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Day 1: Aarival in Ho Chi Minh City
Day 2: Saigon - Bentre Waterway- Cantho city
Day 3: Explore Cairang Floating Market - Saigon
Day 4: Saigon - Caodai Temple - Amazing Cuchi Tunnels - Saigon
Day 5: Saigon Fly to Hanoi Capital
Day 6: Halong bay - UNESCO Site Tour
Day 7: Halong bay - Car to Hanoi
Day 8: Car/bus to Sapa - Amazing Tour Cat Cat village
Day 9: Tour Y Linh Ho - Laochai - Tavan villages
Day 10: Explore Fansifan Mountain - Hanoi
Day 11: Tour Charming Hanoi Capital
Day 12: Fly out of Hanoi

Highlights of the trip: Frech Colony Style Saigon - unbelievable Cuchi tunnels and war museum - Amazing waterlife in Bentre province & Cantho of Mekong delta - bustling Hanoi Capital - stunning Sapa and top tour of Vietnam is Halong bay. Book South Vietnam Tour Here

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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh Arrival

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Upon arrival Tan Son Nhat airport, the local tour guide of Deluxe Vietnam Tour Company will welcome and transfer you to your hotel in the city center.

Option Tours: Join dinner cruise on Saigon river. Or explore Ho Chi Minh bustling city and amazing street food tour on the back of motorbike driven by Vietnamese guide. Overnight in Saigon City.

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12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car , Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Dinner, Sightseeing fees

Day 2: Mekong Tour with Bentre Waterways

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Today, cruise Mekong river tributaries in a tour boat to see The "real" Vietnam. Then, take a rowing boat for deeper discovery on smaller canals to see how the local people travel on water at the very peaceful atmosphere of Vietnam countryside. Lunch will be served at Ut Trinh home with the traditional music.

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After lunch, enjoy leisure walk or bike on village paths to see the local farms, houses, real life and the traditional ways to pick up fruits in Mekong Delta... Cruise back to Vinh Long town and drive toward Can Tho for overnight.

12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 3: Tour Cairang Floating Market - Fruit Garden - Saigon

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Your South Vietnam Tour will be hightlighted with the vibrant floating market of Cai Rang. Explore the unique trading way of the local people. Each barge usually sells one particular item: pumpkins, pineapples, sugar canes. After an impressive boat trip, drive back to Saigon city.Overnight in Saigon.

12day Package Tours of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 4: Tour Cuchi Tunnels with Cao Dai Temple in Tayninh

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Enjoy the countryside scenery along the way from Saigon to Tay Ninh(100 km drive). On arrival at the head quarter of Cao Dai religion, youself witness the daily ceremony at Cao Dai Holy See, and meet followers wearing colored robes. Cao Dai is the religous combination of the Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity and Buddhism. After lunch at a local restaurant, visit Cuchi tunnels with the incredible underground network. Drive back to Saigon for overnight.

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12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 5: Saigon - 2hour Flight to Hanoi

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Option tour: Half day tour Ho Chi Minh city on the back of Vietnamese motorbike driver for those who have flight in the afternoon

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Enjoy your nice breakfast at your hotel. Free and relax until transfer to the airport for 2hour flight to Hanoi.

Upon arrival, you will be warmly welcomed and picked up by our representative for the drive to Hanoi city centre. Then, check-in for Overnight in Hanoi. If not tired, please feel free to walk around your hotel for relax after long flight as it is safe here.

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12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 6: Halong Bay Overnight on Cruise - Top Tour of Vietnam

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7:30 Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel for a 3.5 hour Northeast journey to Halong bay - One of the 7 New Natural Wonders. So please be ready at the lobby of your hotel at 7:30am - Everyone is on time for a smooth departure. Kinbdly noted that private transfer and tours are available at any time upon request.

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Depending the traffic, it may take 3.5 hour or a little more to get to Halong city around 12:30 Check-in at one of luxury cruises in the bay. 13:00 your Ha Long cruise starts sailing through fascinating Halong bay while you are enjoying Vietnamese set menu.

15.30 Getting on the tender to go to Sung Sot island where you will explore the Surprising cave which was discovered by the French in 1901. The name - Surprising itself tells that you must visit it. Surely, it is one of the impression on Halong bay trip. The cave contains 3 parts - Beautiful at the 1st part and getting more and more surprised in the end. After walking up about 140 steps to the cave entrance, you will see the amazing views of stalagmites and stalactites. However, if you have heart attack or have problem with going up with many steps, we advise you to stay and relax on the boat.

Get back to the main cruise to tour around and 16:15 if you are adventure style, chances are provided with kayaking around stunning Luon Cave. an other choices are you will sit on a bamboo boat rowed by local people to explore the Luon lagoon or you relax on the sundesk to see beautiful sunset.

Back to your cruise and start to travel to overnight spot. 18:06 a cooking class will be arranged by our chef. It is not only funny but also nice experience to make the most famous Vietnamese food - Spring Rolls. Then,19:00 your dinner - set menu will be served. If you like squid fishing, you are invited to join with crew members after your dinner or chat with your new friends.

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12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury cruise, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Sightseeing fees

Day 7: Amazing Bay to Hanoi

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Start your Halong bay tour with Taichi class guide by our master on the sundeck for a new and wonderful day or relax to see the sunrise over charming bay. Life can not be better than sitting on the sundesk with a cup of coffee in stunning atmosphere.

7:15 Have a light breakfast of the day. 8:00 Get on the transfer boat to go to Titop island. For those who are activity lovers, there is a way to explore Titop mountain by walking 330 steps up to the top for Halong Bay's panorama view. It is very hard for the elderly visitors, but it is well worth for wonderful scnenery. Another option is to relax and have a swim at Titop white sandy beach.

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9:30 Get back to the transfer boat to return to your cruise. Enjoy sunbathing on sundeck while your cruise is touring through a different part of the bay. 10:45 Your early lunch while is served while your cruise is passing the Fight Cocks, Incense Burner, islets with Stone Dog shape.

12:00 arrives at Tuan Chau pier where the return bus is waiting for the journey back to Hanoi. Checkin at your hotel and free to explore Hanoi Old Quarter.

12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 8: Hanoi bus to Cat Cat - Giang Ta Chai villages

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5hour morning bus from Hanoi to Sapa where you will enjoy your lunch before touring Sapa. Your afternoon tour Sapa with a nice trek to Catcat village of Black H’mong people. You can trek from Sapa town or get transfer to the village gate. If you are young and have good health, we advise you to trek from Sapa town. It is because there are some great stops at the curves for wonderful photos while going by car, you can not stop because the road is so small. Trafic jam would happen if anyone stop there.

Remmemder to take good walking shoes as there are so many steps up and down the mountain and the valley of Catcat. The first visit in the village is the comunity hall where you can see daily farming tools for the local people here. Your tour guide will share experience how the tools are used for farming activiest.

Next visit in this village is a local home of Black H'mong family. You will come inside the house to see how they live, visit the kitchen, bed rooms... You are free to take photos of their house. We are resposible to pay the fee to visit local houses even if they do not require. However, it is something to make them happier with our next trip here.

The life of the local people is very hard here, but you will see no unhappy faces of the locals and you will see many old people. It could be said money and luxury items are not everything, but how to enjoy our life is much more important.

Catcat village is now a good place for homestay. The local people are training to serve meals and arrange the accommodation for western travelers who would like to have the real experience on the local culture. It is a good idea to stay for 1 night.

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Continue your walk to a beautiful waterfall where you can have really beautiful photos. Here, you may have chances to see local music and dance show performed by local people if you come at right time. Here if you want to try some local taste like Com Lam - rice is cooked in a bamboo tube, grilled eggs, grilled fish... Then, start your up steps to the other side of the valley. There are 2 ways: moderate and really hard route trek to the car stop. From here, your car to you to Giang Ta Chai village where you visit a local school and some local homes. Then, dirve back to your hotel. Overnight in Sapa

12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 9: Trekking to Laochai - Tavan

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After breakfast, enjoy a wonderful trekking to Lao Chai and Ta Van villages of Black H’mong and Dzay people in breathtaking scenery of terraced rice fields. First, your tour guide will show you on the map of different trekking routes and explain to you how hard and easy of each route. You will be the last person who decises which way to go.

Then, join the car and enjoy a short drive from Sapa town to Muong Hoa valley and first stop of the day is the Y Linh Ho station where you can choose the best position for great photos. Everyone on Sapa travel would like to stop here to bring home amazing impression. Here is also the place where you can talk with the little kids of H'Mong and Red Dzao groups.

If you are hard trekking lovers, you will start from here and get down to the bottom of the stunning valley. Then, trek up to the other side of the mountain. Amazing up and down on the trail and buffalo route will create amazing experience. Get inside Y Linh Ho village and visit some local home.

Say good-bye to the friendly people of Y Linh Ho village, you continue your breathtaking trekking route on the slope of the mountain, bamboo forest and terraced rice fields to Lao Chai village. Walk around the village and visit the local school to see how the local kids study here. Nowadays, the local H'mong people also start offerring homestay services for travelers who love experience the local culture closely. The house is very simple, but the toleit is clean. The food prepared by them are quite good, so today your tour guide and the host will cook your lunch.

After lunch, say goodbye to the host, you continue your walk to Ta Van village of the Giay and Red Dzao people. Visit the local home of the Giay people, enjoy some tea with them. The Giay family is the best choice for tourists on Sapa holiday to stay overnight in the village. The Giay are well trained to serve food and accommodation. Here, if you want to learn the cooking with the host, it will be a good idea. The driver is waiting for you on the other side of Muong Hoa river for the journey back to Sapa town. Relax and overnight in Sapa town(meals: B/L)

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12day Package Tours of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 10: Private or group bus to Hanoi

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After breakfast, free time to explore Sapa town. 12:00 Check-out and have lunch. In the afternoon, enjoy the whole view of Sapa town by exploring Ham Rong mountain garden on the top of the mountain. Make sure you can walk through a thousand of step.

After check in at the ticket counter, you start 179 step to Orchid garden. It is also the place you can take rest, see beautiful flowers and see the Faxifang mountain. Then, continue your discovery by walking up again the main flower garden where you can see many different kind of flowers offering very beautiful photos. Here, there is a local restaurant where you can buy some drinks.

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Continue 10 minutes of walk, you will come to culture stilt house where the local artists from different ethnic groups in Sapa perform their traditional music and dancing show. It is included in the ticket and you do not have to pay any extra. The 7 song and dance show will help you to deeply understand the cultures of local people here. In the last of the show, you can join the easy but funny dancing with the local artists.

Say goodbye to the artists and continue your walk through small range of the limestone mountains with many amazing chances for beautiful photos. This path can let only one by one walk through the trekking route. In this section, you should follow your tour guide or you may get lost. In the end, you will get to the clound station where you can see the whole Sapa town. Surely, you will take a few beautiful photos of the charming town.

Spending sometime here before getting back, your tour guide will take you to different ways to see different part of the mountain then to the main garden. Your driver is waiting to take you back to Lao Cai train station to catch a night train back to Hanoi.

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Note: If you do not want to go by train, you can go back to Hanoi by car with near 5 hour journey from Sapa to Hanoi. It is the best choice at the moment.

12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 11: Hanoi city tour

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Your train's arrival at Hanoi train station at 4:30 am. Take a rest at a mini hotel and enjoy the breakfast. 8:40 Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel for Hanoi city tour.

Start with Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum where you can see the real body of our uncle Ho. Please dress formally in the way to pay respect to our kind leader. It may take half an hour to join in the line and get out of the mausoleum. Here, you can go to see the front of the mausoluem where your tour guide will share the most famous historical moment of the country and why the mausoluem was built here. How was it built? You also get to know the charming surroundings.

Continue to walk inside the HCM complex where you can see the very charming presidental palace in the French architect. You can not come inside the building because it is still in use for Vietnamese leaders to have meetings with foreign delegations. Here, you tour guide will share with you why the building was built and how it was used before Vietnam got the independence.

Enjoy a nice walk in the lush garden of many really big trees to see where our leader - Ho Chi Minh lived and worked. First, you will see a beautiful garage of 3 cars for Ho Chi Minh - gifts from Vietnamese Oversea in France and from So Viet union. You also see a small but nice meeting room where Ho Chi Minh recieved guests. Then, you will see the little French house where he lived for 4 years since 1954 to 1958. It is located next to a very nice fish pond.

From the French house, you can see a little but very nice stilt house in the traditional architecture of the Tay ethnic group in the mountainous area. Here, Ho Chi Minh lived since 1958 until he said goodbye to our world. The complex is very big and charming and may take you around 2 hours to explore. It is one of the highlight of Hanoi tour package.

Leaving the complex, you will see a little but unique architeture - One Pillar Pagoda in the shape of a lotus follower built in 1049 by the king Ly Thai Tong who got a son from Buddha. You can not leave this area without a nice photo.

Continue your Hanoi tour with the temple of literature - Viet Nam’s first university built in 1076 AD. Here, your tour guide will explain how Vietnamese education system was formed, how students got a seat inside this university and graduated from this university. Here, you can see the different languages Vietnamese used in the past and the language based on Latin anphbet we are using now. The most important thing you will see here is the setting or the architecture of the temple of literature.

Then explore the oldest Tran Quoc Pagoda on the shore of charming west lake.

Enjoy Vietnamese traditional cuisines at a local restaurant in the Old Quarter. After lunch, walk around Hoan Kiem lake and see Ngoc Son temple. At 15:30 See water puppet show. Your tour ends at 16:30(meal: B/L)

12day Package Tour of Vietnam Included:
Luxury Hotel, Private bus/car, Local tour guide, Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Sightseeing fees

Day 12: Flight out of Hanoi

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Have a nice breakfast at your luxury hotel. Free and leisure until transfer to the airport for flight home. End 12day package tour of Vietnam with Deluxe Vietnam Tour Company. See you again for other Myanmar Laos Thailand Vietnam and Cambodia trips.

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