17 days tour

17 Day Cambodia And Vietnam Discovery Tour

17 Day Cambodia And Vietnam Discovery Tour

This tour includes:

Guide

Locally based professional drivers, English-speaking tour guides Tour escorted by experienced tour leader

Accommodation

16 Days in excellent 4-Star hotels Overnight on the 5-Star Luxury Cruise ship on Halong Bay

Flights

International flight from Siem Reap โ€“ Ho Chi Minh City (Economy) All domestic flights within Vietnam (Economy)

Transport

Return Shuttle Bus transfers from Hanoi to Halong Bay All touring in air-conditioned vehicles

Meals

Meals as per itinerary: 16 Breakfasts, 14 Lunches and 3 Dinners

Not included:

Insurance

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Itinerary of your trip 17 Day Cambodia And Vietnam Discovery Tour

  • Day 1 Day 1: Siem Reap Arrival (D)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 1: Siem Reap Arrival (D)

      • On your arrival in Siem Reap, our local driver and tour guide will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel. 
      • Have the rest of the day at leisure. 
      • In the evening, our tour guide will take you out for a Welcome Dinner.
  • Day 2 Day 2: Siem Reap - Angkor Wat (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 2: Siem Reap - Angkor Wat (B,L)

      • After breakfast, you will visit The Southern Gate of Angkor Thom, the famous Bayon, Baphuon, and Phimeanakas temples, plus Terraces of the Elephant and leper King. 
      • Lunch at a famous local restaurant.
      • In the afternoon, visit Ta Prohm then explore the Angkor Wat temple, the 7th Wonder of the Ancient World. 
      • You will climb up to Bakheng Hill to watch the sunset over Angkor Wat and the surrounding area. 
      • Enjoy the fascinating performance of Cambodia Traditional APSARA dance show.



  • Day 3 Day 3: Siem Reap - Meet The Locals & Explore Floating Village (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 3: Siem Reap - Meet The Locals & Explore Floating Village (B,L)

      Today we will discover the countryside of Siem Reap and chat with the locals. 

      Visit Khmer traditional houses built on stilts farming areas and a Buddhist monastery. 

      After lunch, we will visit the floating village of Kompong Phluk or Kompong Khleang before transferring back to your hotel around 5pm.

  • Day 4 Day 4: Flight To Ho Chi Minh City & Afternoon City Tour (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 4: Flight To Ho Chi Minh City & Afternoon City Tour (B,L)

      • After breakfast, our driver will transfer you to Siem Reap Airport for your short international flight to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
      • On your arrival at Tan Son Nhat Airport, our local tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. 
      • After lunch, our tour guide will take you to visit all the highlights in Ho Chi Minh city including: Reunification Palace, a palace of old President in South of Vietnam during the American war; the War Remnants Museum; Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office.
  • Day 5 Day 5: Cu Chi Tunnels & Countryside Tour By Luxury Speedboat (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 5: Cu Chi Tunnels & Countryside Tour By Luxury Speedboat (B,L)

      • Start your day with hotel pickup and transfer to Ho Chi Minh Pier where you board a luxury speedboat made of high-quality teak wood. Zip along the Saigon River to the infamous Cu Chi Tunnels. 
      • The river cruise takes approximately one hour and local fruit with unlimited refreshments are served on board. Observe life along the riverbanks as your guide informs you about the local peopleโ€™s river-based livelihoods. Enjoy great photo ops of the Saigon Riverโ€™s jungle-fringed canals and tributaries, where you might see houses on stilts or water buffalo at work. 
      • Cu Chi Tunnel is an underground tunnels network constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. home to around 10,000 people for several years, it took about 25 years to build the underground city. The tunnel system was an excellent way for the Vietcong to move around the countryside undetected by the Americans. 
      • On arrival, we will watch a short introductory video before exploring the Cu Chi Tunnels, the most famous battlegrounds in the world. We will explore the complex tunnel system and view may craters left from B52 bombing raids.
      • After the tour return to your hotel by luxury speedboat and private vehicle transfer from wharf.
  • Day 6 Day 6: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta (B,L,D)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 6: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta (B,L,D)

      • Today you will travel to Mekong Delta. 
      • On arrival you will check in to your private bungalows and enjoy lunch at a restaurant. 
      • After lunch, visit the nearby villages, visit a local workshop and chat with local farmers.
  • Day 7 Day 7: Mekong Delta - Ho Chi Minh City & Flight To Da Nang (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 7: Mekong Delta - Ho Chi Minh City & Flight To Da Nang (B,L)

      • After a buffet breakfast, we take a rowed sampan to visit Cai Be floating market, a cultural feature of Mekong Delta. 
      • Back to the Mekong Lodge for Lunch.
      • After lunch we will transfer you to Tan Son Nhat Airport for a short domestic flight to Da Nang.
      • On your arrival in DaNang Airport, our local tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Hoi An.
  • Day 8 Day 8: Cooking Class & Hoi An Ancient Town Walking Tour (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 8: Cooking Class & Hoi An Ancient Town Walking Tour (B,L)

      After breakfast our local tour guide will meet you at your hotel and take you to visit the local markets to buy some ingredients for your cooking lesson and learn about the local produce. Then we make our way to the restaurant for your cooking class with the expert Chef. After your class you can enjoy the food you have prepared. 

      After lunch, our local tour guide will meet you in your hotel lobby and transfer you to explore the town of Hoi An, visiting the 400 year old Japanese Bridge, 300 years old Chinese temples and 200 year old Vietnamese former merchantsโ€™ houses. Our tour guide will walk you back to your hotel to enjoy your evening free at leisure.

  • Day 9 Day 9: Hoi An - Hue (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 9: Hoi An - Hue (B,L)

      After lunch, you will travel to Hue by private vehicle through the high pass of Hai Van. Enjoy the spectacular scenery enroute.

      Overnight in Hue.

  • Day 10 Day 10: Phuoc Tich Village & Imperial City (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 10: Phuoc Tich Village & Imperial City (B,L)

      • In the morning, we will visit the ancient village of Phuoc Tich. On this tour you will learn interesting architectural and cultural aspects of Phuoc Tich during our visits to the local ancient houses. 
      • Then we will board a small boat along the river and see how the rural life unfolds itself. You can admire the magical serenity and relics of the Champa Kingdom scattered around the village. 
      • On the way back to Hue, have lunch at a unique garden house. Then we will visit Hue Imperial City, the home of Vietnamโ€™s last royal Dynasty, then travel on to Dong Ba Market to see the daily life of local people. 
      • Hue, Vietnamโ€™s former Royal Capital, is a city that represents the outstanding demonstration of the power of the vanished Vietnamese feudal empire, including a complex of monuments, tombs and pagodas that attract tourists coming from all over the world.
  • Day 11 Day 11: Hue - Half Day Dmz Tour - Dong Hoi (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 11: Hue - Half Day Dmz Tour - Dong Hoi (B,L)

      • Early pick up at hotel in Hue, we will transfer to demilitarized zone along National way 1A. 
      • This morning we will visit the Ancient citadel of Quang Tri, Hien Luong Bridge, the Seventeenth Parallel - the border between North and South of Viet Nam during the war and Vinh Moc Tunnel. 
      • In the afternoon, we will follow the Highway No 9, visit Khe Sanh and Suspension Bridge of Dakrong.
      • Then we transfer to Dong Hoi for overnight.
  • Day 12 Day 12: Phong Na Cave Tour (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 12: Phong Na Cave Tour (B,L)

      • After breakfast our tour guide & driver will pick you up from your hotel lobby at 8am and depart from Hue to Phong Nha. 
      • We will take a Dragon boat trip along Son river to Phong Nha cave and Tien Son cave. 
      • We will first visit Tien Son cave or normally called as Dry cave, one of the most spectacular caves in Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park. Found in 1935 by a local inhabitant by accident, Tien Son is 200m above the sea level and is nearly 1km long. The cave features thousands of amazing stalactites and stalagmites naturally shaped in different fairy-tail formations. At this stage, visitors are able to access only 400m of the cave with light system since the rest of the cave is underground and quite dangerous.
      • After lunch we will visit the Phong Nha cave โ€“ Water cave.
      • Just 1km away from Tien Son cave, Phong Nha is the World Heritage Site of Quang Binh Province since 2003. The cave is well-known for its fame as the oldest Karst Mountain in Asia which formed around 400 million years ago with the longest underground river system of 8km long and 50 metres in height. Phong Nha cave also includes an array of grottoes and chambers such as Bi Ky Grotto, Cung Dinh Grotto.
      • Overnight in Dong Hoi
  • Day 13 Day 13: Flight Dong Hoi - Hanoi & Hanoi Afternoon City Tour (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 13: Flight Dong Hoi - Hanoi & Hanoi Afternoon City Tour (B,L)

      • After breakfast, you will be transferred to Dong Hoi Airport for your short domestic flight to Hanoi. 
      • On your arrival to Noi Bai Airport, our local tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Hanoi. 
      • After lunch, you will visit Hanoi famous landmarks: Temple of Literature; Womenโ€™s Museum; the infamous Hoa Loa Prison Museum & the Museum of Ethnology.
      • Overnight Hanoi
  • Day 14 Day 14: Hanoi - Halong Bay (B,L,D)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 14: Hanoi - Halong Bay (B,L,D)

      After breakfast around 7.45am your transfer vehicle will collect you from your hotel in Hanoi and convey you to Halong City.

      On arrival around midday you will be taken on our tender from the wharf and make your way out onto the bay to board our luxurious craft. 

      You will be welcomed aboard and greeted with a complimentary drink. 

      Our crew will conduct a compulsory safety procedures session and then you are free to check into your cabin and freshen up. Take some time to have a look around the vessel or watch the magical landscape go by.

      As we begin to cruise through the bay a special lunch of fresh seafood and an assortment of appetizing favorites will be served. 

      After lunch, we set sail for Bai Tu Long Bay passing the towns of Hon Gai and Cam Pha, extraordinary limestone karst landscapes. Explore Vung Vieng ๏ฌshing village by local rowing boats to discover the interesting daily lives of its inhabitants.

      Back onboard the cruise vessel we will drop anchor for our overnight stay surrounded by an incredible landscape.

      Happy hour with a special drink menu (Buy one get another one for free) is held while you can enjoy our Vietnamese cooking demonstration. Learn how to prepare a delicious appetizers and we will guide you through the process. 

      Dinner will be in our impressive restaurant. 

      After dinner you have free time to relax with an exotic cocktail or whatever takes your fancy. Our bar has a wide range or wines, beers and liquors and is always a welcome sight for guests after a day on Halong Bay. Order a specialized massage in room, watch documentary movies, try squid ๏ฌshing or simply relax on our roof top deck under the cover of a star ๏ฌlled sky.

  • Day 15 Day 15: Halong Bay - Hanoi (B,L)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 15: Halong Bay - Hanoi (B,L)

      The nicest time of the day on Halong Bay is the morning. Head to the upper deck to participate in our daily Tai Chi sessions. Relax with an early morning cup of tea, coffee or juice anywhere you wish on the boat and watch the never-ending miraculous scenery unfold before you. 

      A light breakfast will be served in our restaurant (pastries, tea, coffee).

      Enjoy the last stage of your trip in Thien Canh Son cave and islets , which is a wild and mysterious beauty in the middle of the World Heritage. Back to our main board afterward.

      Check out of your cabin as we draw closer to the mainland. 

      After a ๏ฌnal early brunch and a last goodbye you will board our tender and head back to the wharf where you will be met by your return trip vehicle to transfer you to Hanoi.

      Get on shuttle mini bus and return back to Hanoi.

  • Day 16 Day 16: Hanoi Free Day (B)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 16: Hanoi Free Day (B)

      • Free time at leisure
      • Overnight in Hanoi.
  • Day 17 Day 17: Hanoi Departure (B)
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 17: Hanoi Departure (B)

      Today, depending on your flight, our driver will transfer you to Noi Bai Airport for your departing flight.

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Experience Style

Experience Style

Mixed

There will be challenging activities such as hiking, biking, canyoning and trekking, but youโ€™re also going to have other means of transportation and relaxed moments to just chill.

Accomodation level

Accomodation level

Medium

This accommodation includes essential services like a hot shower, electricity, and a nice and comfy bed.

Experience Type

Experience Type

Small Group

Youโ€™ll be accompanied by a small group of travelers just like you.

Physical Rating

Physical Rating

Average

There are several physical activities that last from 2 to 6 hours in easy terrains, low altitude flats, or water experiences. Please ask if youโ€™re not sure this applies to you.

Age range

Age range

Min: 35 / Max: 70

Age range allowed for this experience.

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