Day 1
Depart USA
Your exciting journey to exotic Indochina begins as you depart the USA aboard your Cathay
Paicific flight in the evening.Day 2 En-route
In-the-air. Cross the International Dateline.
Day 3 Arrive Hanoi (D)
Arrival in the morning, you will be Transferred to your hotel. Balance of the day for you
to relax and rest after the long flight. In the late afternoon, you will experience a
popular mode of local transportation, the cyclo ride to explore the Old Quarters, a maze
of back streets with shops selling silk clothes; cosmetics; jewelry and herbal medicines.
In the evening, enjoy a water puppet show, a fantastic art form of Northern Vietnam.
Dinner at a local restaurant before return to your hotel. (Sofitel Plaza Hotel)
Day 4 Hanoi (B,L)
Morning tour includes visits to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, his cottage house, One Pillar
Pagoda and Temple of Literature. After lunch, visit West Lake with a stop at the Tran Quoc
Pagoda on the lake shore. Then visit St. Joseph's Cathedral with its square towers,
elaborate altar and stained-glass windows.
Day 5 Hanoi/Hue (B,L)
Fly south to Hue. Check in at your hotel. Afternoon visit to the Imperial Citadel, modeled
after the Forbidden City of Beijing and Dong Ba market. (Hotel - Morin)
Day 6 Hue (B,L)
Full day Perfume River boat trip with visits to Thien Mu Pagoda and Minh Mang's tomb.
Day 7 Hue/Danang (B,L)
Journey south via coach to Danang via Hai Van Pass with spectacular views along the way.
Transfer to your hotel. You will visit Cham Museum and Hoi An, a picturesque riverside
town south of Danang.
(Hotel - Furama)
Day 8 Danang/Ho Chi Minh City
(B,L)
Morning free at leisure.After lunch, fly to Ho Chi Minh City, previous known as Saigon,
the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the south. Check into your hotel. (New
World)
Day 9 Ho Chi Minh City (B,L)
Full day sightseeing visiting Presidential Palace; Old Post Office and the Saigon
Cathedral. Afternoon excursion to see the Cu Chi Tunnels, one of the few remaining
monuments to the Vietnam War. Beneath the ground lie 200km of tunnels, dug by hand and
inhabited by the forces of the Viet Cong.
Day 10 Ho Chi Minh/Siem Reap
(B)
Fly to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Arrival transfer to your hotel. Afterwards, visit the South
Gate of Angkor Thom, a fortified Royal Walled City that encircled many important monuments
like Bayon, Elephant Terrace and Terrace of Leper King. Then onto the famous Angkor Wat, a
temple dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu by King Suryavarman II. The temple, known for its
beauty and splendor, features the longest continuous bas-relief in the world, declared a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO. (Angkor Century Hotel)
Day 11 Siem Reap (B,)
Today you will go on an excursion to Phnom Kulen, historically revered by all Cambodians
as a sacred place of pilgrimage. Then Bantey Srel, a Hindu temple consists of three
central towers decorated with male and female divinities and beautiful filigree relief
work.
Day 12 Siem Reap/Bangkok/USA
(B)
Morning flight to Bangkok to connect with your Cathay Pacific flight home.
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