Upon arrival at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi and after clearing immigration and customs, meet with your guide with a welcome signboard marked “The Time Journeys’s LOGO & your name”. Then your tour guide will transfer to your hotel in centre. The rest of the day is at your leisure to explore city.

Meals: NA
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Today, your journey will to see the capital of Vietnam, a city that celebrated 1.000 years in 2010 has countless fascinating cultural and historic sites and our days’ tour will visit the highlights. See the grand and solemn mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh (viewed from outside; closed Mon and Fri and from Oct-Nov), the ‘icon of Hanoi’ – The One Pillar Pagoda, the beautiful Temple of Literature, West Lake’s Tran Quoc temple and Quan Thanh pagoda as well as the fascinating Ethnology Museum. Enjoy lunch at local restaurant.
Follow your guide, you will weave through the bustling Old Quarter’s 36 streets. All named for the producs historically sold here. After visiting Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple, you will enjoy a water puppet show for a look at traditional performance art in Vietnam before back to your hotel. Free time for visiting in the evening.

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Breakfast at your hotel. We’ll pick you up in Hanoi by 8:00am and drive through the verdant Red River Delta to make our way to the famous UNESCO World Heritage site, Halong Bay. You’ll board a luxury junk ship for an overnight cruise– while you relax on-board you can marvel at the incredible limestone karsts that jut out of the sea and the thousands of jungle-covered islands that seem to float on the waves. The turquoise waters of the Gulf of Tonkin swirl around hidden grottoes and ancient caves to create an enchanting, timeless world.
We’ll serve you a fresh seafood lunch while you sit back and relax as you enjoy the incredible view with a drink in your hand. We’ll take you to a traditional fishing village where the locals have created an entire town on the decks of their boats, then you can explore Cave before returning to the cruise for cocktails, canapés, and a spectacular sunset. End your day with a romantic, candlelit dinner.

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Cruise in Halong Bay

Begin the day with a Tai Chi class on deck in the early morning mist or just admire the beautiful scenery as the sun rises over the azure waters. Choose between an excursion to a secluded island with a sandy beach for a swim or join the chef for a cooking demonstration to learn more about Vietnamese cuisine. Enjoy a leisurely brunch while your junk cruises Halong Bay, passing islets and caves as you make your way back to the dock.
Say goodbye to the crew at main harbor and your driver will meet you when you disembark and transfer you to Ninh Binh. Arrive in Ninh Binh, check in hotel and free time.

Meals: Brunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Ninh Binh

Breakfast at your hotel. The guide pick you up and transfer you to visit Van Long, known lovingly as “Halong Bay on land”. . Arrive in Gia Vien District, you will take a boat for exploring Van Long Van Long Nature Reserve – the largest wetland in northern Vietnam. This is also where many of the scenes from Kong: Skull Island took place. After lunch, transfer for visiting visit Hoa Lu – the Ancient Royal capital of Viet Nam. We will visit Dinh King temple and Le King temple. in the 10th century, finding out the heroic histories of this two Kings in Chinese Wars. Then take a daily use room for relaxing in some hours before transfer you to railways station for a night train to Quang Binh.

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight on train (Sharing cabin – 4 berthes in a cabin)

Arrive in Dong Hoi railways station early in the morning. The guide will pick you up and transfer you for breakfast. After breakfast at local restaurant in centre, you will transfer to Phong Nha National park for starting one-day trek into the heart of tropical Tu Lan, experience the epic natural majesty of Phong Nha National Park – home to the largest cave in the world, also known to be the home of Kong in the movie
Set off on a challenging excursion visiting Hang Chuot, Hung Ton Caves and To Mo Valley. Explore karsts, jungles, waterfalls and river caves in a journey into the heart of central Vietnam’s natural phenomena. With your English-speaking guide and local jungle men from the nearby ethnic village of Tan Hoa, you will trek up to 8km through buffalo fields, dense jungle and have an opportunity to swim through an unbelievable river cave. See the immense formations of Hang Chuot (Rat Cave) before trekking to impressive Hung Ton Cave and To Mo Valley. You’ll get wet, you’ll get dirty and you’ll enjoy an awesome BBQ beside a stunning waterfall! This is a full day of adventure so be prepared!

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Quang Binh

Breakfast at your hotel, free time for relaxing or relaxing on beach until pick you up and transfer you to airport for a flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City, pick you up and transfer you to hotel. Free time.
Saigon is a city that never sleeps and offers a plethora of great restaurants and bars catering to all tastes, from street food vendors to the rooftop bar at the Rex Hotel, where international correspondents covered the Vietnam War and where the U.S. military attaché’s press briefing was held daily and dubbed the “Five O’clock Follies”. Whatever your interests, be sure to ask your guide for personal recommendations.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Breakfast at your hotel, drive to the outskirt of Saigon to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, located in an area known in the American War in Vietnam as the Iron Triangle, the remains of a real bloody battlefield, which is a complex network of tunnels built during the long years of wars. The walking visit of the tunnels is specially led by one of the former VCs who used to live and fight in Cu Chi during the wars, giving you an authentic look at the former Vietnam War to understand how the guerrillas lived and fought by visiting different bunkers for weapon, guard, Commander, meeting, kitchen, dinning, etc. After lunch in Cu Chi, driver back to Ho Chi Minh City for visiting the Post Office & Notre Dame Cathedral circa 1880, a highlight tour of the former Presidential Palace, once headquarters for the Saigon Government during the “Vietnam War” and the War Remnant Museum to have an overall picture of the most recent wars in country. Afterwards, continue the drive to visit Ben Thanh Market which is a big marketplace in the downtown area of the city and is one of the earliest surviving structures in Saigon since the French occupation. With over 3000 stalls in the market, there is nothing you cannot find in this oldest and busiest market in Vietnam.

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Ho Chi Minh City

Leave Ho Chi Minh city, enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields. On arrived at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view stilt houses, fruit plantations and fishing villages along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shade of the water coconut trees along natural canals. Have a short cycling tour (applied for private tour/if time permitted) then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music”, performed by the locals. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through fruit plantations and villages. Then free time.

Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Having breakfast at your hotel. Your time will be your own until your private car and driver arrives to take you to the airport for your flight to next destination.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Time check out is 12:00

Your journey with The Time Journeys is now complete…
Have a nice journey!
The time journeys can arrange additional customized trips for you if the above itinerary does not match your expectations.