11 Days Explore Vietnam Cave with Beach Relaxing Tour

Welcome to Hanoi!

Upon arrival, our tour guide and driver will welcome you at the airport. You will be escorted to the hotel and check-in. 

In the evening, you will be meeting with the tour guide and driver for the welcome dinner in the city. After the dinner transfer back to the hotel. The rest of the day is at your leisure for recovery. 

Accommodation: Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast. In the morning at 8:00-8:30, you will be met by our tour guide at your hotel, and start to explore the city of Hanoi. The morning’s activities include:

1. Tran Quoc Pagoda: located on the shores of West Lake, this pagoda is full of amazing Buddhist symbolism, a must-see for any of Hanoi city tour.
2. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum: one of the most famous works in Vietnam. With great cultural and historical value, it will expand your understanding of the country.
3. One Pillar Pagoda: Hanoi’s iconic landmark not to be missed, famous for its extraordinary architecture. This Pagoda is not only a famous tourist attraction but also a religious stop for local pilgrims.
4. Temple of Literature: one of the top historical attractions in Hanoi, is the first university in Vietnam. The temple represents Vietnamese ancient architecture and traditional fondness for learning.

End of the sightseeing, you will have lunch at an authentic Vietnamese restaurant, then take a rest.

In the afternoon, you will enjoy the following activities:

1. Hoan Kiem Lake with Ngoc Son Temple: famous for its peaceful beauty, cultural as well as historical values.
2. Taking a traditional cyclo tour through the Old Quarter: the fascinating experience of rickshaws driving around the Old Quarter and experience the daily life of the local.
3. Savor the best street food in the world: Never miss out the Vietnam food

Enjoying local Vietnamese dinner, you will be escorted to watch a traditional Vietnamese water puppet show at Thang Long Water Puppet Theater. The show lasts 50 minutes. It’s a unique Vietnam performance to display the daily life in Northern Vietnam villages.

After the show ends, you’ll transferred to the hotel and the reast of the day is at your own leisure time.

Accommodation: Overnight in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your free morning until transfer to airport for flight to Hue, upon arrive your local guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer to hotel for check in.

This evening, take a short transfer to the port. Take a boat cruise along the peaceful Perfume River (Huong River) – a poetic river of Hue, admiring the beautiful landscapes and the sunset on both sides. Enjoy listening to Vietnamese traditional folk songs while cruising. End the tour at your restaurant for dinner.

After the tour and the incredible dinner, you will be transfer to the hotel and the rest of the day is at your own leisure. 

Accommodation: Overnight in Hue

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

This morning after breakfast, you will be transfer from Hue city to Dong Hoi City for the tour of Paradise cave on the next day. This transfer will take around 3 hours depending on the traffic during the day.

On the way, you will see a mix of coastal view, historic sites and natural landscapes. Upon arrival, you will be transfer to the hotel, and the rest of the day is at your own leisure time. 

Accommodation: Overnight in Dong Hoi

Meals: Breakfast

This morning you will picked up at hotels to exploring National Park core zone and Paradise cave - the longest dry cave in Asia (located in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park’s core zone, 25km about Phong Nha cave, 75 km about Dong Hoi and 1h20 minutes driving).

After lunch visit, Dark caves. Dark cave was the true experience, kayaking over the river to get there, walking through the dark with only the head touch on your mining helmet, having a mud fight in the mud baths deep in the cave and then washing clean with a swim in the lake inside the cave. Activities: Mud bath, ziplining, swimming, kayaking, please bring swimwear. After the tour transfer to hotel in Phong Nha and the rest of the day free at your own leisure.

Accommodation: Overnight in Phong Nha

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you will be transfer to Hoi An by the beautiful Phnong Nha city. You may enjoy a comfortable private van transfer. It may takes around 6 hours, offering scenic views of the central view of Vietnam countryside.

Along the way, you will stop at a local restaurant for lunch before continues the trip to Hoi An.

Upon arrival in Hoi An, you will be transfer to the hotel to check in and the rest of the day is at your own leisure time. 

Accommodation: Overnight in Hoi An

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After enjoying your breakfast, your private tour guide and driver will meet you at the hotel at 8:30 am.

Departure to Ba Na Hills, the road will pass the seashore on Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, one of the most beautiful roads of Da Nang City, and Red Beach, where the French first landed in Da Nang.

Soon you will arrive at the Cable car station at the foot of Ba Na Hill to enjoy the first leg Cable car.

1. Ba Na Hill Cable Car: two Guinness World Records in 2009, longest non-stop cable car (5,042m) and highest non-stop cable car (1,292m).
2. Golden Bridge:stands 1400m above sea level and looks like giant hands of Gods pulling a strip of gold out of the land.
3. Ling Ung Pagoda: 27m high Buddha status.
4. Dreaming Stream: Rainbow Waterfall, Suspension Bridge, Golden Valley, and Ruined Opera House.

Lunch with Buffet menu at the restaurant of Mercure Bana Hill resort. You can play with wild monkeys and take photos, freely then return to the Cable car station at the foot of Ba Na Mountain and transfer back to Da Nang City. The rest of the time is for your leisure. 

Accommodation: Overnight in Hoi An

Meals: Breakfast,  Lunch

In the morning, after breakfast, you will start your half-day excursion to Cam Thanh village. Your tour guide will pick you up around 8:00 am - 8:30 am. Cam Thanh village is a fisherman at Cam Thanh Water coconut village. During this half-hour, you will experience:

1. Fishing, catching the crabs & coconut mussels: enjoying experiences from learning traditional fishing techniques and exploring tranquil coconut-palm flanked waterways of a past war.
2. Vietnamese bamboo basket boat ride: made of bamboo with the shape of baskets to make you have the very Vietnamese experience.

After the tour, you will driven to Da Nang Airport and take a flight to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). It costs around 80 minutes.

Upon arrival in Ho Chi Minh City, our tour guide will escort you to the hotel and have a rest.

Your tour guide will bring you to join in the dinner cruise on the Saigon River at 7:00 pm. After enjoying the delicious dinner, go back to your hotel and have a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Saigon

 Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, at about 8:30 am, we will drive about 1.5 hours to Cu Chi Tunnels, where you discover these amazing systems developed by the guerrillas fighting in the Vietnam War. You will see various weapons used in the war on display. It will take the whole morning to explore and enjoy.

After lunch at a local restaurant, back to Saigon city to explore the iconic highlights, including:

1. Notre Dame Cathedral: honored as one of the world's 19 most majestic cathedrals, the only representative from Southeast Asia, seen as the architectural symbol of Ho Chi Minh City.
2. Old Saigon Post Office: Vietnam’s largest post office and oldest colonial structure, is one of the must-sees, attracting visitors with its aesthetic and historical values.
3. Cholon: the largest Chinatown in Ho Chi Minh with many traditional shops, markets, and local food stalls.
4. Emperor Jade Pagoda: a sacred place of Saigon, built by a Chinese merchant named Liu Daoyuan, where people pray and seek blessings.

End of the sightseeing tour, you will be escorted to the hotel and enjoy free time for the rest of the day.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Saigon

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel and prepare to enjoy a full-day Mekong Delta discovery. Your tour guide will meet you around 8:00 am -8:30 am.

You will arrive at Cai Be Jetty at 10:00 am. Your crew welcomes you with cold towels and a refreshing drink while your Cai Be Princess sampan sets off for its leisurely cruise on the busy waterways. On the river, boat traffic is endless and the activity never ceases.

You will experience the following today:

1. Floating Market: observe from the comfort of your sampan life as it plays out on the riverbanks.
2. Visit Ancient House: built in the 19th century.
3. Local Cottage Industries: coconut candy and puffed rice products that provide a living for the river people.
4. Le Longanier Restaurant: a lush tropical garden by the river, surrounded by fruit trees, giving you a sense of life during Indochinese times.

After lunch, at around 2:30 pm, you will take a short walk along a small canal towards the Ba Bon Bridge, where your private van awaits to drive you to Saigon.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Saigon

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your breakfast and free time in the morning until your tour guide picks you up to the airport in Saigon, it may takes about 1hour from the city. Tour service ends here.

Hope you enjoyed a great trip with us and we look forward to seeing you next time.

Note: If you’re planning to continue exploring the Indochina region, like Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar, please never hesitate to tell us, we’re tour experts for all of these destinations.

 Accommodation: NA

 Meals: Breakfast