Indochina Hightlights
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Sample Tours >> Indochina Highlights :>>Mystical Indochina 12 days This twelve-day tour brings you to Hanoi, Ha Long and Sapa in the north of Vietnam, Luang Prabang in Laos and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The highlights of the tour are nature, history and local culture. You can take the tour as it is, in which case we will probably need to insert a day for your arrival. However, as you’ll be travelling tailor-made, you can extend and/or adapt it as you wish – we don’t charge for making changes. :> Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (D) Arriving at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, you will be met and driven to your hotel for check in. You will have time to relax before we present you with Vietnam daily life in the past and now with one or two hour cylo tour around the Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son temple and Old Quarter of Hanoi. You will then enjoy a Water Puppet Show and a welcome dinner at a restaurant with Vietnamese cuisines. You will spend the night in Hanoi. :> Day 2: Hanoi City Tour (B/L) You will have the whole day to explore Vietnam’s capital city. Your guide will take you to the Temple of Literature, the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century, and a popular attraction, as is Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, his simple stilt house where he lived and worked, and the museum dedicated to his memory. After lunch, you’ll call in at the serene Tran Quoc Pagoda, the oldest in Hanoi and the excellent Ethnology Museum for an overview of Vietnam’s 54 distinct ethnic groups. Your overnight will be in Hanoi. :> Day 3: Hanoi - Ha Long (B/L/D) After an early breakfast, you will leave for Ha Long Bay, one of the most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Areas and the world’s largest marine limestone ‘karst’ landscape. There you’ll board your boat, a wooden junk built from the model of the old Vietnamese court vessels with sails, a wide transom and rectangular superstructure, that will take you first to the busy World Heritage area and then to some of the less well-known grottoes and caves. Weather permitting, you will be able to swim, fish, climb a hill for an overview of the Bay’s remarkable seascape, or venture into some of the sea level caves in a small sampan. All your meals will be provided on board, usually based on fresh seafood. Your overnight will be on the boat.
:> Day 4: Ha Long – Hanoi – Overnight train to Sapa (B/L) You’ll spend the morning cruising Ha Long Bay, followed by lunch just before docking around noon and leaving for Hanoi. In the evening, you’ll be picked up the railway station for overnight train to Sapa. You will spend the night on the train. :> Day 5: Lao Cai – Sapa – Lao Chai – Tan Van – Giang Ta Chai (B/L) Arriving in the Lao Cai Railway station at 5am. You’ll be transferred to Sapa. After breafast, you will follow your guide to walk around the town, visit the town centre market before being driven to the Lao Chai, a village of the Black H’Mong ethnic minority people. Trek around the village and then along the path to Tan Van of Dzay people. Pick lunch on at Tan Van village then continue trekking to Giang Ta Chai. Trek to main road and our car will pick you up back to Sapa. Your overnight will be in Sapa. :> Day 6: Sapa – Ethnic Market – Lao Cai - Overnight train to Hanoi (B/L) You will wake up early today to explore one of the colourful markets in Sapa or nearby Bac Ha. In afternoon, you will return to Lao Cai for overnigh train back to Hanoi. Your overnight will be on the train. The schedule of the local markets as below: Tuesday: Coc Ly Market Wednesday: Cao Son Market Thursday: Lung Khau Nhin Market. Saturday: Can Cau Market Sunday: Muong Hum or Bac Ha Market :> Day 7: Hanoi – Luang Prabang (B/D) Returning to Hanoi at 5am in the morning, you will check in a mini hotel for breakfast and shower. You will be free until your driver arrives to take you to the airpor for a flight to Luang Prabang. Upon arrival, you guide will welcome you at the airport and transfer to hotel for check-in. After a short rest, we visit the impressive Stupa of Wat Visoun and the shrine of Wat Aham, Wat Mai. You will then climb up to the top of Phousi Mount for an enjoyable exploration of the sacred, gilded stupa as well as a beautiful sunset view of the city and the Mekong River. From there, you explore Street Night Bazaar, where you can find the lovely collection and handmade textile by local and hill tribe people surrounding Luang Prabang. Your overnight will be in Luang Prabang. :> Day 8: Luang Prabang – Pak Ou Cave – Luang Prabang (B/L) After breakfast, you will visit the city's oldest temple of Wat Sene and the magnificent Wat Xiengthong with its roofs sweeping low to the ground, which represent the classical architecture of Luang Prabang temple. You will then board a cruise upstream on the Mekong River, which also gives us a beautiful view of the tranquil countryside as well as an interesting visit to the mysterious of Pak Ou Caves, crammed with thousands of gold lacquered Buddha statues of various shapes and sizes. Along the way, you will stop at the village of Ban Xanghai, where they make the distillation of local rice wine. On the way return, we take a short drive to Ban Phanom, well known for its hand weaving. Your overnight will be in Luang Prabang. :> Day 9: Luang Prabang – Siem Reap (B/D) In the morning, you will visit the National Museum at the former Royal Palace, which displays a lovely collection of the artifacts reflecting the richness of Lao culture dating from the days of the early kings right through the last sovereign, and the Central Market. You will be free in the afternoon until being transferred to the airport for a flight to Siem Reap. Arriving at the airport in Siem Reap, you will be picked up to your hotel for check in. You will have dinner at a local restaurant with Apsara Show. You will spend the night in Siem Reap.
:> Day 10: Siem Reap – Angkor Thom – Angkor Wat (B/L) This morning you will visit the South Gate of Angkor Thom: Bayon, Baphoun, Terrace of Elephants, Terrace of Leper King and Phimean Akas temple. After lunch, you have a visit to the most famous temple of Cambodia: Angkor Wat, then take a romantic view sun set & Siem Reap city from the top of Bakheng Hill. Your overnight will be in Siem Reap. :> Day 11: Siem Riep (B/L) After breakfast at hotel, you will depart to Banteay Srey (means “the citadel of the women”), around fourty kilometers from Siem Reap town. The citadel displays some of the finest examples of classical Khmer art. You will continue to visit Bantey Samrei. After lunch, you will visit other Angkor Ruins: Thommanon, Takeo - one of Angkor's great mountains temple, Chao Say Tevoda, Ta Prohm with a part of the jungle, Bunteay Kday, Sras Srang a Royal bathing place until sunset. Your overnight will be Siem Reap. :> Day 12: Siem Riep Departure (B/L) After breakfast at your hotel, you will take a cruise on Tonle Sap Lake, visiting fisherman’s life, floating fishing village dot the semi-submerged forest that lines the flood plant rim of the lake. Back to the town to visit Chantier Ecole-Artisan d’angkor, the place are in the Ministry of Education was constructed in 1992 and this place renowned woodworking, stone carving and polychrome training center and workshops. After lunch in the town, you will be free until being transferred to the airport for your departure flight. :>> Our prices include: > Breakfast and accommodation sharing a twin or double room. > Travel in an appropriate private air-conditioned vehicle with an experienced safe driver. > The services of an experienced English-speaking guide as per the programme. > Boat cruises as specified in the programme. > International flight: Hanoi – Luang Prabang, including airport taxes. > International flight: Luang Prabang – Siem Reap, excluding airport taxes. > Returned train tickets Hanoi – Lao Cai – Hanoi in a 4-berth first class cabin with soft sleeper and air-conditioning. > Where necessary, entry fees and permission to enter border areas for all visits mentioned in the programme. > Lunches and dinners (as specified in the itinerary) in the best local restaurants, or picnics where no suitable restaurant is available. > VAT and other taxes :>> Our prices do not include: > International flight tickets and airport tax. > Visas > Dinners, except as specified above. > Drinks, gratuities and personal expenses. > Camera fees (if any). > Insurance. |
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