Central Vietnam Grand Discovery 9 days

Arrival at Danang airport, you will be picked up and transferred to the hotel in Hoian. The rest of the day is free day to explore Hoian. You can just walk to discover many interesting things in this city, or join the Hoian motorbike street food tour to taste the best food in Hoian.

In the morning, after breakfast, the tour guide will meet you at the hotel lobby, then you can walk to the bicycle shop to pick up your own bicycle. You will ride to Tra Que local farm, where you can take a trip around the vegetable garden, do the farming work. Preparing the land, fertilizing with seaweed from the local lake, raking the ground, sowing, watering greens, picking greens are among many interesting gardening activities that you will do there. 

After doing the gardening, you can relax with foot massage and herbal foot bath, then join with the host family in preparing lunch. The dishes for lunch include many local delicacies such as ”tam huu” spring roll, 'banh xeo' or local pancake. Farewell to your host family, ride back to Hoi An.

In the afternoon, you will walk around the ancient town, and visit old houses, temples, wooden bridge, museums...In this city, you can also find unexpected places, such as a back street or turning down an unexpected alley, or talking in broken English to the old lady who sells Chinese scrolls. If you would love to visit other places, the city has art galleries, cafes, gastronomic gems, ceramics for sale, shops filled with lanterns and. There are many things to do and see here. 

In the morning, the tour guide will pick up you at the hotel lobby for the half day tour to My Son Sanctuary. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is 45 km west of Hoian town, and you will need about 1 hour drive to get there. 

Following the tour guide, you will explore the groups of temples, learn more about history of the Champa Kingdom. On the way back, stop to visit to the Sa Huynh Champa Culture Museum in Tra Kieu.

The tour ends around noon, then you come back the hotel. Have the whole afternoon free to explore Hoian 

Pick up at your hotel in Hoian by shuttle bus for the transfer to Hue. The traveling time is about 3 hours, and you will pass beautiful scenery on the way. 

On arrival in Hue, you will start the Cyclo Street Food Tour by taking cyclo from your hotel to cross over the historical bridge Trang Tien to visit the colorful Dong Ba market. In the market, you can see a lot of ingredients for making Hue local foods. 

After the visit to the market, you get back to the cyclo to travel along the busy street and explore the daily life. You will also have the chance to visit the Ho Chi Minh memorial house at 112 Mai Thuc Loan St where President Ho Chi Minh lived with his family from 1895 to 1901.

And during the tour, we will stop at many famous street restaurants to enjoy a lot of Hue local foods, such as: Hue beef vermicelli soup (bun bo Hue), Hue Pancake (banh khoai), Filtered tapioca dumplings (banh bot loc), literally water fern cake (banh beo),  steamed shrimp rice cake ( ban nam ) and Sticky rice dumplings on a fried dumpling (banh ram it).

The tour ends in Hue night market where you can go for  shopping, photography or sightseeing. It is close to your hotel, so you can walk back your hotel.

Hue used to be the imperial capital of the Nguyen Dynasty, the city is more and more famous and attractive to tourists for its historic monuments and architecture. Visiting Hue, you can admire temples, pagodas, tombs and many palaces with impressive architectural features. 

Hue city tour starts around 8:00, the tour guide picks up you at the hotel to start the city tour in Hue. You will get on boat to visit Thien Mu pagoda, one of the most beautiful and ancient architectural structures of worshiping in Vietnam. 

Then, pay a visit to Dong Ba market, the biggest market in Hue. Continue the tour to visit Imperial Citadel, Hue Royal Antiques Museum.

The tour ends around 12:00 at your hotel. You will have free afternoon to explore Hue 

Today, you will get on the train from Hue to Quang Binh.

The driver will pick up you at the airport, then transfer to the train station. Then you will catch the train to Dong Hoi. Traveling time is about 3 hours. On arrival at Dong Hoi, you will be picked, then transferred to the hotel in Dong Hoi city for relaxing. Enjoy free time to explore the city you way 

The tour guide and drive will meet you at your hotel in Dong Hoi, then transfer to Vinh Moc tunnel. Driving time is about 2.5 hours. 

The tour guide will recommended you some stops on the way like small churches, former US Bases. You will go through the DMZ, cross Ben Hai river on Hien Luong Bridge.

The next stop is the museum which contains photographs and memorials of the war, then take a fascinating tour of the Vinh Moc Tunnels. You will explore the tunnels walk past huge bomb craters, amazing fighting trench and even venture into the tunnels. There you can see the tiny living rooms, food and weapon storage and school that villagers would have survived on.

After the tunnels, the car drives to Cua Tung beach, where you have some time to swim and have picnic lunch by the beach. The tour ends aroun Mid afternoon, you will be back to your hotel in town.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will be picked for the Phong Nha and Paradise cave in Dong Hoi. You will travel in depth in the jungle where you have the chance to enjoy the real wilderness of Vietnam.

After 25 minutes on boat, you will reach Phong Nha cave, spend few hours to see the cave. Phong Nha cave is called as water cave, and famous for its rock formation. The rock formation are called with different names such as the “Lion”, the “Fairy Caves”, the “Royal Court”, and the “Buddha”.

You then have lunch at local restaurant.

In the afternoon, continue to visit Paradise cave, the longest dry cave in Asia, one of the most beautiful cave in the world. The Paradise cave looks like a landscape painting, making it very attractive to visitors

After exploring Paradise Cave, the car will transfer you back to hotel in town.

After breakfast, free at leisure until being picked up and transferred to the airport. End of tour.