Vietnam: Meet the Locals
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Hanoi
- Visit to Ba Be National Park
- Discover Ha Long Bay
- Explore Hoi An
- Visit the Chu Chi Tunnels
- Enjoy cruise along the Ben Tre River
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All excursions with expert English-speaking guides
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel De L’opera or Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
Arriving in Hanoi, you will clear customs and immigration. Leaving the airport, you will be met by your guide, holding a sign with your name on it. He will transfer you to y...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel De L’opera or Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
Rising very early, you will head out to Hanoi’s biggest flower market in Quang Ba – not only a great place for photography, but the panoply of scents, colors and...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast, you have about a 6-½ hour drive up past Ha Giang to Tien Thang. Along the way, you will make several stops to talk with local people, enjoy the scenery and have lunch. The drive takes you up into the northern ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today is a day for walking. When you are ready, you head out on a relatively easy path through terraced fields and up the hill to a Dao Village, about 660 feet higher than when you started. The Dao are related to the Hmong and...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Cao Nguyen Da Hotel
Today you leave your hosts and head out through the vast limestone Karst Mountains with their sheer walls of perpendicular rock. You pass many rural villages and hamlets on the drive. ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today is Sunday, and time for the local market. This is not a touristy market, and it frequented by the local tribes people, dressed in their Sunday best. Of the many markets in the north, this is one of the most vibrant!
...Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
You have about a half day’s drive to Ba Be National Park, home to the largest and highest natural freshwater lake in Vietnam. The name itself means “Three Lakes” in the local Tay language, and refers to three connected parts ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today you get to know the park by cycle and by boat. You begin by cycling along a stream by green fields and Tay homes to Hua Ma Cave, a distance slightly over 3 miles. Hua Ma Cave is an example of the typical limestone karst ...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel De L’opera or Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
After breakfast, you head back to Hanoi, stopping for lunch along the way. When you arrive in Hanoi, the rest of the day is free to wander and enjoy yourself.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Emeralda Ninh Binh Resort Spa
You have the opportunity to spend time learning a bit of Vietnamese history. Your path leads to the village of Truong Yen Truang, where King Dinh Tien Hoang built the royal capital o...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Private Sea Canoe “Junk” (Boat)
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel in Hanoi and driven to Ha Long for lunch. Here you will meet your crew from Sea Canoe – hosts for the next three days...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Private Sea Canoe “Junk” (Boat)
Today you continue traveling through Halong Bay. Arriving at a special island, you will kayak the different caves around this site and then move on to another island. Lunch...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Vinh Hung Riverside Resort & Spa or Anantara Hoi An Resort
After breakfast you head back towards Halong, stopping perhaps at another island or exploring some of the many large caves that dot the bay.
W...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Vinh Hung Riverside Resort & Spa or Anantara Hoi An Resort
Hoi An is quite flat, so it is a great area for biking. This morning, you jump on your bikes and head out through the rice paddies to where the farm...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Grand Hotel Saigon or Caravelle
After breakfast you head back to Danang and the airport and catch a flight to Saigon on VN 107 (0905/1020). On arrival, you will be picked up and driven to the Chu Chi Tunnels. On the way, ...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Grand Hotel Saigon or Caravelle
Early in the morning, you head out to Ben Trek, famous for its coconut production and quiet, peaceful waterways. Here you board your boat for a cruise along the Ben Tre River, stopping en ro...
Meals: Breakfast
The day is free to explore on your own until time to transfer to the airport for your flight home.
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- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, evacuation, baggage loss/delay, cancellation ins., etc.
- Internal airfare – noted separately
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- Meals where not indicated with a B, L,D
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- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
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International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- 60 Days or less, then No refund
- At or after departure, then No refund
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