2008 Vietnam Grand Adventure:22 day Vietnam Tour

Your 'Grand Adventure' includes Vietnam's best-kept secrets and will introduce you to her people.

Experience overnight trains, terraced rice paddies and idyllic hilltribe villages. Imagine yourself floating in the South China Sea, dining on the freshest seafood you've ever tasted and watching the sunset over the Cambodian border. Fill your mind with vietnam's controversial history at places like the Cu Chi Tunnels and your Halong Bay Cruise. Soak in the sights, sounds and smells of local fishing markets, a stay in a hilltribe longhouse and an afternoon at the Mekong Delta.

This 'Grand Adventure' journey is the ideal romp through Vietnam's finest destinations.

Hanoi, Halong Bay, Mai Chau, Reunification Express, Quang Binh, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Dalat, Can Tho, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

Trip grading: ADVENTUROUS Suitable for travellers with above-average levels of fitness and mobility. Prepare for some long road journeys, basic facilities at your home-stay and plenty of walking.

What's included: (22 days) – 18 nights hotel accommodation, 1 overnight train (soft sleeper four-berth shared cabin), 1 overnight home-stay and 1 overnight boat trip, all road transport by air-conditioned vehicles, all sightseeing as specified (excluding entrance fees), Western tour leader based on a minimum of seven travellers, local English-speaking guides throughout, arrival and departure transfers, breakfast daily, four lunches and two dinners.

Tour Leader: Travel Indochina tour leader based on a minimum of 7 people.

Maximum group size: 15

Not Ready to go Home Yet?: Instead of returning to Saigon from the Mekong, cross the border into Cambodia on an exciting speedboat journey that will bring you upriver to Phnom Penh. Then discover Angkor Wat and more in Siem Reap. Our experts can easily arrange it.

Ask our Travellers:"This was truly a dream vacation. This was our first experience on a group journey and we entered with a bit of trepidation, but as your advertising rightly suggested the group was of like-minded people, all wit a great sense of humour and after the same style of experience." P & J. Dowell - UK

Responsible Travel: Your ecolodge in Mai Chau not only employs people from the local community, but also utilises solar power so it is both socially and environmentally responsible.