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 Pick-up at your address by your tour guide. Early departure to Da Lat (about 300km in the north of HCM - City). Lunch on the way in Bao Loc including the tasting of coffee and jasmin or lotus flower scented tea. Visit the Dambri Falls. Arrival in Da Lat - an everlasting spring City. Overnight in the hotel. |
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DAY 02: DA LAT (B/L) |
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 Breakfast in the hotel. Visit of the Railway Station and a short ride by train from Da Lat to Trai Mat (5 km). Visit the village of the Lat and Chil minority ethnic groups. Visit of the ancient Bao Dai Palace, a big villa in the 30's turned into a Museum, nowadays. Discover the Truc Lam Pagoda. Strolling in the market filled with flower and fruit stands. Overnight in the hotel. |
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DAY 03: DA LAT - BUON MA THUOT (B/ L/D) |
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 After breakfast, leaving for Buon Ma Thuot by the national route No 27. Arrival in the Jun village, an ethnic group of the M'nongs who are very brave and experienced in hunting wild elephants. Dugout ride on the Lac lake. Overnight in the village. |
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DAY 04: BUON MA THUOT (B/L/D) |
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Breakfast. Set out for the village Don, located on the Srpok river bank, about 50km from Buon Ma Thuot, next to the border of Cambodia. Don village is well-known in the whole South-East Asia as the native land of the elephant hunters and tamers. Visit of the big wooden houses decorated with delicate carvings and sculptures, and then a house-on-stilt built more than a hundred years ago. You will meet the hero of the mountain entiled " Kru" who has captured and tamed a hundred of elephants.
After lunch take an excursion on the elephant's back to cross the Serepok river. Visit of the Draysap Falls called «Misty Falls». Dinner and musical show with ethnic songs and dances in the tragi-epic gong beats of the Ede. Overnight in bungalows.
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DAY 05: BUON MA THUOT - PLEI KU (B/L/D) |
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Breakfast at the hotel. Leave for Pleiku. Lunch on the way. Dinner and overnight in the village. |
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DAY 06: PLEI KU - KON TUM (B/L/D) |
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Breakfast. Visit the village of the Joraϊs, the typical communal houses (Nha Rong) and their funeral houses. Visit of the Tnung lake, known as the pearl of the central Highlands. Dugout ride on the lake. Lunch. Leaving for Kon Tum. Dinner and overnight in the village. |
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DAY 07: KON TUM (B/L/D) |
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Breakfast. Visit the wooden Cathedral, the Bishopric of KonTum, the village of the BaNa and their funeral houses. Overnight in the hotel. |
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DAY 08: KON TUM - KHAM DUC (B/L/D) |
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After breakfast, visit Phuong Hoang airfield (Phoenix airfield), DakRiPeng village and some villages of Gie Trieng people, DakChe waterfall then cross the meadering and adventural « LoXo » pass to arrive Kham Duc. Overnight at the local people' guest house. |
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DAY 09: KHAM DUC - HOI AN (B) |
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After breakfast, set out for Hoi An. On the way visit Cham sanctuary, My Son - a world heritage. It is one of the biggest site of the Champa kingdom vestiges. Their various architectural designs reveal the genius and the skills of the Cham craftsmen. After picnic lunch continue for Hoi An. Overnight in the hotel. |
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DAY 10: HOI AN (B/L) |
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Visit of the Hoi An ancient city. You will notice, while visiting Hoi An, the perfect preservation of the great deal of ancient houses of which Tan Ky House, located in Nguyen Thai Hoc street, is the most famous. Other interests in Hoi An such as Hoi An museum, Chinese temples, the covered Japanese bridge built in 1593 and the villages in the surroundings of Hoi An.
Opportunity of strolling around the city or riding in pedicab or on bicycle.
Boat trip on Thu Bon river to Cua Dai river mouth to have a look at the fishing villages and people fishing along the way and then watch the sunset on the way back. Overnight in the hotel. |
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DAY 11: HOI AN - DA NANG - HCMC (B/L) |
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Breakfast at the hotel. Leave for Da Nang. Visit Cham Museum founded in 1915 by the far- East French School which holds the most important collection of Cham Sculptures in the world and Marble Mountains, a group of five marble mountains, next to the seaside, which represent the 5 basic elements of the universe (the metal, the water, the fire, the soil and the wood). Then take a flight for HCMC. Arrive in HCMC in late after noon. End of our services. |