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 VIETNAM INCENTIVE ! New Paths Await You !

HANOI - NINH BINH - HALONG Bay - DA NANG - HOI AN Ancient Town - HUE Royal City
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Day 1

 

ARRIVAL HANOI

Arrive Hanoi on Sunday at 06.45, special welcome all warmly with colourful garlands, cold water and wet handkerchiefs to everybody, a moment of coutersy meeting then self-introduce with Indochina Incentive House's representative and tour guides in the meeting point's Noibai Airport. Hanoi - its legendary beginnings from 1,010 to 15th century then before the World War II, after 1954 as well, is the cradle of Red River Delta civilization with green rice-fields, its Old streets and colonial Quarter, its calm lakes, the shaded boulevards, its verdant public parks and sunny smiles with truly Far - East Asian faces ...Our experienced tour guides will transmit you the most lovely aspects of Hanoi - the ancient city of 1,000 yrs, during 45' by coach from the Airport to your Hotel in the centre city. Early check-in with welcome-drink and room-keys are being available. Take your time to free at leisure and a full resting after a long flight.

Lunch : In the hotel's restaurant, there are 4 main courses on set menu, 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, nolimit of mineral water, tea and coffee. Light music during lunch as well.

After lunch, is time to visit Hanoi. Firstly, visit Vietnam History Museum - its buiding style and displayings will make you look back a History Vietnam richtly, then Return-Sword Lake, Ngoc Son – Heroic Temple, But Tower, where you will be fascinating with legendary stories from 600 years. The small rikshaws will carry you strolling arround Old Quarter and shopping streets, to relax and view to daily-life surrounding or communicating is a good way to have an impression of the city, to catch the spirit of Vietnam. Riskshaws will return back at Return-Sword Lake, free to enjoy the lovely Hanoi landscapes in the sunset until dinner in the Lakeside restaurant near by.

Dinner : with the highclass Vietnamese food set menu of 6 main courses, 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, nolimit of mineral water, tea and coffee. A traditional music band will sow in your mind the most memorable moments of lifetime thru the folk-music, folk-singers, folk-songs and folk-dances of Northern Vietnamese.

Return-back your hotel, let's imaging then amazing of gilf incentive which placed somewhere in the room, enjoy your stay.

O/N in Hanoi (L, D)

HANOI

Day 2

HANOI

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HALONG Bay

Hanoi halfday

tour then travel

to Halong Bay

After buffet breakfast, enjoy a morning tour of Hanoi, let’s experienced the basic concepts of political Vietnam currently by visit to the Chairman Palace area, there are Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, Ba Dinh National square, Stilt House; One Pillar Pagoda, a nice group picture should photo in the parade yard of Ba Dinh National square with the great back view of Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, continuing to the Temple of Literature known as Vietnam's first university built on 11th century. Transfer back to your hotel for check-out, straight up to Halong Bay after lunch.

Lunch : will be hosted in the "Forest" restaurant, there is a local restaurant located in a green area, decorated and deeply impressed as a tropical forest, a full meaning of Vietnam - sunny and green country. There is Vietnamese food set menu of 4 main courses, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee. Light music during lunch as well.

175 km from Hanoi to Halong bay, the highway is smoothly and cost you of 3.5 - 4 hours usually, since we have to stop somewhere for the rests or visitings also. Landscapes en route are very interesting with the immense rice-fields, farmers are working in the fields, small and peace villages ....there are the sweet beginnings to talk with then explaination of Vietnam by our tour guides. Alternately, some funny stories or folk-stories will be told and together with the indoor team-games which very fancy ! Arrival Halong Bay, check-in then take your time to free at leisure. ( we highly recommend a strolling walk along the shore of Halong Bay while the sunset, enjoy yourself... is the perfect compensation to the busy days recently )

Dinner : in the restaurant of your hotel, with the speciality Seafood on Vietnam style buffet of 5 main courses, 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee. Before dinner, we will enjoy a merry team buiding game, there is a good incentive gilf only will be award to the lucky people who presentative for a bus and win a team-game on table before dinner !

O/N in Halong Bay (B, L, D)

HA

LONG

Bay

Day 3

HALONG Bay

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HANOI

Cruising tour on

Halong Bay,

drive back to

Hanoi

(170 km)

 

Early get in the buses at 06.15, breakfast in boxes will be prior placed in your luxury Junk. Transfer to the Marina for a cruising tour by a big wooden Junk on Halong Bay, this is a golden time for your voyage - a masterpiece of Nature is dawning in the bright morning sunlight.

Ha Long Bay is constitued by 3000 small and big islands of all shapes.

In 1994 UNESCO classified HALONG BAY as a World Natural Heritage and in November 2000, the World Heritage Committee reconfirmed this classification, your excursion to Halong Bay will re-evaluate the classification of UNESCO to this fairyland

In the book intituled "Wonders of the World" published in 1950. The French marshal Lyautey compared it with Venice rocks in the "Letters of Tonkin and Madagascar " (June 24, 1895).

The French novelist Yvonne Schultz did not hesitate to praise the miraculous beauty of this bay:

All heights and ten thousand forms; imagination, imitation, pagodas, Hindu temples, menhirs, Chinese towers, pieces of chess-board or true immense mountain. And the extraordinary flows simulating the ruined keeps, the broken down bastions, a succession of palaces with the open belly and tribes of mutilated idols

HALONG BAY is nearly a hidden bay with thousands of limestone islands densely rising from the blue jade water in a sea area of over 1500 square kilometers. Its 1969 green islands enfeeble the strong winds blowing from the ocean to leave the transparent water of the bay often calm in cool and healthy air. From time to time, sailing Junk appearing and disappearing between the islands make the poetic sight more colorful like sparkling pearls or coral reefs found out in the bay. The beauty of the bay is not monotone, at different positions of viewing, it will astonish viewers with quite different fascinations. In the caves and grottoes of stone islands, visitors will discover and admire how many impressive stalactites and stalagmites. The caves have strange but very accurate names, have their own legends in their names as Thien Cung (Heaven Palace) grotto, Dau Go (Wooden Head ) grotto, certainly the feeling of anyone who see these caves first time.

High summits are drawn up as a crowd in the sea like many jewels Bluish tops are dispersed like the falling stars and the pieces in the chessboard of waves.

( By the King Le Thanh Ton - 1468 )

The sailing Junk will be landing in Titop Islet, there are the calm and so transparent beaches, somewhat little rocky mountains and a beautiful tall terrace - a ideal islet for a mini-olympic on beach......Your people will have the optional activities entertainingly, a kayak rowing arround Titop Islet and its surroundings or step-up to beautiful tall terrace on the peak of Titop Islet for an unmatched panoramic view of Halong Bay or enjoy a cheerful mini-olympic with lots of pleased team-games be gladden everyone .

Lunch : on board by seafood set menu of 4 main courses , including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea. Light music during lunch as well.

After lunch, the Junk sailing back to Marina, pick-up your luggages then drive traight to Hanoi. Check-in, and travel to the Water Puppetry Theatre for a most favourite show of water puppetry.

Dinner : a local restaurant in the Old Quater 'Emperol', It is a nice villa with its combine architecture of Colonial & classical Vietnam, take your dinner while the oriental elegant spaces surrounding you! There is the speciality Vietnamese food set menu of 5 main courses, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solfdrink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee.

O/N in Hanoi (B, L, D)

HANOI

 

Day 4

HANOI

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NINH BINH ( the

continental Ha

Long Bay )

After breakfast, check-out and travel by overland 90 km to Hoa Lu - Ninh Binh, where people commonly call "Halong Bay on Land", to enjoy its marvelous nature, the poetic delight views of lush rice paddies and lime-stone shapely mountains. There is really Historical & Cultural Vestiges, a most ancient land and first capital city of the monarchical Vietnam - Hoa Lu Ancient Royal Capital, visit Dinh Temple worships King Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Temple worships King Le Dai Hanh, they were built in 17th century. Proceeding to Van Lam Village, take a rowing boat alongside streams through the rice-fields to admire the picturesque views, into beautiful landscapes with channels meandering between rocky hills, grottoes and gaze with veneration at gigantic sceneries of three caves Tam Coc to be adorned with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites shapely and colourful.

Rowing back to departure bank, then transfer to your hotel in Ninh Binh for check-in.

Lunch: in the restaurant of your hotel, a buffet meal combined of Vietnam & Western food, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / olfdrink

cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee. Light music during lunch as well.

After lunch, time to experience a good incentive travel on Oriental style, departure from the Hotel by Bicycle, we will bicycle along the peaceful countryroad to visit Bich Dong Pagodas hide itself on the slope’s rocky hillrange, built on Ngu Nhac Mountain, is divided into three levels: lower pagoda, middle pagoda and upper pagoda. On the mountain peak stands the statue of a scholar Mandarin looking at the horizon in hope of viewing the spectacular landscapes of Hoa Lu. From the upper pagoda, one has the most magnificent view of Bich Dong, which is romantically charming in terms of architecture and history. The location for this pagoda was chosen in year of 1428 after two monks were charmed by the view of the river and the mountains. Later, King Le Canh Hung wrote a poem in honour of the beautiful pagoda and landscape, who said that Bich Dong Pagodas was the second nicest pagoda in Vietnam, after the Perfume Pagodas.

Continuing bicycle to visit a elementary / secondary school, souvernir photo and enjoy communicating with the young students, travel back and leave your bicycles in Hotel, transfer by Buses to the Centre of Cultural acitivites for Youth and Teenagers, we will have a wonderful evening to making friends, cultural exchanges and learning the traditional-dances, team folk-dances in the Vietnamese/Westerner merry melodies with local actress / actors.

Dinner : would be a out-door buffer, speciality Vietnamese food of 6 main courses, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee.

Drive back to hotel, let's imaging then amazing of gilf incentive which placed somewhere in the room, enjoy your stay.

O/N in Ninh Binh (B, L, D)

NINH

BINH

Day 5

HOA LU

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NOI BAI AIRPORT

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DANANG

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HOIAN ANCIENT

After breakfast, check-out then drive back to Hanoi, straight up to the Noibai Airport for a domestic flight by VN 315 at 11.45- 13.00 to Danang - touristy land in the central Vietnam.

Arrival Danang, transfer to your Luxury Beach Resort for check-in. Lunch would be served right after.

Lunch : Set menu lunch inside your beach resort, there is a romantic views of sunny beach, whispered trebling poplars, white sand and uniquely at all, enjoy yourself for a nice lunch with 4 main courses , including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea. Light music during lunch as well.

In the midlle-afternoon, travel to Hoian ancient town, lies on the banks of the Thu Bon River, 30 km south of Danang, has a distinct Chinese atmosphere with low, tile-roofed houses and narrow streets; the original structure of some of these streets still remains almost intact. Occupied by early western traders, Hoi An was one of the major trading centers of Southeast Asia in the 16th century. All the houses were made of rare wood, decorated with lacquered boards and panels engraved with Chinese characters. Pillars were also carved with ornamental designs. A town-tour by Pedicabs is the best way to discover Hoian ancient town, visit The Japanese Covered Bridge where retains a harmony of architectural styles, combining Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese cultural characteristics. Ong Pagoda is one of the typical pagodas in Hoi An's old quarter, built in 1653 and is dedicated to Quan Thanh De Quan (Quan Van Truong). Fukienese Assembly Hall was built in 1692 by Chinese Phuoc Kien merchants, is architecturally unique with its artistic ornaments and beautiful statues, Chinese architectural style combined with Vietnamese workmanship has enriched it with Hoi An’s cultural character. Tan Ky Ancient House, constructed almost two centuries ago as the house of a Vietnamese merchantIt, has always been lovingly preserved and now looks almost exactly as it did in the early 19th century, Hand-made Silk workshop as a last destination

Finally, Tranfer to a Riverside garden restaurant to enjoy Dinner.

Dinner : Usually, to enjoy the traditional processions together legendary lion-dragon dances on Lunar New Year holidays are the best forturne and good omens in the day coming. We would like to share the most merriness and high congratulations to your people, a special legendary lion-dragon dance in jolly noises & hollow drumbeat, a red pocket of lucky-money, forturne one & oriental souvernir to everybody, a relaxing time ! Set menu dinner with speciality Vietnamese food of 6 main courses, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water, tea and coffee. O/N in Danang or Hoi An (B, L, D)

DA

NANG

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HOI

AN

Day 6

HOIAN ANCIENT

TOWN

DANANG

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HUE ROYAL CITY

After breakfast, check-out then travel to Hue - The Royal City, a quick tour of Danang city the stop-over to visit the Museum of Cham Sculpture, began in 1915. This is the only museum dedicated to preserving the unique Champa sculptural heritage in South East Asia. There are about 300 items of sculpture exhibited here. Most of them are original works carved in sandstone, some are terracotta. Items exhibited include altars statues and decorations from Cham towers and palaces. The statues include the Gods Siva Vishnu Brahma as well as the brahmanists Buddhas dancers and musicians elephants lions the holy cow Nandin and the holy bird Garuda. These date from the 7th century to the 15th century.

The highway will travel to Hai Van Pass, literal meaning is "Sea and Cloud", is the highest and longest pass in Vietnam with the northsouth national highway zigzaging through it for almost 20 km. Reaching to a height of 496 m above sea level the pass seems to be lost in the clouds almost all of the time. In the 15th century King Le Thanh Ton when stopping here to admire the dreamy and majestic scene of sky cloud and sea called it "De Nhat Hung Quan" (the First Grandiodise Landscape of the country).From the highest point of the pass you get a bird's eye view of the rich lowlands encircling the city of Danang with its image reflected on the waters of Han River. To the south and at the foot of the mountain lies the Nam O seashore where there is a fine beach with gentle waves and fishing boats crowding the water front.

Photo-stop somewhere in the Pass, get your perfect pictures of Lang

Co beach, a spectacular landscape & peaceful fishing hamlet, enjoy

you lunch in the seaside restaurant at Lang Co Beach.

Lunch : Set menu lunch with 5 main courses , including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea.

Straight-up your hotel in Hue, check-in then enjoy a halfday tour to discover Hue - has been the Capital of a unified Vietnam, built at about the beginning of the 19th century, combines the oriental philosophy with the traditions of Vietnam. Intimately mingled with the natural environment, the beauty and special richness of the architecture and decorative art of the building are an original image of the Vietnamese monarchy at its most prosperous period. Cruising by the big dragon-motor boats upstream along Perfum river, come down in the Royal Marina for visiting the Forbidden Purple City, there are The Flag Tower - a huge structure of three flat-top pyramids, the nine holy cannons are housed in two buildings beside the The Nhan and Quang Duc Miradors in the Citadel of Hue, Palace of the Supreme Harmony, was the building for great court's meetings. It faces the Noontime Gate and lies right on the central axis of the Citadel, The Mieu Temple is situated southwest of the Citadel and facing south, dedicated to ten Emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty, then The Royal Theater was the oldest of Vietnamese traditional stage that remained

Turn back to the Royal Marina and continuing boat upstream to visit

Thien Mu Pagoda ( Pagoda of Heavenly Lady ).

While the wind smootly moves the bamboo branches

One hears the Thien Mu bell, and the Tho-Xuong rooster's song.

Thien Mu Pagoda located on a sloping pine hill with the front side facing the Perfume River, was firstly built in 1601 which its 21- metre-high tower of seven storeys and refined bell are alway the most beautiful sceneries of the ancient pagodas in whole country, and the highest spirit of Vietnamese also.

Finally, a moment enjoy the beatiful views of sunset, the sun is setting down along the Perfume river and the tinged clouds becoming dim on horizon. Let's put in your mind the sceneries surroundings...they may be a shine star of lifetime and memorable feelings.

Dinner : Buffet dinner in the garden restaurant of your hotel, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea.

O/N in Hue (B, L, D)

HUE

Day 7

FREE ON FULLDAY

IN HUE

Today, take your time to free at leisure whole day, you would discover Hue by yourself, may be happy shopping in the Dong Ba Market, or just relax yourself in hotel.

Lunch : Buffet lunch in the restaurant of your hotel, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea.

Dinner : Royal Dinner

Everybody would group in lobby at 18.00, we will have a most exciting dinner on floating restaurants / dragon-boats, we are staying Hue so this is the good time to look-back then live as the Lords, the Kings and Mandarins in olden times

A short walk to Toa Kham Marina, we will get 2 big dragon-boats then cruising on Perfume River. The floating restaurants / dragonboats are typically decorated in traditional royal style, specializing for this Royal Feast banquet with traditional music. Let's vote some people in your group will be...the King and the Queen as well, the rests will surely are the high ranking Civil / Military Mandarins. A cremmonial music band and interesting team-games will tickle your groups fancy. Fun after work !

Return-back your hotel, let's imaging then amazing of gilf incentive which placed somewhere in the room, enjoy your stay.

O/N in Hue (B, L, D)

HUE

Day 8

HUE

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NOIBAI AIRPORT

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HANOI

THEN FLY BACK

HOME !

After breakfast, we will enjoy a half day tour of Hue, visit the ROYAL TOMBS of Tu Duc King & Khai Dinh King, theirs serious sceneries, impressive architectures to remind a splendid monarchy. Drive back to your hotel for check-out then tranfer to the local restaurant for lunch.

Lunch : Set menu lunch in the pleasure-garden restaurant, including 1/2 bottle of wine or 2 beer / solf-drink cans per person, no-limit of mineral water and tea.

After lunch, straight up to the Hue airport for a flight back Hanoi via VN 224 at 14.40-15.50. Arrival Hanoi airport, our supporters will take care your luggages in the cloak-room, then transfer to Hanoi for gala-dinner and last minutes shopping in the Old Quarter. Enjoy 1 hour for shopping or your independence activities, travel to a best local restaurant for Gala Dinner.

Dinner :

This is "Lotus" restaurant, a specific garden of the Northern Vietnam countryside, whole group will be in a ancient Mandarin house, imagin that the true Vietnam sceneries are being arround you, local speakers intermingle with see-off melodies on Vietnamese and Western ryhthms. We will have the easy surveys and selected forms, lot of award pleasant gilfs will be announced for the people were selected thru our forms .... So many happy supprises for our dear friends, who's the Miss Group ? who's Mister Group ? who's the photogenic face ? who's the most punctiality ? who's the louder ? etc and much more, be singing in chorus then finally, a latest DVD and album which contain their lovable pictures and noteworthy scenes throughout the itinerary will be the full meaning gilf to every couple or single !

Gala Dinner will take from 18.00 - 20.30 approx, transfer to the airport at 20.30 for a flight back home at 23.25

It’s timely, you have to say Good-Bye Vietnam. You surely have plentiful memories of Orient also my country. We (Toan Vinh Tours) thank you very much for your choice of our company as your ground handler in Vietnam and may be Indochina countries on further, be sure all our people are your best friends alway and beyond. May we will meet and honoured welcome you have other voyages to Indochina in the days coming, continuing to discover, to experience the endless imposing landscapes, then get the really restful moments in a diversified World and a this colourful Sub-Continental: Indochina !

THANK YOU VERY MUCH & SEE YOU AGAIN ! (B, L, D)

 

 

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