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Overview
Highlights
- Travel through 3 countries by boat, cruise, cyclo, tuk-tuk, and bicycle.
- Sail on one of the world’s most magnificent bays
- Stay one night on the Mekong
- Walk along the small streets of Hanoi Old Quarter
- Discover the famous tunnel network of Cu Chi
- Witness the most impressive Buddhist temples of the Indochina
- Join Tak Bat ceremony in Luang Prabang
- Admire the extraordinary Angkor Wat
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Trip includes
- Transportation by private vehicle with A/C as mentioned
- Local English speaking guide(s) as mentioned
- Breakfast and other meals mentioned in the program B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner.
- All local boat rentals and cycling as mentioned in the program.
- Accommodation in the category chosen or similar
- Non-private cruise in Halong and Mekong Delta
Itinerary
Hotel: Park Hyatt Saigon Hotel Upon arrival, your private guide will meet you and take you to the hotel. Spend the rest of the day relaxing at the hotel after your flight or taking a stroll along the busy streets of the city.
Today's highlights Cu Chi Tunnel and Saigon Landmarks
Hotel: Park Hyatt Saigon Hotel Meals: Breakfast Visit the tunnel network of Cu Chi which was sheltered to over 16,000 Vietcong guerrillas during the Vietnam War. In the afternoon, set out on a tour of the fo...
Today's highlights Follow the waterway to discover Ben Tre's local businesses
Hotel: Coco Riverside Lodge Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner In the morning, depart from Saigon to Ben Tre, the “Green Venice” of Vietnam. Follow the waterway to discover different loc...
Hotel: Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai Meals: Breakfast, Lunch After breakfast, get on a boat and see the commercial life on the water with loaded boats transporting goods. Visit the beautiful Cao Dai temple as well as the busy local market. Head back to Saigon and st...
Today's highlights Get refreshed by a visit to Tra Que herb village
Hotel: Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Explore the beautiful countryside of Hoi An today. Breathe in the fresh aroma of many kinds of herbs when you come close to Tra Qu...
Hotel: Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai Meals: Breakfast Explore Hoi An at your own leisure, seeing what interests you. Along with the historic buildings, this UNESCO World Heritage town captivates millions of visitors with its charming vibe and mouthwatering food. Banh mi, Com ga, Cao lau,... you make your own list.
Hotel: Capella Hanoi Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Fly to Hanoi and transfer to your next hotel. After spending time for yourself, meet your guide to get acquainted with Hanoi. Visit the Temple of Literature and the Museum of Ethnology - two of the best attractions in the ...
Today's highlights A hanoi's morning tour on a scooter
Hotel: Capella Hanoi Meals: Breakfast Depart at around 5.30 and discover the charming city from dawn on a scooter tour. Explore the wholesale flower market, the 100-year-old Long Bien Bridge, and other typi...
Hotel: Ginger Cruise Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Drive from Hanoi to the emerald waters and thousands of limestone islands of Halong Bay. You will board the luxury cruise for your overnight cruise through the bay. Enjoy the UNESCO World Heritage Site from your cabin then followed by a fresh seafood meal as you watch the amazing sunset over the dramatic seascapes.
Hotel: Sofitel Luang Prabang Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Cruise among the islands to discover more about the bay. Return to the dry land after a hearty lunch and drive to the airport. Fly to Luang Prabang and transfer to Sofitel Luang Prabng. This poetic city is your next destination.
Today's highlights Picnic lunch at Kuang Sy Waterfall
Hotel: Sofitel Luang Prabang Meals: Breakfast, Lunch After breakfast, drive to discover some treasures of Luang Prabang. You will visit the Royal Palace and gorgeous Kuang Sy Waterfall where you have a picni...
Today's highlights Discover Pak Ou cave by boat
Hotel: Sofitel Luang Prabang Meals: Breakfast Wake up early for the Buddhist ritual of 'Tak Bat' at Vat Nong temple. Next stop is a local market where your senses are awakened. Sample some tasty snacks before brea...
Today's highlights Cycle to learn about the most ancient temple sites in the region
Hotel: Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas Meals: Breakfast Transfer to the airport for your flight to Cambodia. Arrive at the airport and meet your local guid...
Today's highlights Private lunch at a secret temple
Hotel: Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Angkor Wat is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. It's famed for extraordinary ruins and bas-relief...
Hotel: Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas Meals: Breakfast Enjoy a leisurely morning in the magic city before transferring to the airport for your flight home.
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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.
Prices may vary due to local taxes and trip seasonality. Click "Request Info" to inquire directly with the tour operator for the final trip price.
Exotic Voyages Reviews & Ratings
AMAZING from start to finish!
It was such a pleasure to work with Annie from start to finish. Annie worked patiently with my very particular husband for a good month to plan a 19 day trip. (I thi...
Fantastic Service and Trip from Exotic Voyages
"Exotic Voyages was terrific. We were originally on a group trip, and the group cancelled a couple of months before we were scheduled to leave. We found Exotic Voyag...
Exotic Voyages did a great job on our Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos trip
Great experience with Exotic Voyages on my recent trip to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos! I'm from Califonia and was taking a birthday trip with my mom. I started with ...
I will use Exotic Voyages again.
"We used Exotic Voyages for our 3 week trip. Annie made it organized and easy from the very beginning. She worked with me to develop and tweak many itineraries. All ...
Fantastic Indochina tour
"Fantastic Indochina tour. Diep was extremely patient working with me while we ran through several different itineraries. Very helpful and responsive in answering em...
Other Exotic Voyages Reviews
AMAZING from start to finish!
It was such a pleasure to work with Annie from start to finish. Annie worked patiently with my very particular husband for a good month to plan a 19 day trip. (I thi...
If you are planning on going to Vietnam, you MUST use Lucy and Exotic Voyages.
Lucy at Exotic Voyages planned the best honeymoon my wife and I could have asked for. She listened to what my wife and I wanted to do, and turned that into an unforg...
Epic Trip!!!!
We did not experience a single hitch in our trip and when we created our own hitches - Kien Nguyen Hoang and the guides created fantastic solutions for us. Kien was ...
Tour Operator
As a luxury travel company committed to providing the highest quality, they treat each traveler as an individual. As no two people are the same, then none of their trips are the same. They serve those who want to have a genuine experience, to see the destination for what it truly is. Those who demand or expect the best of things, knowing that what makes or breaks your vacation are in the fine details.
1. Who Will Enjoy Traveling with Exotic Voyages?
Travelers who enjoy a certain degree of comfort, gravitate to luxurious private experiences, are open minded and culturally curious about the Southeast Asian region of the world will love the balance created on an Exotic Voyages trip.
They cater for every age of traveler, from the young to the young at heart. Whether you are 20 or 80, their experts work hard to understand you and deliver based on what you are looking for.
The average trip price is around $3,000 - the focus being on luxury and high end travel, which they understand intimately both from an expectation standpoint and a connection to the best available accommodations and activities.
2. Which is better? Exotic Voyages or a US/European based travel agency?
- First, most US/European based travel agencies only act as middle man and subcontract their clients to local agencies like them. They rely on local tour operators to run the operation at the destinations.
- Dealing with Exotic Voyages means you work directly with local travel experts who have lived and traveled extensively throughout the region.
- They have their own operation offices in all of their destinations which allow them to make sure everything runs smoothly on the ground and react quickly should there be any issue.
- Their customers love them, you can see what they say about their services. The press loves them as well, they have been featured in many trusted publications. You also can learn more about the story of Exotic Voyages and the people behind the brand.
- They are a fully licensed travel operator with an endless passion to introduce their destinations to travelers. They want you to have the best experiences and they work hard to achieve that.
3. Top Destinations
Exotic Voyages specializes in Southeast Asia, specifically Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia.
4. Exotic Voyages Travel Style
Because each itinerary is tailor-made, their travel style will be subtly different for each person or group. But in all itineraries, you can expect a high level of customer service, luxury travel touches, and unique experiences.
Single country trips are available, but the most popular are multi-country excursions throughout the Southeast Asia region.
They pride themselves on providing travelers with once-in-a-lifetime memories and experiences, and are also deeply committed to sustaining the beautiful locales they feature for generations to come. As a company, they are not only devoted to you, but to the countries and communities they travel in.
5. Activities
Cruise, Nature & Wildlife, Eco Retreats, Luxury Trip, Honeymoon Trip, Festive Tour, Family Vacation, Culinary Journey, Golf Tour, Private Group, Off-the-beaten-path, Solo Tours
6. About the company
Exotic Voyages is a luxury travel company offering private and tailor-made tours to various destinations in Asia. They have a passion for extraordinary journeys that are memorable and authentic. Whenever or wherever it is possible taking you along the paths less traveled to avoid areas of mass tourism.
They treat each traveler as an individual, which means that they listen to you and customize a vacation package based solely on each of your needs and desires. Since no two clients are the same, no two trips they create are entirely the same.
As their founder and CEO Vu Huy says, ‘Every great journey begins with a single step’ perfectly represents their core philosophy.
Their client’s traveling goals begin with that single step, and they are here to help them take it.
Their greatest passion is to put their hearts, minds and souls into providing the highest possible standard of quality.
Their standard goes into every single element of your trip, no matter how small—after all, every single step of the journey counts.
Every thread is woven into the same tapestry—accommodations, transportation, tours and activities, dining and more. By taking this approach, they can provide you with extraordinary experiences in peerless comfort and style, with value and expertise.
7. Vision
Their founder’s vision is that of a trusted luxury travel company. Through providing genuine experiences to clients and uniting long-term partnerships with brilliant service, they have been able to commit to quality without compromise. As such, their founder’s vision has only continued to grow and evolve as the company takes its next steps into the future.
8. Mission
Here at EV, they can summarize their mission as efficiency, flexibility and the highest-quality service with a personal touch. Combined with their willingness to pursue excellence, this allows them to offer authentic experiences to their clients, enabling them to see their incredible destinations as they truly are.
9. Core Values
To be the very best: they love accomplishing goals—yours and theirs! Their goal is to become the leading luxury travel company. And the way they do that is by achieving your goals and earning your highest level of satisfaction with their services.
Diligence: “No” is never an option. They serve those who want to have a genuine experience, to see a destination as it truly is. They focus on providing you with your dream trips, and there is nothing they will stop at to ensure that those dreams come true. It’s only through the hard work and diligence of their team that they can say “Yes!” to your travel dreams.
Commitment: they can always find a solution, and every staff member at EV works as a team to find solutions for you, and they take great pride in what they can accomplish for you through this teamwork. They also rely on your comprehensive and indispensable feedback, which ensures that they receive the critical input they need to continually improve their services. They're not only committed to you, but in constant improvement, as well.
They can do anything if they try. And since they always strive to do their best, placing you in the forefront of their planning stages, they are confident that every itinerary crafted for you should result in the trip of your dreams!
Exotic Voyages is committed to giving back to the communities they visit in any way they can. Among their outreach projects, they have worked with AnimalsAsia and the Vietnam Bear Sanctuary to rehabilitate bears who have fallen victim to the bear bile trade and Refill, Not Landfill-Asia to provide travelers like you with refillable water bottles and to install clean water fountains around Cambodia.
They pride themselves on providing you with once-in- a-lifetime memories and experiences, but they are also deeply committed to sustaining these beautiful locales for generations to come. Overall, they are a company that is not only devoted to you, but their countries, their communities, and their future, that they would like to share with you, one step at a time.
10. Tour types:
Cruise, Nature & Wildlife, Eco Retreats, Luxury Trip, Honeymoon Trip, Festive Tour, Family Vacation, Culinary Journey, Golf Tour, Private Group, Off-the-beaten-path, Solo Tours
11. Accommodation Style:
Luxury 4 - 5 stars accommodations
Planning unique custom trips, Luxury accommodations and services, Connecting travelers to locals and authentic experiences
A luxury travel company committed to providing the highest quality, they treat each traveler as an individual.
They serve those who want to have a genuine experience, to see the destination for what it truly is.
They design their travel itinerary to be personalized and as fast or slow-paced as the traveler desires. This means if you’d like to spend 10 days long discovering as many temples as you can in Cambodia, or a week lounging on just a few pristine beaches in Thailand, they can make it happen.
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What's excluded
- Drinks during the meals
- Meals not mentioned
- Personal insurance
- Tips and personal expenses
- Any service not mentioned in the program
- International flights and airport taxes
- Visa fees
- All internal and regional flight tickets in economy class with/without departure tax
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