VIETNAM OVERLAND JEEP TOUR FROM SAIGON TO HANOI

* BRIEF ITINERARY:

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh Arrival (B)
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh Sightseeing – Cu Chi Tunnels (B)
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre (B, L)
Day 4: Ben Tre – Phan Thiet (B)
Day 5: Phan Thiet – Da Lat (B)
Day 6: Da Lat Sightseeing (B)
Day 7: Da Lat – Buon Ma Thuot (B, D)
Day 8: Buon Ma Thuot (B)
Day 9: Buon Ma Thuot – Ba Hon (B)
Day 10: Ba Hon – Hoi An (B)
Day 11: Hoi An Sightseeing (B)
Day 12: Hoi An – Da Nang – Hue (B)
Day 13: Hue – Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves (B, D)
Day 14: Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves (B, L, D)
Day 15: Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves – Ha Noi (B)
Day 16: Ha Noi Sightseeing (B)

Day 1: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ho Chi Minh Arrival (B)

On arrival, transfer to hotel in the downtown. The rest of the day is free for relaxation.

An optional walking tour of Dong Khoi St or bustling Ben Thanh market.

There will be a welcome briefing this evening with dinner at a local restaurant. During welcome drink, we will share tips of “Does and Don’t” for Jeep trip in Vietnam.

Day 2: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ho Chi Minh Sightseeing – Cu Chi Tunnels (B)

Cu Chi tunnels

Drive along countryside to the remarkable Cu Chi tunnels, 70 km outside Ho Chi Minh City. Stop at rubber plantations en route. Visit the amazing 200km long underground tunnels system which served as hiding place, storage hall, medical center, dormitory for guerrillas during the Vietnam War. On arrival, see the documentary film before walking to the amazing tunnels in the jungles. Make your way through these tight tunnels and marvel at the scale of this incredible construction.

Return to Ho Chi Minh City for lunch. Following lunch, take the afternoon city tour in style including the Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, Central Post Office, Chinatown, Binh Tay Market and Thien Hau Temple.Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Day 3: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre (B, L)

Drive through bustling Saigon then scenic Mekong Delta to My Tho. On arrival, boarding to orchard garden. Take a horse-drawn cart to Quoi Son to visit a bee farm and float on a sampan through narrow, tree-lined canals. Continue to Tan Thach commune to visit a family-run enterprise making coconut candy. After lunch continue by boat to Phu Tuc village for the overnight stay. Try fishing whilst sightseeing on a late-afternoon rowboat trip. Enjoy the hospitality of a local family and have a dinner. Afterwards take in a performance of traditional rural music. Spend the night in a local house in Ben Tre.

Day 4: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ben Tre – Phan Thiet (B)

Enjoy the breakfast amongst mighty Mekong River before drive up northern Saigon to Phan Thiet. Other chance to experience busy back- bone highway in Vietnam.

Phan Thiet, home to one of the best stretches of beach in the country. This small fishing town has a colourful harbour full of boats and a sandy beaches. Over nigh at beach- view resort.

Day 5: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Phan Thiet – Da Lat (B)

Leave Phan Thiet after breakfast for a scenic drive through hilly rubber and tea plantations to cool Dalat. Established as a hill station at the beginning of the century, Da Lat is reminiscent of an alpine town with its French chalets and pine forests.

Visit Truc Lam Zen Meditation Center and roaming around the tranquil lake near the Elephant Mountain.Today, we stay at the former French Villa in Da Lat.

Day 6: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Da Lat Sightseeing (B)

Full day excursion at these hilly town, locals named the town as flowers and pine trees site. Visit the former Emperor Bao Dai’s summer residence, the bizarre architecture of Dalat’s “Crazy House”, Langbian Mountain and the largest hand- embroidering workshop in the country.

We end a day at city watching tower or at the city pub on glitter Xuan Huong Lake.

Day 7: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Da Lat – Buon Ma Thuot (B, D)

Drop in on Dalat’s colorful flowers and vegetables market.

Drive over highway 27 to Lak Lake in Buon Ma Thuot. Refresh at charming waterfall along the drive. On arrival, check in Lak resort while the staff prepare for the gongs music and dancing show with M’Nong group.

Day 8: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Buon Ma Thuot (B)

Enjoy a dugout canoe ride on the lake, and then mount an elephant for a trek through M’nong hill tribe villages. The Lak lake has an area of some 500 hectares. This tranquil lake bounded with mountains has been home to many kinds of wetland birds and lotus.

Drive to downtown for a sip of coffee then Jeep to Don Village for trekking tour in Yok Don National Park. Trek though spare Dipterocarpaceae jungles. Overnight in camp amongs the pristine nature.

Day 9: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Buon Ma Thuot – Ba Hon (B)

Enjoy the slow jungle breakfast with bird singing and pristine forest. Leave Don Village for historical 14 route down to lowland Ba Hon. Stop at Pleiku, Pleiku, Ngoc Hoi, Dak Glei.. These sites were listed it names as red point during the war time in Vietnam.

Other time to experience the home-stay with hill-tribe ones. In Ba Hon, we operate the village home-stay in a hope for the local K’tu bright lives.

Swimming at the village stream while the locals prepare the dinner with all jungles products.

Day 10: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ba Hon – Hoi An (B)

Bit farewell the villagers before heading down the lowlands of Da Nang and Hoi An. In Hoi An take a walking tour with former merchants’ houses, the 400 year-old Japanese Covered Bridge and the colourful market. Hoi An was a major Asian trading port in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries where architecture and relaxed lifestyle has changed little over the years.

Dinner at family restaurant with friends who have the same Jeep passions. Enjoy the sound sleep at riverside resort near the holly Hoai river.

Day 11: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Hoi An Sightseeing (B)

Full day cycling to  Hoi An’s countryside with fishing and carpentry villages or driving jeep to Hoi An beach for your relax and swim in a tropical mood.

Day 12: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Hoi An – Da Nang – Hue (B)

Drive from Hoi An to Hue. Jeep will stop at spectacular Hai Van mountain pass and scenic fishing village, coastline and paddy fields for a close up touch.

Upon arrival in Hue visit the Imperial Citadel, containing the Imperial City and the Purple Forbidden City. This royal residence was all destroyed during the 1968 Tet Offensive, however it is still fascinating to walk among the ruins. Next visit is charming Emperor Tu Duc’ mausoleum.

Day 13: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Hue – Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves (B, D)

In the morning, on board for a boat trip on the sheer Perfume River  to Thien Mu Pagoda. Disembark to visit this serene Buddhist site.

Drive to northern for Phong Nha home-stay. Stop at Ben Hai River, Hien Luong Bridge, lying in the Demilitarized Zone during the war in Vietnam.

Check in home-stay and overnight amongst the rustic mountainous village.

Day 14: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves (B, L, D)

Full day explore the World Heriatage Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves, National Park and sheer Chay River. The deeper one penetrates, the more magical are the natural aspects of the caves. After on boat for 700m, a large dry passage is appear, then you can walk to discover the cave for 500m more.

Stay at Phong Nha home-stay for another night.

Day 15: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Phong Nha – Ke Bang Caves – Ha Noi (B)

Drive along Ho Chi Minh trails to Ha Noi. We drive over famed towns as Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa before arrive Ha Noi, the country’s capital.

Day 16: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ha Noi Sightseeing (B)

Enjoy the afternoon half-day tour for Hanoi sightseeing with One Pillar Pagoda, Soviet-inspired mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh and the garden, Temple of Literature and Hoa Lo Prison, probably better known to most of us as the ‘Hanoi Hilton’.

In the evening enjoy farewell dinner with the jeep staff.

Day 17: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ha Noi – Ha Long Bay (B)

Leave Hanoi for Ha Long Bay in the morning. Welcome on board and set sail through the bay while lunch is served. Cruising amongst World Heritage Bay with thousands of limestone islets and caves.

Enjoy sunset drink or you take a kayaking around the Tonkin Gulf before enjoy fresh sea food dinner. Overnight on Junk.

Day 18: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ha Long Bay – Ha Noi (B)

Welcome the sunrise over the bay. Enjoy the breakfast while cruising at the sheer bay for more sightseeing before arriving the town jetty. Return by road to Hanoi.

Check in Hotel. End of services.

Day 19: Vietnam Jeep Tours from Saigon to Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh Trail : Ha Noi Departure (B)

Transfer to Noi Bai International Airport for departure.

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INCLUDE:
Jeep with driver (one Jeep can carry 2 adults plus guide, or 2 adults and 1 child plus guide)
English speaking local guide
Boat trip
Lunch with local food
01 bottle of water and 03 cans of beer or soft drinks per person per day
Entrance fees

EXCLUDE:
Meals not listed in the itinerary
Drinks at meals
Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tips, etc)
Travel insurance
High season surcharge if any
All other services not listed in “Prices Include”