ITINERARY IN DETAIL
DAY 1. ARRIVAL IN HANOI (D)
Welcome to Hanoi! The tourguide of Threeland will meet you
at the airport to transfer to your hotel located in the
Hanoi centre. After a break, start our visit at the grand,
peaceful Temple of Literature, the very first high school of
Vietnam where many students wish to pay a visit for good
success before their significant exams. Go on to Hoan Kiem
Lake, the soul of the city, visit its surrounding landscape
including Ngoc Son Temple and the statue of King Ly Thai To
to intermingle with Hanoi hospitable people in their daily
life. Day finished with an exciting original show of Water
Pupperty, a Vietnam traditional entertaining stage art loved
by all Vietnamese kids and adults. Dinner with delicious
Vietnamese traditional foods. Overnight in Hanoi.
DAY 2. HANOI – VAN PHUC SILK VILLAGE – COOKING CLASS (B/L/D)
Morning visit the Museum of Ethnology, where you can find an
excellent full collection of 54 ethnic groups living in
Vietnam and wonderful implications of artifacts and patterns
from their traditional handicrafts and clothes. Drive to the
suburb of Hanoi to experience the textile art of Northern
Vietnamese at Van Phuc village, where silk has been produced
centuries ago. We can enjoy the progress of making silk on
the machines hereby, or purchase numerous types of silks,
seta, tussore, satin and so forth. Back to Hanoi for lunch.
This afternoon we will stroll around local exciting markets
in central Hanoi before joining a cooking class to learn the
art of Vietnam delicateness. Enjoy a dinner with foods made
by yourselves. Overnight in Hanoi.
DAY 3. HANOI – HALONG BAY – JUNK (B/L/D)
After breakfast, the driver will pick-up you at your hotel
to travel about 3h30 to Halong Bay, passing by many rural
villages and picturesque paddy fields. Upon arriving in
Halong, you will join a Junk cruising over the bay to enjoy
your perfect leisure.
Being designated as a World Heritage since 1994, Halong is a
marvellous place with magnificent seascape and nearly 3,000
islets and rocks, where you can spontaneously go swimming,
visit limestone caves or just lie down on the sundeck and
relax. Lunch and Dinner of seafoods served onboard;
overnight on the sea.
Please note! The guide today will be onboard only, not
during the transfer.
DAY 4. HALONG BAY – HANOI (B/L)
Welcome sunrise by yoga or taichi-quan exercises on the
sundeck before your breakfast. Meanwhile, our junk will
continue to sail the bay between its odd-shaped islets for
your enjoyment before back to the Wharf. The driver and
private car of THREELAND will wait for you here to return to
Hanoi. You can stopover at Dong Trieu ceramic village or
Hong Ngoc Charity centre for visits or refreshment. Arriving
in Hanoi around 3pm or so. At your leisure in the rest of
the day. Overnight in Hanoi (breakfast, brunch on the Junk
included).
DAY 5. HANOI – DANANG - HOIAN (B/L/D)
At your leisure till the guide and driver pick-up you to the
airport for flight Hanoi – Danang. Welcomed at Danang
airport by the local Threeland guide and driver to transfer
to the city. Visit Cham Museum which reserves a lot of
cultural exhibits of the Cham people, one of remarkable
ethnic groups in Vietnam, who have been strongly influenced
by Hinduism. The visit may help you discover more details of
this religion, especially the sacred worship and respect of
the Cham people toward the reproduction. Have lunch in
Danang before carrying on to Hoian, a tranquil ancient
seaport developed and collapsed during 17th – 19th century.
When strolling around old traders’ houses, shrines, small
museums and the famous Bridge Temple of Hoian, we can feel
the inspiration of numerous Vietnamese and forergn artists,
who consider Hoian a museum-in-the-open-air. Dinner and
overnight in Hoian.
DAY 6. HOIAN – MY SON - TRA QUE VILLAGE – COOKING CLASS -
HOIAN (B/L/D)
After breakfast, we will depart from Hoian to My Son, where
you can discover the hidden treasure of the Cham culture
that once brightfully developed in the location of present
Central Vietnam. Thanks to the mystery and contruction
secrets of the Cham towers hereby, My Son had been also
designated by UNESCO as one of the five World Heritages in
Vietnam. The visit to Cham Museum on previous day would help
you understand this sanctuary even better. Have lunch before
going on to a farm of vegetables and herbs in Tra Que, a
little charming village in Hoian’s suburb. In this small
village, the new spirit of Hoian traditional foods like Cao
Lau, Quang Noodles, Tam huu springrolls have been enlivened.
Take a walk round the vegetable gardens and join the
peasants in a sequence of planting Tra Que herbs, learn how
to turn over the soil, fertilize it with weed from Tra Que
local pool or harvest the vegetable and so on. After working
time, the family owning the garden will teach you prepare
and cook a delicious dinner with those foods typified for
Central Vietnamese traditional recipes, using a lot of herbs
in Tra Que. Back to Hoian after dinner, overnight in Hoian.
DAY 7. HOIAN – DANANG – SAIGON (B/L)
At your leisure until the tour guide pick-up you to Danang
airport for the morning flight to Saigon. Welcomed in
Saigon. Have a lunch at “Ngon” (Delicacy) restaurant with
Vietnamese traditional buffet style before checking-in your
hotel in the city centre and having a rest. This afternoon
we will have a light visit in Saigon, the most fascinating
hub of Vietnam, with stopovers at Ngoc Hoang pagoda and the
Notre Dame Cathedral, from where you can choose to visit the
Old Post Office or Reunification Palace. Walk around Dong
Khoi, Nguyen Hue shopping areas up to Ben Thanh to enjoy its
evening market. Overnight in Saigon. (Dinner at your own
arrangement).
DAY 8. SAIGON HALF-DAY TOUR (B/L)
After breakfast, visit the hectic China Town of Saigon,
including Binh Tay Market and Thien Hau temple. Visit the
best shopping malls of Saigon. After lunch, you will have
your own time just to relax in Saigon. Dinner at your own
arrangement. Overnight in Saigon.
DAY 9. SAIGON DEPARTURE (B)
At your leisure today until our tourguide come to pick up
you to the airport for your departure flight.
Please note! Usual check-out time is 12.00 noon.
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