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Explore Vietnam in Style with this Top Notch tour to Vietnam with Pyala Travel
Vietnam in Style Tour
private tour
Highlight tour in stylish accommodations
This tour shows you the main highlights of the country. You travel around by private car with driver, many excursions are included, and you stay in cozy hotels. It's a 3-week tour from Hanoi to Phu Quoc island via Hoi'an, Hue and Ho Chi Minh.
from 1997,-
17 days
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Day 1 Arrival Hanoi
You are picked up from the airport and brought to the hotel in the old center of Hanoi. You can go directly to explore this ancient capital.Day 2 Hanoi
Hanoi is the former capital of North Vietnam. In the center of town is the Hoan Kiem Lake, a wonderful place to get away from the city to relax, especially in early morning and late evening. The locals come here to do gymnastics, play games, or just to chat. At the lake you will also find the always-crowded Ngoc Son Temple. Near the lake is the famous Water Puppet Theater where you can see an example of Vietnamese puppetry.From the lake you can walk into the old town, a maze of narrow streets filled with honking motorbikes, street vendors, rickshaws and shops. You'll find an abundance here of (cheap) Vietnamese products. Hanoi has much to offer. You can pay a visit to the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, a large cubical mausoleum located on the vast Ba Dinh Square. Want to see history? Stroll along the edges of the old city. You will find old French villas, reminders of the colonial past of this jewel of Indochina. Make sure to visit the "Temple of Literature", a beautiful Vietnamese-style temple that, in the eleventh century, was the first university in the country. And the city has many more smaller temples that are well worth a visit.
Day 3 Hanoi
The area around Hanoi has a host of excursions. For example, you could go to the Perfume Pagoda by boat through beautiful rice fields. It is one of the most important Buddhist shrines in the North of Vietnam. You can of course also choose to stay in Hanoi today and stroll around the narrow streets of the city.
Day 4 Hanoi - Halong Bay
You drive three hours to one of the highlights of the trip, the spectacular Halong Bay, Vietnam's version of an amphitheater. Halong Bay has recently become very popular! You will notice that you are not the only tourist here. Despite the mass tourism the area remains beautiful. Upon arrival at the port you go straight onto a wooden junk where you get an excellent meal and can relax on the deck while enjoying the beautiful view. You will sail among hundreds of crags and spend the night on the boat. On the way, the boat stops so you can go swimming, visit a beach, or take a hike. There is also the opportunity to kayak in the calm sea between the karst mountains! In good weather it is possible to sleep on deck.
Day 5 Halong Bay – Hanoi, flight to Hue
In the early morning there will be a tai chi teacher on deck ready to work with you to get the sleep out of your body with streamlined exercises from the ancient Chinese. After breakfast, the boat will slowly sail to the port of Halong. Then you drive back to Hanoi. In the evening you catch a flight to Hue.
Day 6 Hue
Today you can explore the relatively tranquil former imperial city of Hue. Hue was long the capital of Vietnam between the 17th and the first half of the 20th century. Between the 17th and 19th centuries most of south Vietnam was ruled from here. When the last emperor Bao Dai abdicated in 1945, the capital was moved to Ha Noi, though the capital in 1949 moved back to Saigon with Bao Dai as the temporary head of state. During the Tet Offensive in 1968 Hue was prey to bombing by the Americans and many people were murdered by the communists. The city with its ancient palaces and buildings was almost completely reduced to ashes. Only in recent years has attention been given to the ruins of these buildings (such as the Imperial Palace), and restoration work has started on the old buildings from the wealthy Vietnamese dynasties.
Day 7 Hue
Today, you could choose to take a cruise on the beautiful Perfume River where you end up visiting the Thien Mu Pagoda. You can also visit the ancient imperial tombs of the rulers of the Nguyen dynasty. It is an impressive complex which features mausoleums surrounded by beautiful parkland. Of course you can also choose to explore the city by bike!
Day 8 Hue - Hoi'an via Danang Cham Sculpture Museum
You have a relatively long travel day that brings you to the picturesque town of Hoi'an. Along the way you travel through the Hai Van Pass with stunning views. In Danang, you will stop to visit the Cham Sculpture Museum with beautiful old sculptures from the ancient Cham Empire between the 5th and 14th centuries. The imagery will be recognizable if you have ever been to Cambodia. After the museum you will pass the "Marble Mountains," a rock formation of sacred caves filled with Buddhist statues.
Day 9 Hoi'An
Today you have time to explore, shop, and eat in Hoi'an. It is the ideal place to get, for example, custom-made clothing, ceramics or beautiful accessories for the home. The old town is full of nice shops that all look so fun and tempting!In Hoi'An you have to try Cao Lau, a noodle dish that is something between a noodle soup and a salad. The dish consists of hot wide flat noodles in a bowl of soup with a lot of green vegetables and raw herbs on top with a little meat, mostly pork. Or how about white rose dumplings, a steamed dumpling filled with pork and spices? Delicious! Of course, you can also choose to relax on the nearby Cua Dai beach or go cycling through the Vietnamese countryside. In Hoi'an itself you can visit several beautiful old houses, temples and pagodas. In some houses you can go inside and admire the traditional (Chinese-Vietnamese) architecture.
Day 10 Hoi'An
Today you have another day in Hoi'an. You can explore the town further or go to the beach. If you have come to appreciate the Vietnamese cuisine, we recommend that you take a cooking class to learn more about the delicious local cuisine full of fresh herbs, noodles, dumplings and fish. If you aren’t interested in cooking you could learn to make a lantern. You may also be interested in a tour to My Son where you will find magnificent temples from the Cham Empire.
Day 11 Hoi’an – Ho Chi Minh
In the morning you fly to Hoi Chi Minh City. You will then be taken from the airport to the hotel in the historic heart of the city.
Day 12 Ho Chi Minh
Today you can explore the city. You can walk by yourself or book our city tour with a guide. Stroll through the Dong Khoi (Rue Catinat), to the Town's Theatre, the Rex Hotel, the town hall and the Notre Dam Cathedral. Or go on a visit to the lively and bustling Cholon, the famous Chinese district with colorful temples filled with smoking incense spirals. In Ho Chi Minh you can get fantastic food! Especially fish prepared in every possible way and lotus and fresh papaya salads.
Day 13 Ho Chi Minh
Today is a free day in Ho Chi Minh. Are you going to explore the city further by yourself, go shopping, or book, for example, the excursion to the Cu Chi Tunnels and the temple in Tay Ninh?Day 14 Flight to Phu Quoc Island
Today you fly to the quiet tropical island of Phu Quoc. On this island that is off the coat of both Vietnam and Cambodia tourism Is just budding, making it very peaceful and unexplored. Phu Quoc is a great way to finish your trip.
Day 15 Phu Quoc Island
You have another day to enjoy this beautiful island.Day 16 Phu Quoc island
Enjoy the last day in this tropical paradise before flying back home.Day 17 Departure Ho Chi Minh
Today you fly back to Ho Chi Minh where you get the connection for your international flight home.Reis boeken?
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