Vietnam Highlights

The Vietnam of today is influenced not only by its ancient traditions and culture but also by its chequered and often tragic past Vietnam is finding its way back to its ancient roots of serenity and family oriented lifestyle. Experience a country still unspoiled and tolerant, a country quite unique in the world.

	CAT BA ISLAND Thin Linh Lake (full day) This excursion to Thinh Linh Lake includes a 4 hour trek and kayaking. Cat Ba Island is the largest island in Halong Bay and home to a vast national park/nature reserve. After exploring the island, enjoy opportunities for kayaking and fishing in Lan Ha Bay.
	Dalat Explorer Tour (full day) “Le Petit Paris” is located in the Central Highlands. Enjoy a boat ride on Paradise Lake and elephant riding. Visit Truc Lam Zen pagoda, take a cable car ride over vegetable plantations. Visit the old train station, Bao Dai’s summer residence the Crazy House, a waterfall and Dalat market.
	DANANG City Tour (full day) This tour includes all the highlights of Danang: the Cham Museum, the Marble Mountains and China Beach. Cham Museum has the world’s finest collection of Cham sculpture. China Beach was a base for ‘rest and relaxation’ for American soldiers during the Vietnam - American War. Marble Mountains, formerly islands, are each named after one of the five elements: waters, wood, fire, gold and earth.
	My Son Tour (full day) One of the most stunning sights to see in the Hoi An area is My Son, Vietnam’s centre of the ancient kingdom of Champa. Get amazed about the accuracy these temples are built and how they survived the past centuries. On the way you will visit Simhapura, the first capital city of Champa and a rice cake factory.
	HANOI City Tour (full day) Sightseeing includes the following highlights: the Old Quarter, the Temple of Literature, the One Pillar Pagoda, the Ho Chi Minh Memorial Complex and one of Hanoi’s famous museums, either the History Museum or the Museum of Ethnology.
	Halong Bay (full day) Enjoy an interesting 3.5 hours drive to Ha Long City. Arrive and have lunch. Then take a private boat trip for about 4 hours. Cruise through the emerald water between the limestone outcrops and long corridors. Visit Thien Cung cave (the cave of the heavenly palace – famous for its stalagmites and stalactites) which has only opened to the public in 1998. Then pay a short visit the newly discovered Dau Go grotto.
	Hanoi – Cuc Phuong National Park (full day) Located only 120km southwest of Hanoi and nestled between the provinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa, Cuc Phuong boasts engaging cultural and wildlife heritage and enchanting scenery. Magnificent limestone mountains rise up majestically from the green, rice-terraces and traditional stilt houses of the Muong hill-tribe.
	HUE City Tour (full day) This tour includes some of the highlights of the former city of the Nguyen Emperors: the forbidden City, the Citadel, the tomb of Khai Dinh and the tomb of Tu Duc HUE Perfume River Travel by “dragon boat” – a romantic boat trip along the Perfume River, stopping at the Thien Mu Pagoda and Nguyen Dynasty tombs.
	NHA TRANG -Cycling Excursion around Nha Trang (half day) Cycle west of Nha Trang to Dien Khan District to visit the DIEN KHANH CITADEL, dating for mthe 18th century. Visit an old church en route before continuing to KHAN VINH VALLEY, riding over a spectacular pass, following the river and passing through eucalyptus forests. On the return, visit SUOI TIEN SPRING for a brief rest before continuing back to the hotel.
	PHAN THIET Explorer Tour (full day) Get to know Phan Thiet with all its facets. Visit the Cham Towers, enjoy a boat ride on Phu Hai river, tea time in an old wooden house, dragon fruits, small rice noodle factory, fish sauce factory, lunch at a local family’s house, cyclo ride in Phan Thiet, visit Duc Thanh School where Ho Chi Minh used to teach, Van Thuy Tu pagoda with the skeleton of a whale on display.
	Sand Dunes of Mui Ne (half day) MUI NE is famous for its dramatic, ever-shifting sand dunes. Drive to LOTUS LAKE and the WHITE SAND DUNES, stopping to explore the dunes and, if desired, to try some sand-sledding. Continue to the RED SAND DUNES, where you can soak in the scenery and stroll along the FAIRY STREAM that wind through the dunes to the sea.
	Ta Cu Mountain (half day) Travel south of Phan Thiet to the verdant TA CU MOUNTAIN, enjoying a CABLE CAR RIDE up to LINH SON TRONG PAGODA. This is the site of the largest RECLINING BUDDHA in Vietnam, which gleams white against the surrounding greenery.
	SA PA -Muong Hum market (Sundays only) Take a day excursion to Muong Hum market, which is located 3 hours drive from Lao Cai station. This is the most typical and colourful market in the area offering the opportunity of meeting a large variety of ethnic minorities, who come and sell their homemade products such as vegetables, fruits as well as animals
	Lung Khau Nhin market (Thursday only) This market is one of the smallest local markets in the area, which locates in a beautiful landscape. The market still keeps its original aspect as it is with opportunity to meet Flower Hmong and Black Zao minorities.
	Excursion to Mong Sen and Ta Phin with trek Travel by vehicle downhill to Mong Sen, start ascending on a dirt trail through a mountainous area. En route, enjoy spectacular view over rice paddy terraces and cornfields. Stop for lunch at a nice spot. After lunch, continued downhill toward Ta Phin. Meet the local ethnic Red Dao and Black Hmong minorities, two largest ethnic groups in Sapa.