7-Day Amazing Vietnam Trip (From Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi)

A warm welcome to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam awaits you!

Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, you will be met and taken up to the hotel with a brief introduction en route. Your tour guide will be holding a welcome signboard with  Your Name. 

Hotel check-in. Take a rest. Free to visit around the bustle and hustle of Saigon.

Join on a night walking foodie tour with a local guide to enjoy Saigon street food.

18:00: You and your tour guide meet at the meeting point (tour guide can help you to book a Grab car/ bike):

• Enjoy Vietnamese Banh Mi and coffee, a must-try Vietnamese street food while visiting the secret bunker of the 'legendary' Saigon Ranger. 
• Visit Nguyen Thien Thuat Oldest And Huge Apartment Complex (District 3) 
• Enjoy Bun Bo Hue (Hue Style Beef Noodle Soup): Hue City, a historic metropolis in central Vietnam, has the previous royal cooking style. Bun Bo Hue's unique flavor is a combination of bone, lemongrass, and shrimp paste, which is also a Must-try street food besides Pho.  
• Drive through Ho Thi Ky Biggest Wholesale Flower Market (District 10).

22:00: Back to your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 1!

Meals Included: Dinner.

07:30: Tour guide and GTrip team will pick you up at your hotel. 

Depart for Cu Chi Tunnels, which is just 60 kilometers far away from the city center. Arrive at Cu Chi Tunnels, which is “land of steel”, and learn about the history of the underground systems dug during the Vietnam War by Viet Cong soldiers as a way to move undetected and launch surprise attacks.

We will visit:

• The weapons that used by the People Liberation Front in the war, including hand-made gun.
• Watch the documentary about the tunnel system and the people's war (serving in multiple languages).
• Learn about the tunnel system structure.
• Witness many kinds of Vietnam war era deadly trap which is used by the people liberation front (Viet Cong) & how they work.
• Get into the tunnel, experience as a Viet Cong soldier.
• Visit B52 bomb hole.
• Experience Vietnam war's era real gun fire (exclude - at least buy 10 bullets)
• Weapon Workshop, Viet Cong Solider's combat sandals Workshop (Slippers).
• Taste the tapioca - which were widely eaten by the Viet Cong soldier, try the jasmine tea.

11:00:

• Go back to Ho Chi Minh City.
• Try the sugarcane juice on the way.

13:00: Arrive at Com Tam Do Phu - a restaurant with Saigon pre 1975s style decoration:

• Have lunch with traditonal Saigonese Broken Rice.
• An old Renault car that used to transport weapons.
• Explore the secret base, where Viet Cong used to store equipments.
• Explore the secret weapons, learn how Viet Cong hid their weapons.

14:00: Visit around Saigon City Center:

• The War Remnants Museum: offers a shocking reminder of the long and brutal Vietnam War, with many graphic photographs and American military equipment on display.
• Independence Palace: is a popular historical site in Ho Chi Minh City and continues to be used for Government meetings and receptions. 
• Saigon Central Post Office: is one of the most famous and iconic attractions in Ho Chi Minh City with its unique structure and remnants of the city’s past.

16:00: Visit Ben Thanh Market, where people sell everything you might need from clothing, household items to food so you can definitely find souvenirs here to bring back home.

17:00: Back to your hotel.

Free to have dinner. Back to the hotel. 

Some recommendations in Saigon  at night (on your own expense but we can help you to book)

• Get on a cruise to have dinner enjoy the nightlife along Saigon River
• Watch a Water puppet show
• Visit Nguyen Hue walking street or Bui Vien Bar Street or go to a sky bar

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 2!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch.

Have breakfast at the hotel.

08:00: Leave for the Mekong Delta, the biggest rice plantation in Vietnam.

• Embark a boat to visit floating fishing villages along Tien River. 
• Arrive at Thoi Son Islet (Lan Islet), Visit the orchard and learn about the process of producing and gathering honey bees. You can harvest fruit directly from the garden (at your own expense).
• The tram brings you to Thoi Son village, where you may taste seasonal fruits and listen to Southern traditional music (Don Ca Tai Tu - A folk art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity)
• Row a sampan along a little canal lined with two rows of beautiful water coconuts on the banks.
• Visit the facility that makes coconut sweets and rice paper...
• Return to the boat, enjoy local coconut.

12:00: Back to the port. Have lunch. Relax.

13:00: Move back to Ho Chi Minh City

15:00: Back to Ho Chi Minh City. Free to have dinner and enjoy at night.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 3!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch.

Have breakfast at the hotel. 

Tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer to the airport for a domestic flight. 

• Flight: Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Hanoi (HAN)

Arrive in Hanoi. Tour guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to a hotel in Hanoi for check-in. 

Hanoi City Tour:

• Tran Quoc Pagoda - West Lake, is one of the oldest pagodas in Vietnam with its historical progression in 1500 years. It has a harmonious combination between the majesty, hoariness architecture and peaceful landscape of the West Lake. 
• Visit the Complex of President Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and Stilt house) - Where the great leader lived and worked until the last years of his life. Here, you will have the opportunity to learn about Uncle Ho's simple life. In addition, stop by One Pillar Pagoda to admire one of the 4 symbols of Hanoi. 

Note: On Monday and Friday, Mausoleum Management Board will carry out maintenance of the mausoleum, you will visit only outside of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, stilt house and One Pillar Pagoda.

• The Temple of Literature, which was constructed in 1070, was the first university in Vietnam. Its gardens and well-preserved architecture will offer a relaxing glimpse into Vietnam’s past.
• St. Joseph's Cathedral: A Hanoi Attraction with Unique Structure in the Old Quarter.
• Hoan Kiem lake (Sword lake) - is famous for its peaceful beauty, its cultural as well as historical values with Turtle tower, Ngoc Son Temple. Furthermore, you can discover the Vietnamese traditional and French colonial architecture through buildings surrounding.

Free to have dinner and enjoy your night. 

Some recommendations in Hanoi:

Water Puppet Show / Join a cooking class / Food Walking Tour around Hanoi Old Quarter / Visit Hanoi Train Street, ect.

Overnight in Hanoi. Finish Day 4!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner.

An exciting day on cruise awaits you!

Have Breakfast.

06:30: Leave for Ha Long Bay.

Ha Long Bay, one of the most beautiful bays in the world, has thousands of islands forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars and great biological interest. 

08:45: Arrive at Ha Long Harbour. Take on board to get a cruise around Ha Long Bay.

• Sung Sot Cave (Surprising Cave), the largest and most beautiful cave in Halong Bay. The stalagmites will astound you. Magnificent stalactites formed over millions of years, evolving into abundant and mystical forms.
• You can explore Luon Cave by sampan or kayak or visit around by canoe (on your own expense)

12:00: Have lunch on cruise.

14:00: Drop anchor in the calm water surrounded by beautiful islets. Visit Titop Island for swimming and snorkeling or do the short trek to the top of the island to have the overview of Halong bay from here.

16:00: Reach Ha Long Harbour.  Move to Hanoi.

18:30: Arrive in Hanoi. Free to have dinner and enjoy at night. 

Overnight in Hanoi. Finish Day 5!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Have breakfast. 

08:00: Leave Hanoi for Ninh Binh.

10:00: Visit Hoa Lu Ancient Capital. Take a short walk to learn about Vietnamese history under the Dinh, Le, and Ly Dynasty in the 10th century.

11:00: Get on a small boat to visit Trang An.

Trang An Landscape Complex is the first and only UNESCO World Mixed Heritage Site of Vietnam, which is the combination between a spectacular landscape of limestone karst peaks permeated with valleys and the Vietnamese ancient culture from the 10th century with temples, pagodas, paddy-fields and small villages.

13:00: Have lunch, enjoy the specialties of Ninh Binh (mountain goat).

14:00: Visit Mua Cave. After climbing several hundred stone steps, you can see all the way to Tam Coc and enjoy one of the most spectacular panoramic views in Vietnam.

15:30: Back to Hanoi. Relax. Free to have dinner and enjoy Hanoi by night.

Overnight in Hanoi. Finish Day 6!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

You have a free-day to go out for a visit,  go shopping, or enjoy services at the hotel. 

(Please inform us if you would like to late check-out while waiting for your flight time (Extra fee))

7-DAY AMAZING VIETNAM TRIP  (HO CHI MINH CITY - MEKONG DELTA - HA NOI - HA LONG - NINH BINH)

It’s time for you to take the flight back to your country. Thank you and see you again!

Meals Included: Breakfast