Saigon – Cu Chi – Hanoi – Ha Long Bay – Phu Quoc
Three parts of the country in eight days, with two domestic flights carrying you between them. You start in Ho Chi Minh City, spend the second morning in the Cu Chi tunnels and fly north that evening. Day three is six hours on Ha Long Bay and ends with the 22h00 flight to Phu Quoc. The island takes the second half: VinWonders and Grand World, four islands by speedboat with the cable car to Hon Thom, and the south coast from Sunset Town to Sao Beach.
Day 1
A private car meets your flight and takes you to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Nothing is scheduled after check-in: the evening is yours to walk, eat and rest before an early start tomorrow.
Meals: No meals included
Day 2
You leave at 07h00 for Cu Chi, where the guide explains how the underground network was dug and used: field hospitals, weapon workshops and command posts below the surface, and the concealed passages between them. You go through cleared sections of tunnel yourself. The shooting range is there for anyone who wants it, at extra cost. Lunch is back in Ho Chi Minh City at a restaurant, and the tour ends at 15h00 at Ben Thanh market or at the office. At 17h00 you fly to Hanoi, where a private car meets you at the airport and takes you to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Day 3
A limousine collects you at the Hanoi hotel at 08h30 and runs to Quang Ninh with one stop on the way. You board at Tuan Chau Island just before midday; lunch of Vietnamese dishes and seafood is served while the boat passes the Incense Burner and Fighting Cocks rocks. At 13h30 you walk Sung Sot Cave, 25 metres above the water, 10,000 square metres of chamber and 800 metres of lit stone path. Luon Cave by kayak or bamboo boat at 14h45, Titop Island at 15h45 to swim or climb to the lookout. Back aboard at 16h30 for the sunset party on the sundeck, ashore around 18h00, at the hotel by 20h30, and the Phu Quoc flight leaves Hanoi at 22h00.
Meals: Lunch on the cruise
Day 4
You land on Phu Quoc and a private car takes you from the airport directly to your hotel or resort, where the guide handles the check-in with you. The day is otherwise open, which after a night flight is the point.
Meals: No meals included
Day 5
A shuttle collects you at the resort for VinWonders, the largest theme park in Vietnam: the rides, the water park, the castle, the fairy tale garden, the Viking village and the aquarium, where the Love Story's Mermaid show runs. Lunch is at a restaurant in the park. In the evening you cross to Grand World, the sleepless city, for the Bamboo Legend structure and the Vietnamese Essence show, which is not included. Dinner is bun quay, the Phu Quoc noodle dish you season yourself, and the night ends with the Colours of Venice along the canal.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 6
Picked up at 07h20, at the Phu Quoc pearl farm by 08h30, and at An Thoi harbour at 09h30 to board the speedboat. May Rut Trong first, for swimming and photographs; then Mong Tay, also called May Rut Ngoai, where lunch is served and there are paddleboards; then Dua, or Roi, for coral in one to three metres of water. Coral Park and sea walking can be added at your own cost. The boat then reaches Hon Thom, where you ride the world's longest three-wire sea-crossing cable car and can spend time at the Aquatopia water park. Between 16h00 and 16h30 you transfer to Sunset Town, and you are back at the hotel at 17h00.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Day 7
Collected at 09h00. From 10h00 you are in Sunset Town, the Mediterranean-styled quarter at the southern end of the island, with the Kiss Bridge — that ticket is included. Then the Phu Quoc prison, kept as a museum of the island's wartime years, and a traditional fish sauce house where the barrels and the process are explained. At 12h00 you go on to Sao Beach for lunch, white sand and clear water, with time to swim. In the afternoon, Ho Quoc Pagoda, built with the mountain behind it and the sea in front, and finally Sunset Sanato Beach and the sculptures standing on the sand. Back at the hotel at 17h00.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Day 8
Breakfast at the hotel, check out, and a private car to Phu Quoc airport timed to your flight.
Meals: Breakfast
Two domestic flights sit inside this programme: Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi at 17h00 on day 2, and Hanoi to Phu Quoc at 22h00 on day 3, landing in the small hours of day 4. Neither fare is part of the land package; both are quoted separately. The Vietnamese Essence show at Grand World and the sea walking at Coral Park are at your own cost.
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