Mỳ Quảng Tour
Overview
From the Northern mountains and the central coastline, down to the exotic flood plains of the southern provinces, Vietnam’s variety is one of its unique destination points. Vietnamese cuisine, from Hanoi through Quang Nam Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), is possibly the most delicious that you will ever experience with its gentle use of various herbs and flavourings. Mỳ Quảng (Quang Noodle) is a local famous noodle dish in Quang Nam, Da Nang and Hoi An town.
Mỳ Quảng tour is designed to get more experiences about the life, culture, and habits of the people in the Central lands of Vietnam, especially the perfect spot-Hoi An ancient town.
Included/Exclude
- 7 Places: Hoi An, Hue, Hanoi, Ninh Binh, Ha Long, Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta
- Accommodation: 13 nights at hotels/ homestays
- Meals: 13 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, N/A Dinner
- Transports: # Charter bus or private car # Express coach
- Domestic Flight # Junk Boat
- Singel visa to Viet Nam
- International Flight with airport taxes
- Gratuities for tour guides and drivers
- Single hotel room
- Travel insurances. We highly recommend that you purchase adequate insurance
- Personal expenses such as laundry, telephone, drinks, etc. All other services not specified in the itinerary
Tour Amenities
Tour Plan
Included Experiences
* Sightseeing the mixed architectural style scenes among Japanese, Chinese, French colonial and Vietnamese
* Explore the little Hoi An town by bicycle riding
Free time Add-ons
* Visit the lantern workshop and learn to make flickering beacons
* Learn how to whip up fresh Vietnamese food with a Hoi An cooking class
* Visit the myriad of silk and tailor shops for making quick clothes
Upon arrival at Da Nang International Airport, our guide will pick you up and take you to Hoi An.
First colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, by the 17th and 18th centuries Hoi An had become one of the busiest international trade centers in Southeast Asia and to this day, it still retains It has the charm of a medieval port, with many wonderfully preserved old buildings. Also, Hoi An is famous for its yellow French colonial-style buildings, Chinese and Japanese relics and colorful cloth lanterns that line the streets. Japanese bridge, Chinese temples and traditional wooden houses are the Hoi An emblematic symbol. Every evening the Old town turned into a pedestrian-only zone for the tourists wander the streets, shopping for souvenirs and admiring the vibrant lanterns. You will enjoy a boat ride at sunset, getting a suit tailored, biking through the countryside, and shopping in the night market.
Meal provided: None
Accommodation: Hoi An Center Boutique Hotel or Hoi An Ecologe & Spa Hotel 3* (Hoi An)
Included Experiences
* Spend time on the Cua Dai or An Bang beach town, swimming and relax
You will try to get to the Cua Dai or An Bang beach, just a 10-minute drive away. This beach town has lovely beachfront resorts, delicious restaurants, a few lively bars, and a peaceful sandy beach for lounging with a cold beer or renting a bicycle from the hotel and cruising around the miles of rice paddies. Evening, you can come back to the Old town for shopping in the boutiques and stroll through the lively night market.
Meal provided: Breakfasts
Accommodation: Hoi An Center Boutique Hotel or Hoi An Ecologe & Spa Hotel 3* (Hoi An)
Included Experiences
* Hoi An outskirt countryside with buffalo ride, bamboo basket boat ride, vegetable farming, lunch at local family with foot massage, pottery and lantern making
Free time Add-ons
* Visit Cu Lao Cham Island (depends on the weather)
* Explore My Son Sanctuary
Located about 23 km from Hoi An Town, Cu Lao Cham Island likes a precious pearl of Hoi An, Quang Nam Province. It is also an attractive destination with many fund activities such as swimming and sunbathing, diving to see sea corals.
MySon Sanctuary with a mysterious architectural complex of the remaining Champa culture. The pyramidal towers, the symbol of Meru peek, the tower gate faces east to catch the sunlight. Although these structures are no longer intact, they still clearly showed the golden imprint of the Champa dynasties in this land.
Meal provided: Breakfasts
Accommodation: Hoi An Center Boutique Hotel or Hoi An Ecologe & Spa Hotel 3* (Hoi An)
Included Experiences
* Visit the Thien Mu Pagoda and the Imperial Citadel
Free time Add-ons
* Discover the hidden charm of Hue on a local cyclo (rickshaw) ride
* Join in evening cruise along Perfume river to listen to court music and local folk songs
Once the ancient capital of Vietnam, Hue is divided by the waters of the Perfume River, which separate the city's 19th-century citadel from the suburbs that radiate from the eastern shore.
You can visit the iconic Thien Mu Pagoda beside Perfume river, home to the city's oldest monastery, with its 21-meter-high spire that has become the symbol of Hue. Another option is to spend time exploring the Citadel that sits on the left bank of the Perfume River. Built by the Nguyen dynasty (the ruling emperors of Vietnam from the early 1800s to 1945), the Imperial Citadel has a formal moat and impressive ramparts built to be a replica of the Forbidden City in Beijing. This is one of the relics belonging to the Hue monuments complex, which has been recognized as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 1993. Further afield amid the forested landscape of Hue city, you can find the Royal Tomb of the Nguyen Kings, the unique mausoleum of the emperors, providing an ideal destination to explore by bicycle.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hue Riverside Boutique resort & Spa or Hue Riverside Villa 4* (Hue city)
Free time Add-ons
* Bike exploring within Hue’s Old Citadel
* Join in a cuisine cooking, yoga or meditation session
Spend time relaxing in the quiet, peaceful hotel full of green trees and rivers. You will watch the serene daily life of local people, have meals in their green biodynamic gardens or can join some Vietnamese food cooking, yoga or meditation courses.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hue Riverside Boutique resort & Spa or Hue Riverside Villa 4* (Hue city)
Included Experiences
* Wander through the bustling and narrow streets of Hanoi’s Old quarter
Free time Add-ons
* Must-try dishes, Pho bo and Pho ga (beef and chicken noodles), Bun cha nem cua be (grilled pork with noodles and spring roll), Bun cha ca (grilled fish noodles) at local restaurants in old streets such as Ta Hien, Dao Duy Tu (called Pho Tay).
Formerly Thang Long, the “City of the Rising Dragon”, Hanoi became Vietnam’s official capital since 1954. Visit in Hanoi, a tour guide will welcome then take you a short orientation tour of the city, wandering through the bustling streets of the city’s Old quarter, whose narrow streets are named after the various crafts and specialties of the city's artisans: Paper Street, Silk Street, Basket Street etc. This practice dates back to the 13th century, when the city's original 36 guilds established themselves here, adopting a street each to differentiate them from their neighbors. The maze of alleys and streets present a fascinating venue to explore on foot and the area is known for its interesting 'tube' houses, where the narrow frontages give way to long rooms that stretch back from streets, whose pavements are littered with food sellers tempting passers-by with all manner of noodles, snacks and stir-fried delights.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Lacasa Hotel 4* (or similar)
Included Experiences
* Cycle around glorious West Lake and visit ancient pagodas and temples
* Visit Hanoi Opera House, History museum, Military museum
* See a unique water puppet show
Your full-day tour of Hanoi begins with the ancient Temple of Literature, then the Presidential Palace, the famous One Pillar Pagoda and Pagodas around the West Lake. Optional lunch. The afternoon continues with a visit to the Vietnam History museum, the Hanoi Opera House, a beautiful colonial building, then taking a walk on the French quarter with tree-lined boulevards. Its grandiose colonial architecture offering up a rich contrast to the more frenetic pace of the old town.
In the evening sit back and enjoy a thousand-year-old unique Water Puppetry Show, a traditional art form dates back to the 11th century from the Red River Delt and closely connected with the long-standing spiritual life of the Vietnamese farmers.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Lacasa Hotel 4* (or similar)
Included Experiences
* The part of the itinerary spends time in more remote its locations and Trang An, where groups explore by bike and boat or Bai Dinh Pagoda
* Visit Thung Nham natural bird park
The Ninh Binh region is just about 100 kilometer south of Hanoi and it takes about one hour and half by tourist bus or private car. With unspoiled nature, charming scenery, Ninh Binh is one of the famous tourism destinations of Northern Vietnam. Coming to Ninh Binh, you will have opportunity to visit the natural heritage and world cultural heritage are as Trang An, Bai Dinh pagoda, Tam Coc Bich Dong, Van Long nature reserve-lagoon or visit the ancient capital Hoa Lu, Cuc Phuong national forest and Thung Nham bird park.
Trang An boat trip and Bai Dinh pagoda visit. In the morning time arriving in Ninh Binh, you go to Trang An wharf to board a boat along the stream in the middle of rice fields to visit Trang An tourist area – a world cultural and natural heritage with limestone ranges, valleys, natural caves and knitted river. They make a special fanciful, mysterious space. Then you may be will visit Bai Dinh Pagoda, the largest temple in Vietnam with its campus has an area of 107 ha. In the afternoon, you will visit Thung Nham bird park. You can choose ferry or special car to go to Thung Nham, the bird garden is home of more than natural 50,000 birds with 40 species of birds such as cauldrons, storks, herons, teals, fire warblers etc. and precious birds such as flamingos or phoenixes.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Tam Coc Nature Lodge or Le Clos Du Fil 3* (Ninh Binh)
Included Experiences
* Bich Dong bike ride or visit to Hoa Lu ancient capital
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Lacasa Hotel 4* (or similar)
Included Experiences
* Visit the wild grottos of the Sung Sot Caves in Halong Bay
* Visit Ti Top islands
Free time Add-ons
* (Kayak) Paddle over the emerald waters of Halong Bay
After breakfast, we will go by tourist bus or private car towards the Bay of Tonkin on Vietnam's northeast coast. The destination is the breathtaking setting of Halong Bay one of Vietnam's, and indeed Southeast Asia's, most spectacular natural attractions, whose staggering beauty has seen it listed as one of the eight natural wonders of the world. Indeed, Halong means “where the dragon descends to the sea” and local legends tell of a time when this rugged landscape was created by the pounding tail of a mighty dragon as he ran from the mountains into the glittering waters of the bay below. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Halong Bay presents a quite extraordinary vista of hundreds of limestone islands (over 1600 at last count) that rise from the jade green waters of the bay like the scales of some great submerged dragon.
On arrival we will board our junk and set sail, threading our way through a flotilla of boats, junks, and wooden sampans as they ply their way across the gentle waters of the bay. The plan for today is to sail through this stunning seascape, stopping off to swim and visit some of the limestone caverns that pepper the landscape. Later this evening we disembark from our boat and transfer to a local hotel.
Meal provided: Breakfast, lunch
Accomodation: Phat Linh Hotel or D’lioro Hotel 4* (Ha Long)
Free time Add-ons
* Japanese-style onsen center in Hon Gai, Quang Ninh
After breakfast, you have a whole morning relaxing. A very worthy suggestion for your rest day in Ha Long is a combo service for a Japanese-style mineral bath experience in Yoko Onsen Quang Hanh center with a buffet lunch (Option fee). You will leave Ha Long City to Van Don or Cat Bi Airport to fly to Ho Chi Minh City. Still commonly referred to by locals as 'Saigon', Hochiminh city is the largest in Vietnam and the country's commercial hub. You will find an eclectic mix of the traditional and the new, where pagodas and markets compete alongside the trappings of Vietnam's newly discovered entrepreneurial spirit.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Huong Sen Hotel or Alagon Hotel 3* (Hochiminh City)
Included Experiences
* View the Notre Dame Cathedral, General Post Office, Reunification Palace and Opera House
Free time Add-ons
* The Saigon after-dark exploration tour by motorbike
* Must-try freshest traditional foods as Bánh mì (bread), Phở (Vietnamese noodle), Bia hơi (draught beer) in walking Nguyen Hue or Bui Dien street or Ben Thanh market
Your tour will visit some of the city's central attractions, including the Reunification Palace, the Opera House (formerly the National Assembly of South Vietnam), Hotel de Ville, the Cathedral Notre Dame, and that impressive French-style mansion is the GPO building, Saigon Post Office.
The Saigon night tour by motorbike (optional fee) will give you an adventure that you won’t forget. This is the quintessential night tour of Saigon, combining the best food, culture and nightlife that Saigon has to offer. It shows all aspects of Saigon night life. You can join the busy traffic of Saigon on the back of a motorbike while stopping at some of the best street-restaurant, experiencing night life like a true local. Enjoy by meeting the people, seeing the culture, and tasting the authentic flavors of Saigon, Chinatown, hidden Vietnamese-styled coffee shops live music and raucous bars in walking Nguyen Hue Street or Bui Dien (Pho Tay) street.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Huong Sen Hotel or Alagon Hotel 3* (Hochiminh City)
Included Experiences
* Travelling down the river on local sampans
* Getting about local industries along the river
* Meeting with the warmly and friendly local people
Free time Add-ons
* Riding on hired bicycle in peace and tranquility areas of Mekong Delta
It's time to say goodbye to a busy city and welcome a peaceful river life. Today as you make a full day’s visit to the colorful Mekong Delta. To witness locals barter for fresh produce at a floating market and to take a local sampan through the small narrow waterways of the Delta. This morning drive to Ben Tre, then My Tho, stopping on the way at the Thien Hau Pagoda, an intricately designed temple. On arrival in My Tho, you will board a boat for a cruise down the Mekong River, passing floating markets and local villages. This afternoon, your boat will dock at Unicorn Island, giving you the chance to visit fruit farms, visit a bee farm, a coconut sweet workshop or a traditional honey tea garden, where you can sample these local delights and learn about local industries along the river.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: Huong Sen Hotel or Alagon Hotel 3* (Hochiminh City)
Enjoy your last day in Ho Chi Minh City. You may continue exploring and go shopping in Sai Gon before leaving Vietnam.
Meal provided: Breakfast
Accommodation: None
A 14 days tour or similar is just your beginning of exploration journey in Vietnam. You continue on to your extension to sharing with us your private wishes for the rest of your holiday. We are here to fulfil your dream.
1. Luxury escape in the high-end resort on the white sandy beach? (Everywhere on 3,000 kilometer S-shape coastline in tropical climate zone
2. Explore the world-recognized amazing caves? (Central Vietnam)
3. Find your inner self in the primary forest? (Highland region)
