• You will take international flight from Australia to Vietnam by your arrange or book international flight on your request for Impress Travel.
• Warm & friendly welcome to Hanoi Noi Bai international airport
• You are welcomed by Impress Travel’s guide & driver then it takes about 50 minutes by vehicle to get into Hanoi city. . ( Notice: hotel official check in is from 14:00, hotel early check in is NOT included, and is subject to hotel availability and regulation; hotel early check in can be available on request )
• You enjoy your free & easy time to  take a rest to recover from jet lag after long-hour flights
• Overnight at hotel in cengtral Hanoi city

HANOI SIGHTSEEING TOUR & WATER PUPPET SHOW:

• An Option to do a short tour in the afternoon to visit to one of the most beautiful lakes of Hanoi – the Hoan Kiem lake (Restore Sword Lake) & Ngoc Son Temple located on a beautiful islet in middle of the lake.
• Watching water puppet show

OPTION: STREET FOOD TOUR AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

SURCHARGE, PRICE: $26USD/ PER PERSON

• Return to the hotel for check in, free  & easy
• Your own arrangement for dinner on own payment
• Free time & overnight at hotel in central Hanoi city

Inclusions: Private A/C transfer, English speaking tour guide,  hotel accommodation, water

• Breakfast at the hotel,
• 08:00am, Pick up from your hotel,
• We begins the City tour with a short drive to the Westlake for a sightseeing tour and visit to the Quan Thanh Taoist Temple and the near by Tran Quoc Buddhist Temple which are among the most beautiful and most ancient temples in Hanoi,
• Next, a short drive to the Temple of Literature which was built in 1070 by Ly Emperor and is dedicated to Confucius & other sages and scholars – Temple of Literature is also served as Vietnam’s first National University where so many kings studied and the training of thousands of best talented men of Vietnam
• 11:00am, depart for Duong Lam Ancient villge, located some within 60km from central Hanoi to the West, Duong Lam village is a purely agricultural village, typical of the Northern Red River delta which still preserves and standing many hundred-year-old houses,
• On arrival to Duong Lam, we start our walking tour from the Main Entrance of the village, amazingly, Duong Lam is the only hamlet with the village’s original main entrance gate still remains intact till today, continue walking in to the village, we take a visit to the Mong Phu communal house which located in the very center of the Duong Lam village, the Communal house is one of the most solemn place where worships the Tan Vien Mountain Saint – one of four immortal Saint in Vietnamese  traditional conceptions – as the tutelary of the village, the Communal house is one of the beautiful art work, a typical of the Northern Vientam,
• Lunch will be served in a local family at a beautiful ancient house.
• After lunch, we keep walking, going through the narrow alleys for sightseeing and taking photos of the old laterite brick houses which makes up the special feature and unique for the village..
• We take a walk or a very short ride by bicycle to the near by Mia Pagoda (another hamlet of Duong Lam), built in the 15th century, some 287 statues of all sizes can be seen here, among which are famous sculptures such as the statue of Buddha and the statues of the ‘Eight Vajra Deities’.
• Next stop, we take a visit to the near by Phung Hung temple & Ngo Quyen Masoleum, the 2 places dedicated to two great national heroes who drove a way foreign enemies and regained the independence for Vietnam
• Back to the coach for a short drive back to Hanoi,
• Free & easy and overnight at hotel in Hanoi

Inclusions: breakfast, private A/C land transfer, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, lunch, bicycles, hotel accommodation, water

• Begin the new day with breakfast in the restaurant
• Pick up at 07:30 from your hotel to travel to Halong Bay ( distance 160km, a stop for a break time on halfway for a refreshment ).
• You enjoy the drive and sightseeing the peaceful countryside scenery during the bus trip ( 4 hours ), we arrive at the at Ha Long bay seaport 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 seascape 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  the 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 the early morning.
• Refresh your body & soul with a Tai-chi martial art lesson the sundeck.
• Breakfast will be served
• You continue to enjoy the sightseeing tour on the cruise until noontime, sightseeing, taking photographs & relax onboard
• At about 09:30 – 10:00, pack up your luggage and check out your cabin while cruising returning to the boat pier.
• Lunch will be served on Cruise ( or in a restaurant inland in Halong city, depends on different cruise’s program)
• 11:30 am – Return to prier, and disembark the Cruise & say farewell to all crew member,
• Meet again the driver and the bus for another 4 driving back to Hanoi,
• On arrival back to central Hanoi city, you will be picked up transferred to the Noi Bai airport for a short flight to Hue city
• On arrival in Hue city Airport, pick up and transfer to hotel for check-in
• Free & easy time & overnight at the hotel in Hue

Inclusion: breakfast, shuttle bus A/C land transfer, lunch, local English speaking tour guide on Cruise, entrance fee, Halong cruise – disembark at noontime, hotel accommodation, water

• Have breakfast at hotel.
• Visit Hue Imperial City, including the Hue citadel, the Flag tower, main entrance gate with the Noon Gate with the Five Foenix Pavilions, entering through the gate to visit the Thai Hoa Palace ( the great Harmony Palace where Nguyen Kings held court ), the Royal Theatre, Nine Dynasty Urns, Five Phoenix Tower…
• Lunch is served at restaurant
  Aboard boat trip on Perfume River with a stopover at Thien Mu Pagoda on dragon boat is the best way for you to enjoy the landscape along two banks of Huong river
  Visit Minh Mang King’s Tomb
• 15:00 drive to Hoi An ( 140km ~ 3 hours by car or van )
• Free time & overnight in Hoi An

• Breakfast at hotel
• Am: Pick up from the hotel in Hoi An and takes you to Cam Nam fishing village to learn fishing for more experience under the instruction of the local people, especially, you will practice how to catch fish, how to cast a fish net into the river… next, proceed to the green Bay Mau water coconut forest, where you will get a chance to row a basket boat and using a fishing tool to catch field crabs while admiring the tranquil atmosphere of the real peaceful countryside area once the revolutionary base of Hoi An in the past, Leaving the coconut forest, you will be transferred and to ride a bicycle for visiting Tra Que Vegetable Village, You will ride through peaceful villages and enjoy the beauties of the countryside of surrounding area in Hoi An.
• On arrival Tra Que, you are welcomed with the friendly smiles and special drink; “E” water or local tea.
• It is here that you will have a chance to do a cooking class with the family, under the instruction of the house owner, you will practice how to prepare ingredients, and cook the Hoi An special authentic dishes.
• Have lunch at the local family.
• Pm: You will dress in farming clothes, take a short walk around to visit the garden where local farmers work and use the traditional methods without having electrical machines support. After that you are under the instruction of household; he will show you how to prepare and make the land, you fertilize green manure before growing vegetables. Watering the vegetables, which you have just grown, is the last activity in the procedure of planting them. After that, you come back to the house to relax by soaking your feet in Vietnamese herbs. This is one of the ways to refresh ourselves after a hard time in the garden of Vietnamese.  Then you be transferred back to your hotel in Hoi An.
• Free time and overnight in Hoian

Inclusion: hotel breakfast, private A/C transfer, local boat, basket boat and fishing tools, bicycle & helmet, English Speaking guide, entrance fees, cooking class, lunch, hotel accommodation, water

• Have breakfast at hotel.
• This morning you will take a tour to wandering around the old streets to visit Hoi An ancient town including the Japanese Covered Bridge, the beautiful Chinese Assembly Halls, the Phuc Kien Pagoda, and the local market…
• Lunch is served at restaurant
• You are free & easy before being transferred to Danang Airport for a short flight to HCM city
• On arrival in HCM city, being picked up and transferred to Hotel in HCM city
• Free time & overnight in HCM city

Inclusion: hotel breakfast, private A/C transfer, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, lunch, hotel accommodation, water

• Breakfast at the hotel
• 08:00 am, the sightseeing tour begins with a visit to the Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office
• The Reunification Palace
• The War Remnants Museum
• Lunch is served at restaurant
• Watching a short introductory video showing how they were constructed, then spend the next hour exploring the maze of tunnels. Also on display are various mantraps, the remains of an American tank and numerous bomb craters made by 500- pound bombs dropped by B52 bombers. For those interested there’s even the opportunity to fire off rounds from an AK47 or MK16 at the nearby rifle range

Inclusion: hotel breakfast, private A/C transfer, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, lunch, hotel accommodation, water

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Pick up from the hotel, and transfer you to Mekong River Delta to Cai Be.
• On arrival, start your tour with a visit to Cai Be floating market place ( the market is most busy in very early morning only, which is a very typical floating market in the Mekong delta region ).
• Our boat will stop for a visit to some local factories making Coconut candies, rice crispy cakes, rice papers making workshop, you will have chance to visit to some Ancient houses typical of local land lords in the early 20th century, with the blend of Oriental and Western architectural styles
• A delicious lunch will be served at a local house in the cool shade of An Binh Island’s orchards.
• In the afternoon, take a traditional rowboat and venture deeper into the countryside, floating through narrow canals to enjoy the peaceful surroundings.
• Stop at a nursery garden to discover how farmers along the delta produce their world famous fruits and vegetables.
• The cruise ends around 3:30 PM in Vinh Long. Your driver will meet you at the dock and take you back to Saigon
• Free time & overnight at hotel in central Ho Chi Minh city

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

Inclusion:  hotel breakfast, private A/C transfer, hotel accommodation – check out before 12:00 mid-day