Day1: Saigon Arrival
Our representative/tour guide will meet and greet you at the airport. Transfer to the city for hotel check-in. Free at leisure to make your own exploration to discover the bustling city of Saigon. Overnight in Saigon
Pick up in Saigon and head north by vehicle to Cat Tien National Park. About 150 kilometers or a 3.5 hour drive. Check into the park and have lunch at Cat Tien National Park Restaurant. In the afternoon jungle trek (8 kilometers), or bird watching option. The best bird watching guides in Southern Vietnam work at Cat Tien National Park. Night spotting by jeep with an opportunity to see nocturnal animals of the park including deer, civet, snakes, and feral cats. Overnight at guesthouse in Nam Cat Tien.
Day 3: Nam Cat Tien - Dalat (Meals: B, L, D)
Morning jungle trek out to Bau Sau (crocodile lake) and back (10 km). After lunch in the park, depart by vehicle to Dalat. Breathtaking scenery along the way with coffee and tea plantations, jungle blanketed valleys and pine forested hills (250 km or 4 hr drive). Check in to hotel and dinner at one of the great Dalat cafes and back to hotel for a good night's rest before next day's adventure.
*** Note: Day 2 & Day 3 can be replaced by Mekong Delta boat trip upon your request.
Day 4: Dalat Easy Trek
Stroll through the pine forest and hike to the top of Pinhatt Mountain (1, 700 meters) for a view of beautiful Tuyen Lam lake. Enjoy a boat ride across the lake to visit Vietnam most beautiful pagoda. A good mix of pine forest, coffee plantations, and jungle on this trek. Moderate 4 hour walk with one strenuous uphill climb. Transfer you back to Dalat City. Overnight at hotel in Dalat.
Day 5: Dalat - Lak Lake
Leave Dalat for Lak Lake at 8 am. On the way, visit a silk worm farm, chop stick maker, and a coffee farm. Lunch at a local restaurant next to Krongno bridge. Arrive in Jun, a M'nong ethnic minority village next to Lak Lake by 2 pm. Cross Lak Lake by dug out canoe (pirogues), trek through area villages on the far side of the lake. Return by pirogues. Sleep in long house.
Day 6: Yok Don National Park (Meals: B)
Leave Lak Lake for Yok Don National Park in the morning after breakfast. Stop at Drayling - the confluence of seven rivers - for sight seeing. In Yok Don park visit the old house of the elephant hunting king. Elephant riding is available in Yok Don. Drive to Buon Me Thuot in the afternoon. Dinner and night in Buon Me Thuot.
Day 7: Nam Ka forest - Buon Triet lake - Jatu
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Day 9:
Visit the Big Seminary, the Wooden Church and drive to Kon Ko Lor II village. Start hiking through Kon Ko Ri village, across rice and sugar-cane fields. You will meet Bana ethnic people and discover the architecture of Rong house which looks like an axe blade pointing in to the sky. Later in the afternoon, enjoy a ride on the river by rubber boat to Kon Ko Tu village. This evening is spent in Rong house that belongs to the Bana minority.
Day 10:
The private transport will take us to Dak To. Walk across a suspension bridge to visit some villages of Se Dang minority. Back to Kon Tum and transport to Plei Ku. Visit Phun village, a traditional village of Jarai ethnic group with a typical cemetery in the Central Highlands. The tombs are decorated by wooden statues. Going on to T’nung Lake before checking in hotel in Plei Ku.
Day 11: Plei Ku - Quy Nhon
Today we drive to Quy Nhon via Highway No.19 with stopover at An Khe. Having lunch on the way. Proceed to Quy Nhon. Overnight at beach resort in Quy Nhon.
Day 12: Quy Nhon at Leisure
Today you will be free at leisure by your own
Day 13: Quy Nhon - Saigon
At leisure until we transfer you to the airport to take flight back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 14: Depart Saigon City
