Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam & Bali - 27 days

Welcome to Cambodia. Transfer to your hotel and free at leisure. Among all the international transport hubs, we'd recommend Bangkok or Hong Kong for your entry,as there are better airfares and it is easier to get around.

Overnight in Phnom Penh 

Take a mind-provoking tour in Phnom Penh that covers the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and National Museum in the morning. After lunch, you will be taken to Killing Fields of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng Prison Museum. Stop at the Central Market when you are back to downtown in the afternoon.

Take an afternoon flight to Siem Reap.Afternoon is the perfect time to visit Bayon Temple and Ta Prohm as the shady trees set up a mysterious stage that you might have seen in the movie of Tomb Raider.Wrap it up today with a delightful Apsara dinner show at a fine resort.

Overnight at Siem Reap 

Outside the first loop of the Angkor Wat Complex, there lies the sparkling pearl of Banteay Srei. This small temple complex is constructed by sandstone. This site is at its best in the early morning when the sun casts brightly.

Get back into the first loop and a scholar will accompany you for a visit at Angkor Wat. Spend another hour at Angkor Thom, which used to be the palace grounds for the Angkor Kingdoms.

You will have a 2-hour walking tour at Angkor Wat with a local scholar who's dedicated to Angkorian cultures. He has worked with some local cultural academy and his rich knowledge will provide you detailed explanations for the Khmer civilization and Angkor Kingdoms.

Overnight at Siem Reap

Today, we will take you to the Siem Reap backroads in order to explore the local ways of life in Siem Reap. You will be greeted by friendly locals and get a deeper understanding of their lives and traditions. The journey will end at the Tonle Sap Lake, where you will experience the livelihoods of Cambodian people living in the floating villages, offering you the opportunity to see how families adapt their lives to be able to live on the water. You will expect to return to Siem Reap town in the afternoon.

 Overnight at Siem Reap

This morning, we depart Siem Reap for a morning flight to Luang Prabang. Upon arrival, transfer from Luang Prabang Airport to the hotel. The rest of the day will be free to relax after your flights

Overnight at Luang Prabang

This morning, we take a local boat up the Mekong to the Pak Ou Caves, which are home to thousands of Buddha statues. On the way, you will stop at a local village that produces Lao rice wine. In the afternoon you will reach the Kuang Si waterfalls after a 45-minute drive through a wonderful landscape. Gradually the water runs in a clear turquoise blue over countless limestone rocks. Before returning to Luang Prabang, stop at a bear sanctuary.

Overnight at Luang Prabang

Today, we depart Luang Prabang by a private minivan through dusty villages and winding mountain roads to Vang Vieng. The drive is among the most beautiful in Laos, winding up and down and offering spectacular views, from jungle to low-lying valleys studded with the limestone Karst formations. We also stop at Phoukhoune, with its lively market and fresh air, and visit local hill-tribe villages along the way, stopping for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch, we head south to Vang Vieng, with its lively atmosphere and famous landscape. Have your camera ready for a photo-op at Pathang you won’t want to miss. Upon arrival, we will discover the surroundings

Overnight at Luang Prabang

Vang Vieng is a striking river landscape sitting on the banks of Nam Song River and surrounded by a mysterious cave system, towering karsts along with lagoons of turquoise water. This town is a perfect destination for adventurers. Today, we will visit some of the caves around Vang Vieng and then we will do a short and easy kayak descent that will show us Laos from a different point of view. In the afternoon, your time will be at leisure.

Overnight at Vang Vieng

After breakfast, we head to Tham Chang Cave 172 steps where you can see the spectacular city views and landscape.

Then drive to Vientiane, about 4 hours from the capital. Arrive in Vientiane and have time to rest or visit Wat Sisaket with its thousands of miniature Buddha statues. The huge golden That Luang monument, which all Lao citizen respect as a holy pagoda.

Overnight at Vientiane

Today we fly economy class from Laos to Hanoi with Vietnam Airlines or Laos Airline . Our driver and guide will meet you on arrival and after you check-in at your Hanoi hotel the rest of the day is at your leisure. Overnight in Hanoi.

Landing at the Hanoi Airport. We welcome and pick you up at the airport to your hotel.

You will check in hotel and take a rest before getting ready for the tour . Street food walking tour with hidden Train street visit.Start your tour at the meeting point at No.47 Hàng Bông Street, and head to a traditional restaurant specializing in entrees such as pillow cake, shrimp cake, Pho rolls, and spring rolls. Have a taste of some popular and classic Vietnamese dishes. 

Then head over to the nearby St. Joseph’s and stop for some pictures of the late colonial French architecture. Along the way make sure to stop at a local restaurant to try Banh Cuon (filled rice noodles) and watch as skilled chefs demonstrate how this tasty dish is created.

Next, enjoy Pho (noodle soup), which is Vietnam’s most famous dish. Try both the beef and chicken versions. Definitely don't miss out on a Vietnamese traditional dessert called Chè (sweet soup). There are both hot and cold versions for each season.

After several dishes, you will be full and satisfied. Catch a taxi and go straight to the train street. We will stop at a typical coffee shop at the train street corner and enjoy egg coffees while waiting the train passes by.

Although according to official schedules, the train will come daily, sometimes they do and sometimes not, so if we're lucky, we may catch one and see the huge train passing with our own eyes.

When you finish enjoying the drinks, hop in a taxi again to go back to the meeting point where the tour ends. For those who would love to have a different look of the bustle and hustle streets in Hanoi, select the cyclo option in which you can sit back and enjoy surrounding sceneries in quiet comfort.

Overnight in Hanoi

Just 100 km down to the south of Hanoi, Hoa Lu was theancient capital of Viet Nam from 986 to 1009. The Trang Aneco-tourism site is considered the “Ha Long Bay land”.Here, space was so quiet that the only sounds were those ofthe trains. In the distance, visitors have the opportunity toperceive the white flowers of the reeds in the foothills.While enjoying fresh air and mountain scenery, which takes visitors into a magical world.

7:30 - 8:00: Our guide and driver pick you up at your hotel, arrive after 2,5 hours.

10:00: Depart to the most popular attraction to visit inNinh Binh are the Trang An Grottoes (the World NaturalHeritage site). Arriving Trang An - eco tourism site. In 2hours you will be surprised by the beauty of this landscapethat seems as Halong Bay on land. The bamboo boat willtake you through many amazing caves.

12:00: Lunch in Restaurant where you can try the special food is goat meat and other traditionallocal foods. After Lunch, Depart to visit Trang An tourist attraction – Hoa Lư.

13:00: Arrive Hoa Lu, once ancient capital of Vietnam dating back to the 11th century. Havingbeen eroded over the millennia, the dilapidated ruins have nearly been absorbed by the

spectacular scenery creating a mystical atmosphere that willbesure to titillate your imagination, visit King Dinh and LeTemple.

13:30 - 14:00: Visit Mua Cave - totally get challenging to finallyenjoy wonderful relaxation on the top of Mua Cave mountainwith a majestic world around you.

16:00-16:30: Getting on the car return to Hanoi.

Overnight in Hanoi

08:30: Pick up at your hotel near by the Old Quarter in Hanoi by shuttle bus departure to Halong Bay – Lan Ha bay.  Short break half way. 

12:00: Arriving Tuan Chau marina, transferred  by tender of cruises. Welcome aboard the  cruise. Refresh with our welcome drink. Meet  the captain, crew in the cruise briefing, safety  instruction. 

13:00: A special lunch in Vietnamese cuisine  of fresh seafood and an assortment of  appetizing favorites are served while sailing  through Islets of Con Vit. 

15:30: The Cruise sails through Lan Ha Bay. 

The area is surrounding of extraordinary limestone karsts landscapes. We progress to Ong Cam Area  of Lan Ha Bay- a separate part of Ha Long bay. This is a quiet tourist paradise in Vietnam, enjoy  kayaking and/or enjoy swimming in the crystal clear waters of the Bay. 

17:30 Back to Cruise, drop anchor for staying overnight. Enjoy the complimentary Sunset Party on the  sundeck with local wine and fresh fruit.

19:00: Dinner is served in the restaurant. Enjoy delicious local food prepared and served for you by our wonderful onboard catering staff. After dinner, retiring to your cabin or join the fishing excursion, watch a movie, have a drink at the bar, wifi access or play exciting games.

Overnight on board

The morning is the best time of the day on Lan Ha Bay. You might like to head to the upper deck to participate in our daily Tai Chi sessions or relax with an early morning cup of tea, coffee or juice to watch the stunning scenery unfold before you. After breakfast, explore the mysterious caves amongst the remote islets on local rowing boats.

The breath-taking beauty of this World Heritage region will certainly impress. Check out of your cabin as we draw closer to the mainland. After a final early brunch and a last farewell from our crew, you will be transferred back to Hanoi .

Arrive in Hanoi, drop you off at your hotel. Free time till picked up at hotel for transferring to  train station for night train to Lao Cai. Meet at your hotel in Hanoi at around 20:00 hrs and transfer to Hanoi train station. Overnight train trip  to Lao Cai in Private 4-berth sleeping train cabin. Train departs at approximately 21:15 hrs. 

Notes: 

- Our tour guide will not accompany during the train trip 

- Train schedule is subject to change. 

- Private compartments on request at surcharge. 

- Train journeys are part of a great local experience. Cabins are shared with other local passengers  (unless private cabin is requested and all berths paid for - with supplement). Restrooms at either end  of the carriages complete the local experience. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch 

Accommodation: Overnight on train

Picked up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared  mini van to Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant you will enjoy a free walk  around this charming town, paying visit to Sapa  market and the old cathedral where you can meet  a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H’mong and Red Zao wearing their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming 

and gathering products and handicrafts for souvenir.

Back to our Sapa office at about 10.30 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen.

Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village.  Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After  picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large  village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting  to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples  as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an  overnight home stay. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 

Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village 

Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river.

After  spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you  will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you  will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging  experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting  acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their  teachers as well. 

Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa Town 

15:00 - 15:30 Driver will pick you up & transfer 5  hours to Hanoi by limousine bus. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch 

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi 

Today we fly economy class from Hanoi  to Danang with Vietnam Airlines. Our driver and guide will meet you on arrival and transfer to Hoi An Ancient Town . You will  check-in at your Hoi An hotel and  enjoy the rest of your day at leisure.

Overnight in Hoi An.

8:30: Our car and guide will pick you up at your hotel inHoi an and transfer to visit Cam Thanh Coconut village.Experience a basket boat ride around the coconut forest,learn about the daily life of Vietnamese fishermen, theirfamilies and their community.

11:30: Enjoy lunch in Hoi An local restaurant.

13:00: Then the car takes you back to Hoi an Ancient Town – free walking around the Hoi An Old Ancient.

Free time at your leisure.Overnight in Hoi An.

Have breakfast in hotel

8:00: Pick up from your hotel

9:30: Get on a Cable Car which gains 4 world scores. Guide will take you to Debay Wine Cellar and Le Jardin D’Amour Flower Garden.

And a highlight in this tour is the Golden Bridge ( also called ” Hands of God”). Thisbridge was built with a very special structure with 2 hands holding the bridge.

Visit Linh Ung Pagoda, located at around 1,500 meters above sea level.

11: 30: Have buffet lunch.

12:30: Visit Linh Chua Linh Tu Temple. Explore the French Square, visit and play somegames in Fantasy Park – one of the largest indoor amusement parks in Vietnam.

14:00 – 15.00: Back to the cabin down the mountain. Back to your hotel in Da Nang/ Hoi an.Tour ends at about 15:00 or 16:00.

Transfer from Ba Na Hills to Danang airport for your next flight to Ho Chi Minh city.Arrival Ho Chi Minh city and do the check-in your hotel. Free time at your leisure.Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

08.30 AM: After breakfast at hotel, your private guide will meet you at your hotel lobby. A one and half hour drive takes you to Cu Chi Tunnels where human knowledge has been enriched by experiencing an web-like tunnels system of more than 200km in length which used to be the shelters of guerrillas during the war against American troops.

After the lunch in the local restaurant, in the afternoon, you will have a city tour including the Reunification Hall, formerly known as the Presidential Palace. It was towards this modern building that Communist tanks rolled on the morning of April 30, 1975, as Saigon fell. This fascinating building is filled with history still fresh in the minds of many. The tour also includes the War Remnants Museum, the Old Post Office, Chinatown and Ben Thanh Market – the central market for the city and one of the liveliest areas.About 04.30 PM, the tour finshes and you will be dropped off at your hotel and then you are free to relax

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

07.30 AM: Heading out of the town, we set forth to the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's largest granary. The program will start with a visit of Cai Be floating market. Then, the rowing boat will take you deeper into the countryside on smaller canals to enjoy the peaceful time. Back to our boat to go across one of the longest river in the world, Mekong River, to come to An Bình Island.

Travel on a handmade canal to Ut Trinh home & have an optional lunch. After lunch, we can walk around this orchard & enjoy some cups of tea when listening to the traditional music in the ancient house. Walk in the local village to visit the local workshop to see how to make rice paper, coconut candy, pop-rice... Enjoy some sweets with a cup of hot tea. Optional biking can be made for a leisure! It will be so amazing to bike on village paths to see the local daily life: orchard, school, church, pagoda, traditional houses and maybe the ancestral ways to pick up fruits in Mekong Delta... Visit the brick kilns where you can see how the local people create beautiful potteries from clay. The cruise will end at VinhLong city! Then transfer to Ho Chi Minh city by your private car. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Say goodbye to HCMC, transfer to airport and take flight to Denpasar. Upon arrival at Denpasar international airport, receive a pickup by your private guide and driver.

Overnight in Bali 

After taking your breakfast at Hotel then straight to TIRTA EMPULIt is one of the famous temples on the "Island of Thousand Temples" in Bali. With a history of more than a thousand years, the stone shrine is covered with moss, but the spring is still the same as before. The scale of the TIRTA EMPUL Temple is large and complete, and all the characteristics of the temples in Lidao can be seen from here. Residents of the island often come to take a bath for peace.

KINTAMANI VONCANO is a famous scenic spot in Bali. It is located in the mountainous area of north-central Bali, 68 kilometers away from Denpasar. It is a plateau centered on Mount Batur at an altitude of 1717 meters. The area is also a rare cool place in Indonesia, suitable for recuperation. Its majestic and magnificent alpine landscape attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world every year. PENGLIPURAN VILLAGE, which is a traditional tourist village that retains the traditional Balinese bamboo construction method. Here, almost everything around you is made of plants, from kitchens, gates, doorways, furniture to roofs. Many styles, such as bamboo roof tiles, are unique to this neighborhood and cannot be found elsewhere. Penlipuran Village is not just a tourist village offering a variety of cultural displays, its highlight lies in its cleanliness.

Overnight at ASTON KUTA

After taking your breakfast at Hotel then straight tothe pier and take a boat to Penida Island (about 45 minutes - 1 hour). Appreciate the blue ocean all the way with a beautiful mood, feel the breeze coming from the pavement, and the scenery passing by in front of you will take away your troubles and mundane things. Penida Island is famous for its pristine natural beauty and magnificent coastline.

After arriving at Benida Island, you can go around the island to watch the famous scenic spots "KELINGKING BEACH", "BROKEN BEACH" and "ANGELS BILLABONG". You can also participate in water sports (snorkeling, canoe) there, and you can also participate in other water sports (motor boats, banana boats, donuts, flying fish boats, sea walks, depths) at your own expense.

Overnight at ASTON KUTA 

SWING Tourists can sit on a high swing, swing around, and enjoy the beautiful natural environment. Visitors can enter the bird's nest, stand on the edge of the bird's nest or sit in the bird's nest, enjoying the magnificent natural scenery around. This nest and swing combination offers visitors a unique experience and photo opportunity.

ULUNDANU TEMPLEPura,  Ulun Danu Beratan, or Pura Bratan, is a major Hindu Shaivite temple in Bali, Indonesia. The temple complex is on the shores of Lake Bratan in the mountains near Bedugul. The water from the lake serves the entire region in the outflow area; downstream there are many smaller water temples that are specific to each irrigation.

Located on a huge rock by the sea, the Sea God Temple was built in the 16th century to worship the god of the sea. When the tide is high, the rock is surrounded by sea water, and the whole temple is isolated from the land, standing alone in the sea water, and only connected to the land when the tide is low. The architectural design of the temple is full of traditional Balinese Hindu architectural style, with unique carvings and decorations. and the last head to Bali HANDARA GATE is a Hindu gate of good and evil, located in Bedugul, Bali, Indonesia. This gate is a popular internet celebrity attraction among tourists and was originally used as the entrance to the temple.

After breakfast, free at hotel, then we will transfer to the airport.