Highlights
This 15 days program of Vietnam and Cambodia Heritages tour combines the hidden charm of Vietnam and the mystical World heritage site of Angkor in Cambodia with a unique opportunity to experience the natural beauty and local life of two of Southeast Asia's most fascinating destinations.
Day 1 : Ha Noi Arrival - Motorbike Tour
Day 2 : Ha Noi City Tour And Night Train To Sapa
Day 3 : Lao Cai - Bac Ha Market- Sapa Town
Day 4 : Sapa Trekking Tour - Lao Chai - Tavan
Day 5 : Ha Noi - Halong Bay
Day 6 : Halong Bay - Ha Noi - Hoi An
Day 7 : Hoi An - Cham Island
Day 8 : Hoi An - Da Nang - Hue
Day 9 : Hue - Sai Gon
Day 10 : Sai Gon - My Tho - Ben Tre - Can Tho
Day 11 : Can Tho - Chau Doc
Day 12: Chau Doc - Phnom Penh
Day 13 : Phnom Penh - Siem Reap
Day 14 : Angkor sightseeing
Day 15 : Siem Reap - Departure
DAY 1: Ha Noi Arrival - Motorbike Tour (D)
Arrival at Noi Bai Airport, Luxury Outing's driver and guide will pick you up and transfer you to Hotel. This evening 6:00 pm, we will arrange special tour by motorbike for you with driver take you around Hanoi city and enjoy the local food like a local.
DAY 2: Ha Noi City Tour And Night Train To Sapa (B/L)
8.30 am: Tour guide pick up at hotel, then visit Ho Chi Minh complex where you understand more about president Ho Chi Minh's lives. Then we move to One Pillar Pagoda - a group of structures consisting of a pagoda and a tower built in the middle of a square lake. Leave one pillar pagoda for the temple of literature - Van Mieu - the first college of Vietnam and the place dedicating to Confucian.
At 12.30, enjoy local lunch, then visiting Ethnology Museum where you have great chance to know about culture, custom, languages, houses of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.
15.30 - 16.00: Take the car come back your hotel. You are free at leisure until our driver pick you up for a night train to Sapa.
DAY 3: Lao Cai - Bac Ha Market- Sapa Town (B/L/D)
Located at 110km from Sapa, Bac Ha mountain town is well-known by travelers with the most colorful market of the hill tribes in the North of Vietnam. This every-Sunday-market attended by at least 8 ethnic groups and last from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM. It is also chance for tourists to discover the H’mong King’s palace (old building built by the French & Chinese).
In the afternoon, we go for a light trek to visit Ban Pho, the village is home to flower H’mong minority. We are invited to enter several local houses to have some green tea, corn wine, listen to the host talking about their family, talk to them… and then enjoy landscapes on a roundabout way to Bac Ha for get back to Lao Cai to continue up to Sapa.
DAY 4: Sapa Trekking Tour - Lao Chai - Tavan - Lao Cai (B/L/D)
After breakfast, our guide takes you to villages populated by H’mong and Dzay peoples, respectively called Lao Chai and Ta Van. You’ll have lunch with an ethnic minority family, then return to Sapa town in the afternoon. Our bus transfer you back to Lao Cai station. Have dinner befor take train back to Hanoi.
DAY 5: Hanoi - Halong (B/L/D)
On arrival in Hanoi, our driver pick you up at the train station and transfer to hotel for early check in. After breakfast, drive to Halong passing the countryside of the Red River
12:15 pm: Boarding cruise for lunch and cruising around many islands and visit floating villages by bamboo boat, or kayaking to the beach for swimming there. Come back the boat, take part in class cooking and sunset party. Then, we have dinner. Overnight on Cruise.
DAY 6: Halong Bay - Hanoi - Hoi An (B/L)
Breakfast on Cruise, then visit Amazing cave, one of the most beautiful cave in Halong Bay before returning to Halong harbor. After that, transfer to the airport for your flight to Danang. On arrival, our driver will pick you from the airport and transfer you to hotel in Hoian.
Dinner by your own fee
Overnight in 3-star hotel in Hoi An
DAY 7: Hoi An - Cham Island (B/L)
Have breakfast at your hotel
Our bus and guide pick you up and transfer to Cham Island
Visit Cham Island
Enjoy swimming, snorkeling
Have lunch in local restaurant
Enjoy beach in Cham Island
Transfer back to hotel
Have dinner by your own fee
Overnight in 3-star hotel
DAY 8: Hoi An - Da Nang - Hue (B/L)
Today you are free to explore Hoian. Overnight in Hoian.
Leave Hoian in the morning, drive northward to Hue over the Hai Van pass with a stop at scenic beach of Lang Co beach. Afternoon you arrive in Hue to visit some main attractions in Hue. Overnight at hotel in Hue City.
DAY 9: Hue - Sai Gon (B)
Breakfast in the hotel, then you are transferred to the airport for the flight to Saigon. This afternoon,you are free to visit Ho Chi Minh city and overnight in Saigon.
DAY 10: Sai Gon - My Tho - Ben Tre (B/L)
Tour guide picks up at your hotel (Dist 1) then departs from our office to My Tho city for one and half hours by bus.
A smooth one and half hour bus ride passing the green rice fields leads you to the beautiful rural My Tho city. The morning trip continues on the motorized boat on the Tien River to the Qui (Tortoise islet). On the way, you will view the fishing port, stilt houses, boat-building workshops, the other Dragon, Phoenix and Unicorn Islet. The cruise will lead you through Bao Dinh canal to enter Ben Tre province, “the country of coconut”, to see a typical agricultural model call “Garden – Pond – Cage” then enjoy coconut candy mill and the relaxing honey tea. Then the amazing rowing boat trip on the small canal – fully covered by the shadow of the water coconut’s tree and cool breezes is something you cannot miss.
Lunch will be served right in the heart of the orchard garden.
Afternoon: We will walk into the village, visit fruit garden, enjoy the tropical fruit while you are listening to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music” performed by the islanders. Here we also can join the daily activities of the local people and enjoy the atmosphere of this beautiful natural countryside.
Your expectations will be fulfilled by final boat trip back to My Tho on the Tan Thach natural canal. Then you will continue to Can Tho by A/C bus in two hours, arrived in Can Tho city – the heart of Mekong River. From this point, you can choose your accommodation in one of the following options:
DAY 11: My Tho - Chau Doc (B)
You leave your hotel early in the morning driving southward from Saigon to Cai Be. This is a special experience of the Mekong Delta . visiting a candy factory, orchard garden, listen to traditional music and have a home-hosted lunch in the Mekong countryside. You cross the islands on Mekong river on oar boats and experience the real countryside along the Mekong. Your driver will be waiting for you on the other side of the river to drive across the Mekong Delta all the way to Chau Doc – a small town near the border with Cambodia.
Check into your hotel and in the late afternoon take an orientation walk around the hotel area, or try the local transportation called "Xe Loi". The visit includes "Nha Lon" - the worshiping place of the clan who came to this area earlier (if time permits).
Morning: After breakfast, you first take the boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River. The boat trip later takes you to the Cai Rang floating market, which is the most original ones and bustling places of the region. Have you tried the Vietnamese vermicelli noodle? So, you will go and see how it is made.
Lunch: You will trek along the village to get in touch with the local people. Here, you have a chance to experience how to pass a “Monkey bridge” which is built by only one bamboo. Leaving the village, you will go to visit Cantho market, have lunch there.
Afternoon: After lunch, our A/c bus will take you straight to Chau Doc. Arrive in Chau Doc, you will climb up to Sam mountain, admire the landscape, small villages among the broader. From there summit down the Vietnamese – Cambodian border, visit the Cave pagoda before you get to town and check into your hotel.
DAY 12: Chau Doc - Phnom Penh (B/-/D)
After breakfast board a speed boat to Phnom Penh. Visa formalities take about 45 minutes and is easily obtained here at the border. Continue by river to Phnom Penh. Meet your guide and transfer to hotel. This city was once considered one of the most beautiful in the Orient, and despite its recent turbulent history, it still retains a colonial charm. Overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh
DAY 13: Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (B/-/D)
Breakfast at the hotel – Transfer to Siem Reap with 2 options:
1. By flight takes 45 mintues
2. By local bus takes 6 hours
Upon arrival, pick up and transfer to the hotel check in. Afternoon visit to Wat Thmey or Killing Field, contains a unique glass-walled stupa containing the bones of victims of the Khmer Rouge. After that, visit to Wat Memorial Mountaint. Overnight at the hotel in Siem Reap
DAY 14: Angkor sightseeing (B/L)
Breakfast at hotel. Visit Angkor Thom, the South Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon Temple, built from the late 12th century to the early 13th century by King Jayavarman VII and consists of 54 towers, the Royal Enclosure, the Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King, then visit Ta Prohm, surrounded by jungle.
Visit Angkor Wat, the largest temples in world and covers an area of 200 hectares and surrounded by moat and an exterior wall measuring 1300 meters x 1500 meters. Early this evening, we will take the Tuk Tuk (the most common taxi in Cambodia) to cruise around the Siem Reap and town and and for a blessing ceremony by Buddhist monks for happiness, prosperity and safety for your journey. Overnight at the hotel in Siem Reap
DAY 15; Siem Reap - Departure (B)
Breakfast at hotel, then you are free at leisure till transfer to Siem Reap International airport for flight to the next destination.
