Day by Day

Day 1 London – Ho Chi Minh

Fly overnight from the UK to Ho Chi Minh with Vietnam Airlines.

Day 2 Ho Chi Minh

Arrive in the morning in to Ho Chi Minh Airport. You will be met and transferred to your city hotel and spend the rest of the day relaxing after your flight from the UK.

Day 3 Ho Chi Minh

Today will be spent on your FREE Cai be Floating Market and Vinh Long Tour. The floating markets in the Mekong Delta are authentic and lively. Local people trade and bargain vigorously in this fascinating and aesthetic chaos. You will get off the boat onto an island to visit a pop-rice making family, a local farmer’s house, and orchard and bonsai garden. Lunch is served at a local house on one of the Islands. Then you will continue with the boat to Vinh Long, a prosperous city in the Mekong Delta and drive back to Ho Chi Minh City, passing the newly constructed My Thuan Suspension Bridge. This full day trip last’s for approximately 10 hours.

Day 4 Ho Chi Minh City

Today is a full day to explore more of Ho Chi Minh City at your own pace. There are many sights worth visiting during your time in Ho Chi Minh and these include Cholon and Binh Tay Markets, Thien Hau Temple and Nha Rong Wharf, Chinatown, War Remnants Museum, Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, General Post office, Opera house and downtown Saigon.

Day 5 Ho Chi Minh City – Nha Trang

This morning you’ll be collected from your hotel and transferred to Ho Chi Minh City airport to catch your short internal flight to Nha Trang where you’ll then be met and transferred to your hotel. Once you have checked-in to your Nha Trang hotel the rest of the day is spent at your leisure.

Day 6 – 10 Nha Trang

Your days at leisure can be spent by simply relaxing on the beach or sunbathing at the hotel’s pool or exploring the many sights of the area. Why not visit the Long Son Pagoda or the Po Nagar Towers or make a visit to the Nha Trang Cathedral. You can also take a variety of boat trips from Nha Trang to the many offshore islands that offer some of the best diving opportunities in the whole of Vietnam. You can also take a trip to the Thap Ba Hot Spring Center where you can sit in a wooden bathtub full of hot thermal mud. The centre also has private mineral baths and a large outdoor heated swimming pool complete with thermal waterfalls.

Day 11 Nha Trang – London

There is some more free time today before you are collected from your hotel and taken to Nha Trang airport for your overnight flight home to London via Ho Chi Minh or Hanoi.

Day 12 London

Arrive back in the UK after enjoying what was hopefully a fantastic holiday!