, you have a short time to relax in the office before embark Swan cruise
12.45: Warmest welcome drinks from our staff. Listen to a brief of safety on board then check in your cabin
13.30: Enjoy delicious Vietnamese for lunch while leisurely cruising to the core of Ha Long Bay.
15.00: Leave the cruise to discover Cap La Island– the beautiful area in Bai Tu Long bay. Enjoy kayaking through the karst and breathtaking nature, swimming and relaxing
17.30: Get back to the boat and enjoy Sunset Time (enjoy tea and fresh fruits). This time is regarded as “Happy Hour” – “buy two get one free” while our cruise is sailing to the overnight anchorage.
19.00: Sumptuous set dinner on board.
20.30: Free time for relaxing on the sundeck, and listening to music, you may also try your luck with squid fishing. If you want to join in the karaoke activity, please our tour guide to be supported
Stay overnight on board Ha Long Bay
DAY 7: HA LONG BAY – HANOI – FLIGHT TO DA NANG
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
06.30-07.00: Welcome a new day with an amazing dawn on Ha Long Bay. Refresh your body and soul with a Tai-chi session on the sundeck. 07.00-07.30: Catch the morning view of the seascape while enjoying breakfast with cookies and tea, at a café in the restaurant.
07.30-08.30: Visit fishing village – the famous fishing farm by bamboo boat and discover the life of local people living on the surface of Halong Bay. (No swimming).
08.30-9.30: Pack up the luggage and check out of the cabin.
09.30-10.40: Enjoy the brunch in the restaurant while cruising back to Vinashin tourist harbor.
11.00: Disembark from the boat.
12.00: Get on your shuttle bus again for driving back to Hanoi.
16.30: The shuttle bus will drop you off at your former hotel in Hanoi.
From here, you will be privately transferred to Noi Bai Airport (no guide) to catch an evening flight to Danang.
After collecting your baggage, exit the Da Nang airport to meet outside a local Guide. From the airport, you will be privately transferred to your lovely hotel.
Stay overnight in Da Nang
DAY 8: da nang – hue – hoi an
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
7:00am – Breakfast.
Breakfast at hotel, transfer to Hue visit Royal Citadel, built on 1804. The tour of imperial City features Flag Tower, Noon Gate, Nine Dymastic Urns, Nine Holy Cannons, Thai Hoa Palace, Forbidden Purble city. After lunch, have a visit to Khai Dinh Royal Tomb, shopping at Dong Ba Market.
Transfer to Hoian, on the way stop at Hai Van for photo stop. Overnight Hoian
DAY 9: Hoi an – Cam Thanh- Vietnam tour
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
7:00am – Breakfast.
Breakfast at hotel, Stroll around the Japanese Bridge, Phuc Kien Communal House, Traditional House, Museum, Handicraftsman At Work. After noon, transfer to boarding the basket boat and travelling to Cam Thanh Water Coconut Village. Take the bamboo basket boat and slowly rowing to the village and enjoy interesting show.
Transfer back to Danang.
Overnight Danang
DAY 10: hoi an – bana hills – ho chi minh city Vietnam tour
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
7:00am – Breakfast.
After breakfast, transfer to Bana Hills. You have a chance to ride on a modern system of cable cars helps you get a bird’s-eye view, very miraculous and attractive. You will visit some old French villas en route, as well as the suspension bridge, Nui Chua & the Mountain Peak (at the height of 1,487m). Visit Vong Nguyet villa where we will visit the wine cellar, Linh Ung Pagoda, Sakyamuni Buddha’s monument, Golden Hand Bridge. Relax at Fantasy Park. Go down Danang by cable car.
Transfer to airport for your flight back home.
Upon arrival at Tan San Nhat Airport, be welcomed by our guide to transfer to your hotel in the center.
Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 11: HO CHI MINH CITY – MY THO – BEN TRE – HO CHI MINH CITY Vietnam tour
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
Morning, we leave Ho Chi Minh behind and head to Vietnam’s rice basket of the Mekong Delta. Arrived, boarding the motorboat at a pier and cruising on the Mekong River. Here, overlooking floating houses where fishes are farmed beneath the house (viewing from the motorboat). Continuing the journey on the river until reaching Unicorn Island), we head to the performance site where Vietnamese traditional music can be heard and seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted.
Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat in An Khanh (the main mean of transportation in My Tho & Ben Tre) and slowly cruised through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Lives from both sides of the creek can be observed. Before heading to lunch, passing through a bee-keeping farm and enjoying honey tea, a typical Mekong house can be viewed here. Continue traveling to learn the coconut candies-making process from a workshop. A sample of candies can be tasted. Drive back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Stay overnight at Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 12: FULL-DAY SAIGON – CU CHI – CITY TOUR Vietnam tour
Meal Provided: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
This morning, picked you up at your hotel.
We’ll visit the famous Cu Chi Tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence. The Cu Chi Tunnel system had been created a long time back, in 1948 to assist Viet Minh in the combat with French. And it was continuing built over 25 years later. It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers. In places, it housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years…. getting married and giving birth. During the American War, the entire area of Cu Chi has designated a free fire zone and was heavily bombarded. Since 1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for visitors.
Have lunch at a local restaurant.
Then enjoy the sightseeing at Reunification Palace formerly known as Independence Palace, built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City. Our next stop is the War Remnants Museum. Operated by the Vietnamese government, an incipient form of the museum opened on September 4, 1975, as the “Exhibition House for the US and Puppet Crimes, located on the premises of the former United States Information Agency building. Continue to visit City Hall, Ho Chi Minh Monument, and Central Post Office which was constructed when Vietnam was part of French Indochina in the early 20th century. It has a neoclassical architectural style. It was designed and constructed by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel in harmony with the surrounding area. Today, the building is a tourist attraction.
Right nearby, you can see Notre Dame Cathedral, a magnificent building located in the heart of the city and established by French colonists. This cathedral was constructed between 1863 and 1880. It has two bell towers, reaching a height of 58 meters (190 feet).Vietnam tour
DAY 13: HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR – DEPARTURE
Meal Provided: Breakfast
Depending on your flight, our guide and driver will transfer you to Tan San Nhat Airport to catch a flight back home.
End of Vietnam tour.
