ABOUT VIETNAM

Travel to Asia has become of great appeal to the global market in recent times. No longer is Asia considered only for the hardy. A natural flow of travellers to the countries of Indochina. With several very important milestones in the last few years - such as lifting of embargoes, government reforms and the opening of borders - Vietnam is positioned to become a popular tourist destination.

It is a little known fact that Vietnam can cater to a large variety of clients - not just those looking to “rough it on the last frontier”. From it’s natural assets; pristine sandy beaches, the wonder of limestone islands in Halong Bay, the mountainous north, to its historical marvels; Cham ruins from the 14th Century in My Son, the ancient tombs of Hue; bustling cities with an energy driven by a new economy, quiet country villages reliant on rice agriculture as they have been for centuries, ornate Confucian temples, high-rises side by side with splendid French colonial architecture; Vietnam is a country of contrasts. And contrast means a greater variety of travel experiences that satisfy a great number of client markets.

It is also largely assumed that infrastructure within Vietnam is poor. Whilst we won’t deny that Vietnam is a third world country, one should not be led to believe that this means third world service! An enormous amount of investment in Vietnam has led to the development of top class hotels, of training schools, of new restaurants, of upgrading and renovating.

And on the subject of service, remember most importantly that Vietnam is Asia - where service is delivered with pride. The Vietnamese people have strong beliefs and values. They are a pragmatic people, with a philosophy to move forward, not to dwell on the past, and a determination to improve the lives of their children. Most of all they are warm and welcoming, and proud to show you their homeland.

For an experience as unique as your clients, look to a destination as unique as Vietnam.

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Destinations Vietnam: Nha Trang “One of the most beautiful bays in the w...

Destinations Vietnam: Nha Trang “One of the most beautiful bays in the w...: Welcome to Nha Trang City of Khanh Hoa province Vietnam Nha Trang Bay, lying between the other two bays, has been acknowledged as o...

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Nha Trang “One of the most beautiful bays in the world”

Welcome to Nha Trang City of Khanh Hoa province Vietnam

Nha Trang Bay, lying between the other two bays, has been acknowledged as one of the most beautiful bays of the world. With such natural gifts as the position, landscape, climate, together with its rich background in culture and humanities, Nha Trang - Khánh Hòa is fully capable of developing many diverse forms of tourism. Looking to book your next vacation in Nha Trang Bay?

Khánh Hòa, 1,280 km from Hà Nội and 448 km from Hồ Chí Minh City, is naturally gifted with a mild climate and geographically located on the North-South axis, thus obtaining all favorable conditions in communication. The province, easily accessible by road, rail, air and waterway, is the main door to the Western Highlands and enjoys the greatest proximity to international waters with its many bays and ports.

The Prime Minister has given instructions on building a tunnel through Cả Pass and a railway connecting the Western Highlands and Vân Phong via Phú Yên, upgrading Đông Tác airport in Phú Yên and Cam Ranh airport so as to exploit the advantages of Vân Phong Bay and serve the international container transshipment based here. Khánh  Hòa ‘s orientation in developing communication and transport is to make full use of the advantages of the three bays: Vân Phong, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh, all lying on the maritime axis of North-South Asia, providing potentials of container maritime shipping in the construction of seaports, exploitation of maritime services, development of the ship-building industry,… At the same time, it is necessary to develop the system of rural communication to ease goods exchange among coastal areas.  

To date, 44 out of 45 wards and communes have had roads leading to the commune centers and have basically succeeded in dealing with flooding and inundation during rainy and stormy seasons, improving public welfare and national defense

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PHONG NHA - KE BANG

PHONG NHA - KE BANG NATIONAL PARK   (WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE)

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park lies in Quang Binh Province - the central Vietnam. Covering an area of about 200,000 hectares, Phong Nha – Ke Bang situated in Quang Ninh, Bo Trach, Tuyen Hoa and Minh Hoa districts, is 50km northwest of Dong Hoi City. 

Phong Nha - Ke Bang can be compared to a huge geological museum thanks to its complicated geological structure with different categories of stone including sandstone, quartz, schist, siliceous limestone, granite, granodiorite, diorite, applet, pegmatite, etc. Phong Nha-Ke Bang is the oldest and largest tropical karst formed 400 million years during the main geological periods of the Earth, bearing the original topographic and geologic characteristics. Experiencing major tectonic phases, high mountain ranges and the depressed sedimentary basins were formed. These fluctuations have also contributed to the diversity of geology, topography, geomorphology. 

Phong Nha - Ke Bang karst mountains can provide a lot of valuable information about the Earth's prolonged geological process through various periods, from the Ordovician Age - Silurian Age (about 463.9 - 430 million year ago) to the Quaternary Age (1.75 million years ago). It is also noteworthy to mention a geological characteristic – the system of underground rivers and grottos in limestone mountains.

In the non-karst geomorphologic area, there are many low mountains covered by a floristic carpet. The erosion has created a number of abrasion-accumulation terraces along the valleys of the Son and Chay rivers and at the margins of the central limestone massifs. The transition terrain consists of a diversity of rock intercalated by limestone mountains.

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USEFUL INFORMATION:

Opening time: from 07:00 to 17:00 on weekdays. 

Ticket price: 

+ Tour of Phong Nha - Tien Son grottos

-  Sightseeing tickets:

          Phong Nha Grotto:

              - Adults: VND80,000

              - Children (from 7 to 15 years old): VND40,000

          Tien Son Grotto:

              - Adults: VND40,000

              - Children (from 7 to 15 years old): VND20,000

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Hanoi City Tour

Hanoi City

OPTION 1: TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAYS, SUNDAY

07:45 - 08:30  Get picked up by our tour guide and bus. After short drive, start visiting first place named Tran Quoc Pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.

09:00 Visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father, walking along Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived and worked from 1958 to 1969.

10:00 Visit One-Pillar Pagoda – the one modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi city.

11:00 Visit the colorful features of the 54 ethnic groups of Viet Nam in the Ethnology Museum.

13:00 Bus takes you to a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter, have a rest and enjoy the lunch.

14:00 Visit Temple of Literature, the most famous temple situated in Hanoi, also functioned as Vietnam's first university. It was first constructed in 1070 under King Ly Nhan Tong and dedicated to Confucius, sages and scholars. A vast structure that has existed to present day.

15:30 Drive to legendary Hoan Kiem Lake, visit Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Van Xuong saint and former general commander Tran Hung Dao for his struggle against Mongolians. You also see the beautiful Vietnamese and French architecture around the lake.

16:00 Arrive back to your hotel. Tour ends.

OPTION 2: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY

07:45 - 08:30 Get picked up by our tour guide and bus then visit first place named Tran Quoc Pagoda. Experience our national heritage and the beautiful Buddhist relics on theWest Lake.

09:30 Visit a sacred place to recall President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career in Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the Stilt-house where Ho Chi Minh lived and worked from 1958 to 1969.

10:30 Visit One-Pillar Pagoda, the one modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi city in present days.

11:00 Visit the Temple of Literature, considering the first university of Viet Nam. The temple was first constructed in 1070 under King Ly Nhan Tong and dedicated to Confucius, sages and scholars.

12:30 Have Vietnamese lunch at a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter and relax.

13:30 Continue exploring the daily life of traditional ceramics village of Bat Trang. Visit the pottery showrooms and see how they modeled the products.

14:30 Drive back to Hoan Kiem Lake to visit Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Van Xuong Saint and Tran Hung Dao General Commander for his struggle against Mongolians.

15:30 Arrive back your hotel. Tour ends.

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Perfume pagoda 1 day trip from Hanoi

ITINERARY

AM: 08:00 – 08:30 Our guide & driver will pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter, Then take 2 hours road trip. Then you take row-boat trip to go visit that land on the Yen stream “romantic time” about 1 hour to Thien Tru harbor. Then you will enjoy time to trekking go up and down visit the main cave so nice~ step by step you will arrive Huong Tich cave on the top of the mountain. To see Golden-Silver tree rice stuck….One hour down. Lunch at the local restaurant at the bottom of the mountain

PM: After lunchtime, you will see the Heaven Kitchen pagoda and to know about Buddhism ancient architectural at Le Dynasty. Then you will come back by row-boat-trip and 2 hour road trip to Hanoi and arrive at about 18:00.

All rates are USD per person.

Included

• Full transfers by A/C tourist car
• Boat trip
• Entrance fee
• Lunch
• English speaking guide.

Excluded

• Accommodation
• Visa arrangement
• Drinks
• Travel insurance
• Personal expenses.

Children rates

• Free of charge for children under 4 years sharing bed with parents.
• Surcharge 50% rate of adult for children (5-11 years) sharing bed with parents.
• Over 11 years is adult’s rate.

Notes

• The itinerary can be changed due to weather, tide levels and operating conditions.
• Special request (diet or vegetarian, …) should be sent before your departure date.
• Surcharge US$ 5.00/person from 30 Jan 2014 to 3 Feb 2014
• After boat trip on the river, the boat rower always expect the guest's tip about 1$ or 2$.

JOINT-IN GROUP PRICE

Type	Description	Normal price	Promotion price	Book tour
Standard		33	U$ 26	Select
Deluxe	Cable car	41	U$ 33	Select

Private tour

Why Private tour - What are difference between Join-in-group tour and Private tour ?
Join-in-group tour : You join the tour some other tourists. You share the bus, boat, tour guide, so the price is cheaper. You have to be on time and follow the fixed itinerary and timetable.
Private tour : The bus, boat and tour guide is reserved for your group only. The timetable and itinerary can be flexible. (For private overnight trip to Halong bay, when booking please confirm if you want to take private boat or group sharing).
Price is quoted in U$ Dollar per person

Tour Class	Details	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Standard		90	68	51	43	39	35	32	29	27
Deluxe	Cable car	100	78	61	53	49	45	42	39	37

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Ha Long Bay

Halong Bay is situated in north Vietnam round a 120km-long coast line and is literally translated as “Bay of Descending Dragons”. The top tourist attraction in Vietnam, Halong Bay features thousands of islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves, others islands include lakes and some support floating villages of fishermen.

Halong Bay Vietnam, The World Heritage Site, it has been recognized many times by UNESCO. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes, it is a popular travel destination that attach many tourist in over the world.

halong bay vietnam

Halong Bay is a unique heritage as it contains the important traces in the formation of the earth historical development as well as it’s the cradle of the ancient Vietnamese. It’s also an artwork with great shaping of nature such as: the presence of thousands of islands, many interesting caves clustered into a vivid world has just mysterious.

Beside, Halong Bay is a home of high biodiversity with typical eco-systems along with thousands of plant and animal species are abundant and diverse. Here also associated with cultural values – the heroic history of the nation.

Halong Bay features with a system of islands and beautiful caves. The island in Halong divides in to 02 part: the island of limestone and schist islands, it concentrated in two main areas are the southeast and the Gulf Bai Tu Long southwest of Halong Bay. This is the oldest image of the terrain tectonic age from 250-280 million years, a result of the campaign raised, lowered repeatedly from a sunken continent ocean. The process of erosion, weathering almost entirely to create a unique Halong Bay in the world.

The hidden charm of Halong Bay will give tourist a deep memories, experience, relaxing and a special emotion, Halong Bay, A priceless heritage for humanity. Have you ever been tour to Halong ? If not let’s come and enjoy it with us.

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