Central Vietnam to Hanoi Vietnam Tour: 8 days

• Impress Travel will pick you up at the airport
• Pick up at hotel in Da Nang, our driver and tour guide and will transfer you to visit My Son Holly land.
• Arrive in My Son Holy Land. You can explore it for a couple of hours. With the guide, you will learn more about its architecture and history.
• See Cham’s People Dancing Show inside My Son Sanctuary
• My Son is a center for spirituality and worship during the reign of the Champa Kingdom. It is a large complex of religious monuments originally consisting of more than 70 structures; the vestiges of 25 of which remain today.
• In the afternoon
• Have Lunch at a restaurant in Hoi An Old Quarter.
• You will start to walk around Hoi An Old Town. Our guide will show you some sightseeing places such as the Kwan Temple, Phuc Kien Chinese Assembly Hall, Tan Ky Old House, Japanese Bridge and cultural showrooms in Hoi An.
• Hoi An Ancient Town is also very famous for clothing shops and professional tailors. You can do shopping here.
• After visiting Hoi An Ancient Town, our guide and car will take you back to your hotel in Da Nang or drop you off at your hotel in Hoi An Old Quarter.
• Stay overnight in Hoi An

Inclusions: breakfast, A/C land transfer, lunch, local English-speaking tour guide, entrance fee, hotel

• Hotel breakfast
• At 8:00 am: Our driver will pick you up at your hotel in Hoi An and transfer to Hue city ( about 102 km to the North of Da nang, 130km from Hoi an)
• On the way from Da nang to Hue, the car will stop for you to visit some beautiful attraction such as:
• Hai Van pass – is an approximately 21 km long mountain pass on National Route 1A in Vietnam. It is the natural border of Thua Thien-Hue Province and Danang City, one of the most scenic hillside roads in Vietnam.
• Lang Co beach – With more than 10 km long white sand beach and blue sea water, Lang Co beach is an ideal place for relaxing, swimming and taking photos. From Hai Van pass, Lang Co beach is beautiful like a landscape picture that tourists travelling between Da nang and Hue cannot help stopping to admire
• At 11:00 a.m: Arrive in Hue. Here, the car will pick the tour guide up and he will say hello and follow you during the trip. With the Guide, you will transfer to visit a famous King’s tomb in Hue city, Khai Dinh tomb – a blend of Western and Eastern architecture.
• At 12:30 : Have Lunch at a local restaurant ( local food).
• At 1:30 p.m: Continue to visit the most famous site in Hue city. The Citadel – Located on the northern bank of the inspirational Perfume River. Hue Citadel was built on an area of over 500 ha, including the Citadel and the Forbidden City, known collectively as the Citadel. This is the administrative and the political center of Nguyen dynasty and the home of the king and the royal family. The Citadel has a unique art architecture and garden.
• At 3:00 p.m: After visiting the Citadel, you will have a chance to visit one of the most beautiful and famous pagoda in Hue. Thien Mu Pagoda – the oldest pagoda located on the bank of charming Perfume River in Hue city.
• At 4:00 p.m: Finish tour in Hue, the car takes you to hotel in Hue.
• Stay overnight in Hue.

 Inclusions: breakfast, A/C land transfer, lunch, local English-speaking tour guide, entrance fee, hotel, boat trip

• Hotel breakfast
• Free and easy time in the morning. Pick up and transfer to the airport for the flight from Hue to Hanoi.
• On your arrival in Hanoi, our driver will pick you up ad will transfer to the center of Hanoi.
• Free and easy time to discover Hanoi Old Quarter by yourself.
• Stay overnight in Hanoi

• 8.00: We pick you up from your hotel, start visiting first place named Tran Quoc Pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.
• 9.00: Visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex, which includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – the final resting place of the beloved national hero, Uncle Ho – and President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived off and on from 1958 to 1969.
• 9.30: You’ll visit the One Pillar Pagoda, which is a group of structures that collectively make up a pagoda built over the water in the middle of a square lake.
  10.00: You’ll stop at the Museum of Ethnology. This superb museum showcases the depth of Vietnamese cultural diversity with an astounding collection of 15,000 artifacts gathered from throughout Vietnam. Vietnamese, French, and English are available on the maps, displays, and dioramas. Displays portray a typical village market, how to make a comical hats and a Tay shamanic ceremony; videos show the real life. You can also check out a traditional Black Thai house reconstructed in the museum. There’s also a center for research and conservation where scientists from all over the world study traditional Vietnamese cultures (except Monday).
• 12.30: Next, you have lunch at a restaurant in the Old Quarter
• 13.30: Visit the Temple of literature, considering the first university of Viet Nam. The temple was first constructed in 1070 under King Ly Nhan Tong and dedicated to Confucius, sages, and scholars.
  Afterward, you’ll visit Hoan Kiem Lake, the heart and soul of Hanoi, visit Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Van Xuong Saint and Tran Hung Dao General Commander for his struggle against Mongolians.
• 15.30: Come back to your hotel. Hanoi City Tour 1 day ends
  Add some options: Enjoy Water Puppet Show from 15.30 to 16.15 or Electric Car or Cyclo around Hanoi’s Old Quarter.
• 17.00: Come back to your hotel

• 07h30 – 8h00: Get picked up by our friendly guide then depart for Ninh Binh province
  09h15: Have a short break for 15 – 20 minutes to relax
  10h30: Visit Hoa Lư ancient capital of Vietnam between 968 and 1010. You have a chance to learn about Vietnamese history in the feudal system under Dinh, Le and Ly Dynasty
  11h45: Have buffet lunch in the restaurant with a lot of local foods such as: goat meat, fried rice…
  Vegetarian foods are always available in the buffet lunch
  13h00: Visit Tam Coc by 1.5-hour bamboo boat.  During the boat trip, you will be surprised by the charming beauty here with paddy field, river, water, cloud, sky and stunning cave system. All make a masterpiece which Vietnamese people called “Ha long Bay on land”
  14h30: Continue the tour with 45 minutes – cycling around the village to discover the life of local people.
  15h15: Get back to Limousine Bus then leave for Mua Cave (Dancing Cave). Walk up almost 500 steps, you can reach to the top of Lying Dragon Mountain & have an amazing panoramic view of Tam Coc from here
  16h30: Get on the bus to return to Hanoi
  18h30 – 19h00: Get dropped off at Hotel in Hanoi

• Breakfast at the hotel, check out
• Pick up at 07:30 from your hotel to travel to Halong Bay (distance 160km, a stop for a break time on half way for a refreshment).
• You enjoy the drive and sightseeing the peaceful country side scenery during the bus trip (4 hours), we arrive at the at Ha Long bay sea port at around noon time
• At 12.00 noon, you aboard the cruise, check in & enjoy a welcome drink while your cabin will be assigned.
• Check in your cabin and put your luggage in, relax and may do a short inspection tour by moving around the cruise to discover about the cruise’s architecture & design
• Relax, sightseeing and taking photographs before lunch is served.
• A sumptuous lunch with fresh seafood meal will be served while cruise slowly gliding out into the Halong bay.
• It’s a wonderful opportunity to admire thousands of islands and islets with magnificent caves and grottoes at the inside the islands, admiring sparkling stalactites and stalagmites like germs and listening to the legends of the Dragons and the land and sea scape in the area,
• You may enjoy extra activities organized on board (depends on each cruise’ program, such as visiting a floating village, going for kayaking (notice: extra activities subject to availability, kayaking fee is on own expense, can be available on request at Cruise’s reception)
• Relax on cruise during the happy hours or may join in a cooking demonstration, watching the sunset on Cruise.
• Dinner is served on cruise
• After dinner, free at leisure time to relax on Cruise and socialize with other guests or can join in some other evening activities such as squid fishing…,
• Overnight in your cabin on the Cruise.

Inclusion: Hotel breakfast, shuttle bus A/C transfer, local English speaking tour guide on Cruise only, entrance fee, cruise in Ha Long bay with full meals on board, water

• Early bird risers may be awarded a great chance to enjoy the sunrise and enjoy the amazingly peaceful breath-taking beauties of Ha Long Bay’s seascape in early morning.
• Refresh your body & soul with a Tai-chi martial art less on the   sundeck.
• Breakfast will be served
• You continue enjoy the sightseeing tour on the cruise until noon time, sightseeing, taking photographs & relax on board
• At about 09:30 – 10:00, pickup your luggage and check out your cabin while cruising returning to the boat pier.
• Lunch will be served on Cruise (or in restaurant in land in Halong city, depends on different cruise’s program)
• 11:30 am – Return to prier, and disembark the Cruise & say fare well to all crew member,
• Meet again the driver and the bus for another 4 driving back to Hanoi
• About 16:00 – Arrival back to Hanoi central city
• Stay overnight in Hanoi

• Enjoy your time at leisure.
• You will be transferred to the Ha Noi city airport via your schedule flight back home or continue seeing other cities in Vietnam.
• We hope you enjoyed your trip and see you again!