Upon arrival, your guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer to our well-selected hotel. The rest of the day is free for you.

After breakfast, your private guide and the driver will pick you up at the hotel and accompany you to visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Complex to honor the leader who led the country towards liberation.

Then, pass by the Buddhist One Pillar Pagoda, and visit the Temple of Literature, a typical Chinese building complex.

In the afternoon, head to the Museum of Ethnology to discover Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups.

Afterward, tour the vibrant Old Quarter, aka the "36 Streets".

In the evening, enjoy a traditional Water Puppet Show. Finally, your guide and the driver will escort you back to your hotel.

After breakfast, you will start a scenic drive of 150km through northern Vietnam to Halong Bay, which was designated as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1994. Halong Bay is a gift for human from nature and it is also a highlight of your Vietnam vacation packages. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed by the cruise staff and led to check in. It will be a pleasant experience to enjoy the lunch while sailing on the sea. In the afternoon, you will visit some heavenly caves and join in the funny activities, such as kayaking, diving and swimming. Then stay overnight on the cruise.

Wake up in the early morning and take part in Tai Chi class on the sundeck if you like. After short practice, you could enjoy the morning tea or coffee. Then please get ready to disembark for a few hours' land tour. The hospitable local people will welcome you with their home-made fruit or wine. While finishing the local family visiting, return to the cruise to enjoy the well-arranged brunch.

Your cruise trip will be ended after lunch and your guide will meet you again onshore to transfer you to Hanoi Airport to take your flight to Hue, which is the third destination of your private Vietnam vacation.

In the morning, you will take a private dragon boat along the Perfume River to visit the Thien Mu Pagoda to know more about Thien Mu, who is a holly mother of local people.

Then, you will come to the central located Imperial City, the Hue Royal Palace, which is also called the Forbidden City of Hue, the capital city of last dynasty.

In the afternoon, your guide will show you the Tomb of Tu Duc where you will enjoy the harmonious relationship between humans and nature from the buildings inside.

The last stop for today will be Dong Ba Market which is the largest traditional trading market in Hue. Here, you will have a chance to know more about local trading, and the way the local people doing business.

After breakfast, we will drive southwards to Da Nang. On the way, we will pass by the most beautiful coastline in the world, and stop to have a drink while enjoying the wonderful scenery. Also, We will stop at Lang Co Beach, where the white narrow curved beach is presented in many Vietnamese brochures.

In the afternoon, we will come to a world-class tangible cultural heritage, My Son Sanctuary, which is the heart of the famous ancient kingdom of Champa. The Champa Kingdom ruled central and southern Vietnam for as long as 14 centuries and here, you will have a chance to learn about this mysterious and brilliant kingdom. Besides, you will also enjoy a Champa Dance Show, which will bring you back to the ancient period and enable you to know more about local people's culture, belief and lifestyle.

After visiting, we will drive to Hoi An. Upon arrival, your guide will help you check in at the hotel.

This morning, you will join in an interesting cooking class tour in Hoi An. our foodie guide will accompany you to Hoi An main market. ou will see lively life scenes on both riverbanks. Upon arrival, you will visit the exotic Herb Garden firstly where you will see a lot of fresh plants emitting charming smells, and many of them are your lunch seasonings.

In the afternoon, start your Hoi An Ancient Town walking tour to admire the remarkable architecture. This town is a combination in cultures and architectural styles of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese.

Wake up naturally and have your breakfast. You may have some free time in the morning to walk on the beach by yourself. Then, check out the hotel and you will head to Da Nang Airport for your flight to Ho Chi Minh City.

After a short rest, your guide will show you around two iconic ones: Notre Dame Cathedral, the city’s grandest Catholic church.

Then, visit the Central Post Office, a fully functional and still-operating post office. At last, your guide and the driver will escort you back to your hotel.

For today's tour to Ho Chi Mihh City, you will start from the famous Cu Chi Tunnels which is 32km far away from HCMC. Our guide will take you to experience the special life during the Vietnam War. They lived in the underground tunnels for daytime, and could only come out to relax for a while at night. You may see kitchens, living quarters, and meeting rooms in the tunnels. Through visiting these sites, you could image how they suffered during that period.

Later, you will be escorted back to the city and follow your guide to learn about modern Vietnam's tortuous development in the Reunification Palace.

Then, tour the War Remnants Museum, which houses numerous exhibits related to the Vietnam War, including tanks, fighter jets, battlefield photos and documentaries. After the visit, your guide and the driver will escort you back to your hotel.

Today, we’ll travel to the Mekong River. Your guide and the driver will escort you to Hung Vuong Pier in Ben Tre and help you board a private boat to cruise the Ben Tre River. While sipping the refreshing coconut juice we’ve prepared, admire the enchanting rural landscape. We’ll pass by fruit orchards, and visit brick workshops to see how locals fire clay into red bricks in the traditional honeycomb-shaped kilns; drop by a coconut sugar factory to observe the production of coconut sugar. We’ll also land at a village to explore the authentic rural life by visiting a farmer's house. Then, take a unique motorized tricycle "Xe Loi" or a bicycle, and immerse yourself in the rural landscape for about 20 minutes. For lunch, enjoy a sumptuous meal at a riverside restaurant and savor the signature fried elephant ear fish. Afterward, enjoy a leisurely sampan tour in the narrow waterways to continue viewing the wonderland.

Then, board your boat to return to Ben Tre. There, your private driver will be waiting for you and escort you to Can Tho where you’ll stay overnight.

Today, your guide will pick you up from your hotel early in the morning for a special experience to the bustling Cai Rang Floating Market, Vietnam’s largest and most distinctive floating market! Showing the prosperous transactions around daybreak, the vast river is thronged with coming and going cargo ships and small rowboats, with locals from nearby villages peddling fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers, as well as refreshments! After the visit, pass by a small island and visit a tropical fruit orchard.

Then, we’ll go back to Ho Chi Minh City by private car in 3 hours.

Your 12 days of classical Vietnam private tour package ends today. After breakfast, your driver will transfer you to the airport according to your flight schedule.