Vietnam Glory Days – Meet And Greet War Veterans

Your trip begins with your arrival in Vietnam. Your private driver will meet and greet you at the airport. We will escort you to the hotel by private transportation. Check in to the hotel and get over the jet lag. You can mooch through the streets of the city. Historic charm, architectural marvels, and product variety are splashed all over this area. After enjoying the first day yourself and return to the hotel for a relaxing sleep.

Overnight in Hanoi.

After breakfast, you’ll take a 3.5-hour-drive to Halong Bay (must-see places to visit in North Vietnam), one of the great nature in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Upon arrival, the boat crew will welcome you and transfer you to the junk for check-in enjoy a cruise around Halong Bay, and will serve you lunch with delicious local seafood on board. At the same time, you can behold thousands of limestone islands and grottoes rising from the clear, emerald water. After lunch, you’ll join some activities on the boat to discover the beauty of the bay such as visiting a cave or enjoying swimming in the sea before getting back to the junk for relaxation and dinner. In the evening, you can join night fishing with locals.

Overnight on board.

Have breakfast at your hotel, and visit one of the battlefield places in Central Vietnam. Then our tour guide meet you up at your hotel and head north to Dong Ha. From Dong Ha head west on route 9 and pass a series of the old U.S Marines’ military installations including Camp Carroll, Fuller, Razorback ridge, etc. The first stop is the Rockpile, an important lookout, and firebase of the Marines south of the DMZ. We will view the old tactical area where the Marines fought in the famous operations Hastings and Prairie during 1966-1967.

Our next stop is Dakrong bridge – the starting point of one of the main branches of the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail leading to the infamous Ashau Valley and Hamburger Hill. Then, continue to Khe Sanh combat base – a large Marines base camp that was besieged by a massive force of the North Vietnamese Army in 77 days in early 1968, where we will spend ample time exploring the base and learning about the battle.

After that, head back to Dong Ha for a lunch break. After lunch, head north to the former Demilitarized Zone ( the DMZ ), the old de-facto border between North and South Vietnam for 18 years, where we will take a walk on the Freedom bridge across the Ben Hai river – the river that was the only true physical demarcation line between the two Vietnams. The last stop of the day is Vinh Moc tunnels, the refuge of some 300 north Vietnamese refugees during the Rolling Thunder bombing operation.

Overnight in Quang Tri.

Have a leisure day in Quang Tri to explore the city at your own pace.

Overnight in Quang Tri.

Have some rest and free time. Afterward, we will transfer you to the Hue airport for your flight to Ho Chi Minh, a dynamic city and the best place to visit in the South of Vietnam. Upon arrival, we will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your accommodation.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

Breakfast at the hotel: Start your sightseeing tour of the Angkor area we spend a full day exploring the wondrous ancient ruins with the South Gate of Angkor Thom, which is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King and the largest as well as the most complete temple of Angkor Wat. This architectural masterpiece was constructed in the 12th century and covers an area of about 210 hectares.

We stroll around this massive edifice, seeing the many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards, and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple and the jungle-covered temple of Ta Prohm is an incredible sight. There are enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers which embrace themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man’s creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature.

Overnight in Siem Reap.

Breakfast at the hotel: This morning, drive to the Pouk district about 15 Km to the West of Siem Reap town you visit the silk farm, a fascinating farm/workshop where you can see the entire silk creation process including growing the food for the silk worms, breeding the worms, silk extraction, and refinement, traditional kit dying pattern creation and looming. Retail silk and souvenir shop. On the way back, visit the Western Baray (Baray Occidental) measuring 8 km by 2.3 km which provided water for the intensive cultivation of lands around Angkor.

Return to Siem Reap and visit the Main Shrine, where the local people usually worship, with its statue of Yeay Teap, Preah Ang Chek, and Preah Ang Chorm. Buying jasmine and lotus flowers to worship is very important for Cambodians. We continue to one of the city’s lively open markets, Psar Chars also called the “Old Market”, where anything and everything is for sale! Then continue to Wat Bo, a large, highly respected pagoda, founded in the 18th Century.

Like the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh, the vihear of Wat Bo contains unique wall paintings of the Reamker that are said to be late 19th Century. Look for the daily-life market scenes such as an opium-smoking Chinese merchant, the colonial-era French officer at the market, and the French soldiers attending a traditional dance performance. Also of interest is the large collection of Buddha statues located behind the main Buddha. Visit the Killing field at Wat Thmei.

Overnight in Siem Reap.

Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the floating village of Chong Khneas, located 10 kilometers south of Siem Reap where you can find schools, restaurants, hospitals, and much more on the great lake of Tonle Sap. We take a boat trip in a traditional wooden boat on the Tonle Sap Lake, the “Great Lake” of Cambodia, one of the largest in Asia. Transfer to the airport for your departure flight.