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Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi arival and city tour
Day 2: Hanoicity tour
Day 3: Hanoi – Hai Phong
Day 4: Hai Phong – Halong Bay
Day 5: Halong Bay – Hanoi – Danang – Hoi An
Day 6: Hoi An
Day 7: Hoi An – Hue
Day 8: Hue
Day 9: Hue – Saigon
Day 10: Saigon – Mekong – Saigon
Day 11: Sai gon – Departure
Itinerary details:
Day 1: HANOI
Arival in Noi Bai Airport, you will be picked up and transferred to the hotel.
The tour program in the afternoon is the Ethnography Museum. People who recognize the same origin (ethnos in Greek) and share the same culture (ways of seeing, doing ...). Fifty-four "ethnic groups" installed in Vietnam are listed here. Then an hour rickshaw ride in the colonial neighborhood. Tree-lined avenues, streets, a French provincial air on the Red River. Along the way, visite the Taoist temple Ngoc Son (XV century) on the Sword Lake. Overnight in Hanoi
Day 2: HANOI
We can get up early and go to the Hoan Kiem lake to watchpeople practicing tai chi, a beneficent morning exercises.
Today we enjoy Tuong Theatre. As Chinese opera, which he is heir, hat Tuong combines music, singing, mime and dance. Its long history dating back perhaps to the thirteenth century; it is still popular. We will go with an English speaking guide at the National Tuong Theatre to attend not only a show, but to prepare the artists backstage. Questions and answers on the costumes, makeup, musical instruments, history ...Overnight in Hanoi
Day 3: HANOI – HAIPHONG
Transfer for the district of Cam Giang in the Red River Delta, then transfer to the Bo Duong village (in the district of Ninh Giang). The village artisans are renowned for their puppets. The art of water puppetry is millennium and was born in the rice fields of the delta. Today, he continues to make impertinent chronicle of peasant life. Program - A representation on municipal pond. Lunch with the locals and drive to Haiphong, the "Venice of Tonkin." Overnight in Hai Phong
Day 4: HAIPHONG – HALONG BAY
Program - Short tour of the city where flamboyant planted everywhere. Visit the venerable Du Hang Pagoda, founded at the end of the tenth century (the current buildings date from the seventeenth century). Drive to Halong Bay. All aboard for a cruise on a junk. From the bridge, where you feels like one of the Chinese captain of Pirates of the Caribbean, we discover a fantastic landscape: two thousand limestone islets plumed saxifrage and slashed mysterious caves ... Night meals on board: the bay treat! Overnight on boat
Day 5: HALONG BAY – HANOI – DA NANG – HOI AN
In the morning, the landscape "smoking" is discovered, the mist that is fraying gives the navigation a surreal character. Return to port. Drive to Hanoi through the rice fields.
Program - The village of Phu Lang pottery. Traditional and contemporary artists craftsmen work together. We will try to make yourself a clay object, we will walk along the Cau River. And it will go. But we will comfort a step further with the splendid But Thap pagoda (seventeenth century). Perhaps the most beautiful religious building in Vietnam.
Hanoi flight to Danang and transfer to Hoi An. Overnight in hotel.
Day 6: HOI AN
Navigating the Thu Bon River estuary where the locals are fishing plaice and hawk. Then explore the mangrove, a kind of natural ghost train. Bike ride to Tra Que village renowned for its gardens and aromatic plants. It's a whole part of Vietnamese cuisine, as Mr. Tuan is pleased to unveil its visitors. Moreover, lunch will be the opportunity to taste these plants, tam huu, with pork and shrimp! In the late afternoon, foot massage to recover a flexible and lightweight look. In the evening, dinner surprise in Hoi An. Overnight in hotel
Day 7: HOI AN – HUE
Breakfast in hotel then transfert to Hue. On the road, there are many famous heritage places in Vietnam that Foreigner are interested in, such as: Lang Co beach, Hai Van Pass, My Khe beach, Marble mountain…
Arrival in Hue, check in hotel and visit a kite-making workshop. In Vietnam, worthy of the name knows daddy fly kite (in Europe, while it tends to tangle faster and get excited). This is serious. So we will see how the machine is assembled and decorated by professionals. And we will leave with hers. Overnight in Hue
Day 8: HUEVISIT (B/L/-)
The former capital of Nguyen, is a marvel. It will address the following manner: bike ride in the surrounding countryside (which unfolds the beneficial influence of the sovereign) to the Heavenly Lady Pagoda, on the right bank of the Perfume River; then boat to Tu Duc Mausoleum (Fourth Emperor Nguyen). The afternoon is spent to the Citadel and the Imperial cities. The first impresses with its three forums where Asian art of fortification assimilates some European elements. This is the Forbidden City in Vietnam. Back to hotel. Overnight in Hue
Day 9: HUE – SAIGON
Transfer to airport for flight to Saigon. Upon arrival, you will be picked up and transferred to the hotel.
Visit of selected sites: the central station (metal frame Gustave Eiffel), Notre Dame (Toulouse brick - 1880), the great Ben Thanh Market (1912). In the afternoon, in the famous Chinese district of Cholon where we find the amazing colonial cock-and-bull stories, like the one that brings the Quan Am Buddhist pagoda (nineteenth century) and Jeanne d'Arc Church (1922). Back to city centre and overnight in hotel
Day 10: SAIGON –CAI BE–SAI GON
Morning departure to Mekong Delta, Cai Be town.
Upon arrival, aboard the morning in a wooden boat, floating market leadership busy Cai Be. The production of fruits and vegetables are proposed aplenty in the sampans. Nearby, hulling and drying of longan, which are typical activities of the region. In their orchards, traditional houses in the village of Dong Hoa Hiep will mark the richness of their decoration (some restorations beautifully make the atmosphere of the nineteenth century). Lunch in a local house. The navigation continues part of the afternoon to explore the life of the river. Back to the pier in Vinh Long and we come back to Sai Gon in the late afternoon. Overnight in hotel
Day 11: SAI GON – DEPARTURE
Transfer to the airport and return flight.
