21 Days Vietnam tour – Best Summertime

Day 1: Arrival to Ho Chi Minh

On arrival at Tan Son Nhat international airport, welcome by our guide and driver, transferred to your hotel in the city center. Leisure time for relaxing after your flight. Stay overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city tour (B, L)

After breakfast at the hotel. Take a sightseeing tour to Independence Palace, which was the former residence of the until the end of April 1975. Visit some fantastic French colonial structures including the Notre Dame cathedral and the Old Central Post Office.

Lunch at the local restaurant. Next, head to town and visit Thien Hau Temple. After seeing the Emperor Jade Pagoda and the War Remnants Museum you will enjoy 1 hour of the water puppet show to hear the Vietnamese traditional instruments and singing from the live musicians. Stay overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.


Day 3: Cao Dai temple – Cu Chi tunnels (B, L)

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then we head west to Cao Dai religion and witness the fantastic mid-day temple service where followers fill the hall wearing colorful robes, a symbol of the curious combination of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Lunch at the local restaurant.

On the way back, visit Cu Chi Tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Vietcong during the American war. Return to Ho Chi Minh City and overnight in the hotel in this city.


Day 4: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Can Tho (B, L)

After breakfast, your tour guide will take you to visit Mekong Delta. The first stop is Vinh Trang pagoda – the architecture of Han character, including a front shrine, sanctum, ancestors’ house and back shrine in My Tho. Take a boat to Unicorn Island, have lunch in the orchard garden. Then a boat ride, enjoy cruising on a hand–rowed sampan under the shade of the water coconut trees along natural canals and visit at a local family to enjoy tropical fruit, taste honey tea, honey wine and listen to Vietnamese traditional music, a performance by the villagers. After that, proceed to Can Tho and overnight in this city.

Day 5: Can Tho – Chau Doc (B, L)

In this early morning, after your breakfast, you will take a leisurely boat trip to explore the Cai Rang floating market where the local people take their small boats to buy goods, fruits, and other farming products from big boats. After the market, we take rowing boat deeper into the countryside on smaller canals to see the real Vietnam island villages and people.

Break for lunch. Proceed to Chau Doc and continue to visit Tra Su Melaleuca forest, you will be transferred by a rowing boat between duckweed green, enjoy the fresh air, tranquility, explore melaleuca forest tea master, inhabited by many species of waterfowl, wildlife rare. On the way to Chau Doc stop by to visit Sam Mountain, overnight in this city.

Day 6: Chau Doc – Ho Chi Minh (B, L)

Enjoy breakfast, then we will take a nice boat trip through the floating village to visit a catfish farm to see how the Mekong Delta people raise fish in their floating houses. Visit the Cham minority with their traditional weaving village, followed by a local Islamic Mosque to go to Ho Chi Minh City.

After that, come back Ho Chi Minh and overnight in this city.

Day 7: Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang Islands & Snorkeling Tour Half-day (B, L)

This morning, after your breakfast at the hotel, a driver will transfer you to Tan Son Nhat airport to take a short flight to Nha Trang. On arrival airport, we take a boat trip to Mun Island for snorkeling, scuba diving, relaxing, swim or join water sports. Lunch on the island and check-in hotel in the afternoon, overnight in Nha Trang.

Day 8: Nha Trang free & easy (B)


Today we relax on the white sand beach or take the mud bath and spa treatments.

Day 9: Nha Trang – Da Nang – Hoi An (B, L)

After breakfast at the hotel, you will transfer to the airport for a short flight to Da Nang. Our guide will pick you up to visit the Museum of Cham Sculpture. Continue to visit Marble Mountains, climb up the mountain to visit a pagoda in Huyen Khong Cave and great views from the top of the mountain. Then transfer to Hoi An Ancient town and overnight in here.

Day 10: Hoi An – My Son (B, L)

After breakfast at the hotel, depart to My Son Holy land (World Heritage-listed). Spend over an hour’s drive to My Son, a World Heritage. Located in a lush valley, My Son was a capital and religious center of Cham people, now remaining with red brick towers and sanctuaries. These towers and sanctuaries were built from the 7 to 13 centuries. Have lunch at the local restaurant, take a boat trip to Hoi An with a nice and cool breeze onboarding, beautiful river scenery on the biggest river in the central of Vietnam named Thu Bon River before going back the town.

Stay overnight at your hotel of choice in Hoi An.

Day 11: Hoi An Cycling and cooking class (B, L)

This morning, we will cycle to a local farming village to join the daily work life of local farmers – practice vegetables farming with hoeing soil, planting, watering, harvesting vegetables, then riding water buffalo in the field and enjoy the freshest air of the countryside beauty. After that, you will be taught how to cook the specialties of the village by skilled and professional cooks and enjoy lunch here.

The afternoon goes back Hoi An, and overnight at this town.

Day 12: Hoi An – Da Nang – Hue (B, L)

The next destination is Hue, the Old Royal City in Vietnam in the 17th century. Have breakfast at your hotel before departing for Hoi An. Stop for photo opportunities and sightseeing at Hai Van pass, Lang Co beach then check-in your hotel. Free and easy in the afternoon. Overnight in Hue. 

Day 13: Hue city tour (B, L)

After breakfast at your hotel, enjoy a morning boat trip on the Perfume River. Visit the royal tomb of Emperor Tu Duc, Thien Mu pagoda and the mausoleum of Emperor Minh Mang, set in gardens and lakes. In the afternoon, visit Dong Ba market and the Imperial Citadel from where the Nguyen Dynasty ruled between 1802 and 1945, and the ruins of the Purple Forbidden City.

Enjoy a night boat trip on the Perfume River, highlighted by a performance of Hue folk music. Stay overnight at your hotel of choice in Hue city.

Day 14: Hue – Hanoi – city tour half day (B, L)

Transfer to the airport for a short flight to Ha Noi after your breakfast. Then a guide and driver will pick you up and start the city tour to visit Ho Chi Minh Complex to see Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilt, the Presidential Palace, and the One Pillar Pagoda. Following we visit the Temple of Literature – Vietnam’s first university dating back to 1070. Before check-in in the hotel, we will cross Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake – the Ngoc Son Temple is set on a tiny island on Hoan Kiem Lake, its history dating back to the 13th century.

Day 15: Ha Noi – Ha Long – Overnight on the cruise (B, L, D)

Travel to Halong Bay today along the Red River Delta. Stopping at a halfway for short relax then we catch up Tuan Chau Pier at midday. Board the Junk then enjoy our fresh seafood lunch while the cruising deeper into the Bay. Cruise on the Bay and enjoy beautiful views of this world natural heritage site with limestone cliffs growing up from the green tranquil water. Kayaking around Pearl Farm Village, visit Titop Island. Free choice of activities such as sunbathing, swimming and conquering the peak of the biggest island in Halong and taking panoramic photos of Halong bay in the afternoon. Later, we enjoy our dinner then overnight on the cruise.

Day 16: Ha Long – Ha Noi – Sapa (B, L)

In the early morning, taking part in the Tai Chi class on the sundeck. Coffee, tea, and pastries… for breakfast are served in the dining room with morning view of bay’s landscape. Transferred to Surprising cave. Walk up about 100 steps to the cave entrance. It takes approximately 60 minutes for cave visiting.

Return to the boat and prepare to check out.
Have a set menu brunch while cruising back to the Tuan Chau Wharf. The cruise arrives at the pier at midday then we take our vehicle back to Hanoi for our night train to Sapa.

Day 17: Sapa trekking tour (B, L, D)

Arriving at Lao Cai Railways station this morning, we are welcomed by a local tour guide and the driver then travels up to Sapa town where we have our breakfast at a restaurant. Then we will start walking to Cat Cat and Sin Chai villages at the bottom of the Muong Hoa valley.

Enjoy the spectacular views of the beautiful valley towards Fansipan– the highest peak in Vietnam and Indochina. Go through a village of H’mông tribe, see people weaving and embroidering their clothes, enjoy colorful rice terraces, waterfall. Come back to the afternoon will be free time for you to explore Sapa ethnic market and town. Overnight at a hotel or a homestay.

Day 18: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)

Enjoy your breakfast then check out of the room. Keep your baggage in the lobby then we will walk from Sapa towards Muong Hoa valley where you can admire magnificent landscape. Here you will discover the wonderful scenery of Hoang Lien mountain ranges and meet H’mông tribes. Trek through terraced rice paddies and visit minority villages along the Muong Hoa River, where we can have a nice swim.

Lunch at Lao Chai Village then keeps going to Ta Van Village of Giáy people. Arriving at Ta Van, where we have dinner cooked on a wood fire enjoying the homestay.

Day 19: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Sa Pa – Ha Noi (B, L)

Enjoy the breakfast as usual before trekking through bamboo forests towards Giang Ta Chai waterfall, cross over a rattan suspension bridge and enter into Giang Ta Chai village which is inhabited by the Red Zao minorities. Here we will experience their daily life then cross over the Muong Hoa River up the mountain to visit Supan village of the H’ mong people.

We then take the bus back to Sapa. Take a fresh shower in the hotel before heading to Lao Cai train station for the overnight train back to Ha Noi.

Day 20: Hoa Lu – Tam Coc – Ha Noi (B, L)

On arrival Ha Noi, your guide will meet you at the train station, bring you to a local shop and enjoy “Pho” – Vietnam’s national dish before going to visit the historic capital of Vietnam and the famous ancient temples of Le and the Dinh Dynasties in Hoa Lu.

After lunch, boat trip to visit Tam Coc to see the beauty of the karst formations as you pass along their base and row into one of the many caves carved through the limestone. Then, cycle for an hour on quiet roads through villages, rice fields, rivers and rocky outcrops in Tam Coc – Bich Dong (around 5 km). Drive back to Hanoi and drop off at your hotel.

Day 21: Departure – Ha Noi (B)

Today our awaiting vehicle transfers us back to the Noi Bai International airport for our departure flight. End of services.