From Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang: 7-Day Amazing Vietnam Trip (Overnight train included)

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 Company Name/ Your name. Hotel check-in and take a rest. 

You are free to visit around the city on your own. The rest of the day is at your own leisure to explore the largest city of Vietnam with its wide elegant boulevards and historic French colonial buildings... 

A comfortable overnight stay at the hotel marks the end of the first day of your 7-DAY 360° VIETNAM ADVENTURE!

Meals Included: Dinner

08:00: Tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. Then visit around city center: 

• 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.
• Saigon Opera House: also known as the Municipal Theatre Saigon. Here still remains some iconic structures and buildings that have been standing inside the heart of Saigon for centuries and become its own symbols.
• Saigon City Hall: the building has been the headquarters of the People's Committee in Ho Chi Minh City. 
• Independence Palace: is a popular historical site in Ho Chi Minh City and continues to be used for Government meetings and receptions. 

12:00: Arrive at Cơm Tấm Đỗ Phủ - Since 1946, a restaurant with Saigon pre75’s style decoration:

- Have lunch with traditional Saigon Broken Rice (Cơm Tấm)

- An old Renault car that used to transport weapons.

- Explore the secret base, where VC used to store equipment.

- Explore the secret weapon armory, learn how VC hid their weapon.

• Visit War Remnants Museum: Explore the heroic past of Vietnam during the war.
• Visit Thien Hau Temple: This spiritual house has a significant influence on the cultural life of the Chinese people.
• Visit Binh Tay Market: constructed by the French in the 1880s, is located in the center of Vietnam's largest Chinatown district. 

16:30: Back to the hotel and take a rest.

18:30: Embark cruise on Saigon River to have dinner (Set menu of Buffet) while enjoying the beauty of Saigon nightlife. 

21:00: Disembark cruise. Back to the hotel. 

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 2!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Have breakfast. You're in for a long day filled with interesting activities that focus not only on history but also on local cultural experiences.

08:00: Depart for Cu Chi Tunnels, which is just 60 kilometers far away from the city center. 10:30: 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.

• The weapons that used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in the war, including hand-made guns.
• Watch the documentary about the tunnel system and the people’s war.
• Learn about the tunnel system structure.
• Witness many kinds of Vietnam war era deadly TRAPS which were used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (VC) & how it worked.
• Get into the tunnels, experience as a VC soldier.
• Visit B52 bomb hole
• Weapon Workshop, VC Soldier's combat sandals Workshop (Dép Râu).
• Experience Vietnam war’s era real gun fire (personal fee - buy at least 10 bullets)
• Taste the boiled tapioca, which were widely eaten by the VC during the wartime, try jasmine tea.

11:00: Have lunch 

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.

Back to Ho Chi Minh City in the late afternoon. Free to have dinner and enjoy at night.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 3!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Have breakfast. Check out. 

You have a free day to enjoy Ho Chi Minh City at your leisure by going shopping for some souvenirs or visiting around. 

14:30: Move to Saigon Station to get a “really local experience” - get on an overnight train.

15:30: The train starts to leave Ho Chi Minh City for Da Nang City. You will arrive in Da Nang around 10am the next morning. 

Overnight on the train. Finish Day 4!

Meals Included: Breakfast

10:00: Arrive in Da Nang Station. Tour guide and driver will pick you up and move to Hoi An. Have lunch in Hoi An. 

Hoi An Ancient Town, which reflects a fusion of indigenous and foreign cultures (principally Chinese and Japanese with later European influences) that combined to produce this unique survival. 

• Check-in and visit around Hoi An Ancient Town with unique Japanese Covered Bridge, Tan Ky Ancient House, Thu Bon River. You should try “Mot” drink or famous Banh Mi Phuong (on your own expense).

15:00: Move to Cam Thanh Water Coconut Village. Get on a basket boat to visit coconut village, enjoy and learn the skills of the local farmer with a basket boat. That experience will make you amazing.

Hotel check-in. Have dinner and enjoy Hoi An by night. 

Overnight in Hoi An. Finish Day 5!

Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner

Have breakfast. Check-out.

08:00: Start a bike tour to enjoy the countryside of Hoi An.

• Reach Tra Que vegetable village. You’ll enjoy a welcome drink and then walk through the vegetable gardens where local farmers work in their fields following the methods that have been in use for hundreds of years.
• Have a cooking lesson with a chef to learn the traditional ways of preparing and cooking Vietnamese food. After the lesson, you’ll have a chance to enjoy what you’ve cooked!

Recipes: 

• Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Pancake)
• Hoi An spring rolls
• Papaya salad shrimp 
• Fish/ Chicken clay pots

14:00: You’ll bid farewell to your host family before driving to Da Nang City.

• Visit Marble Mountain: A masterpiece of nature presented to Da Nang. From here, amazing and fabulous fairylands appear in front of your eyes. There are a lot of ancient and sacred pagodas with great architecture and amazing Buddha statues in wonderful caves from the 4th century

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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

If you have time, you can spend a half-day to visit Ba Na Hills, and check-in the unique Golden Bridge, which is no less than an iconic architectural wonder that envisages the sash-like route across the heaven.

Finish 7-DAY AMAZING VIETNAM TRIP (Ho Chi Minh City - Mekong Delta - Da Nang - Hoi An). It’s time for you to collect all the nice moments and take the flight back to your country. 

Thank you and see you again!

Meals Included: Breakfast