A Glance Of Vietnam

After breakfast your day includes:

Exploring Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum with the architectural and historical aspects of Uncle Ho’s final resting-place.

Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts

One Pillar Pagoda – was founded by King Ly Thai To in 1049

Buddhist Tran Quoc Pagoda at West Lake

Bat Trang pottery village (applied on Monday, Wednesday & Friday) or Ethnology Museum (applied on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday)

Temple of Literature – Vietnam’s first university

Hoan Kiem lake and Ngoc Son temple

Water Puppet show

Note: The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (opening time: 7:30am to 11:00am, except Mondays and Fridays, all afternoon & Oct & Nov annually. Also closed yearly in Oct and Nov for renovation. => Visit outside

07:45 - 08:15: Pick up at your hotel and depart for Ha Long City. 12:30 - On arrival at pier, you will board your Imperial Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by professional and friendly crew. Check into cabin. 13:00 - Enjoy specially prepared lunch while cruising through most beautiful parts of the magical Bay with thousands of amazing limestone islands emerging from emerald water. Sailing with Imperial Cruise in very tranquil route, exploring the exotic beauty of the legendary Bay, a feeling in paradise will come to you. Imperial Cruise brings our valued customers to the most tranquil parts of the Bay where you can’t find any boat there, cruising zigzag through hundreds of islands. 15:30 - Discover the magical beauty of nature alongside limestone cliffs stretching vertically over pure blue water in tranquil bay. Kayaking time after that 16:30 - Swimming time, this is great chance to relax in water. 19:00 - Enjoy the special dinner cooked by our professional chef. 20:30 - The moment you choose your own way to relax after dinner, listening to music, singing karaoke, relaxing on the sundeck, squid fishing available for entertainment during the night time

A free day at leisure on your own activities

7:45-8:00 Pick up you at meeting point, start to downtown of Ho Chi Minh for touring along the famous Dong Khoi street, passing by the Opera House, Town Hall, Notre Dame Cathedral & central Post Office and Independent Palace.

In the afternoon, we are heading to Hoc Mon District to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, is 70 kilometers Northwest of down-town Ho Chi Minh City. The Cu Chi Tunnel system had been created long time back, from 1948 to assist Viet Minh in the combat with French.

08:00 - 08:15AM, Pick up at your hotel, travel by shuttle bus to My Tho – 9:30 AM, board a wooden motor boat to Unicorn Island. On this boat along the river’s bank, you’ll be passing through natural creeks and quiet villages and watch rural people going to work. You will see an interesting fishermen's port, stilt houses. One of the boat’s stops during this trip is at a large orchard that has many different types of tasty tropical fruits for your enjoyments. Another boat stop is for the Turtle Island 1hrs from the previous one. Here, on a small row boat, you’ll see interesting transportation modes that local people use to move around. From there, we’ll take you to a bee farm where you have a chance to taste a tasteful cup of authentic honey tea while checking out the folk music that is typical to only the people in Southern Vietnam. After that we’ll take you to a village where you can smell the flavor of coconut candies being made many yards away. This is a great chance to witness how village people make candy and handcrafted items from coconuts. You might learn that those people can amazingly make dozens of useful products out of coconut trees. Transfer back Saigon. The rest of day is yours.