Luxury Vietnam Sunshine – 8 Days

General Information

Duration: 8 Days/ 7 Nights
Date: Departure date upon your request
Start/ End: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)/ Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Tour Type: Landscape, Nature, Culture, and Beach Break
Tour Customizable: Please advise if you have any other requests
Active Level: Walking, boating, farming, beach relax

Brief Itinerary

Day 1: Saigon Arrival
Day 2: Saigon City Tour & Vespa Tour After Dark
Day 3: Saigon – Fly to Nha Trang
Day 4: Nha Trang – Four Islands Trip
Day 5: Nha Trang – Ninh Van Bay
Day 6: Ninh Van Bay Free
Day 7: Ninh Van Bay Free
Day 8: Ninh Van Bay – Nha Trang – Fly to Saigon – Departure

Full Itinerary

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City Arrival (D)

On arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, you will be greeted and driven to the hotel in the city center. After check-in, you will be free to wander around the hustle and bustle city. Dinner at a nice restaurant and overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

Day 2: Saigon City Tour & Saigon Vespa Tour after Dark (B, L, D)

Today, visit all the highlights in Ho Chi Minh City such as the Reunification Palace, the palace of the old President in South of Vietnam during the American war; War Remnant Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, and Old Post Office, the two sites that we can’t ignore when we visit the city.

After lunch, travel to district 5 to visit Chinatown and visit the Jade Emperor Temple – one of the oldest temples in the city. Then head back to the center to do shopping at the famous Ben Thanh market, this well-organized market is very popular with tourists, primarily due to its central location.

Back to the hotel for a refresh, you will be picked up by a Vespa driver at about 6 PM and drive to the meeting happy point at Cafes Zoom where you can enjoy a welcome drink and snack. Here, you will be top models when the Vespa Adventure staff takes us many nice photos and send them to us after the tour.

Once the sun disappears in the west, start the Vespa tour around the city to see the daily nightlife of locals. Stop at a seafood workshop for our first tasting meal with all picked-up dishes local beer, fruit juice, or cold water. Then, the driver will drive you back to the central district and pass many highlights of the city and meet your tour guide who takes his private Vespa at the Banh Xeo workshop. This is a special street restaurant where we will have a chance to see the local women cooking Banh Xeo which you later try with cold drinks.

Next, the Vespa driver takes you to a hidden Vietnamese-style coffee shop to sip a cup of coffee and enjoy Vietnamese live music as local. There is no micro, no power light, it’s only live songs and candles and people whisper to pick up drinks. You can stay here long as you want or move to the last destination to change the music taste if we are fans of Rock & beer (Optional for a family is an Ice-cream workshop). Next return to the hotel, say goodbye to the Vespa driver, and tour guide, and enjoy a peaceful night.

Note: Children must be from 5 years old and traveling with parents

Day 3: Saigon – Fly to Nha Trang – City Tour with Cyclo Ride (B)

In the morning, transfer to the airport for a short flight to Nha Trang. After hotel check-in and a short rest, explore the city on a cyclo. You first have a photoshoot at La Louisiane beachfront café. Boarding cyclos for a ride along the boulevard of love to the XQ embroidery workshop where you can admire amazing works made by the hands of Vietnamese women.

Later, visit Po Nagar Tower which was built in the 8th century, Xombong bridge with a photogenic fishing fleet, then have a photo stop at the rock of the husband and we come to Long Son pagoda with the huge statue of Buddha then we go to Dam market for shopping and understand the market culture of Vietnamese people.

End the tour at the hotel – highly recommend the Ariyana Nha Trang Hotel. Ariyana is the filtered quintessence of the creation to form a project which is both the hotel with the wide, high-class condotel apartments like the five-star suite rooms and “the second home” for those who love “Far East Pearl”.

Day 4: Nha Trang – Special Four Islands Tour (B, L)

After breakfast at the hotel, you will be picked up and transferred to the harbor. Pay the first visit to Vietnam Oceanographic Institute and see hundreds of special sea creatures. Get on our boat and have a short stop at Tri Nguyen Aquarium (outside photo shot only). Continue to Mun Island, you will have free time for snorkeling and enjoy local basket boats to explore the life of fishermen at Mieu fishing village. Then come to a Bamboo Resort for a special seafood lunch. Relax and swim at the Bamboo Island until the afternoon. Back to the hotel and end the tour at around 5 PM. Overnight in Nha Trang.

Day 5: Nha Trang – Ninh Van Bay – L’alyana Ninh Van Bay (B)

After breakfast at the hotel, take a 40-minute drive to the Wharf of L’alyana Ninh Van Bay to take a 15-minute boat ride to the island. Welcomed by the resort’s staff on arrival, check in your room and spend your free time enjoying the beach and hotel’s facilities.

Day 6 & 7: Free Day at L’alyana Ninh Van Bay (B)

Free days to enjoy the beach and its complementary activities. During your stay at L’alyana, you will have many value-added services:

• Breakfast up to the maximum number of guests per room (can be served at the room without charge)
• Morning Fruit plate & afternoon tea in the villa daily
• Complimentary scheduled shuttle service (boat & car) to Nha Trang City Center daily
• 12 Complimentary daily activities
• 24 hours dedicated butler services
• Free wifi access in villas and public areas

Day 8: Nha Trang – Fly back to Saigon – Departure (B)

Free time until being transferred to the airport in good time to catch the domestic flight back to Ho Chi Minh City in good time for your flight home. Your Vietnam vacation ends.