15 Days Best of Vietnam & Cambodia Tour

Upon arrival at the Airport, you will meet our guide and be transferred to hotel for check-in.

Today, Hanoi city tour to visit Hochiminh Mausoleum and his former residence (Closed on Monday, Friday and the whole of Oct & Nov), One pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature – the first University in Vietnam, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology or Vietnam History Museum, HoanKiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple and experience a one hour Cyclo tour. Finish your day off at the Thang Long Opera Theatre for a traditional Vietnamese water puppet show.

You will be picked up at 8am for your private transfer to Halong Bay. This takes roughly 3 hours. You may stop enroute to admire the local scenery. Arrive at the port around 11:30am and board the ship. Begin sailing and pass through a magical bay, where thousands of sculpted limestone islands rise from the waves like dragons’ teeth. After lunch, take a short trek to a nearby summit for a panoramic view of the bay dotted with golden sails, go swimming on a quiet beach or sunbath on the sundeck. Later in the afternoon, you will visit an interesting fishing village with an opportunity to interact with local people who have been living in the bay for almost three generations. Back on board enjoy a lavish dinner.

Wake up to Tai Chi exercises on the sun deck and continue cruising the bays. Breakfast buffet will be served in the restaurant, then you will visit the limestone grotto. Disembark in Halong City around 11am and transfer back to Hanoi with your private vehicle, guide and driver. Free at leisure or shopping in Hanoi Old Quarter before transfer to airport for flight to Hue.

Arrival Hue, enjoy a private transfer with guide to hotel for check in.

Full day city tour to visit Hue Citadel - Vietnam’s former imperial capital and recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. With an area of 500ha and a system of three circles of ramparts, namely from outside to inside: Kinh Thanh Hue (Hue Capital Citadel), Hoang Thanh (Royal Citadel) and Tu Cam Thanh (Forbidden Citadel) and Khai Dinh Tomb _ It is the result of the interminglement of many architectural trends: European and Asian, as well as ancient and modern. We cruise along the Perfume River. Being the former royal capital, Hue's surrounding countryside contains several of the tombs of the former Nguyen Emperors to visit Minh Mang Tomb. Back to the Perfume River to visit the Thien Mu Pagoda, It is an active Buddhist monastery with its origins dating back to 1601.

Morning, transfer to Hoian Ancient Town in your private vehicle. The overland journey will take you through the most beautiful scenery in Vietnam as you traverse the Hai Van, or “Cloudy Pass”. There will be plenty of photo opportunities and stops at beaches en route. Stop at Danang, meet our guide and go to visit the Cham Museum offering a glimpse of the ancient and artistic Kingdom of Champa that ruled Vietnam for a thousand years before driving southward to Hoian which was originally a Cham seaport but has been influenced down the centuries by a myriad of traders from various cultures.

Afternoon, free at leisure for sightseeing.

Morning, transfer to visit My Son Holy Land named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. My Son was a notable religious center and an imperial city during the Cham dynasty in the late 4th century and lasts till 13th century – a longest period of development of any monument in Southeast Asia.

Afternoon, take a half day walking tour of Hoi An, discover the historic town which used to be a prosperous seaport city during the 16th to 18th centuries. Visit Hoi An’s colorful local market, Tan Ky old house, Fukien Assembly Hall, and the 400-year-old Japanese covered bridge. You can also see local residents raising silkworms and producing silk for Hoi An' burgeoning textile industry.

Morning, transfer to airport for flight from Hue to Saigon.

Arrival Saigon, enjoy a private transfer with guide to hotel for check in.

Afternoon, continue city tour to visit War Remnants Museum, which features a comprehensive collection of the machinery, weapons, photos, and documentation of Vietnam's wars with the both the French and Americans.  Then, take a photo and visit the Reunification Palace which was the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of April 1975.  Stop at Ben Thanh market for shopping.

Morning, drive to visit Cu Chi Tunnels, Cu Chi was an important base during the American War, because of its strategic location. The Vietcong built a 200km long network of tunnels connecting command posts, hospitals, shelters and weapon factories. Dug out of hard late-rite by hand tools without the use of cement, this amazing network was never discovered.

After lunch, we continue to visit Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Sai Gon Post Office, a neo-Romanesque cathedral constructed between 1877 and 1883 using bricks from Marseilles and stained-glass windows from Chartres; Cholon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh City. During our tour we will also visit the Emperor Jade Pagoda (Phuoc Hai), one of the most interesting pagodas in Vietnam.  It was built by the Cantonese community around the turn of the 20th century and is still buzzing with worshippers, many lounging in the front gardens.  

Full day you enjoy tour south traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to My Tho, the gateway to the Mekong Delta. Known as the “rice bowl” of Vietnam, the Delta is the most fertile region in the country, and the main producer of rice and tropical fruits. From My Tho, you board your boat and travel to one of the islands located in the middle of the Mekong River. On the island visit a fruit orchard and sample some of the local produce, before boarding a smaller sampan that winds along narrow canals. You’ll also have the opportunity to visit a local family’s house and enjoy their hospitality and share with them some tea or rice wine.  After lunch in My Tho return to Saigon.

Morning, free at leisure until flight to Phnom Penh.

Upon arrival, meet our guide and transfer to hotel for check-in and refreshment.

Afternoon visit the Victory Monument, and the National Museum, also called Musee des Beaux-Arts. A French archaeologist and painter, Georges Groslier, designed it in Khmer style in 1917. The museum contains a collection of Khmer art - notably sculptures – from throughout the ages. Visit the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda. Located within the grounds of the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5000 silver tiles. The treasures found inside include a solid gold Buddha encrusted and weighing 90 kilograms and a small 17th century emerald and baccarat crystal Buddha, end your afternoon with the visit of the Central market views over the tree-lined avenues of the city during sunset, dinner at restaurant and accommodation at hotel.

Morning, transfer to Phnom Penh Airport and departure to Siem Reap.

Upon arrival, meet our guide and transfer to the hotel for check in.

In the morning, visit PrasatKravan with its unique brick sculptures and Ta Prohm.  One of the area's most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them. Visit as well Takeo, Chau SayTevoda and Thommanon. In the afternoon visit Preah Khan temple, built by the King Jayavarman VII, Preah Khan is, like Ta Prohm, a place of towered enclosures and shoulders-hanging corridors. Unlike Ta Prohm, however, Preah Khan is in a reasonable state of preservation and ongoing restoration efforts should maintain and even improve this situation. Continue your visits to NeakPean, a fountain built in the middle of a pool and representing the paradisiacal Himalayan mountain-lake and visit the temple of Ta Som as well as SrahSrang ("The Royal Baths"), undoubtedly used in the past for ritual bathing.

Breakfast at hotel then visit the most famous of all the temples on the plain of Angkor: The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and architecture. Angkor Wat's five towers symbolize Meru's five peaks - the enclosed wall represents the mountains at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat, the ocean beyond. thenvisit the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century). See the South Gate with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace,the Terrace of the Leper King and Bayon Temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), then back to PrasatBey Temple is located in the north of Phnom Bakheng south gate of Angkor Thom in TONLE OUM behind PrasatBey temple, all guests departs from ports visits south gate of Angkor Thom and the wall along the TonleOum with listen our romantic traditional music and histories. We will stopover at Prasat Chrung visiting Tadev Hole and temple with the best Sunset.

Morning: (start tour by 8:00AM), visit an ancient Hindu temple at the countryside, BANTEAY SREY (citadel of women, 35Km north of Siem Reap), was built from 968-1001 AD, is dedicated to Shiva God. In Cambodia it is a unique pink sandstone temple which has most beautiful deep carvings. Afternoon:  Beng Mealea (Beng Mealea temple was built in the 12 cetury, the layout and style of Beng Mealea is very similar to Angkor Wat. Its current state, however, is dominated by jungle. Trees have grown out of the towers and vines entangle columns. Lintels and others building blocks lay around in a tumble and require visitors to climb up and down as they approach the completely collapsed central towers. Ancient capital of Khmer Empire of Rolouse group such as Lolei, Bakong and PreahKo temples.

Morning, free until transfer to Siem Reap International Airport for departure flight to the next destination.