Welcome to Vietnam! Upon your arrival in Hanoi, your guide will greet and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the afternoon is for you to get rid of the jet lag and have a rest. In the evening your tour guide will walk with you through Hanoi's colorful old quarter to a typical Vietnamese restaurant where you enjoy a cozy dinner. After that your guide will escort you back to your hotel.

8.30: Today you will visit Hanoi City attractions including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh House on Stilts, One Pillar Pagoda, Tran Quoc Pagoda and Quan Thanh Temple. Lunch will be served at KoTo restaurant around 1PM. In the afternoon, you will visit the Museum of Ethnology and cycle through the Old Quarter of Hanoi (by Rickshaw) (about 1hr), the last stop is Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple and enjoy a Water Puppet Show to learn more about Vietnamese traditional culture. Drive back to your hotel by car in late afternoon.

8.00: Today we drive around 2.5 hours out of Hanoi to the Southwest to visit Hoa Lu, the ancient capital city of VietNam under the Dinh & Le Dynasty and Bai Dinh pagoda, the largest pagoda complex in Vietnam. Your lunch will be served at the local restaurant with the special dishes of the region such as grilled goat meat, fresh spring roll… etc. After lunch, take 3 hours amazing boat trip along the lovely river to visit Trang An grottoes, then drive back to your hotel in Hanoi to stay overnight.

Today, have breakfast at your hotel till your driver comes to take you to Hanoi airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh city then transfer to Mui Ne. Upon arrival in Mui Ne, check in your hotel and then feel free to relax.

Free time in Mui Ne

Today you are free until our driver comes to transfer you back to Ho Chi Minh city. Upon arrival in Ho Chi Minh, check in your hotel and then be free to explore the city on your own. You will celebrate New Year’s Eve in HCM city.

Getting started at 8:00 AM from your hotel, then a drive about 70 km out of HCM City to see Mekong Delta life around My Tho. Upon arrival Ben Tre, drifts down the busy branches of the Mekong and into its peaceful canals. We visited a brick kiln and a coconut shell husking workshop. See the daily life of farmers and try the hard work of taking a coconut shell that is unique to the region. More boat cruises in the natural waterways, we visit a coconut-candy workshop, a main product that made BenTre famous, then visit a local market and farmer workshop making sleeping mats, an old tradition hand weaving sedge mat or rush mat. And now, the Mekong adventure is on, see what life is really like for locals by explore this quiet island by bicycle or more relaxing way by hop on a Lambrettatriporteur an old 1960 traditional tricycle in south Vietnam which will be winding around the coconut palms, bitter melon or cucumber farms to a farmer house that we break for lunch and relax. In the afternoon, we walk a bit more of the coconut farms and fruit orchards of this village then enjoy the local hand – rowing sampan slowly cruise under the canopy of water coconut palms along the canals. Our boat picks us up again and cruises back to the boat landing in BenTre town. Head back to HCM City. Tour ends around 5:00 PM.

Free day until transfer to airport for flight to Hanoi – flight at 11:00 AM then arrive in Hanoi at 13:00. Continue to check in for the flight home.