Signature Vietnam & Cambodia – 12 Days

Landing in Hanoi, we’ll meet you at the airport and take you to your accommodation in the heart of the old town. Meet up with your travel crew and get excited for the adventures to come.

• Meal: NA
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

Exploring from Halong to Lan Ha bay, swimming & kayaking, cooking class

9:00 AM: Hotel pick-up in Hanoi Old Quarter. Drive for two and a half hours on national highway No5B to Lan Ha Bay, passing villages and rice fields in the Red River Delta. Stop for drinks and restroom break. Arrive at the harbor around noon.

12:30: Welcome aboard our support vessel. Enjoy fresh drinks, cold towels, and a special lunch. Set sail for Lan Ha Bay, one of the World’s Most Beautiful Bays.

15:30: Visit Dark and Bright Cave, known for its natural beauty and scenic views. Take photos and enjoy bamboo boat rides and swimming. Immerse in the emerald green water of Lan Ha Bay and relax in the mini pool with jacuzzi the cruise.

17:30: Return to the cruise. Enjoy a sunset party on Lan Ha Bay, perfect for capturing stunning photos.

19:30: Have a romantic dinner at the cruise restaurant.

21:00: Experience the nightlife on the top deck. Listen to music, enjoy cocktails from the bar, watch films, and relax. Optionally, go squid fishing or unwind in the room with a balcony overlooking the bay.

• Meals: B, L, D
• Accommodation: Overnight on 5* cruise

The sun rises on Halong bay in the morning, and breakfast is served while the vessel cruises slowly back toward the port. Enjoy an early lunch before arriving at the port and disembarking. You will be transferred back to Hanoi. The rest of the day is free to explore the city on your own.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

At 7:00 am, Be picked you up at the hotel and transfer you to Sapa. Upon arrival in Sapa around lunchtime, you will check in to your hotel. In the afternoon, you will have the opportunity to visit Cat Cat village, which requires a light trek. While there, you can try the local apple wine or purchase a hand-woven blanket. You will also have some leisure time to explore Sapa town.

In the evening, you are free to relax and enjoy your own activities.

• Meals: B,L, D
• Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

Get up early and have breakfast at the hotel. Around 9:30 am, you will start your trek to Y Linh Ho village. From here, you will continue your walk through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain.

Enjoy the picnic lunch in Lao Chai and head to Ta Van village – home of the Dzay ethnic people. After exploring this village we will pick you up and take you back to your hotel in Sapa to have a quick shower and get ready for your trip back to Hanoi (departure time is around 16:00). You will arrive at Hanoi around 21:30.

• Meals: B,L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

One of the best ways to explore the life and culture of the place you visit is to taste the local food. In Vietnam, you will be amazed by the variety of street food, which recipes from the local small shops are passed from generation to generation.

Today we will take you on a culinary adventure to taste the most authentic and delicious meals of Hanoi which you will try in a local way. Your food expert will meet you at 11:30 am and take you around the Old Quarter passing by the best food stands or local restaurants. You will fill up on the flavors that made Hanoi one of the world’s best destinations for hungry travelers, you’ll also learn more about the culture, and history as well as observe the local life in this thousand years old town.

You will taste about 10 different dishes from the local stands or small restaurants. You will try the famous Vietnamese soup Pho, rice pancakes, Vietnamese sandwich Banh Mi, grilled pork along with various kinds of Vietnamese desserts. The menu is rotating from day to day and could be adjusted to your taste and diet restrictions.

Later you will depart for the airport to take the flight to Ho Chi Minh. Upon arrival in Ho Chi Minh, your private driver will meet you and take you to your hotel.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

This day is free and easy by your own to discover the city and go shopping before the departure to Siem Reap in next day

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon

You will be picked up at your hotel lobby and transferred to the airport for your flight to Siem Reap. After clearing all customs procedures, please proceed to the exit gate and look for your driver, who will be waiting for you, holding the signboard with your name on it. If you cannot locate your driver, please go to the Airport information counter and call the emergency numbers provided by your travel advisor for assistance. Your driver will come to meet you up and transfer you to the hotel for check-in and free at leisure.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap

Have breakfast at the hotel and meet your guide at the hotel lobby. Start your exploration of the wondrous ancient ruins with the South Gate of Angkor Thom, which is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, then visit the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King.

Then we will spend time exploring the largest as well as the most complete temple of Angkor Wat. This architectural masterpiece was constructed in the 12th century and covers an area of about 210 hectares. We stroll around this massive edifice, seeing the many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards, and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple.

In the afternoon, we will visit the jungle-covered temple of Ta Prohm. There are enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers which embrace themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man’s creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature.

• Meals: B
• Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap

At 9.00am pick up at your hotel then heading out of the hassle Siem Reap city about 30 minute drive to Chong Kneas village of Tonle Sap Lake. The journey passes interesting city highlight and rice paddies overlooking Phnom Krom before we arrive at the boat pier.

Embark a sheltered boat for the excursion to see The Great Lake of Tonle Sap which the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia and is also an ecological hot spot that was designated as a UNESCO biosphere in 1997. The boat trip slowly cruises passing floating school, floating houses which animated by some fishing activities. Our tour guide will explain you about Tonle Sap ecosystem and witness how life works in the floating community relying on aquatic resources, and we stop to see floating crocodile farm, souvenirs shop if it interests you.

Return Siem Reap City for Khmer set lunch at a selected local restaurant.

Afternoon, we go for guided orientation at the finest Artisan Angkor wood/stone carving center which displays various defined handicrafts and silk products, continue to stroll around old market to see interesting daily trade as well as bargaining for local handmade products, paintings, lacquers, carvings, clothes, traditional crafts and so on, and you can also go to Royal Residence Garden for walking and breathtaking.

• Meals: B, L
• Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap

The tour Signature Vietnam and Cambodia has come to an end today. Enjoy some free time in the morning before transferring to the airport for your onward flight back home.

• Meals: Breakfast