Vietnam and Cambodia Adventure

Itinerary

• Day 1: Hanoi, Arrival

  When your flight lands at Hanoi airport, your personal tour guide is waiting for you outside the arrival hall. Your guide will escort you to your hotel with your driver, brief the schedule of your next day in Hanoi and assist you with hotel check-in.

  Spend the remainder of the day at leisure. If you do not want to stay at the hotel, wandering along the nearby streets is a nice choice.

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• Day 2: Hanoi

  A carefully arranged city tour will be a good way for you to learn about this city. Accompanied by your guide, you will visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ho Chi Minh's Stilt House where former President Ho Chi Minh lived from 1958 to 1969. Continue to One Pillar Pagoda, Hoa Lo Prison, and Temple of Literature.

  In the afternoon, know about the ethnic characteristics of Vietnam at the Museum of Ethnology, get a glimpse of local people's lives and their living environment at the Old Quarter by an hour rickshaw ride. Later, move towards Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple and watch a water puppet show nearby before being escorted back to your hotel.

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  • Hanoi

• Day 3: Hanoi - Halong Bay

  A 3-hour drive will bring you to Hon Gai pier, where your Halong Bay Cruise will start. Lunch and dinner are served on board.

  Halong Bay is renowned for the landscape that thousands of jagged limestone mountains almost vertically rise out of the sea. Besides the spectacular natural beauty, there are many other activities at your choice, such as the kayaking to the floating fishing villages, cooking performance, squid fishing. Sauna is also offered for free and the bar is open late to serve you. Overnight on board at Cong Do Area.

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  • Halong Bay

• Day 4: Halong Bay - Hanoi - Da Nang - Hoi An

  Halong Bay cruise will make more fun than you think. In the early morning, you can take part in Tai Chi practice on the open deck. After a light breakfast, set off to explore Thien Canh Son Cave, where you will be amazed by the beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. Get back to the ship to enjoy the brunch and then check out.

  Your guide and driver will meet you at the pier and transfer you to Hanoi airport for your flight to Da Nang. On arrival, be escorted to your hotel in Hoi An.

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  • Hoi An

• Day 5: Hoi An

  Spend half of the day to experience fisherman eco-tour, which will take you to a fishing village where you can observe how local fishermen fish in a traditional way. Get back to Hoi An old town to visit the Japanese Bridge, a covered bridge with Japanese architecture style. The Chinese Temple and Vietnamese former merchant's houses also can't be missed. You can learn about the histories behind these buildings from your guide. When the night falls, the old town decorated with colorful lanterns will get more beautiful.

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• Day 6: Hoi An - Da Nang - Hoi An

  Drive to Da Nang and ride the world's longest cable car up to the top of the mountain, where Ba Na Hill Station is located. The European style resort with an elevation of 4862 feet was built by French colonists and known as "Castle in the Sky". Be amazed by different kinds of classic cars, conical castles, European style villas, buildings, plazas and clowns on the streets, you will feel that you are really in Europe! In addition, the cool Golden Bridge held by two giant stone hands is just here. Enjoy your time! In the afternoon, be sent back to Hoi An.

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  • Hoi An

• Day 7: Hoi An - Da Nang - Ho Chi Minh City

  Be ready and head to Da Nang airport for your flight to Ho Chi Minh City. After landing, be greeted and accompanied to your hotel. The remainder of the day is free, so you can simply relax or explore the locality around your hotel.

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  • Ho Chi Minh City

• Day 8: Ho Chi Minh City

  Once used as an important base of operations during the Vietnam War, Cu Chi Tunnels with three-decker are a comprehensive tunnel system. Today, you will marvel at its fabulous functions. You might go down from one entrance and come out from different exits. In addition to the passageway, you can also see the well-preserved conference room, dining room, ward for treating the wounded, school, restroom, well, drainage system, trap and so on. Return to the downtown in the afternoon and visit the landmarks, including Ben Thanh market, War Remnants Museum and Reunification Palace, Old Saigon Post Office and Dong Khoi Street.

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  • Ho Chi Minh City

• Day 9: Ho Chi Minh City - Ben Tre - Can Tho

  At 8:00 am, set off to Ben Tre at Mekong Delta with your guide. Upon arrival, take a boat cruise along Ham Luong River. During which, you will see marvelous coconut plants and a coconut processing workshop. Your Mekong Delta tour will be rich and colorful, including village walking, local people's life observations, motor cart experience, gardens visiting with fruit tasting, sampan ride along the canal, eating authentic homemade lunch, seeing farm's roosters, etc. After that, drop by a beautiful church on the way to Can Tho.

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  • Can Tho

• Day 10: Can Tho - Chau Doc

  Take a rowing boat along the narrow tributaries to Cai Rang Floating Market, the biggest floating market in Mekong Delta. You can see traditional farm products trading and buy some fruits in the wholesale market. It is a nice way to know about the daily life of Vietnamese people when making a stopover at a rice noodles workshop. After that, drive to Chau Doc and stop at a crocodile farm en route. After arriving at Chau Doc, climb up to the Cave Pagoda on Sam Mountain and enjoy the breathtaking view of the sunset.

  In the late afternoon, you will be noted when and where you will get on the speed boat to Phnom Penh the next day before your guide and driver get back to Ho Chi Minh City.

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  • Chau Doc

• Day 11: Chau Doc - Phnom Penh

  Be escorted to pier for your speed boat to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Upon arrival, be met and transferred to your hotel.

  After lunch, move towards Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, which was once a high school, later converted into the S-21 prison and now a site to commemorate those who were systematically killed by the Khmer Rouge regime. You can see the photos of some victims and the rooms they were imprisoned. Afterward, know about a history of the massacre within the nation at Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.

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  • Phnom Penh

• Day 12: Phnom Penh - Kampong Thom - Siem Reap

  Drive to Kampong Thom, you will stop at a local village and try to taste fried spiders there. After lunch at a local restaurant, continue the journey with visits to Kuk Hak Noko, Prasat Sambor Kuk, Kampong Kdei Bridge, which is printed on the banknote of 5,000 Cambodia Riel. Transfer to Siem Reap and check into your hotel.

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  • Siem Reap

• Day 13: Siem Reap

  Today, you will explore Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat. Cross the moat and walk through the South Gate of Angkor Thom, you will enter the area of Angkor Thom surrounded by the moat. Bayon Temple stands in the center of the ancient city, and you will marvel at the world-famous Khmer Smile and feel that there are smiling eyes watching you when you are among the Buddha statues. Make a stop at Elephant Terrace before heading to Angkor Wat, which large scale, majestic and symmetrical architecture and engraving art make it the best part of Angkor relics. In the late afternoon, enjoy a stunning sunset view over the incomplete pagodas at Bakheng Hill.

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  • Siem Reap

• Day 14: Siem Reap

  Banteay Srei is today's highlight, whose name means women's castle. The characteristic construction material of red sandstone and exquisite reliefs make the architectural complex unique among other Angkor arts. You will also visit Ta Prohm Temple and Ta Keo Temple before getting back to your hotel. The rest of the day is left free for you.

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  • Siem Reap

• Day 15: Siem Reap, Departure

  It is time to bid farewell to your Vietnam and Cambodia tour! Your guide and driver will send you to the airport for your home-bound flight.

  Thanks for choosing us and we look forward to traveling with you to other destinations in the future.

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