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DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN HO CHI MINH CITY
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City at 06:30 on flight VN10
Customs formalities and baggage claim (Estimated duration about 45 minutes).
You will then be met by your guide and driver, outside the airport, transfer to Ho Chi Minh City for city tour
SAIGON City : the pearl of the Far East”, the largest city and the economic center of the country. What strikes you first when you arrive in the southern megalopolis is the extreme agitation that reigns there and the irresistible energy that emerges from it. A lively city, the interest of visiting Saigon lies in its different districts, all imbued with a specific atmosphere: colonial Saigon, American Saigon, Cholon, the Chinese city.
The central post office : Its construction was completed in 1891, Gustave Eiffel himself signed its metal frame. Its architecture, with a roof topped with a glass roof, is reminiscent of the buildings of the Universal Exhibition. Inside, countless fans stir up a humid air. It is a place where it is pleasant to stop.
City Hall (exterior tour) : This enormous building looked like a yellow and white birthday cake. Since its renovation, its 66m façade, topped with a belfry and decorated by Ruffier, has become more elegant. Inside, beautiful crystal chandeliers give it a refined atmosphere. Headquarters of the members of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.
Nguyen Hue Avenues : nicknamed “The Champs Elysees” of Saigon.
Visit to Ben Thanh Market : it occupies an entire block of houses. Built by the French in 1914, it served as a central market hall. Half-covered, it is a maze of streets housing all kinds of stalls. The dome of the central building, 28m in diameter, is topped with a clock. The stalls surprise with the variety of products. A thousand colors, a thousand smells...
Lunch at the restaurant
Transfer to your hotel for check-in and rest.
Note : Your room is available from 2:00 p.m.
Free dinner.
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 2 : HO CHI MINH CITY
After breakfast,
Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (FITO) : Nearly 3,000 objects related to Vietnamese traditional medicine dating back to the Stone Age:
Instruments used to prepare traditional medicine: knives, grinders, mortars and pestles, pots and jars.
Objects found in a traditional pharmacy: ladder, cabinet, billboard, printing mold, spirit gourd, teapot, bowl, lime pot and other ceramic items.
Books and documents on Vietnamese traditional medicine.
Equipped with modern audio-visual technology, the museum regularly screens “A Century of Health Care Experience”, a documentary film on the history of traditional medicine in Vietnam.
Lunch at the restaurant
Landmark 81 is an ultra-tall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which was designed by British design, engineering and consultancy firm Atkins. The project's lead investor and developer is Vinhomes, a Vietnamese company that is also the country's largest real estate company. Landmark 81 is the tallest building in Vietnam, the tallest completed building in Southeast Asia as of July 2018, and the 14th tallest building in the world..
Strolling through the shopping center with possibility of going up to the highest floor (at your own expense)
If time permits, you will also do a short walk in the park of this residential complex.
Return to the city center via the new “Thu Thiem 2” bridge
with a great view of the city center.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 3: HO CHI MINH CITY – BEN TRE – CAN THO
Breakfast at the hotel Departure to Ben Tre from 08:00.
Mekong Delta Excursion: Welcome at the pier in downtown My Tho, boarding to cross one of the nine arms of the Mekong: Song Tien to admire the 4 islands nicknamed: Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Turtle.
Arrived in Ben Tre: visit the coconut caramel factory, horse-drawn carriage ride, tasting fruits, honey tea and rice alcohol distilled with honey while listening to traditional music and rowing boat ride.
Return to the boat for lunch and taste the Mekong specialty: "elephant ear fish".
Lunch in an orchard.
Departure for Can Tho
Arrival Can Tho and visit of:
The night market is one of the unique cultural sites of Can Tho tourism. Going to Tay Do market and exploring the cultural beauty of local people, you will have unforgettable memories. In addition to buying gifts, souvenirs, you also have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the lively activities of southern people in the mild night air. All create a Tay Do night market strongly inspired by the characteristics of the South in Vietnam. Nowadays, Tay Do night market is considered one of the most fascinating cultural attractions in Can Tho.
Ninh Kieu Port: Located on the bank of the Hau River in Can Tho City, it is a quiet and relaxing place to take a stroll in the late afternoon or at sunset. Ninh Kieu Park is large and spacious, planted with many ornamental trees, the highlight being the green grass that grows and weaves between the white cement panels and the 7.2-meter-high bronze statue of Uncle Ho.
Can Tho Pedestrian Bridge: If you arrive at the park at night, this is the time to see the Can Tho pedestrian bridge with 2 gigantic lotus flowers made of thousands of neon lights that illuminate the entire area. This is a great place to enjoy the view of the Can Tho river at night.
Free dinner. (Suggestion: the restaurant on the quay: SAO HOM)
Night at the hotel in Can Tho.
NGÀY 4: CAN THO – HO CHI MINH CITY
Breakfast at the hotel early around 06:00.
In the morning, around 7:00 a.m., take a motorboat ride on the Cai Nong canal to visit the Cai Rang floating market.
Cai Rang Floating Market : This is the large floating market of wholesalers of the Mekong Delta, a myriad of boats loaded with watermelons, melons, carrots, sweet potatoes, fruits, onions, etc. .. Note that the poles at the end of which are hung fruits or vegetables serving as signs.
Can Tho “hủ tiếu” noodles have the secret to delighting the taste buds. "Hủ tiếu" is the typical soup of the Southwest region, composed of rice noodles, pork broth and various garnishes. To make good noodles, you need "nùng", a variety of rice grown mainly in Cân Tho and Sa Dec (Dông Thap), whose grains are white and long.
The ecological village “Ong De located in My Ai hamlet, Phong Dien district, about 7 km from the center of Can Tho city. With an area of about 2.5 hectares covered with many types of trees and lush green landscape
Ong De Ecotourism Village offers not only a lush green space but also a glimpse into the life and activities, sometimes very playful, of the locals.
Lunch at Ong De village
Free afternoon or return to Ho Chi Minh City
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 5: HO CHI MINH CITY – DA LAT
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Ho Chi Minh City Airport at 08:00 for the flight to Da Lat
Take off at 10:55 on the flight VN1382
Arrival in Da Lat at 11:55
Lunch at the restaurant.
Afternoon, visit of:
The municipal garden to admire the varieties of Vietnamese flowers, original and hybrid, such as roses, rhododendrons, xacphao flowers, camellias, mimosas, immortelles, salvias or daffodils
The dried flower exhibition (Dalat FBIO Corp).
Xuan Huong Lake : This 45 ha artificial lake was built in 1919. Its name could mean “spring fragrance” because of the many pink cherry trees that bloom there in spring and perfume the air of Dalat..
Horse-drawn carriage ride around Xuan Huong Lake or by bike (at your expense).
Dalat Train Station : If there is a monument of French style from the colonial era not to be missed in Dalat, it is indeed this railway station, it looks like a model of miniature trains that would have grown with a single wave of a magic wand, some say that it is the copy of the Deauville station.
Free dinner.
Overnight at hotel in Da Lat
DAY 6 : DA LAT
After breakfast
Flower plantations under greenhouse in VAN THANH village
The cricket farm
The “civet” coffee production facility at Cafe Me Linh and its panoramic view
Lunch at the restaurant.
Elephant Waterfalls (Lieng Rewoa Waterfall) : These spectacular falls have their original name from the K’ho ethnic language and it means “elephant falls” in Vietnamese. Due to its remoteness, they are quite quiet and less touristy. See nearby Linh An Tu Pagoda – a peaceful retreat.
The Domaine de Marie church : for a moment of reflection, Built between 1931 and 1942, the cathedral dressed all in pink watches over the last vestiges of the French presence in Indochina from a height of 47 meters.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Da Lat
DAY 7: DA LAT
After breakfast,
The Governor's Palace : the summer residence of Emperor Bao Dai, a beautiful ochre-yellow villa in the style of the 1930s. Dear to Malet Stevens, there are some pieces of furniture and objects that belonged to the emperor during his lifetime
The Dalat Star website : tourist place formed located in the heart of a 500 m2 campus on a gently sloping land overlooking Tuyen Lam Lake, very romantic with a 100 m2 clay house nestled in the shade of century-old trees, and surrounded by garden, deer, roe deer and a stream.
Lunch at the restaurant.
The Hang Nga guesthouse or Crazy House: The hotel, but is it still a hotel?, the most unusual and the most delirious in Vietnam. A fantastic place, in the true sense of the word. Not a single right angle, here, everything is only rounded and undulating shapes, like the leaves of a tree.
The former Yersin high school: it now houses the École normale supérieure. The high school is at the end of Yersin Street, about 500 m on the left coming from the lake. It can be seen from quite far away thanks to its high turret topped with slates emerging from the trees on a hill, south of Xuan Huong Lake. Built in 1935, in honor of the discoverer of Dalat (Yersin) and entirely renovated in part with French funds, it really has the appearance of a French building, let's say from the South of France. Not to be confused with its little brother, the small Yersin high school, another French vestige, much less impressive.
To visit Colonial-era villas and chalets : The most imposing villas are drowned in the pine forests of Tran Hung Dao Street, on a ridge line overlooking the southern shore of the lake. There are some that are abandoned but there are still some very cute, sometimes unusual ones.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Da Lat
DAY 8 : DA NANG – NHA TRANG
Breakfast at the hotel.
Truc Lam Pagoda is a Zen Buddhist monastery. Located on top of a hill surrounded by pine forests, with a two-story roof reminiscent of the Zen temples of Japan. Landscaped gardens, fun animal topiaries and a magnificent bonsai tree over 300 years old.
Datanla Waterfall : It is a deep and with a lot of flow waterfall, which makes the sound of falling water, thunderous and exciting at the same time. The natural place where the waterfall is located is very beautiful, full of green pine trees is a forest of more than 100 years. Datanla flows into a lake, Tuyen Lam Lake.
Lunch at the restaurant.
Departure for Nha Trang.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Nha Trang
DAY 9 : NHA TRANG
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to DOC LET beach with its white sand.
Lunch at Paradise Doc Let
Free afternoon
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Nha Trang
DAY 10 : NHA TRANG – HO CHI MINH CITY
Breakfast at the hotel
Free day
Lunch and dinner free
Transfer to Nha Trang airport for return flight to Ho Chi Minh City
Take off at 16:05 on flight VN1347
Arrival in Ho Chi Minh City at 17:20
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 11 : HO CHI MINH CITY – DA NANG – HOI AN
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to Ho Chi Minh City airport at 05:30 for flight to Da Nang
Take off at 08:00 on flight VN114
Arrival in Da Nang at 09:30
Visite de :
Bana Station : At some 1500 m above sea level, the Ba Na resort is set in a mountain setting with a magnificent panorama over the plain to Danang Bay.
Taking advantage of the mild climate, the French colonists set up a rest station there in 1919. From the ruins of yesterday, a site focused on ecological tourism tinged with local ethnic culture is now being reborn.
You take the cable car who holds the continental distance record for the visit to the Linh Ung pagoda, Vong Nguyet hill, Le Nim villa
Also located is the wax museum, Golden Bridge which is considered the link between the French village and “Le Jardin D’Amour”.
The Garden of Love is made up of nine different gardens that will tell you nine different stories behind the architecture and flowers. And don’t forget to stop by the century-old wine cellar located nearby.
Free lunch
Departure for Hoi An.
In case of bad weather the ticket is valid the next day.
Dinner at the restaurant
Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
Breakfast at the hotel.
HOI AN : Once located on the maritime silk routes, Hoi An experienced its expansion from the 15th century, when great traders set up trading posts there. At its peak, Hoi An, contemporary with Macau and Melaka, was an essential stopover for Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and other merchants. These wealthy merchants also built elegant houses entirely of wood. Over the decades, all architectural styles mixed together to give Hoi An a unique character, city today listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. 844 buildings have been listed for their historical and architectural interest.
Walk in Hoi An Ancient Town : visit to the Hoi An historical and cultural museum, the Quan Cong temple, a twenty-minute Cham dance or song show is offered, also a visit to the Japanese bridge (actuellement en réfection) which was built in 1593 and the old house of Phung Hung…
Located next to the market in Hoi An Ancient Town, a small stall displays hundreds of picturesque portrait statues, carved with bamboo roots. It is also the workplace of craftsman Huynh Phuong Do.
REHAHN photo gallery and museum : Located in the old French quarter of Hoi An, the museum brings together more than 200 photographs of the artist and around fifty rare traditional costumes as well as various objects such as earrings, pipes, etc.
Afternoon, free time to take advantage of the An Bang beach or cycle towards the Cua Dai beach.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
DAY 13: HOI AN
Breakfast at the hotel
Free day
Lunch at the restaurant
Dinner at leisure
Overnight at hotel in Hoi An
DAY 14: HOI AN - HUE
After breakfast,
Departure for Hue, passing through Departure for Hue, passing through
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Hue
DAY 15: HUE
After breakfast,
HUE City : Hue was the capital of the country during the Tay Son and Nguyen dynasties. Over the centuries, the city has become a major center of Vietnamese architecture, earning it a place on the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993. By tradition, Hue represents one of the main cultural, religious and educational centers of the country. On both sides of the Perfume River, the superb tombs of the Nguyen emperors, several sumptuous pagodas and the remains of the imperial citadel constitute the city's main tourist attractions.
The Citadel of Hue : Built between 1805 and 1824 by Emperor Gia Long, for the dynasty he had just founded. Its structure evokes the Forbidden City in Beijing : a citadel containing the imperial city, itself containing the forbidden city. The citadel is square and fortified by a 6.60 m high and 21 m thick enclosure, reinforced by a moat.
Lunch at the restaurant
The Tomb of Tu Duc : This one is also called Tomb of Modesty, it covers 475 hectares of pine forest on the right bank of the Perfume River, some eight kilometers from Hue. The necropolis was built from 1864 to 1867 respecting the hill relief that supports it.
About 7 km southwest of the city of Hue, province of Thua Thien-Hue (Center), the Thuy Xuan traditional incense village is located today on the edge of Huyên Tran Công Chua Street. The place is present at the foot of Vong Canh Hill, next to the poetic Huong River.
When you go to the village of Thuy Xuân, the first thing that strikes you is the presence of bouquets of brightly colored incense "flowers".
As soon as the sunlight appears, the villagers dry the incense sticks on the ground of Huyên Tran Công Chua Street.
Free dinner
Overnight at hotel in Hue
DAY 16: HUE – HO CHI MINH CITY
After breakfast,
Thien Mu Pagoda : Founded in 1601, the pagoda of the "heavenly lady", the most famous in Hue, is marked from the river by a high octagonal tower of 7 floors evoking the 7 reincarnations of Buddha.
Lunch at the restaurant.
Transfer to Hue airport at 14:00 for flight to Ho Chi Minh City
Take off at 17:45 on flight VN1375
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City at 19:25, transfer to your hotel for check-in.
Free dinner.
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
DAY 17: HO CHI MINH CITY – RETURN FLIGHT
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to the airport from Ho Chi Minh City for the return flight.
Take off on flight VN11 at 22:50
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