Details Itinerary 

Code: B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner, G = Guide  

Day 1: Arrival at Hanoi (D, G)

Upon arrival at Noi Bai airport, our guide will greet and accompany you to your hotel. Free time until you?ll be picked up to watch water puppet performance, a traditional art form closely connected with the long-standing spiritual life of the Vietnamese people. You?ll then be driven to a good local restaurant and enjoy a welcome dinner with us. Your overnight stay will be in Hanoi.

Day 2: Hanoi (B, L, G)

After breakfast, you'll be picked up and transferred to the restaurant where you'll learn cooking Vietnamese cuisine. It will be interesting for you to have chance to buy or bargain as a local people in the market. You?ll then come back the restaurant; your Vietnamese teacher will prepare and help you to cook your lunch. You could learn how to make some of special regional delicacies. After a half-day morning session, you would enjoy a delicious feast of the dishes you created, and get to take a copy of the recipes home with you. The rest day will be free in the bustling Old Quarter. You'll spend the night in Hanoi.

Day 3: Hanoi/Ha Long (B, L, D, G)

Picked up at around 8.30 a.m, you?ll then depart for Ha Long Bay. Enjoy a 3 hour drive with a brief stopover at Hong Ngoc Embroidery workshop for refreshment and see different kinds of handicrafts skillfully made by disable people.

Arriving Ha Long Bay, you will go aboard and check in your cabin. Lunch will be served afterwards with a selection of seafood specialities. The boat will take you first to the famous World Heritage area where you can visit Amazing Cave and take a swim on a tranquil beach in Ha Long Bay. Then you are free, possibly for retiring to your cabin or having romantic walks on the boat side to enjoy the marvellous sunset. You?ll spend a night on boat.

Day 4: Ha Long/Hanoi (B, L, G)

It would be nice if you wake up to see sunrise and daylight filtering through the early morning mist and the towering rock formations. After western breakfast, you will venture into some of the sea level caves in a small sampan. You?ll then continue a leisurely cruise along Ha Long Bay and have lunch before returning to the habour. Our car will pick you up and drive back to Hanoi.

Day 5: Hanoi/Hue (B, G)

You will be free until our car arrive to transfer you to Noi Bai airport for the morning flight to Hue. On arrival, you'll be picked up and driven to your hotel in the city centre. Free time at leisure after check-in procedure.

In the afternoon, our guide will show you around Hue. You will first visit the Imperial Citadel, that served as the powerful seat of Nguyen dynasty from 1802 to 1945. Enjoy your shopping at the famous Dong Ba Market before transfer back to hotel. You'll spend the night in Hue.

Day 6: Hue (B, L, G)

After breakfast, you will take a cruise along Perfume River to visit Hue's best-known religious site, Thien Mu Pagoda. Our car will then take you to visit the imposing Minh Mang tomb, a striking example of classic Sino-Vietnamese architecture.

After lunch, a continuation to visit poetic Tu Duc Tomb. This tomb is idyllically set in a romantic scenery of mounts, lake and pine forest and considered as one of the most beautiful works of the Nguyen dynasty. Last but not least, you will visit elaborate Khai Dinh Tomb, which  is the result of the interminglement of many architectural trends: European and Asian, as well as ancient and modern. The last famous site in your programme will be Tu Hieu pagoda, which is one of the most famous pagodas in Hue. Your overnight stay will be in Hue.  

Day 7: Hue (B, L, G)

In the morning, you'll visit one of city's "garden houses" in Hue. You'll then learn to cook some traditional typical food in Hue, you'll also prepare for your dinner. By the time you finish your cooking is the time to sit down for dinner in the pleasant surroundings and a comfortable atmosphere of another of the garden houses. You'll spend the night in Hue.

Day 8: Hue/Hanoi (B, G)

Your time will be your own until your private car and driver arrives to take you to Phu Bai airport to take a flight back to Hanoi. You'll transit for your international departure flight. 

Prices per person in US$:

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Valid until December 31, 2010

Surcharge for peak season of hotels are not inclusive in the prices above.

Hotel list for Five Stars standard 

• Hanoi: Sofitel Plaza Hotel (***** overlooking the West Lake, indoor swimming pool) or similar

• Hue: Imperial Hotel (***** in the heart of city centre) or similar

Hotel list for Four Stars standard

• Hanoi: Sunway Hotel (**** comfortable boutique hotel 15 minute’s walk from the city centre, Superior room) or similar

• Hue:  Romance Hotel (**** on the bank of the Perfume River) or similar

Hotel list for Three Stars standard

• Hanoi: Flower hotel (*** close Old Quarter) or similar

• Hue:  Romance Hotel (**** on the bank of the Perfume River) or similar

Hotel list for Two Stars standard 

• Hanoi: Van Mieu Hotel (** city centre) or similar

• Hue: Bamboo Hotel (city centre, local standard) or similar

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