Best Of Vietnam With Danang - 6 D / 5 N

Welcome to your Southern Travels Best Of Vietnam with Danang tour. On arrival, you will be met by your Southern Travel Tour Manager, who will welcome you and take you to your hotel.
Afternoon, heading to Cam Thanh coconut village. Here, you will experience basket boat ride around the coconut forest, learn about the daily life of Vietnamese fishermen, their families and their community. You will surely experience the feeling of floating on the waves of water and join a equally fun basket boat race between the baskets together in the cheering and bustling music drum.
Board on boat and commence cruising on the Cua Dai River. Coconut forest is a very unique eco region, with a beautiful mangrove forest, is the habitat of many precious animals such as, crab, shrimp, fish and even animal soft body. Local people will teach you how to paddle the Vietnamese unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boat. You will hear stories of past wars and the harsh conditions that soldiers have to endure. Back to Hoi An town.
Take an interesting walk over the tile-roofed Japanese Bridge, visit taciturn Chinese Assembly Halls, enjoy the attractiveness of ancient houses or listen to folk music of Central Vietnam at old club-houses. Later we can stop at shrines or stroll into the market located by Thu Bon river, where you may find the same feelings of the artists, who see the rooftops of Hoian as a magical old world of Oriental feel and a source of inspiration. This is also a wonderful town to shop for lanterns, soft silk, raw silk, or get your clothes tailored within a day. Overnight in Danang
Meals: Indian Lunch & Indian Dinner (Set Menu)

Breakfast at the hotel.
At 07:00 AM, travel to the Marble Mountains, you'll see a cluster of five marble and limestone hills. Here, you'll be able to explore natural caves, visit a Buddhist pagoda and admire sweeping views from the summits. Then transfer to Ba Na Hills for discover this beautiful attraction in Da Nang city. You will take a cable car to the summit of mountain (at 1487m of sea level). Start visiting Ba Na Hill with many different attractions: Funicular, Le Jardin D’Amour, Linh Ung pagoda, Thich Ca Buddhist statue, etc.
This afternoon you continue to join activities and games in Fantasy Park. Later, walk to the summit of the mountain at the height 1487m – the highest one of Ba Na Mountain, visit Bell Tower, Nghinh Phong tower a and Golden Bridge, to take beautiful photos of the mountain and Da Nang city. In the late afternoon, transfer to Son Tra Peninsula (Monkey mountain), you'll have the chance to see panoramic ocean views and the Giant Lady Buddha Statue, the tallest statue in Vietnam. Then Overnight in Danang
Sharing buffet lunch on Bana Hills
Dinner at Indian restaurant – Set Menu

Please note: Wax Museum, wine cellar/tasting, alpine coaster and coin games are not included in my quotation, joining them will be at your own account.

Breakfast at hotel and check out. Morning transfer to the airport without a guide for your flight to the City, the capital city of Vietnam. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel.
Afternoon, visit Ba Dinh Square – the biggest square in Hanoi where all the biggest cultural, political events of the cities, especially demonstrations, take place. Start our visit at the Complex of Ho Chi Minh including Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (from outside only as it closes in the afternoon), Ho Chi Minh’s house-on-stilts, his fishpond and the One-Pillar Pagoda. Continue visit Tran Quoc Pagoda, locates on a small peninsula on the East side of the dazzling West Lake, this is the most ancient pagoda in Hanoi with its history line of more than 1,500 years.
Later, We visit the picturesque Hoan Kiem Lake and then take a leisure walk around the Old Quarter of Hanoi, a fascinating network of narrow alleys and shop houses also known as ‘The 36 Streets’ – each street being named after the merchandise traditionally sold there, ranging from fabrics, medicines to crafts. Transfer back to your hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: Indian Lunch & Indian Dinner (Set Menu)

Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning, our guide & driver will meet and bring you Ninh Binh province which is far from Hanoi city about 100 km. The first destination in this trip is visiting Hoa Lu ancient capital.
This is the first capital of Vietnam. Come to visit Hoa Lu, and you will learn about why the capital was moved to Hanoi nowadays. You are impressed on the outstanding architecture when entering the temples of King Dinh and King Le, the first and second emperors of ancient Vietnam, built in the 17 century. Try to feel the ancient atmosphere in Hoa Lu ancient capital. Time for Indian lunch. Relax in 20 minutes.
14.15 pm Taking a boat excursion from Trang An wharf is a must-do activity in Ninh Binh, as it is the highlight of the journey.
On the Trang An Tour, while you ride a bamboo boat through grottos filled with stunning stalactites, you'll be able to take in the breathtaking scenery. Get in the coach and return to Hanoi. After dinner, transfer to your hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: Indian Lunch & Indian Dinner (Set Menu)

Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Morning, we will drive via the expressway (2.5 – 3 hours driving) to Halong,one of the earliest World Heritage Sites designated by UNESCO for Vietnam in 1994.
Check in our boat and enjoy a lunch of fresh seafood while the boat goes about an unusual seascape with thousands of picturesque rocks and islets, beaches and hollow islands.
We can stop to visit some karst grottoes, or just go swimming, or stop at a beach and enjoy the sunset on the sea. Lunch and dinner with local food on board. Overnight on the boat in Halong Bay.

Please note: Cruise program may vary depending on the cruise. You will have an English-speaking guide on board!
Meals: Lunch and Dinner with local food on board.

You should wake up early to enjoy the dawn on the sea in the early morning.
The Vietnamese call the “East Sea” by a point-oriented name “Eastern Sea”, so you may guess how miraculous seeing the sunrise over the islets of the Bay. After light breakfast our boat will continue to cruise in marvelous areas, where almost each islet has its own name, adopting its shape or reminiscent like Sail Island, Fisherman’s head rock, Butterfly rock or Turtle islet etc.
A full breakfast or brunch will local food will be served on board. Disembark and transfer back to Hanoi via the expressway (2.5 – 3 hours driving), heading to the airport for your departure flight.
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