16 Days Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos Classic Tour
Hanoi, Halong Bay, Ho Chi Minh, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Luang Prabang, Vientiane
Tour Code: TCT-Laos-04
Tour Type: Private Tour
Price from on request
Best of Indo-china tour with local English-speaking guide service
Interact with local people of 3 SE Asian countries in one tour
Combine the highlights of each country in one package, making your tour worry free.
Enjoy the classic experience and activities in each country
Day | Destination | Highlights |
01 | Arrival Hanoi | Airport pick up service |
02 | Hanoi | Group tour: Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and Stilt House, Presidential Palace, One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature, West Lake, Sedate Tran Quoc Pagoda, Quan Thanh Temple, Water Puppet Performance |
03 | Hanoi![]() ![]() |
Halong Bay Cruise |
04 | Halong Bay![]() |
Cave of Surprises |
05 | Hanoi![]() |
Fly to Ho Chi Minh |
06 | Ho Chi Minh![]() |
Group tour:My Tho local market visit, Mekong River Boat Riding |
07 | Can Tho![]() |
Group tour: Floating Market, Dong Tam Snakes Farm |
08 | Ho Chi Minh | Group tour: Cu Chi Tunnels |
09 | Ho Chi Minh![]() |
Fly to Phnom Penh, Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Friendaship Monument, Independence Monument, National Garden Park |
10 | Phnom Penh | Wat Phnom, National Fine-art Museum, Cheuong Ek Killing Fields |
11 | Phnom Penh![]() |
Fly to Siem Reap, Angkor Thom Temples(Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm ), Angkor Wat |
12 | Siem Reap | Angkor Thom (Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm), Apsara Traditional Performance |
13 | Siem Reap![]() |
Tonle Sap Great Lake, Fly to Luang Prabang |
14 | Luang Prabang | Pak Ou Caves, Ban Xangkhong Village, Kuang Si Waterfall |
15 | Luang Prabang![]() |
Wat Xiengthong, Royal Palace Museum, Wat Mai, Fly to Vientiane |
16 | Departure Vientiane | Wat Sisaket, Victory Monument, Golden Luang Monument, transfer service to airport |
Meal: No meal
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
Upon arriving in Hanoi, local tour guide will meet you at airport and transfer to check in hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day. You can mooch through the streets of the city by yourself.
Hanoi City View
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
Breakfast at hotel, you will be met at lobby of hotel at 08:00AM, join in a group to explore Vietnam’s charming capital for a day. Hanoi is an eclectic mix that offers something for everyone, with wide tree-lined boulevards, French colonial architecture, peaceful lakes and ancient oriental pagodas. You will visit Hanoi’s key sites: Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and stilt house, the Presidential Palace, One Pillar Pagoda, the Temple of Literature, West Lake, Sedate Tran Quoc Pagoda and Quan Thanh Temple. Besides, visit one of the city’s museums (a choice between the History Museum and the Ethnology Museum). You can enjoy a traditional Water Puppet Performance at the end of the tour. After tour, you will be drop off at your hotel.
Water Puppet Performance
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Legend White Dolphin cruise or similar
This morning, you will be picked up at lobby of hotel around 7:30 and start your trip to Halong Bay. En route, we will drive through picturesque rice-farming villages of the Red River Delta, where you can see Vietnamese village life. Upon arriving at Halong Bay, board a beautiful traditional junk, spending a full day and night cruising the bay’s 3000 magnificent limestone islets. In the evening when the boat is anchored in the middle of the stunning lagoon, you will enjoy a wonderful seafood meal. You will also have an opportunity for an evening swim from the side of the boat.
Halong Bay
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
If you get up early, you can enjoy a Tai Chi lesson on board. Enjoy a hearty breakfate before the boat making its way back and stop at the Cave of Surprises, which is full of stalagmites and stalactites. The cruise boat sails back to the main harbour and the return Hanoi around 4.30 pm. You will be dropped at hotel in Hanoi and enjoy your free and leisure time on your own.
Halong Bay
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
After breakfast, our driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby and transfer to the airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh. Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh. You will have leisure time on your own arrangement.
Ho Chi Minh City View
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: In Can Tho Home stay
Pick up from hotel and set off for My Tho, which is located on the northern banks of the Mekong River, where you will visit a large food market. Around the My Tho area you will find a maze of small canals that can be explored on one of the many organized boat tours. We will take a boat ride on the Mekong River and visit an orchard on an island before lunch en route. A visit to a snake farm is arranged on the way to Can Tho.
Can Tho
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
With an early breakfast this morning, you will enjoy an exciting day. Take a boat trip to the Floating Market and watch the locals selling and exchanging goods in their small boats. On the way back to Ho Chi Minh City, we will visit Dong Tam Snakes Farm – the largest snake farm in Vietnam. A delicious lunch is arranged at the Mekong Rest Stop.
Floating Market Can Tho
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
After breakfast, depart for Cu Chi Tunnels at 8:00 am. It takes about 1.5 hours bus driving. Before exploring the tunnels, you will have some short introduction by video about how the tunnels were constructed and how the people survived in the harsh conditions of the war time. Then you will spend your time exploring the remaining area and tunnel systems which includes the special constructed living areas with kitchens, bedrooms side by side with other martial facilities like storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers. You will find many hidden trap doors and dangerous traps within the maze-like tunnels for security purpose during the war. Afterward, special tea and cassava (guerilla’s food during the war) will be served.
Break time for relax or time for those who want to try the real shooting gun. Drive back to Ho Chi Minh at 14:00. Have free time in the afternoon for sightseeing or shopping by yourself.
Cu Chi Tunnels
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In OKAY Boutique Hotel or similar
Free at leisure before transfer to airport for the flight to Phnom Penh. Upon arrival at airport of Phnom Penh, our tour guide will meet and transfer you to hotel for check-in. After Lunch, you will visit the highlights site of Phnom Penh: Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Friendship Monument, Independence Monument and National Garden Park.
Royal Palace
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In OKAY Boutique Hotel or similar
Today you will have a classic city tour of Phnom Penh. In the Morning, visit Wat Phnom, the historical cradle of Phnom Penh Capital, then discover to the Khmer traditional culture at National fine-art Museum. After lunch depart to visit Toulsleng S21, the witness of Pol Pot genocidal regime and Cheuong Ek Killing Fields.
Silver Pagoda
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Somadevi Angkor Hotel or similar
In the Morning, take the flight to Siem Reap and transfer to Visit Angkor Thom Temples: Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm. Lunch served at a local restaurant and then transfer to hotel for check-in.
In the afternoon enjoy the spectacular architecture and sculpture of the World Heritage at Angkor Wat and view the sunset over the Angkor complex on the top of Phnom Bakheng.
Angkor Wat
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: In Somadevi Angkor Hotel or similar
Enjoy Angkor Wat Sunrise and Visit Angkor Thom temples: Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm. Lunch served at local restaurant and hotel check-in. Afternoon enjoy the spectacular architecture and sculpture of the World Heritage at Angkor Wat and view the sunset over the Angkor complex on the top of Phnom Bakheng. Dinner enjoying Apsara Traditional Performance. Overnight Siem Reap.
Bayon Temple
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Villa Santi Hotel or similar
After breakfast, have a boat excursion to view wonderful landscape of Tonle Sap Great Lake and explore local fishermen’s floating villages. Return to the town for lunch and at leisure in the afternoon for shopping until transfer to the airport for your own departure flight for Luang Prabang, where the local guide will also pick you up from hotel and transfer to check in hotel.
Tonle Sap Great Lake
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Villa Santi Hotel or similar
An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning alms giving ritual to saffron clad monks. This tradition is unique to Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving this procession. Stop and visit fresh local markets and back to hotel for breakfast.
This morning transfer to the pier where you board a traditional long trail boat, for a relaxing cruise upstream on the mighty Mekong River. Enjoy stunning mountain scenery and witness the simple rural lifestyles. You will reach Pak Ou Caves at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou Rivers. In these 2 caves are displayed hundreds of sacred centuries-old Buddha images which are the object of pilgrimages during the Lao New Year festivities around mid-April. Cruise back Luang Prabang. Stop and visit Ban Xangkhong, a weaving village, where you can jump into wooden looms with local expert for practical and experience.
In the afternoon, driving through green rice paddies and farms. On your arrival at the Kuang Si Waterfall, enjoy your short walking on trails of falls to visit the bear rescued center. Enjoy spectacular views and surrounding of orchids inside the park and falls cascade over many calcified tiers and down several hundred feet into a series of cool, turquoise pools. Return to Luang Prabang.
Morning Alms
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Sabaidee at Laos or similar
Visit to the most photographed temple, Wat Xiengthong. Located at the end of peninsular closed to the confluence of Mekong and Khan River.Continue to former Royal Palace, now the National Museum. Visit Wat Mai, a temple renowned for its golden bas-relief. During Pimai, the Lao New Year, the Prabang normally housed in the Royal Palace Museum is brought and put on public display in this temple.
Then take afternoon flight to Vientiane. Wandering in night market (open every day) on the bank of Mekong River.
Wat Xiengthong
Meal: Breakfast
This morning, visit Wat Sisaket with its thousands of miniature Buddha statues. Then, visit the huge golden That Luang monument, where all Lao citizen respect as holy pagoda. Vientiane’s own Victory Monument, which looks like the Arc de Triumph. This was built at the end of the Indochina wars with money rumored to be American, and earmarked for the airport’s new runway. Thus the departing Americans dubbed this monument the vertical runway! Have a look at the lovely arches inside the monument.
Transfer to airport to catch your flight for departure.
Arc de Triumph Vientiane
Service ends
Meal: No meal
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
Upon arriving in Hanoi, local tour guide will meet you at airport and transfer to check in hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day. You can mooch through the streets of the city by yourself.
Hanoi City View
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
Breakfast at hotel, you will be met at lobby of hotel at 08:00AM, join in a group to explore Vietnam’s charming capital for a day. Hanoi is an eclectic mix that offers something for everyone, with wide tree-lined boulevards, French colonial architecture, peaceful lakes and ancient oriental pagodas. You will visit Hanoi’s key sites: Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and stilt house, the Presidential Palace, One Pillar Pagoda, the Temple of Literature, West Lake, Sedate Tran Quoc Pagoda and Quan Thanh Temple. Besides, visit one of the city’s museums (a choice between the History Museum and the Ethnology Museum). You can enjoy a traditional Water Puppet Performance at the end of the tour. After tour, you will be drop off at your hotel.
Water Puppet Performance
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Legend White Dolphin cruise or similar
This morning, you will be picked up at lobby of hotel around 7:30 and start your trip to Halong Bay. En route, we will drive through picturesque rice-farming villages of the Red River Delta, where you can see Vietnamese village life. Upon arriving at Halong Bay, board a beautiful traditional junk, spending a full day and night cruising the bay’s 3000 magnificent limestone islets. In the evening when the boat is anchored in the middle of the stunning lagoon, you will enjoy a wonderful seafood meal. You will also have an opportunity for an evening swim from the side of the boat.
Halong Bay
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Hanoi Tu Linh legend hotel or similar
If you get up early, you can enjoy a Tai Chi lesson on board. Enjoy a hearty breakfate before the boat making its way back and stop at the Cave of Surprises, which is full of stalagmites and stalactites. The cruise boat sails back to the main harbour and the return Hanoi around 4.30 pm. You will be dropped at hotel in Hanoi and enjoy your free and leisure time on your own.
Halong Bay
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
After breakfast, our driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby and transfer to the airport for flight to Ho Chi Minh. Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh. You will have leisure time on your own arrangement.
Ho Chi Minh City View
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: In Can Tho Home stay
Pick up from hotel and set off for My Tho, which is located on the northern banks of the Mekong River, where you will visit a large food market. Around the My Tho area you will find a maze of small canals that can be explored on one of the many organized boat tours. We will take a boat ride on the Mekong River and visit an orchard on an island before lunch en route. A visit to a snake farm is arranged on the way to Can Tho.
Can Tho
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
With an early breakfast this morning, you will enjoy an exciting day. Take a boat trip to the Floating Market and watch the locals selling and exchanging goods in their small boats. On the way back to Ho Chi Minh City, we will visit Dong Tam Snakes Farm – the largest snake farm in Vietnam. A delicious lunch is arranged at the Mekong Rest Stop.
Floating Market Can Tho
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Ho Chi Minh Hoang Ngan hotel or similar
After breakfast, depart for Cu Chi Tunnels at 8:00 am. It takes about 1.5 hours bus driving. Before exploring the tunnels, you will have some short introduction by video about how the tunnels were constructed and how the people survived in the harsh conditions of the war time. Then you will spend your time exploring the remaining area and tunnel systems which includes the special constructed living areas with kitchens, bedrooms side by side with other martial facilities like storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers. You will find many hidden trap doors and dangerous traps within the maze-like tunnels for security purpose during the war. Afterward, special tea and cassava (guerilla’s food during the war) will be served.
Break time for relax or time for those who want to try the real shooting gun. Drive back to Ho Chi Minh at 14:00. Have free time in the afternoon for sightseeing or shopping by yourself.
Cu Chi Tunnels
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In OKAY Boutique Hotel or similar
Free at leisure before transfer to airport for the flight to Phnom Penh. Upon arrival at airport of Phnom Penh, our tour guide will meet and transfer you to hotel for check-in. After Lunch, you will visit the highlights site of Phnom Penh: Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Friendship Monument, Independence Monument and National Garden Park.
Royal Palace
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In OKAY Boutique Hotel or similar
Today you will have a classic city tour of Phnom Penh. In the Morning, visit Wat Phnom, the historical cradle of Phnom Penh Capital, then discover to the Khmer traditional culture at National fine-art Museum. After lunch depart to visit Toulsleng S21, the witness of Pol Pot genocidal regime and Cheuong Ek Killing Fields.
Silver Pagoda
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Somadevi Angkor Hotel or similar
In the Morning, take the flight to Siem Reap and transfer to Visit Angkor Thom Temples: Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm. Lunch served at a local restaurant and then transfer to hotel for check-in.
In the afternoon enjoy the spectacular architecture and sculpture of the World Heritage at Angkor Wat and view the sunset over the Angkor complex on the top of Phnom Bakheng.
Angkor Wat
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: In Somadevi Angkor Hotel or similar
Enjoy Angkor Wat Sunrise and Visit Angkor Thom temples: Victory Gate, Bayon, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Takeo and Ta Prohm. Lunch served at local restaurant and hotel check-in. Afternoon enjoy the spectacular architecture and sculpture of the World Heritage at Angkor Wat and view the sunset over the Angkor complex on the top of Phnom Bakheng. Dinner enjoying Apsara Traditional Performance. Overnight Siem Reap.
Bayon Temple
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Villa Santi Hotel or similar
After breakfast, have a boat excursion to view wonderful landscape of Tonle Sap Great Lake and explore local fishermen’s floating villages. Return to the town for lunch and at leisure in the afternoon for shopping until transfer to the airport for your own departure flight for Luang Prabang, where the local guide will also pick you up from hotel and transfer to check in hotel.
Tonle Sap Great Lake
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Villa Santi Hotel or similar
An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning alms giving ritual to saffron clad monks. This tradition is unique to Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving this procession. Stop and visit fresh local markets and back to hotel for breakfast.
This morning transfer to the pier where you board a traditional long trail boat, for a relaxing cruise upstream on the mighty Mekong River. Enjoy stunning mountain scenery and witness the simple rural lifestyles. You will reach Pak Ou Caves at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou Rivers. In these 2 caves are displayed hundreds of sacred centuries-old Buddha images which are the object of pilgrimages during the Lao New Year festivities around mid-April. Cruise back Luang Prabang. Stop and visit Ban Xangkhong, a weaving village, where you can jump into wooden looms with local expert for practical and experience.
In the afternoon, driving through green rice paddies and farms. On your arrival at the Kuang Si Waterfall, enjoy your short walking on trails of falls to visit the bear rescued center. Enjoy spectacular views and surrounding of orchids inside the park and falls cascade over many calcified tiers and down several hundred feet into a series of cool, turquoise pools. Return to Luang Prabang.
Morning Alms
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Sabaidee at Laos or similar
Visit to the most photographed temple, Wat Xiengthong. Located at the end of peninsular closed to the confluence of Mekong and Khan River.Continue to former Royal Palace, now the National Museum. Visit Wat Mai, a temple renowned for its golden bas-relief. During Pimai, the Lao New Year, the Prabang normally housed in the Royal Palace Museum is brought and put on public display in this temple.
Then take afternoon flight to Vientiane. Wandering in night market (open every day) on the bank of Mekong River.
Wat Xiengthong
Meal: Breakfast
This morning, visit Wat Sisaket with its thousands of miniature Buddha statues. Then, visit the huge golden That Luang monument, where all Lao citizen respect as holy pagoda. Vientiane’s own Victory Monument, which looks like the Arc de Triumph. This was built at the end of the Indochina wars with money rumored to be American, and earmarked for the airport’s new runway. Thus the departing Americans dubbed this monument the vertical runway! Have a look at the lovely arches inside the monument.
Transfer to airport to catch your flight for departure.
Arc de Triumph Vientiane
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