Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City
Meet and greet at airport upon arrival and transfer to hotel, with the rest of the afternoon at your leisure. Dinner is at a local restaurant with a traditional music performance.
Overnight hotel in Ho Chi Minh City (Dinner included)

Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels and Highlight of Ho Chi Minh City
Take a morning journey out of the city centre to the Cu Chi regions, where you will visit the vast underground network of tunnels, with secret trapdoors, underground kitchens, living areas and meeting rooms. Returning to Ho Chi Minh City, you will spend the afternoon touring the highlights of Ho Chi Minh City. Visit the Presidential Palace, now preserved as a museum, including the underground communications bunkers, headquarters for the Saigon Government during the American War. Continue to the History Museum, with a water puppet performance housed in the grounds. See Notre Dame, the 'wedding cake' styled hotel d'ville, and Dong Khoi Street, formerly the centre of haute couture in Saigon when it was known as Rue Catinat.
Overnight Ho Chi Minh City (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City - Danang / Hoi An
Morning transfer from your hotel to the airport for your flight to Danang. On arrival at Danang airport, meet your guide and proceed to the Cham Museum, once the centre of the ancient Cham civilisation. From here continue to the Marble Mountains for a photo stop before checking into your hotel in either China Beach or Hoi An, followed by lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon you take a Hoi An walking tour, where you will see architecture heavily influenced by the different nationalities of traders that frequented this town in the past, including the Japanese covered bridge and Chinese communal house.
Overnight Danang or Hoi An (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 4: Danang / Hoi An - Hue
This morning you will drive overland to Hue City, checking into your hotel and enjoying lunch on arrival. Hue was once the religious, economic, and cultural epicentre of Vietnam, however was reduced almost completely to rubble as a result of war. In the afternoon you will visit the Imperial Citadel, modelled on the Forbidden City in Beijing, and will finish your afternoon with a visit to the Dong Ba Market.
Overnight Hue (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 5: Hue
Today you will take a boat trip to Thien Mu Pagoda, an octagonal tower of seven tiers rising majestically over the Perfume River, and one of the most famous sights in Hue. From here you will continue by boat to perhaps the most majestic of all Hue's tombs - that of Minh Mang. With a harmonious blend of architecture and natural landscape, this is an ideal location for lunch. In the afternoon you will first visit the tomb of Tu Duc, resplendent in traditional architecture, paved walkways, resting pavilions, lotus ponds, and a small hunting forest. Following this you will visit the colonially styled tomb of Khai Dinh, remembered as the " Puppet Emperor " because of his affiliation with the French.
Overnight Hue (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 6: Hue - Hanoi
Morning transfer from your hotel to the airport for your flight to Hanoi. You are met at the airport and transferred to your hotel, then to a local restaurant for lunch. In the afternoon you will take a tour of the tree-lined streets of Hanoi. Pass by Hoan Kiem Lake, known as the Lake of the Restored Sword, en-route to one of the city's fascinating museums (Army, History or Fine Arts, depending on your preference). Continue to the Temple of Literature, then take to the streets on foot for a walking tour of the Ancient Quarter or 36 Streets District.
Overnight Hanoi (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 7: Hanoi
Today you are taken for an early morning visit to Ba Dinh Square, where silent sentries guard the marble and granite mausoleum where Ho Chi Minh lies in state. See the simple cottage where Uncle Ho lived and worked, and the nearby Ho Chi Minh Museum. The final stop is the One Pillar Pagoda, before lunch is taken at a local restaurant. The afternoon is at your leisure.
Overnight Hanoi (Breakfast and Lunch is included)

Day 8: Departure
After breakfast transfer from your hotel to the airport for your departure, or onwards with one of our many tour extensions. (Breakfast is included).

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