6-Day Discovery in Vietnam from Kolkata

Welcome to Hanoi, you will be collected by our driver at Hanoi Airport and transfer to hotel for check-in.

Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: None
• Tour guide: English speaking guide for airport pick up
• Transfer: Private car

07:45 – 08:30 AM: Depart to Bai Dinh pagoda and Trang An eco-tourism site. Have a short break en-route to free your legs.

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Visit Bai Dinh pagoda – Southeast Asia’s largest Buddhist complex which consists of several temples and over 500 intricately carved statues of Buddha

12:30 PM: Then, you will have lunch in a restaurant with local special dishes.

01:30 PM: We will visit Trang An by a boat trip through cave chains.

06:30 – 07:00 PM: You will be dropped at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

07:30 – 08:00 AM: Pick up at the hotel and start a 3.5-hour scenic – drive to Halong Bay.

12:45 PM: Arrive at the harbor, and then embark a Day cruise followed by a short cruise briefing. Have lunch and cruise through the emerald water passing by the Dog Stone, the Burning Incense islet, stop at Ba Hang fishing village for kayaking or sit in a sampan boat rowed by locals.

Visit Fighting-Cock islet and the Heavenly Palace (Thien Cung) cave

Have tea break while enjoying local finger food and sunset in Halong Bay.

04:45 – 05:15 PM: Back to the harbor. Disembark and get on the bus back to Hanoi.

08:30 PM: Drop off at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

Have a local breakfast at your hotel. Afterward, we transfer to Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest of its kind in Hanoi, dating back to the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Ly Nam De Dynasty (544 – 548). The Buddhist shrine has undergone several changes throughout the years, particularly its renaming from An Quoc to Tran Quoc (protecting the country) by Emperor Le Huy Tong in the 17th century.

Then we move to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (closes on Monday and Friday) and his traditional stilt house.

At 12:00 PM, check out the hotel, transfer to the airport for your domestic flight to Ho Chi Minh.

Welcome on arrival and transfer to Ho Chi Minh City hotel.

Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel in Ho Chi Minh.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Queen An Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

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 toilets.

• 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 Xe Lôi to travel throughout the villages.
• Lunch will be served at a riverside restaurant with a Vietnamese 5-course set menu. Please request in advance if you have a food allergy, you are a vegetarian, or you observe Halal.
• Take a rest after lunch before boarding the motor-boat back to My Tho. We drive to Vinh Trang 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 and drop you at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Queen An Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

08:00 – 08:30 AM: Pick up at your hotel and start the city tour included:

• Independence Palace (the Reunification Palace) was built on the sight of the former Norodom palace.
• War Remnants Museum which has a vast display of both the Indochina wars.
• Notre Dame Cathedral & Central Post Office the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times
• Jade Emperor Pagoda with the peaceful atmosphere &o many stories behind each detail of the pagoda.

12:30 PM: Lunchtime with a famous Phở restaurant (Vietnamese noodle soup).

02:00 PM: Depart around 1,5 hours through the pleasant countryside before arriving at Cu Chi Tunnels – the historic site where Vietnamese soldiers used as a shelter during wartime. This fantastic network stretches over 250 km and is the shelter of Vietnamese soldiers during the wars.

06:00 – 07:00 PM: Be dropped off at your hotel. Dinner on your own account.

At a good time at midnight, you will be picked up from the hotel (without a guide) to the airport for your departure flight.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: None
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car