CENTRAL VIETNAM DISCOVERY 9 DAYS

After breakfast, our tour guide at the hotel lobby and walk to the bicycle shop to rent a bike.

• Ride to Tra Que local farm to prepare the soil, fertilize with seaweed from the local lake, rake the ground, sow, water, and select greens.
• Relax with a foot massage and herbal foot bath after gardening.
• Make spring rolls and banh xeo with the host family for lunch.
• Return to Hoi An after saying goodbye to your host family.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

• 8:00: journey guide picks me in hotel lobby for half-day journey to UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site My Son Sanctuary. The trip takes an hour.

        Explore the ruins temples.

        Study Champa history.

        Tra Kieu's Sa Huynh Champa Culture Museum.

• Transfer back to hotel and free at leisure

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Hoi An

• At 8:00, we'll pick you up at your Hoi An hotel. Take the shuttle bus to get to Hue, which will take about three hours.
• Stop and enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way.

Take a cyclo from your hotel to the historic Trang Tien Bridge to start the Cyclo Street Food Tour. Enjoy the busy atmosphere on the street and the daily life of the locals. Visit the Ho Chi Minh Memorial House at 112 Mai Thuc Loan St., where President Ho Chi Minh and his family lived from 1895 to 1901. Transfer to hotel for check in.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Hue

• At 08:00AM, our tour guide and driver will starts Hue City.
• Get on a boat to go to Thien Mu Pagoda, one of Vietnam's oldest and most beautiful places of worship.
• Visit Dong Ba Market, one of the largest market in Hue.
• Go to the Imperial Citadel, a walled area inside the citadel of the city of Hue, which was Vietnam's imperial capital during the Nguyen era.
• After the walk ends around noon at the hotel, you'll have the rest of the afternoon to explore Hue on your own.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Hue

After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to train station to catch the train to Dong Hoi for about 3 hours.

• Transfer to the hotel in Dong Hoi city.
• Enjoy free time to explore the city.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Dong Hoi

• At 8:00, a tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel in Dong Hoi and take you to the Vinh Moc caves for 2.5 hours.
• Small churches and old US Bases are good places to stop along the way.
• Go through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and cross the Ben Hai River on the Hien Luong Bridge. Visit the museum to see pictures and memorials from the war.

• Take an interesting tour of the Vinh Moc Tunnels, where you will explore the tunnels, walk past huge bomb craters and an amazing fighting trench, and even go into the tunnels.
  • See the tiny living rooms, the places where people kept food and weapons, and the school where they learned. You can swim and have breakfast at local restaurant. Transfer back to hotel.

  Overnight in Dong Hoi

  Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

  Accommodation: Hotel in Dong Hoi

• After breakfast at the hotel, at 8:00, our tour guide will pick you up and take you to Phong Nha and Paradise Cave in Dong Hoi.
• Travel deep into the bush, where you can experience the real Vietnam wilderness.
• Get on a boat, and in 25 minutes you'll be at Phong Nha Cave. The amazing rock formations in this water cave are what make it famous.
• Have lunch at local restaurant.
• Continue visiting Paradise Cave, one of the most beautiful places in the world and the longest dry cave in Asia.
• Transfer back to hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Dong Hoi

• Have breakfast at the hotel.
• Transfer to the airport to take the next flight.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: NA