Tour Code: 9VNCL1
Dates: 9 Days / 8 Nights
Tour Route: Ho Chi Minh - Cu Chi - Cu Chi - Ho Chi Minh - Ba Ria - Ho Chi Minh - Dalat - Nha Trang - Da Nang - Hue - DMZ - Dong Ha - DMZ - Hue
Itinerary Details:
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City arrival
Arriving at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, you'll be met and driven to your hotel.
You'll spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City/Cu Chi ½ day/ Ho Chi Minh City ½ day (B, L)
After breakfast, your guide will take you to visit the famous Cu Chi tunnels, a Byzantine maze of underground passages, chambers, rooms and booby traps used by both the Vietminh and the Viet Cong to suddenly materialize as if from nowhere, launch a lightning ambush, and vanish equally rapidly. You'll return to Ho Chi Minh City for lunch.
In the afternoon, you'll visit the Reunification Palace, The Museum of War Remnants provides a very partial, but riveting, perspective of the 'American War': not for the squeamish!
You'll spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City/Ba Ria/Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
Around seven o'clock in the morning, you'll travel to Ba Ria by road (100 km - about a 2½ hour drive). There'll be visits to the Ba Ria Orphanage and the Long Phuoc Tunnels. Next, you'll visit Nui Dat (S.A.S Hill) and Luscombe Airfield. In the afternoon, you'll visit the Long Tan Cross and the Horseshoe en-route before returning to Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh/Dalat (B)
In the afternoon, you'll fly to Dalat. On arrival, you'll be met and driven to check into your hotel.
In the afternoon, transfer to visit Bobin hill. From here you can have a panoramic view to the city, take 2,300m long cable car ride to Truc Lam Zen Monastery. Visit the pagoda and Tuyen Lam lake. Proceed to visit Valley of Love, 6 km to the North, typical scenery of Dalat, dotted with lake, pine hills and flowers, well-known for its Cow-boys, a good place for horse riding. Overnight in Da Lat.
The custom-design service of IOT is absolutely free!
Day 5: Dalat/Nha Trang (B)
Free time on your own in the morning.
In the afternoon, transfer to Nha Trang. Check in your hotel. Overnight in Nha Trang.
Day 6: Full day private boat trip in Nha Trang (B, L)
Have one day boat trip. Visit Mun Island, the best site for snorkeling where you will see lots of live colorful corals and fish. This site has been officially protected under the support of Danish Government. Relax, sunbath and swim at Tam island. Lunch on the island Then, visit Tri Nguyen Aquarium on Mieu Island. At this place, the life of the many sea species of Nha Trang ocean that being made in a smaller world of this aquarium can be seen. Return to Nha Trang about 16.00. Transfer to visit Po Nagar tower if you want. Overnight in Nha Trang.
Day 7: Nha Trang/Danang/Hue/DMZ/Dong Ha (B)
In the morning, your car will arrive to take you to the airport to board your morning flight to Danang.
Arriving in Danang, you'll be met and driven northwards to Quang Tri province to tour the wartime 'De-militarised Zone', better known as the DMZ. Upon arrival in Quang Tri in the early afternoon, you'll visit the Old Citadel of Quang Tri, La Vang church, Con Thien firebase and then the Doc Mieu Base. You'll spend the night in Dong Ha town.
Day 8: Dong Ha/DMZ/Hue (B, L)
After breakfast, you'll visit Hien Luong Bridge and the Ben Hai river battle sites. You'll also visit the Vinh Moc Tunnels (these are more authentic and easier to enter than those in Cu Chi. They have been preserved more of less in their original form). Then you'll continue to visit what were once Camp Carroll, the Rock pile, Dakrong Bridge, the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the ethnic minority village of Bru Van Kieu. After lunch at Khe Sanh town, you'll visit the Khe Sanh combat base, Lang Vay Special Forces Camp and the Laos/Vietnam border before returning to Hue. You'll spend the night in Hue.
Day 9: Hue departure (B)
After breakfast, you'll be free until being driven to the airport to take your flight.
