Vietnam Thailand Tour 12 Days – Leisure Travel to the Highlights

Welcome to Hanoi. Far East Tour team greets you at Noi Bai Airport. 
Transfer to the center of Hanoi by a private bus. Take the first sightseeing about Hanoi with the famous attractions as Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature (the first university of ancient Capital of Thang Long).
Continue Hanoi City Tour in the area of The Old Quarter & Hoan Kiem Lake, which is the heart and the soul of Hanoi. Experience the peculiar traffic that remain thousands of motorbike moving around you. Hanoi’s traffic is quiet complicated, but interesting to join in. Admire the treasure of French colonial architectures along the old streets. 
Stop for watching a Water Puppet performance before take part in our welcome dinner. Overnight at the hotel in Hanoi.

Read more about Hoan Kiem Lake.
Read more about Water Puppet – a folk art of wet-rice agriculture. 

Note: The real program can be change owing to your arriving time in Hanoi in this Vietnam Thailand tour.

7.45. Enter to the shuttle bus for proceeding to Hon Gai Port (in Quang Ninh Province).
After circa 4 hours on bus, we arrive at Hon Gai, then waiting at Phu Dong restaurant. You can buy some drink as tea, coffee or juice fruit (self-pay).
~12.30. Embark to a senior cruise, enjoy a welcome drink, check-in your cabin.
~13.00. Take the lunch while the cruise sailing among the wonder of thousands islands & islets. If Halong Bay is called as “a charming girl”, Bai Tu Long Bay is supposed as a maiden with the initial looking. 
Relax at leisure by yourself.
15.00. Visit Thien Canh Son cave that is voted as one of the most impressing caves in the karst cave system of Halong.
16.00. Return to the cruise for a break tea & admire the stunning view of Bai Tu Long Bay (Read more about Bai Tu Long Bay).
17.00. Immerse into the oceanic activities such as kayaking or swimming. Let’s enjoy the emerald & tranquil water.
18.00. Cooking demonstration on board: Fruit & flower pruning. Moreover, you can join in Golden Hour of “Buy Two Get One”
19.00. Savor the dinner with BBQ. Overnight on cruise in Cong Do area.

Don’t forget to start your new day with the breathtaking dawn of Bai Tu Long, or a Tai Chi class (a Chinese style exercise).
7.00. Have the breakfast at the restaurant on the upper deck.
7.45. Visit Vung Vieng fishing village which is such a peaceful floating place and most typical fishing village of Halong by a bamboo boat. 
Other option: Go fishing with the natural sea-foods as squid, shellfish... with local fisherman. Or you can experience a leisure just staying on cruise with the spectacular picture of Bai Tu Long. 
9.00. Embark again to the cruise for arranging your luggage for checking-out. 
10.45. Take a brunch and admire the last scenes of the Bay before the cruise arrive at Hon Gai.
11.30. Disembark to Hon Gai, then going back to the Capital. 
16.00. Stay at your hotel in Hanoi. Create for yourself a happy time in Hanoi. (Refer our Hanoi Travel Guide here). Overnight at the hotel in Hanoi.

Note: In this Vietnam Thailand tour, we use the detail itinerary of Amira Cruise. The real program depends on your class booking and your request.

Breakfast at the hotel, then transferring to Noi Bai Airport. Take a domestic flight to Danang – the worthiest city for living in Vietnam with the harmony of weather, nature & locals.
After arriving in Danang, meet Far East Tour team at the airport. You are picked up to Cham Museum (Explore more about Cham Museum). Going ahead into the sea-side road, we see Hoian – a reserved commercial port with life-style and architectures from the 16th to 19th centuries. 
Enjoy the lunch at a famous restaurant in The Old Town and feel slowly the peaceful life here. 
In the afternoon, take a walking around Hoian Ancient Town to research about the blending designs & architectures. Thanks to an animated trading past, Hoian owns the manners of Japan, China, and its own unique Vietnamese traditional beauty. With a half day, you will be visited Tan Ky Ancient House, Japanese Covered Bridge, Phuoc Kien Assembly Hall. End of the sauntering, we stop at a coffee shop to sip a cup of coffee & blow into the hundreds years old charm. (Another option: Do a tailor-made cloth, or buy some souvenirs).
Do your night at leisure. Experience the romance & color of Hoian’s night by yourself. Refer our Hoian Travel Guide for your free time. Overnight at the hotel in Hoian.

Breakfast at your hotel. Do a bus-journey from Hoian to Hue. Running along the sea-side road, you will see the long beach of the central coast of Vietnam. Especially, the bus will cross over Hai Van Pass, which is the most breathtaking pass of Vietnam with the impressing beauty of the sea & mountains. 
Arrive in Hue, you will stay in a serenity of the most dreamlike city of Vietnam. 
In the afternoon, take a boat trip for streaming into Huong River. Visit Thien Mu Pagoda & Tu Duc tomb. Overnight at the hotel in Hue.

Breakfast at the hotel, then relaxing yourself till the moving to the airport. Do a flight to Ho Chi Minh City (other name: Saigon). After picked up, you will do a Saigon City Tour with the famous beauty spots as Binh Tay Market, Thien Hau pagoda and a lacquer ware factory,
Afternoon: Do a cyclo trip for exploring the treasure of ancient French architecture with Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon Post Office, and Reunification Palace. End of the city tour, clients stop at Ben Thanh market that is the oldest market of Ho Chi Minh. Observe the daily life or bargain to buy some local specifics here. Overnight at the hotel in Saigon.

After the breakfast, we transfer to the south-western, which is well-known with the floating life & tropical fruit gardens. 
10.00. Arrive at Hien Luong Port (in Ben Tre Province), passengers embark to a motor-boat for cruising on Ben Tre River. Amazing with the name “Kingdom of coconut”, Ben Tre offers circa 70% coconut productivity in whole of Vietnam. Carefully listen to the tour guide who will present about the products from coconut tree in Ben Tre.
Firstly, the boat stop at a handicraft brick making factory. Disembark for a sightseeing and learning the process of brick making. 
Secondly, we visit a river-side rice paper making family. Here, you can try to make a rice-paper from the step of rice grinding to rice powder steaming. The host also takes you to visit the bee farm. You can continue with “Don ca tai tu” while sipping a cup of honey-tea & tasting some tropical fruits. 
Take a short walking, we stop at a coconut making with the products as coconut candy, coconut oil, coconut lip palm… The village cart-track will lead you to a mat making family. Experience the way of mat making by hand, then returning to the boat. 
13.00. Enjoy the lunch among the lush orchard of Mr Hai Ho. Experience a typical tropical orchard of Mekong Delta with lots of fruit trees with river streaming behind.
Afternoon: Catch a rowing boat to sneak up between the palm creeks – a specific of Ben Tre. The motor-boat picks you up to the port. 
Bid a farewell to Ben Tre, we go back to Saigon for the international flight to Bangkok. Overnight at the hotel in Bangkok.

Morning: Start Bangkok City tour with Wat Traimit, Wat Arun & Wat Po. In which, Wat Traimit is called as “Temple of Golden Buddha”. Located at the end of China Town, Wat Traimit remain a 900 years old golden Buddha that is gold seated Buddha with five meters in height and five - half tons in weight. Besides that, Wat Arun is known as the Tempe of Dawn – a symbol of Bangkok with the landmarks. Finally, Wat Po is the largest as well as eldest temple of the Capital. Its Phra Buddhasaiyas is the most impressing Reclining Buddha.
Afternoon: Visit The Grand Palace that is also known as the Summer Palace with an oriented European design. Go back to the hotel for relaxing yourself before the luxury dinner.
19.30. Experience Princess Dinner Cruise on Chao Phraya River. You will have time with saxophones and fruit cocktail while contemplating the twinkle Chao Phraya by night. 
20.00. Savor the International buffet dinner under the candle light with delightful live music. 
21.45. End of an entertaining night, passengers go back to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel in Bangkok.

Enjoy the breakfast at the hotel, then exploring Phuket by your own way. Overnight at the hotel in Phuket.

Enjoy the breakfast at the hotel, then exploring Phuket by your own way. Overnight at the hotel in Phuket.
Some suggestion for things to do in Phuket for your Vietnam Thailand tour:

Have the breakfast at the hotel.
Enjoy the last time in Phuket at leisure till picking up to the airport. Take a flight to the next destination. End of Vietnam Thailand Tour 12 Day – Leisure & Luxury Experience.