- Returned international flight from Australia
- Incredible sightseeing including an overnight cruise on Halong Bay and guided tours of Sapa, Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City, the Mekong Delta, Angkor Wat Temples.
- 16 nights in 3-4* hotel at centrally location.
- Daily breakfast
- Internal flight from Hanoi to Da Nang and Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap (Cambodia)
- Fully escorted by professional English-speaking tour guides in each city
- Comfortable, dedicated transportation throughout
- In-depth sightseeing and entrance fees as per the itinerary
- Airport transfers included on the last day of tour
18 Day Trails of Vietnam and Cambodia
Tour Code: AVCS1-18
Price From
Deposit AU$100 pp
pp twin/double share
AU$2,999
Typically | AU$4,450 |
Single Traveller | AU$1,485 |
Asia Vacation Group - Authentic Asia
Day by Day Itinerary
Hanoi (4 nights), Halong Bay (1 night), Sapa (1 night), Da Nang (3 nights), Ho Chi Minh City (3 nights), Siem Reap (4 nights)
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Flexible Cancellation |
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Fully escorted by English-speaking local tour guide |
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Returned International Flights |
Highlights
Itinerary
Day 01: Hanoi Arrival
Xin chào! Today, you will depart from your home to Vietnam’s capital – Hanoi.
On arrival at Noi Bai International Airport, you will be met at the airports and transferred to your hotel for check-in.
Meal: In-flight meals.
Accommodation: Chalcedony Hotel 4* or similar
Day 02: Hanoi
Halong Bay
After breakfast, we will leave Hanoi and head to Halong Bay – the UNESCO World Heritage Site and spend 24 hours on a Cruise in the amazing bay: a natural wonderland composed of jutting limestone islands and sparkling turquoise waters. Arrive at the dock around noon and board your junk. Savor a gourmet lunch of fresh seafood onboard as you sail out into the mystical bay. In the afternoon, cruise around some of Halong’s many islands. Stop at an island cove with a sheltered white-sand beach and take a dip in the warm waters of the Gulf of Tonkin (weather permitting). Pass the night on your junk, lulled to sleep by the gentle rocking of calm waters.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Accommodation: Overnight on Cruise.
Day 03: Halong Bay
Hanoi
Awake early and join a Tai Chi session on the top deck or simply relax and enjoy the sunrise over the bay’s towering islands. Enjoy a morning cup of coffee or tea before exploring nearby islands by rowboat. Return to the junk and admire the amazing rock formations of Halong Bay from the sundeck. Your driver will meet you at the Halong jetty then we drive back to Hanoi.
Meal: Brunch
Accommodation: Chalcedony Hotel 4* or similar
Witness the vastness, the beauty and all limestone formations of World Nature Wonder – Halong Bay from the air in 25 minutes.
Day 04: Hanoi
Sapa
This morning, you will check out your hotel in Hanoi and spend 5-hour driving by a coach to Sapa.
On arrival, you will walk through the local market and leave the town behind. After a couple of minutes, you will follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat Village. The Black Hmong’s village is famous for its brocade weaving craft as well as its gold and silver jewelry making. The walk to Cat Cat Village and its nearby hills provide an opportunity to see farms and techniques used by the people in the area. Short stop at a waterfall and a hydroelectric station. Afterward, trek up back to the town and spend rest of the day at leisure.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Sunny Mountain Hotel 3* or similar
Day 05: Sapa
Y Linh Ho
Lao Chai
Ta Van
Hanoi
After breakfast, descend down the valley on a trail through rice paddy terraces, enjoying the spectacular scenery on the way. Once reaching the narrow river running on the bottom of the valley, you will walk along its bank for a while and eventually arrive at the Black H’mong minority village of Y Linh Ho. You will get a first-hand look into their lives and traditions, hear stories, and enjoy a great social interaction.
Take a rest and then head to the Muong Hoa Valley. You will pass through Lao Chai Village of Black H’mong minority and Ta Van Village of Zay minority by following more rice terraces with spectacular mountain scenery.
In the late afternoon, you will leave Sapa for return to Hanoi.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Chalcedony Hotel 4* or similar
Day 06: Hanoi City Tour
This morning, you will take a half day Hanoi City Tour to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (photo spot only, a monumental edifice built to commemorate the Vietnamese Revolutionary leader), One Pillar Pagoda (one of Vietnam’s two most iconic temples), Temple of Literature (known as the first university of Vietnam) and Tran Quoc Pagoda (one of the oldest pagodas in Vietnam).
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Chalcedony Hotel 4* or similar
At one of Hanoi's authentic restaurants, you will be able to taste the difference of Australian beef prepared and wise tasting by the talented hands of local chefs. When you join this program, you will enjoy dishes prepared in a special Vietnamese style, as well as spices that you can hardly find at home, which is unlike anything you have ever experienced or done before. As a result, it will be ideal if you pair it with the best local red wine or bottles of wine directly imported from Australia (extra fee services). We believe that when you return home, you will realize that while Australian beef products appear ordinary, they are produced and used in a very unique way in another country.
Day 07: Hanoi
Da Nang
After breakfast, you will check out your hotel in the morning and get ready for a flight to Da Nang Airport.
On arrival, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel for check-in and spend your free tim at leisure.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Belle Maison Danang Beach Boutique Resort
Day 08: Da Nang
Hoi An
Today, you will have a walking tour around Hoi An and visit popular highlights including the Japanese Bridge, the Chinese Temple and Phung Hung Old House. In the afternoon, freely explore the town or join one of our exciting optional tours.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Belle Maison Danang Beach Boutique Resort
A chance for you to experience all the typical features of traditional Vietnamese cuisine and master your cooking skills with unique recipes.
Day 09: Danang
Today you are free at leisure to explore the city as you wish or buy an optional tour with us.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Belle Maison Danang Beach Boutique Resort
The trip starts when our guide & car driver pick you up for the transfer. On arrival at the Ba Na mountain foot, we’ll travel by cable car up to the Marseille station. Get out and take a short walk to the Golden Bridge – a break point of the trip – to feel like walking on the clouds. Just newly opened to the public in early June 2018 the bridge which was built in the midst of the forest stands out in yellow. Noteworthy, this unique architecture with the bridge image supported by grey hands, creates a beautiful scenery surprised. Time for taking photos and enjoying the easy breeze, breathtaking view and afterwards, we’ll walk further to a romantic flower garden – Le Jardin D’Amour. The 9 gardens are 9 interesting stories in 9 unique architectural styles. These create a poetic and colourful space. Next, walk to visit Linh Ung Pagoda to admire its sophisticated architecture together with a 27m high Shakyamuni statue which brings us peaceful feeling as visiting this place. Finally, we’ll catch the cable car downhill and then transfer to Hoi An.
Optional My Son Sanctuary and Thanh Ha Village TourMy Son sanctuary, a great sample of ancient Champa civilization situated in the southern region of Vietnam. Stand astounded by a great number of exquisite stone sculptures, temples and towers nestled in a tropical jungle.
Day 10: Danang
Ho Chi Minh City
Today, you will take a flight to the bustling Ho Chi Minh City and Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure or explore the city on your own.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Aristo Hotel Saigon 3* or similar
Day 11: Ho Chi Minh City
Cu Chi Tunnels
After breakfast, you will visit the famous attractions of Ho Chi Minh City such as Notre Dame Cathedral, Post Office (photo spot only), War Remnant Museum and dive into the colorful Ben Thanh market, one of Ho Chi Minh’s liveliest areas. In the afternoon, head to Cu Chi Tunnels, a byzantine maze of underground passages, chambers and booby traps used by both the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong during Vietnam-US war. The tunnel system had become legendary during the 1960s as a strategic military base and underground community life.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Aristo Hotel Saigon 3* or similar
Day 12: Ho Chi Minh City
Optional Mekong Delta Tour
Explore Saigon at your own pace or book our optional tour to Mekong River area and enjoy an unforgettable experience along the mighty Mekong river.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Aristo Hotel Saigon 3* or similar
Embark on a cruise to Ben Tre river and visit brickwork, coconut processing workshop, a local village making sleep mattresses. Continue taking a motor cart (xe lôi) or cycling through the green rice fields and vegetable plains. Lunch is served at the restaurant riverside. In the afternoon, sail through water palm creek by rowboat and get back to Hung Vuong Pier for departing to Saigon.
Day 13: Ho Chi Minh City
Siem Reap
Today you will take a flight to Siem Reap. Upon arrival to the airport you will be met and transferred to your hotel for check-in. The rest of the day is at leisure to explore this vibrant city.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Angkor Paradise Hotel 4* or similar
Day 14: Siem Reap
Angkor Temples
Today, you will have a full day discovering the mystical Angkor temples. Your day starts with a visit to Angkor Wat, then we will visit the ancient Ta Prohm Monastery.
In the afternoon, visit Angkor Thom (the Great City) beginning by the south gate and the famous Bayon of the 12th and 13th centuries. Then, journey to the Elephant Terrace and the raised Leper King Terrace, built in the 12th century and which features many beautifully sculptured Apsaras.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Angkor Paradise Hotel 4* or similar
Day 15: Siem Reap
Today, you are free time at leisure to explore the mystery of Siem Reap or swimming at hotel.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Angkor Paradise Hotel 4* or similar
You’ll be picked up at your hotel to start your Tonle Sap Lake tour which includes a visit to a floating village where you’ll enjoy watching seasonal activities of Cambodian agriculture and aquaculture. Tonle Sap Lake, or “Great Lake”, is a magnificent natural water wonder. During the high water level season (August – November), the lake expands to 2,600 square kilometers in size and becomes the biggest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Being rich and bio-diverse, the lake has been able supply the whole civilization floating on it, since ancient times.
Day 16: Siem Reap
Today, you are free time at leisure to explore the mystery of Siem Reap or swimming at hotel.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Angkor Paradise Hotel 4* or similar
Day 17: Siem Reap
Departure
Today you will be transported to Siem Reap airport for your flight to home.
Meal: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Angkor Paradise Hotel 4* or similar
Day 18: Home Arrival
You will arrive home today and we hope you enjoy the trip with Asia Vacation Group.
What's included
- Returned international flight from Australia
- 03 internal flights: Hanoi – Da Nang, Da Nang – Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City – Siem Reap.
- 3-4* hotel accommodations at the central location.
- Daily breakfasts, and meals in the itinerary (2 lunches, 1 dinner)
- All entrance fees and sightseeing as mentioned in the program.
- Water bottles during tours.
- Transportation by air-conditioning vehicles.
- Fully escorted by professional English-speaking tour guides in each city
- Meals and drinks are not mentioned in the program
- Visa fee in Vietnam and Cambodia
- Tipping for driver and tour guide & personal expenses
- Travel insurance (compulsory)
- Trip delay or interruption by airline schedule change
- Extra cost or missing tour caused by flight delay or cancel
- Any service not clearly mentioned in the program
*Actual accommodation may vary due to availability. However, equivalent quality is guaranteed.
Fine Print
How to book and Payments
Asia Vacation Group offers you a “Instalment Payment Plan” by 3 steps, you will be required to settle a small deposit followed by a series of instalments when you select to book your departure tour.
- First payment: You will be required to settle $100pp deposit online through our website link.
- Second payment: You will be required to settle the second payment $1,400pp after 7 days when you receive our company invoice.
- Final payment: You will be collected the final payment 120 days before your departure.
However, you will have 7-day cooling off period. Please refer to “Flexible Cancellation” section.
Flexible Cancellation
If you change your mind within 7 days of making your booking online, you can request a refund of your initial deposit payment. Once your purchase date falls outside of the 7-day period, our standard terms and conditions will apply.
Please ensure that any request to cancel your booking is received via email to [email protected], including the reason for cancellation.
Flight Information
This package includes international flights from Sydney/Melbourne and surcharge from Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth or other city if requested when selecting your departure city.
Interstate Surcharge
Surcharge of $400 for departures from Adelaide & Brisbane & and $500 for departures from Sydney
In this packages, we will use some different airlines such as: Bamboo Airways (23kg for checked baggage per passenger and 7kg hand luggage per passenger, 01-piece check-in baggage).
- Some flights will require a minimum of 1 transit (maximum 2).
- All tickets will include 20 kilos checked baggage per person, along with 7 kilos of hand luggage.
- Despite the airlines baggage allowance, we recommend travelling with 20 kilos per person due to restrictions with internal flights (where applicable), as well as coach and train transportation. Also, you will be responsible for handling your luggage at all times as the services of porters is not included. If travelling over this amount, you will be liable for any excess baggage fees enforced by the airline, payable direct.
- Once ticketed, flights are non-refundable. Any changes will be subject to the airline rules, Airline change fees and an Asia Vacation Group change fee of $250 per person.
- Full names as per passport (including all middle names) are required. Any error in the names submitted will be subject to an Asia Vacation Group name change fee of $150 plus any applicable fees charged by the airline, or the ticket may be non-refundable with the purchase of a new ticket required.
- Any airline schedule changes or cancellations are beyond our control. It is important that you, as the customer, stay up-to-date with the latest airline schedule information prior to your departure. If a schedule change results in extended transits or an earlier/later departure from your destination, any additional accommodation or alternative arrangements will be at the traveler’s expense.
- Any airline ‘extras’ such as pre-allocated seating is at your own arrangement (additional charges apply)
- After booking, the price payable may be subject to change as a result of factors beyond the control of Asia Vacation Group. Asia Vacation Group reserves the right to increase the price payable and this will be reflected on the customer’s invoice. Increases may be in relation to, but not limited to, currency fluctuations, airline taxes, airfare increases and fuel surcharges.
- Internal airfares (where applicable and included in the itinerary) will be using a local carrier and may include low-cost carriers without meals or entertainment. Checked baggage will still be included for each passenger. Any additional baggage required is payable at time of check-in.
- If you are travelling with another party on a separate booking, we cannot guarantee that the same flights will be booked for all parties, as this strictly depends on availability.
- You will be responsible for handling your luggage at all times as the services of porters are not included. If travelling over the recommended amount, you will be liable for any excess baggage fees enforced by the airline, payable directly.
- In the event of that you no-show on your scheduled flight, please be aware the airline will require you to pay a no show fee, Airline reissue fee plus any additional airfare and taxes. Asia Vacation Group will also charge a $250 admin fee to assist re accommodating you on the next available flight. Please note that depending on the airline’s policy, purchasing a new ticket may be required.
Flight requests, amendments or preferences
We understand customers may wish to request changes to their included airfares. If you wish to fly with a certain airline, land at a certain time or change your flight in other ways we will gladly provide you with a personalized quote tailored to your specific requirements.
We would be more than happy to provide you with a quote for the following requests:
Airline Preferences – You may wish to fly with a particular airline
Cabin Preferences – These include upgrading to premium economy or business class
Extensions (start and end cities must remain the same) – You may request to extend your stay pre or post tour.
Meal Requests – You may request a specific meal for dietary requirements.
Seat Requests – If you would like to request particular seating. However please note, not all airlines allow the selection of pre-purchased seat arrangements.
Important Information
Important Information
COVID-19
Due to COVID there maybe disruptions to standard operating schedules of particular components of this itinerary. Should a component be effected a substitute will be confirmed prior to departure.
Physical Requirements
A reasonable level of fitness is required but it’s more about spending time on your feet rather than covering large distances. You’ll be getting on and off coaches and boats, walking around the sights and climbing some steps.
Tipping
A friendly reminder that tipping is not included in your package. Please be advised that tipping for tour guides, drivers and bellmen are required and will be collected by your travel consultant 7 days before you depart. A gratuity of 10AUD per person/day can make a big difference to locals employed in the tourism industry as they have done an impeccable job to serve you through your holiday.
Accommodation
The accommodation listed is subject to change. Any changes will be of an equal or higher standard. Bedding configurations (double or twin) are requests only. All efforts will be made to meet your preferences however any changes are beyond our control.
Single Supplement
Single supplement is $500 per person in addition to the twin share price.
Paired Solo Traveler
Not available.
Group size: Maximum 16 persons
Triple Share
Upon your request except for cruises
Travel Insurance
Travel insurance is required to protect yourself against the unexpected.
We have partnered with Nib Travel Insurance to offer you competitive rates for your travel insurance. You can book comprehensive or budget cover simply to arrange your policy.
Visa & Passport information
It is the traveler’s responsibility to ensure they have a valid passport. The passport must be valid for a minimum of six months from the intended date of return and must have more than 2 blank pages.
A visa is required for travel to Vietnam. The visa is easiest to complete with Asia Vacation Group and just need to pay $160 for single entry for Vietnam Visa.
Tour Documentation
Final documentation, including e-tickets and hotel details, will be provided approximately 30 days prior to travel.
Children
Children must be 2 years old or over and share a room with parents at all times. Children are the same price as adults.
Tour Length
The total length of the tour in days includes time spent in flight and is subject to change depending on the flight schedule, please refer to the day by day itinerary for the time spent on land.
How to Extend Your Stay
If you wish to do so, please follow these steps:
- Follow the “Book Now” prompts, until you reach the “Anything else we need to know?” field
- Here, please specify your preferred flight arrangements and if you require additional accommodation, with the number of nights needed.
- After finalizing your purchase and submitting your booking form, a member of our Reservation team will be in contact with you via email to verify your request.
Please note, a supplement of AU$200 per person (plus any applicable fare and tax differences) applies to deviate from the standard itinerary. We will contact you via email with a quote and proposed flight itinerary, and then proceed with collecting the additional payment required to confirm your request.
The additional cost for these land arrangements will be added to your final payment invoice, due 90 days prior to departure, and is strictly subject to availability.
Dates & Prices
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Thursday
07 Dec 2023
Sunday
24 Dec 2023
AU$3,899
Thursday
14 Dec 2023
Sunday
31 Dec 2023
AU$3,899
Monday
08 Jan 2024
Thursday
25 Jan 2024
AU$3,699
Tuesday
20 Feb 2024
Friday
08 Mar 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
04 Mar 2024
Thursday
21 Mar 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
08 Apr 2024
Thursday
25 Apr 2024
AU$3,699
Tuesday
14 May 2024
Friday
31 May 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
24 Jun 2024
Thursday
11 Jul 2024
AU$2,999
Tuesday
02 Jul 2024
Friday
19 Jul 2024
AU$3,698
Monday
12 Aug 2024
Thursday
29 Aug 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
16 Sep 2024
Thursday
03 Oct 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
14 Oct 2024
Thursday
31 Oct 2024
AU$2,999
Monday
04 Nov 2024
Thursday
21 Nov 2024
AU$2,999
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