12 DAYS IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA

About this tour

This 12-day trip is ideal for those who are short on time but still want to soak up the colorful sights and sounds as well as intriguing culture and history of incredible nations in Southeast Asia. Whether you’re looking for a journey filled with a glimpse of history, local experience, charming landscapes, and fascinating discovery, you can’t go wrong with our Vietnam and Cambodia tour.

What you can expect

• Enjoy a full-day tour of Hanoi with its most delightful attractions
• Take in the picturesque landscape of Halong Bay – famous for its jaw-dropping landscapes
• Step back in time with a sneak peek exploration of the massive Cu Chi Tunnels
• Soak up the old-world charm of Phnom Penh with its interesting relics
• Enjoy the fabulous discovery of Angkor Wat– the best-kept historic site in the world

DETAILED ITINERARY

DAY 1: HA NOI ARRIVAL

Welcome to Hanoi, you will be collected by our local driver at Hanoi Airport and transfer to hotel for check-in. The room is at your disposal from 02:00 PM onwards. Balance of the day as your leisure. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or Similar hotel
• Meals: None
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

DAY 2: HA NOI CITY TOUR  (B, L)

08:15 – 08:30 AM: Meet your tour guide at your suggested places around Hanoi Old Quarter including:

• Tran Quoc pagoda - A Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.
• Ho Chi Minh Complex, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father; his house-on-stilt and One pillar pagoda – modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi.
• Temple of Literature constructed in 1070 dedicating to Confucius, sages, and scholars. It was also the first university of Viet Nam once.

12:30 PM: Relax and have lunch at a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter. In the afternoon, spend time to explore:

• The traditional ceramics village of Bat Trang. Visit showrooms and see how they model the products.
• Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Tran Hung Dao – General Commander for his struggle against Mongolians.

03:30 PM: Drop you off at your hotel.

Dinner on your own and overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

DAY 3: HA NOI - NINH BINH (B,L) - JOIN IN TOUR

07:45 – 08:30 AM: You will be picked up at the hotel and then depart for Ninh Binh province. Have a break 20 minutes en-route to free your legs.

– Arrive at Hoa Lu, which was once depicted the ancient capital of Viet Nam, settling up in the 10th century.

– Visit temples of two dynasties of Dinh and Le with very unique architecture in the old time.

– Learn about ancient culture through an excavation of vestiges of Royal Palaces ground dated 10th century.

12:30 PM: Relax and enjoy lunch in a nice restaurant.

– Board the sampan boats in Tam Coc going along river among the villages, mountains and rice fields. Passing through 3 caves “Hang Ca – First cave, Hang Hai – Second cave, Hang Ba – Third cave” to get a wonderful feeling. The boat returns to the dock for bus drive back to Hanoi.

Arrive in Hanoi. Drop off at the hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: SHARE Transfer

DAY 4: HALONG BAY EXCURSION (B,L) - JOIN IN TOUR 

8.15-8.50: Get picked up at the hotel in Hanoi Old Quater/ Opera House to depart Halong Bay
Our journey follows the Hanoi – Hai Phong- Tuan Chau Highway (about a 2.5-hour drive)
12:00: Arrive at Tuan Chau Harbor, get on the boat to start the excursion discovering the beauty of the world heritage site 
12:30: Enjoy a set menu lunch on the boat with many special dishes of Halong. While having lunch, you all can see the beautiful scenery on both sides with thousands of limestone such as Fighting Chicken and Incense Buner Islets – 2 symbols of Ha Long Bay
14.00: Arrive at Bo Hon Island, and you will visit Sung Sot Cave – The most beautiful cave with a lot of stalagmites and stalactites
14.45: Do kayaking or bamboo boat through Luon Cave to discover the beautiful lagoon. 
15.15: Visit TiTop Island with its sandy beach. You can go swimming here or trek up to the top of the island for sightseeing all of Halong Bay 
16.00: Back to the boat for the sunset party (some wine, fruits, and biscuits) meanwhile the boat is cruising back to the harbor.
17.45: Arrive back at the harbor. Get on the bus and return to Hanoi 
20:30: Get dropped off at the hotel.  Overnight at Hotel in Ha noi.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Hanoi Nostalgia Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: SHARE Transfer
•  A bottle of water per person
•  English-speaking guide during the trip
•  Entrance fees
•  Kayaking or bamboo boat
•  Sunset party

DAY 5: HA NOI - FLY TO HO CHI MINH (B)

After breakfast, transfer to Noi Bai airport (without tour guide) for a short flight to Ho Chi Minh – The largest city of Vietnam.

Upon your arrival at the airport, our driver will meet and transfer you to the hotel for check-in. The balance of the day is at your leisure. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Queen An Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: None
• Transfer: Private car

DAY 6: HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR - CU CHI TUNNELS(B,L) - Joint in tour

08:00 – 08:30 AM: Pick up at your hotel and start the city tour included:

• Independence Palace (the Reunification Palace) was built on the sight of the former Norodom palace.
• War Remnants Museum which has a vast display of the both the Indochina wars.
• Notre Dame Cathedral & Central Post Office the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times
• Jade Emperor Pagoda with the peaceful atmosphere &o many stories behind each detail of the pagoda.

12:30 PM: Lunchtime with a famous Phở restaurant (Vietnamese noodle soup).

02:00 PM: Depart around 1,5 hours through the pleasant countryside before arriving at Cu Chi Tunnels – the historic site where Vietnamese soldiers used as a shelter during wartime. This fantastic network stretches over 250 km and is the shelter of Vietnamese soldiers during the wars.

06:00 – 07:00 PM: Be dropped off at your hotel. Dinner on your own account. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Queen An Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Sharing Transfer

DAY 7:  DAY TRIP TO MEKONG DELTA (B, L) - Joint in tour

08:30 – 09:00 AM Depart from your hotel for My Tho, the town lies on the left side of the Mekong River.

• Boarding the sampan and cruising down the river around the four beautiful islands: Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise islands.
• Stopover at Unicorn Island, go walking around country lane and seeing orchards, enjoy tropical fruits, folk song music.
• Visit the fruit plantation.
• Riding a hand-rowed sampan through Thoi Son canal
• Visit the family business, visit honey-bee farm, enjoy honey tea and coconut candy workshop. Have lunch at a local restaurant.
• Cycling around the Tan Thach village, meet the local villagers to experience the local daily life in the Mekong Delta.

05:00 – 05:30 PM Drop off at your hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Queen An Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Sharing Transfer

DAY 8: HO CHI MINH - FLY TO PHNOMPENH (B)

Upon your arrival at the airport in Phnom Penh, transfer you to the hotel for checking in. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: The Onra Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide for airport pick up
• Transfer: Private car

DAY 9: PHNOMPENH CITY TOUR (B)

In the morning, you’ll be pick up from your hotel’s lobby and bring you to meet other passengers or your new friend at the meeting point. After self-introduced, our tour guide will brief about schedule today, then we start your full-day journey by visiting the most important places in Phnom Penh.

We begin from Wat Ounaloam Monastery, the oldest Buddhist pagoda which has been established in 1443 and consists of 44 structures. Located along Sisowat Quay near the Royal Palace and facing to the Tonle Charktomuk “4 Face River”.

The Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda, located within the grounds of the Royal Palace. The Royal Palace of Cambodia is a complex of buildings although it is generally understood to be the royal abode of the King of Cambodia. Wat Phnom, the central point and the most significant of all the temples in Phnom Penh. The Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town.

Spend your last morning by visiting the Central Market (Psar Thmei), a large market constructed in 1937 in the shape of a dome with four arms branching out into vast hallways with countless stalls of goods. The four wings of this gigantic yellow dome are teeming with stalls that sell goods ranging from gold and silver, antique coins, money exchange, books, flowers, food, fabrics, shoes, souvenirs, seafood, and countless other products.

12:00 – 01:20 PM Lunch break

After lunch, we continue to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S21 prison). This prison was a high school, and used as a prison by Pol Pot’s security forces and became the largest center for detention and torture during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.

If time permitted, have quick look at Phsar Toul Tom Phuong “Russian Market”, then head out to the south around 15km to visit the notorious Killing Fields “Choeung Ek” 15km southwest of Phnom Penh. This one is the site of brutal executions of more than 17,000 individuals, most of who first suffered through interrogations, torture and deprivation in Toul Sleng Prison during Pol Pot regime (From 1975–1979).

Drop off at your hotel around 05:00 – 05:30 PM. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: The Onra Hotel or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private car

DAY 10: PHNOMPENH - BUS TO SIEM REAP (B)

At 07:45 AM in the morning, our car will pick you up at the hotel to transfer to the bus station to take the bus to Siem Reap (6-hour drive).

Once arrival, meet your driver and transfer to the hotel to check-in. The room is at your disposal from 02:00 PM onward. The balance of the day will be free on your own. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Lucky Angkor Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private bus

DAY 11: SIEM REAP ANGKOR SIGHTSEEING(B,L) – Joint in tour

In the morning, our tour guide and driver will come to pick you up to transfer to Angkor Thom that was the masterpiece of King Jayavarman VII. Following the occupation of Angkor by the Chams from 1177 to 1181, the new king decided to build an impregnable fortress at the heart of his empire.

We begin to visit Bayon Temple with many other relics which offer a great chance to observe ancient sculptures.

Continue to visit Terrace of the Leper King. This intricately carved platform was the royal crematorium and the statue that was originally thought to be the leper king is now believed to be Yama, the god of death.

Afterward, we will pay a visit to the Terrace of Elephants with 300 meters long through the core of Angkor Thom.

Then, visit Ta Prohm “Tomb Raider” fame. Ta Prohm has been abandoned to the elements, a reminder that while empires rise and fall, the riotous power of nature marches on, oblivious to the dramas of human history. Left as it was ‘discovered’ by French explorer Henri Mouhout in 1860, the tentacle-like tree roots here are slowly strangling the surviving stones, man first conquering nature to create, nature later conquering man to destroy.

We journey out to the Mother of all temples, Angkor Wat – the most famous and largest temple complex in Cambodia and in the world as well. The complex is considered the architectural masterpiece thanks to its perfection in composition, balance, proportions, relief, and sculpture.

Back to the hotel. Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: Lucky Angkor Hotel & Spa or similar hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour Guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Group transfer

DAY 12: SIEM REAP - FLY TO  HA NOI  (B)

At a good time in the morning, you will be picked up from the hotel (without guide) to the airport for your departure flight. The room will be at your disposal until noon time only. End of services.

Our Services:

• Accommodation: None
• Meals: Breakfast
• Tour Guide: None
• Transfer: Private car

Note: Our tour's itinerary is carefully designed only for travelers from India by team of local travel experts with more than 10 years' experience.

This customizable tour can be arranged for single traveler, couple, family and group tour. Final Prices vary according to hotel standard, when you travel, how many people you travel with, the level of private guiding required and the overall arrangements. We can easily customize the itinerary based on your budget, interests and schedule. Please contact us to discuss your individual requirements

Tel/Zalo/WhatsApp: (+84)0989661264 (Mr Truong John)

E-mail: vietnambooker.com@gmail.com

ROUTE MAP

INCLUSIONS

Meals
11 Breakfasts, 6 Lunches
*Indian/Vietnamese/Veg .. Food

Acommodations:
Hanoi (4 nights), Ho Chi Minh city (3 nights), Phnom Penh (2 nights), Siem Reap (2 nights)

Transports:
Car, Shuttle Bus, Plane, Boat

Included Services

• Accommodation in double/twin share with daily breakfast – 3-star hotel
• Tours and transfers as mentioned by air-conditioned vehicle
• Local English speaking guides
• Meals where mentioned (B: Breakfast; L: Lunch; D: Dinner)
• Entrance fees
• Government taxes and service charges

EXCLUSIONS

• Vietnam visa fee 
• Cambodia visa fee 
• Single supplement for a single room
• Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tip…)
• Travel insurance
• Compulsory tips for guide and driver 3 USD/pax/day
• Internal flight: Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh – Phnom Penh
• Surcharge for early check in

Note: All flights from India to Hanoi arrive at around 05:00 A.M. Hotel check-in hour is 14:00 so we highly recommend clients to check-in early.

Tel/Zalo/WhatsApp: (+84)989661264 (Mr Truong John)

E-mail: vietnambooker.com@gmail.com