Meals

Meals indicated in the program. B=breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner

Guide

English speaking guide

Others

Boat trip in Ninh Binh, Mekong Delta, Tonle Sap Lake Shared boat trip in Ha Long Bay Train ticket: Luang Prabang - Vientiane Entrance fees Drinking water on car

Accommodation

Accommodation with daily breakfasts HANOI 3-star hotel: Mon Regency Hotel or similar – Deluxe Room 4-star hotel: MayDe Ville Legend hotel & spa or similar – Deluxe Window Room 5-star hotel: The Apricot Hotel or similar – Canvas Room HA LONG BAY 3-star cruise: Le Journey Cruise or Similar – Deluxe Ocean View Room 4-star cruise: Le Journey Cruise or Similar – Deluxe Ocean View Room 5-star cruise: Le Journey Cruise or Similar – Deluxe Ocean View Room HO CHI MINH 3-star hotel: Sunrise Central Hotel or similar – Deluxe Room 4-star hotel: The Odys Hotel or similar – Junior Room 5-star hotel: Sofitel Sai Gon Hotel or similar – Superior Room CAMBODIA Phnom Penh: 3-star hotel: Hotel Sor or similar – Superior Room 4-star hotel: HM Grand Hotel or similar – Premier Room 5-star hotel: Sokha Phnom Penh Hotel or similar – Deluxe Room Siem Reap: 3-star hotel: City River Hotel or similar – Superior Room 4-star hotel: Tara Angkor Hotel or similar – Superior Room 5-star hotel: Borei Angkor Resort or similar – Deluxe Room LAOS Luang Prabang: 3-star hotel: Sunrise Garden House – Standard Room 4-star hotel: Le Bel Air Resort – Garnier Room 5-star hotel: Satri House – Deluxe Room Vientiane: 3-star hotel: LaOtel Hotel – Standard Room 4-star hotel: Green Park Vientiane – Deluxe Room 5-star hotel: Crowne Plaza Hotel – Standard Room

Transport

AC transportation as mentioned in the itinerary

Not included:

Insurance

Personal travel insurance (highly recommended )

Flights

International flight tickets Domestic flight tickets.

Others

Visa fees Personal expenses Tips Surcharge for Peak Season, Holiday, Special Occasion Others are not mentioned in the program.

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Day 1 Phnom Penh Arrival ( Meals: No)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Phnom Penh Arrival ( Meals: No)

Upon arrival at Phnom Penh airport, you are warmly welcomed by our friendly tour guide and then transfer to hotel for check in. (room may not ready till 2:00 PM) Remain time free at own leisure. Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Day 2 Phnom Penh City Tours (B) - Private Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Phnom Penh City Tours (B) - Private Tour

Breakfast at hotel, today start your tour to visit Killing Fields "Choeung Ek" 15km southwest of Phnom Penh. This one is the site of brutal executions of more than 17,000 individuals, most of whom first suffered through interrogations, torture and deprivation in Toul Sleng Prison during Pol Pot regime (From 1975–1979). Continue, visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S21 prison). This prison was a high school, and used as a prison by Pol Pot’s security forces and became the largest center for detention and torture during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.

Afternoon, visit Russian Market (Psah Tuol Thom Pong), a lively outdoor market where you will find antiquities, silver and gold jewelry, gems, silk, kramas, stone and wood carvings, as well as T- Shirts, CDs and other souvenirs. Then continue to National Museum, one of Phnom Penh’s true architectural gems. It was designed in Khmer style in 1917 by famed French architect Georges Groslier & Ecole Des Arts Cambodgiens. Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Day 3 Phnom Penh – Siem Reap With Private Transfer (B)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Phnom Penh – Siem Reap With Private Transfer (B)

After breakfast at hotel, check out hotel and transfer with driver and guide to Siem Reap. Driving distance is 312 km (Approximate 5 hours drive).

After lunch we continue the road spend a visit at Kompong Pluk floating village, located about 50km from Siem Reap town. The place is situated northeast shore on the edge of Tonle Sap Lake. The road to the site is good but rather narrow. Here we board on the boat to explore the floating fishing villages that live at the edges of the lake, passing submerged forests and fishing farms. On the way, you will pass floating houses and impressive flooded forests, portraying life on the water.

After floating village visit, continue the road to Siem Reap and transfer directly to hotel. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 4 Siem Reap Temple Tours (B) - Private Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Siem Reap Temple Tours (B) - Private Tour

This morning our tour guide welcome you at the hotel’s lobby, visit Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site since 1992, famous for its beauty and splendor. Angkor Wat features the longest continuous bas-relief in the world, which runs along the outer gallery walls and narrates stories from Hindu mythology. Then, continue to the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century); See the South Gate (with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk), Bayon Temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. Lunch at local restaurant at own account.

Afternoon, visit one of the area’s most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm (mid-12th – early 13th century). Intentionally left partially unrestored, massive fig and silk-cotton trees grow through the towers and corridors offering a ‘jungle atmosphere’ and some of the best ‘tree- in-temple’ photo opportunities at Angkor. Dinner at own arrangement at own account. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 5 Siem Reap Departure – Ho Chi Minh City (B)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Siem Reap Departure – Ho Chi Minh City (B)

Breakfast at hotel,

Free time at own leisure until our guide and driver pick you up to Siem Reap Airport for Ho Chi Minh city. Upon your arrival in Ho Chi Minh city, our dirver’ll transfer you to hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 6 Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnel ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnel ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

After breakfast, our guide’ll pick you up at your hotel. Then, we are heading to Cu Chi tunnel - where the people of Cu Chi spent the whole days living in underground tunnels, only able to come out at night when the sun is down during the Vietnam War. It spends approximately 1 hour and a half on the car. You’ll see with your own eyes the very small secret wooden entrance doors which were only fit the small Viet Cong soldiers and covered with camouflage leaves; the traps of different types: booby trap, rolling trap, clipping armpit trap, conical trap, sea saw trap, folding chair; and a B-52 bomb crater.

Lunch is served at local restaurant.

In the afternoon, we go back Ho Chi Minh city. We visit War Remnants Museum to view the vast collection of wartime images dedicated to journalists and photographers who died during the French and American conflicts. Step back in time as you witness renowned French colonial structures, including The Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Central Post Office. Observe the French architectural influence and beauty before being comfortably transported back to your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 7 Mekong Delta ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Mekong Delta ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

After breakfast, our tour guide picks you up at your hotel lobby, then driving to the mighty Mekong Delta where boats, houses and market float upon the uncountable rivers and canals. We get on the boat, it will cruise along the river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces. The boat will then stop at a quiet village where you can have a short walk to experience real Delta village life through dense coconut plantations.

Have lunch at a local restaurant right at the rural area. In the afternoon, we go back Ho Chi Minh city. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
Day 8 Ho Chi Minh City – Hanoi ( Meals: B)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Ho Chi Minh City – Hanoi ( Meals: B)

After breakfast, our driver’ll transfer you to the airport for Hanoi. Upon your arrival in Hanoi, our driver’ll transfer you to hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.
Day 9 Hanoi – Ninh Binh ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Hanoi – Ninh Binh ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

After your breakfast, our driver and tour-guide’ll pick you up at your hotel. Then, we’ll head to Ninh Binh – known as the first capital of Vietnam during 10th-century.

The first visit will be Hoa Lu, the picturesque site of a 10th-century capital of an ancient Vietnamese Kingdom called Dai Co Viet for 41 years (968-1009). You will visit to the 2 promient temples called King Dinh Temple & King Le Temple.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.

In the afternoon, we take the amazing boat trip to visit Trang An grottoes which is a gathering of 31 valleys, 50 cross-water caves, and home to 600 kinds of flora and over 200 kinds of fauna, many of them in the Red Book of Vietnam. While rowing through Trang An grotto in the quiet, fresh air of the highlands, with only the sound of birds and the oars stirring the clear water and surrounded by magnificent forested mountains upon which graze white goats, visitors enjoy a heaven on earth. Overnight in Hanoi.
Day 10 Hanoi – Ha Long Bay ( Meals: B,L,D) – Shared Cruise
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Hanoi – Ha Long Bay ( Meals: B,L,D) – Shared Cruise

After your breakfast, we leave Hanoi for Halong Bay in 3 hours drive. Ha Long Bay is known as the most famous World Heritage Site in Vietnam for its beautiful seascape, thousands of spectacular islands and islets jutting out from the sea, amazing caves with marvelous stalagmites and stalactites in different sizes and shapes.

Upon arrival, you’ll be welcomed on board. Lunch will be served while the boat is sailing to Halong Bay. In the afternoon, we’ll join some activities: sightseeing, kayaking, swimming, visit cave...(depending on each cruise’s itinerary). Overnight on cruise.
Day 11 Ha Long Bay – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Ha Long Bay – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

Enjoy the morning view of the beautiful landscape with a cup of coffee or tea then have breakfast. After breakfast, the cruise will bring you on a trip to explore deeper inside the bay. The brunch will be served on the way sailing back to the port and our driver will pick you up and transfer to Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi.
Day 12 Hanoi – Luang Prabang ( Meals: B)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Hanoi – Luang Prabang ( Meals: B)

After breakfast, our driver’ll transfer you to the airport for Luang Prabang. Upon your arrival, our driver’ll transfer you to hotel in Luang Prabang. Overnight in Luang Prabang.
Day 13 Mekong River Cruise – Pak Ou Cave ( Meals : B) - Private Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Mekong River Cruise – Pak Ou Cave ( Meals : B) - Private Tour

After breakfast, you will first visit Royal Palace Museum, which was built in 1904 during the French colonial era for King Sisavang Vong and his family.

We then embark on a leisure cruise upstream on the Mekong River, which also gives us a breathtaking view of the tranquil countryside, before reaching the mysterious Pak Ou Caves, two linked caves crammed with thousands of gold lacquered Buddha statues of various shapes and sizes left by pilgrims.

Along the way, we stop at the village of Ban Xanghai, where they make the local rice wine.

On arrival back in the city, we will visit the old Wat Sene and the nearby magnificent Wat Xiengthong a superb piece of Lao temple architecture, which presents a sweeping two-tiered roof and ornate mosaics including a beautiful ‘tree of life ‘glass montage on the rear temple wall.

If time permits, we will drive out of the city to visit Ban Xangkhong, the Thai Lue village, which is famous for its arts and crafts. We also visit the nearby village of Ban Xienglek specializing in making the traditional Saa paper.

You can either get to the nearby village and join a petanque game with the local team.

Late afternoon, we will make a stop at Wat Prabath to admire the sunset; this is the ideal place to catch the last beauty of the day.

The tour ends after a visit to the famous Night Market, where you can find a lovely collection of handmade textiles made by local and hilltribe people surrounding Luang Prabang.

Overnight in Luang Prabang

Tip: If you are fond of various ethnic cultures, you can visit Traditional Art and Ethnology Center (closed on Monday).
Day 14 Kuang Si Waterfall – Vientiane (Train) ( Meals: B) - Private Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Kuang Si Waterfall – Vientiane (Train) ( Meals: B) - Private Tour

Wake up as the sun rises, we will prepare to join the most sacred tradition of Laos, the daily morning alms giving, which dates to the 14th century. More than 200 Buddhist monks depart from various temple to gather their daily meal from the faithful residents sitting quietly on the streets.

We then visit the temporary morning market near the former Royal Palace. Just set on the ground, the local people come here to barter their day’s catch from rice, to vegetable, to fish, or chicken.

After breakfast at the hotel, we ascend the 329 steps to the top of Phousi Hill for a panoramic view of the city and the Mekong River.

If time permits, we will visit UXO Visitor Center (closed on Saturday, and Sunday), where you can find the documentation about the secret war in Laos.

Then transfer directly to the beautiful Kuang Si, which is the biggest waterfall in the Luang Prabang area with three tiers leading to a 50-metre drop into spectacular azure pools before flowing downstream. The pools also make great swimming holes and are very popular with both tourists and locals

There is also the chance to walk to the nearby village of Ban Thapene, and explore the hidden waterfalls, which is rarely visited by other tourists

If you wish, take a short visit to the Bear Rescue Center, which houses a couple of dozen animals rescued from the hands of poachers and traffickers.

On the way back to Luang Prabang, we will take a short visit to the Ock Pop Tock Living Craft Center, set serenely close to the Mekong, this beautiful, traditionally styled workshop, where weavers, spinners and batik makers produce top-quality fabrics, offers free tours every half-hour. This is also one of the best spots to admire the sunset in Luang Prabang

We then transfer out to the train station to take the speed train to Vientiane. (18:20 20:20) (Note: You can either take the late flight from Luang Prabang to Vientiane)

Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel in town.

Overnight in Vientiane
Day 15 City Exploration – Buddha Park ( Meals: B) - Private Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

City Exploration – Buddha Park ( Meals: B) - Private Tour

In the morning, we will first visit Wat Si Muang, which is very famous for its supernatural power.

After that drive to Buddha Park which takes around 45 minutes away. Also known as Xieng Khuan, this unusual park is filled with over 200 Buddhist and Hindu statues.

We then visit Lao Disable Women Development Center, which assist disable women to cope with their disability and advocate for their rights. Spend time watching the video and learn about the effort to earn their daily living. You can support them by buying some small handicrafts at the shop.

Start the afternoon with a visit to That Luang, the holiest site in Laos. Constructed by King Setthathirat in the 16th century, the temple is resplendent as the sun is shines upon its towering golden spire.

Then, enjoy a panoramic view over the city as you climb the stairs to the top of Patuxai, Vientiane’s own “Arc de Triomphe”.

Continue down Lane Xang Avenue the serene Wat Sisaket, the only temple left intact after the Siamese (Thai) invasion in 1828.

Continue on to the nearby Wat Phra Keo. Used as a religious museum, Wat Phra Keo displays a collection of both Lao and Khmer works of art.

End your tour of the capital along the banks of the Mekong River as the sun begins to set. Stroll along the river, stop to enjoy a cold drink, or sample a snack from one of the many local food stalls.

Overnight in Vientiane.
Day 16 Vientiane – Departure ( Meals: B)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Vientiane – Departure ( Meals: B)

You are free to stroll around the town for your own exploration before taking the departure flight. End of services!

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Grand Indochina Tour - Cambodia - Vietnam - Laos In 16 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Grand Indochina Tour - Cambodia - Vietnam - Laos In 16 Days

Phnom Penh Arrival ( Meals: No)

Phnom Penh City Tours (B) - Private Tour

Phnom Penh – Siem Reap With Private Transfer (B)

Siem Reap Temple Tours (B) - Private Tour

Siem Reap Departure – Ho Chi Minh City (B)

Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnel ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

Mekong Delta ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

Ho Chi Minh City – Hanoi ( Meals: B)

Hanoi – Ninh Binh ( Meals: B,L) – Seat In Coach Tour

Hanoi – Ha Long Bay ( Meals: B,L,D) – Shared Cruise

Ha Long Bay – Hanoi ( Meals: B,L)

Hanoi – Luang Prabang ( Meals: B)

Mekong River Cruise – Pak Ou Cave ( Meals : B) - Private Tour

Kuang Si Waterfall – Vientiane (Train) ( Meals: B) - Private Tour

City Exploration – Buddha Park ( Meals: B) - Private Tour

Vientiane – Departure ( Meals: B)

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