After breakfast, pick you up at your hotel. You will visit the following places of interest:

• Independence Palace was built on the sight of the former Norodom palace.
• War Remnants which has a vast display of the both the Indochina wars.
• Notre Dames Cathedral & Central Post Office the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times.

After a few hours discovering the city, you will enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant. 

On  arrival, you’ll watch a brief of propaganda video, which explains how the tunnels were used to successfully defeat American military forces in combat. The tour continues and the guide explains some traps that were placed in the jungles of Vietnam to either maim American soldiers or create panic amongst the ranks. You can enter one of the tunnel entrances and crawl through the tunnels is a real experience to imagine how people could live there for an extended period. There is a shooting range where you can try to fire an automatic or semi-automatic weapon for a fee. We drive back to Ho Chi Minh city and drop you to your hotel. Dinner on the hotel.

 Meals: Lunch, Dinner.

 Overnight at hotel.

Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, and drive 1,5 hours to My Tho. 

• On arrival, we board a motor-boat and cruise along a vast network of canals and channels to enjoy wonderful views of the Mekong River.
• Stop at one of the floating fish houses, in nets and wire baskets under their house, the villagers cultivate freshwater fish.
• 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.
• Enjoy what local people offer by hand rowing a sampan along the shady, breezy canal. We will transfer to local transportation called Xe Loi to travel throughout the villages.
• Lunch will be served at a riverside restaurant with a Vietnamese 5-course set menu.

Drop you at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

After breakfast you will free on your own until our driver comes to pick you up to transfer to the airport to take a domestic flight to Hanoi. Once arrival, you will be warmly welcomed by our driver to transfer to the hotel to check-in.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner.

Overnight at hotel.

After breakfast we will depart to Bai Dinh pagoda and Trang An eco-tourism site. Visit Bai Dinh Pagoda Southeast Asia’s largest Buddhist complex which consists of several temples and over 500 intricately carved statues of Buddha. You will have lunch in a restaurant with local special dishes. 

 We will visit Trang An by a boat trip through cave chains. You will be dropped at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

 After breakfast pick up at the hotel and start our drive to Halong Bay. Arrive at Tuan Chau 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. Visit Fighting-Cock islet and the Heavenly Palace Cave. Back to the harbor. Disembark and get on the bus back to Hanoi. Drop off at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Have a local breakfast at your hotel. Afterward, we transfer to Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest of its kind in Hanoi. The Buddhist shrine has undergone several changes throughout the years, particularly its renaming from An Quoc to Tran Quoc by emperor Le Huy Tong in the 17th century. Then we move to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and his traditional stilt house.

Check out the hotel and transfer to the airport for onward destination.