Beautiful Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia

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Assemble at Netaji Subhash International Airport three hours prior to departure. Our courteous and experienced tour leader, who will accompany you to the tour, will receive you at the airport. He will assist you with all the formalities before boarding your flight to Hanoi.

Arrive at Hanoi our driver cum guide will transfer you to hotel and check-in. Day free for rest and individual activities.

After breakfast proceeds for full-day city tour of Vietnam’s Capital Hanoi.

Visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature, Quan Thanh Temple.

Have lunch in the afternoon and then visit Museum of Ethnology.

In the evening visit lake of Restored Sword, walking tour of Old Quarter and enjoy the Water Puppet show.

Have breakfast in the hotel and transfer to Ha Long Bay. Stop halfway to visit a handicraft workshop of fine clothes and embroidered paintings. Arrive in Ha Long City and check- in aboard. Welcome drink will be served. Start cruising while having lunch on board and enjoy the mighty bay view.

The bay cruise will continue with the up-close sighting of Dinh Huong Island, Ga Choi Island, Dog Island, Sail Island, a visit to Sung Sot Cave and a swimming stop at Titov Beach. You can enjoy fishing onboard. Relax to enjoy the bay view at sunset. Have dinner and spend the night on board at Ha Long Bay.

At dawn, refresh your body and mind with a Tai Chi exercise on the sundeck. Have tea and coffee onboard before proceeding to Titov Islet or SoiSim Island to trek and swim. Check out from the cruise, and have a buffet brunch while cruising back to shore. Disembark at the pier. Board the coach and transfer to the airport for the flight to Ho Chi Minh.

Arrive at Ho Chi Minh. Meet the guide and transfer to the hotel for check-in after having dinner at the Indian restaurant.

After breakfast, proceed to visit the famous Cu Chi Tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence.

After lunch, visit the major sights of colonial Ho Chi Minh City: the Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Saigon Post Office, Dong Khoi Street (formerly Rue Catinat), Continental Hotel, Opera House and City Hall.

Later, have dinner and enjoy a comfortable overnight stay at Ho Chi Minh.

Have breakfast, check out from the hotel and then take 2 hour’s drive southwest of Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta (rice bowl of Vietnam) which is known as the rice bowl of Vietnam. Upon arrival, take a boat cruise around islets and tropical orchards through the canal of Vam Xep to reach a small islet, followed by a relaxing walk along shady and palm-fringed trails passing by local villages where you can see their peaceful daily life. Stop en route to visit a bee farm, sip special tea with honey and sample fruits with a local family and share their stories of life in the Mekong Delta. Visit a small coconut workshop, just to get a glimpse of a typical family-run business in this area. Have lunch at a restaurant.

Walk to a lane where a horse-drawn cart awaits you to transfer to visit a handicraft village, a coconut candy factory, enjoy tropical fruit, and traditional music and then relaxation with a rowing boat through the narrow shade palm, tree-lined canals of the Mekong River before returning to My Tho by motorized boat. Return back Ho Chi Minh. Later, transfer to Ho Chi Minh airport for Siem Reap.

Later, arrive at Siem Reap have dinner and transfer to hotel and overnight stay.

After breakfast proceeds for city tour of Siem Reap.

Travel to the mighty Tonle Sap Lake to visit the floating village of Chong Khneas. Nestled under the hill of Phnom Krom, this floating community moves location with the waters of the lake. During the wet season when the lake swells to five times its size, the village is near Phnom Krom, but during the dry season, it moves as much as 4km from the hill.

Everything floats on water in this living fishing community. There are floating schools, floating shops, floating petrol stations, and even floating karaoke bars. Many of the houses are floating fish farms with large pens of fish underneath. For those that are interested, we can also make a stop at the Gecko Environment Centre to learn more about the lake, which is like the heartbeat of Cambodia, providing sustenance to millions of Khmers.

Have dinner and stay overnight at Siem Reap.

After breakfast, journey to the Mother of all temples, Angkor Wat. Believed to be the world’s largest religious building, this temple is the perfect fusion of symbolism and symmetry and a source of pride and strength to all Khmers. Built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, this is most famous temple at Angkor. We venture into Angkor Wat to enjoy its magnificence in peace and quiet. We begin by unravelling the mysteries of the bas-reliefs that tell of tales from Hindu mythology and of the glories of the Khmer empire. Stretching for almost one kilometre, these intricate carvings are a candidate for the world’s longest unbroken piece of art.

We continue to the ‘Indiana Jones’ temple of Ta Prohm. This temple has been abandoned to the elements, a reminder that while empires rise and fall, the riotous power of nature marches on, oblivious to the dramas of human history. Left as it was ‘discovered’ by French explorer in 1860, the tentacle-like tree roots here are slowly strangling the surviving stones.

Angkor Thom is an immense walled city that was the masterpiece of King Jayavarman VII. The scale is simply staggering and we are immediately overwhelmed by the audacity of Jayavarman on arrival at the city’s gates. The causeway is lined by an intricate bridge depicting the Churning of the Ocean of Milk from Hindu mythology in which the devas (gods) and asuras (devils) play tug of war with a naga (seven-headed serpent) to obtain the elixir of immortality. Also visit Bayan Temple, Leaper King Terrace, Bakheng Hill Royal Enclosure. Later, enjoy Apsara Dance Show.

Arrive at Luang Prabang International Airport (Laos) and after completing all the airport formalities meet with our representative and the city tour of Luang Prabang starts which includes Ock Tock Centre, Kuang Si Falls, Iconic temples and spots in Luang Prabang. 

After lunch visit Phousi Hill, Wat Xiengthong, Royal Palace, Wat Wisunarat, Wat May Souvannapoumaram, Traditional Art and Ethnology Centre, Wat Siphothabhat.

After breakfast check – out of the hotel and proceed for the city tour of Vang Vieng which includes Vang Vieng Elephant Sanctuary, Pha Ngern View Point, Tham Phu Kham Cave and Blue Lagoon, Tham Nam (water cave), Wat Kang, Tham Xang (Elephant Cave) etc.

After breakfast check – out of the hotel and proceed for the city tour of Vientiane which includes iconic landmarks of this city: Arc de Triomphe, Pha That Luang Stupa, COPE center etc.