Hanoi, Ninh Binh, Ha Long Bay and Saigon: Vietnam Package Tour 7 Days & 6 Nights

The route runs one way. You land in Hanoi, fly south on Day 4 in about 2 hours 10 minutes, and go home from Ho Chi Minh City, so no day is lost retracing your steps. Ninh Binh is the part most 7-day packages leave out. Here you see the 10th-century temples of the Dinh and Le kings at Hoa Lu and row through caves cut into the karst, the scenery Vietnam calls Ha Long Bay on land. For a shorter trip, flights included or a different region, compare all our Vietnam tour packages.

Rs 45,000 per person on twin sharing (was Rs 48,913) for the land package. TravelTriangle has served 3,354+ travellers for Vietnam. Every day of this itinerary can be changed, and you compare quotes from up to 3 verified agents before paying anything.

Prices, inclusions and drive times on this page are checked by our Vietnam desk against the supplier contract for package 43172, and the visa details against Vietnam’s official e-visa rules for 2026. Last checked 29 October 2026.

Day-by-Day Vietnam Itinerary for 7 Days and 6 Nights

Day 1: Arrive in Hanoi, Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter

Your guide meets you in the arrivals hall at Noi Bai International Airport, and the private drive into Hanoi takes about 45 minutes across the cable-stayed Nhat Tan Bridge. Check in at Hanoi 3B Premier Hotel, on the northern edge of the Old Quarter, from 2 pm. If your overnight flight lands before 6 am, ask for early check-in in your quote, because it is not part of the price.

Late afternoon is the right hour for a first walk. Hoan Kiem Lake is a 20-minute stroll south of the hotel. Cross the red The Huc Bridge to Ngoc Son Temple on its little island, then drift back through the Old Quarter, where streets still carry the name of the trade once sold on them. Hang Gai was silk, Hang Ma was paper goods, and both still sell close to it. If your flight lands early, ask the guide to fit in the Temple of Literature and the One Pillar Pagoda before dark. No meals are included on arrival day, and dinner is a short walk from the hotel.

Day 2: Ninh Binh Day Trip to Hoa Lu, Tam Coc Boat Ride and Cycling

After breakfast the driver heads south for Hoa Lu, about 100 km away and a drive of roughly 2 hours past rice fields and the first limestone towers. Hoa Lu was Vietnam’s capital from 968 until 1010, and the two temples here honour King Dinh Tien Hoang and King Le Dai Hanh, set right against the cliffs. Our Hoa Lu guide tells the story behind them.

Lunch is at a local restaurant, then the best part of the day. A rower takes your small boat along the Ngo Dong River at Tam Coc and through three caves cut into the karst, about 2 hours there and back, and many rowers steer the oars with their feet. On busy days the guide may switch to the boat route at Trang An, a UNESCO site a few minutes away. An hour of easy cycling through the villages follows, before the drive back to Hanoi in the early evening. Breakfast and lunch are included. Read more on Ninh Binh.

Day 3: Hanoi to Ha Long Bay and Your Overnight Cruise

Check out after breakfast. The expressway to Tuan Chau Marina takes about 2 hours 30 minutes, crossing the flat farmland of the Red River Delta. Your cruise boards around noon, and you are on deck as the boat slides out among the limestone islands of a bay UNESCO has listed since 1994.

Lunch is served on board while the boat sails. In the afternoon you visit a cave, Sung Sot or Surprise Cave on most routes, and then paddle a kayak close to the rock walls and floating fishing huts (the exact stops depend on the route the bay authority assigns your boat). Back on board, most cruises run a spring-roll class before dinner. After that the evening is yours on the sundeck. A vegetarian menu is served at every meal if you asked at booking. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included, and you sleep on the cruise.

Day 4: Ha Long Bay to Hanoi Airport, Then Fly to Ho Chi Minh City

Wake early for a tai chi lesson on the sundeck while the bay is still quiet, or take breakfast slowly with the karsts in view. The boat cruises back over brunch, and you disembark between 10:30 and 11:30 am. The driver goes straight to Noi Bai Airport, about 2 hours 30 minutes away, for your afternoon flight south, which takes about 2 hours 10 minutes. This domestic flight is not in the land price, and the agent can add it to your quote.

You land at Tan Son Nhat Airport in the early evening. A 30-minute transfer brings you to Bloom Saigon Hotel on Truong Dinh Street in District 1, five minutes on foot from Ben Thanh Market. If you have energy left, the stalls around the market are the easiest first dinner in the city. Breakfast and brunch on the cruise are included.

Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City Tour and the Cu Chi Tunnels

The morning is the city. Start at the Independence Palace, where North Vietnamese tanks rolled through the gates on 30 April 1975 and the war ended. Walk on to the Central Post Office, still a working post office under its French-era iron roof, with Notre-Dame Cathedral across the square, seen from outside while restoration continues. The War Remnants Museum is a 10-minute drive away, and the guide can fit it in if you skip the firing range later. Lunch is at a local restaurant.

Then drive about 1 hour 30 minutes north-west to the Cu Chi Tunnels. After a short briefing, you see the trapdoors, kitchens with smoke vents, sleeping rooms and field hospitals the fighters dug by hand, and crawl a stretch that has been widened for visitors. Anyone who prefers can stay above ground, because the crawl is optional. Steamed cassava and tea are served at the end, the food the fighters lived on. The firing range is extra and paid per round. Breakfast and lunch are included.

Day 6: Mekong Delta Day Trip to My Tho and Unicorn Island

Pickup is around 7:30 am for the drive of about 2 hours to My Tho, a river town on the Mekong. A boat takes you past the four islets named Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise, and stops at Unicorn Island, where you walk through fruit orchards and listen to a family band play southern folk music.

Next comes a hand-rowed sampan through the narrow coconut canals, with palm fronds almost meeting overhead. You stop at a bee farm for honey tea with kumquat and at a workshop where coconut candy is cut and wrapped by hand. Lunch is at a riverside restaurant, where elephant-ear fish is the house dish and a vegetarian plate is ready if you asked ahead. You are back in Ho Chi Minh City by evening for your last night. Breakfast and lunch are included.

Day 7: Ben Thanh Market and Fly Home

Breakfast, then check out by noon and leave your bags at the hotel desk. Ben Thanh Market is five minutes away and opens around 7 am, so the morning is free for Vietnamese coffee beans and a phin filter, cashews, silk scarves or lacquerware. First prices run high, so bargain with a smile.

The driver collects you in time for your flight and reaches Tan Son Nhat Airport in 30 to 45 minutes, depending on traffic. Air India flies non-stop to Delhi every day, Vietnam Airlines (three days a week) and VietJet (four) to Mumbai, and VietJet to Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. From other cities you connect through Hanoi, Bangkok or Singapore. Breakfast is included.

What You See on This 7-Day Route

Hotels and Your Ha Long Bay Cruise

Note: Our agents will provide you these or similar hotels depending on availability.

Both city hotels put you inside the old centres, so evenings need no taxi. Want 4-star hotels or a 4-star cruise with a balcony cabin? Ask in your quote, or browse our Vietnam cruise packages.

Inclusions and Exclusions

What Rs 45,000 Covers, and the All-in Cost from India

A 7-day trip on this itinerary costs about Rs 85,000 to Rs 1,07,000 per person in total once flights, the visa and tax are added. The Rs 45,000 package price pays for the parts that are hardest to arrange from India: six nights of stay, the cruise, every transfer, the guide and the entry tickets. The rest depends on your city and dates.

If you already hold air tickets or miles, this land price is built for you. If you would rather book everything in one go, the Vietnam tour from Mumbai with flights bundles flights and visa on a similar route.

Is 7 Days Enough for Vietnam? Why This Route Works

Seven days covers two of Vietnam’s three regions well, and that is what this itinerary does. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are about 1,700 km apart by road, so trying to see the north, the centre and the south in a week means a flight every other day. Picking north and south and joining them with one flight gives you Hanoi’s old streets, a night on Ha Long Bay, and the war history and river life of the south, with only one early start for travel.

Compare the 4 nights 5 days Vietnam tour, the 7 nights 8 days Vietnam tour or our Phu Quoc tour packages if one of the other shapes fits you better.

Flights from India and the Vietnam e-Visa

Book an open-jaw ticket, into Hanoi and home from Ho Chi Minh City, so your flights match the route. Six Indian cities have a non-stop on at least one leg, and Vietnam is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of India.

Indian passport holders need an e-visa, applied for on Vietnam’s official portal, evisa.gov.vn. A single-entry e-visa costs US$25 and a multiple-entry one US$50 under fees in force since 1 April 2026, both valid for up to 90 days, and processing takes 3 to 5 working days. Your passport must be valid for 6 months from arrival. The agent can file it for you with a passport scan and a photo. Step-by-step help is in our Vietnam visa for Indians guide, and every route from India is in how to reach Vietnam.

Best Time to Take This Trip

November to April is the best window, because both ends of the route are dry at the same time. Hanoi is cool from December to February, and the south is hot and dry from January to April.

Month-by-month detail is in our best time to visit Vietnam guide.

Vegetarian Food and Who This Trip Suits

Vegetarian and Jain travellers eat well on this route if they say so at booking. The cruise kitchen needs about two days’ notice to prepare a separate menu, and the Ninh Binh and Mekong lunches have a vegetarian plate on request. Hanoi’s Old Quarter and District 1 both have Indian restaurants within walking distance of your hotels. Look for the word chay on Vietnamese menus.

Couples get the night on Ha Long Bay and two walkable old quarters, and our Vietnam honeymoon packages add beach time. Families get private transfers, no overnight buses or trains, and children love the Tam Coc boats and the Cu Chi tunnels. Triple rooms are available, and our Vietnam family packages run at a slower pace. This trip is less suited to travellers who want a beach, since there is none on the route, or to anyone who finds early starts hard, because Days 2, 3, 5 and 6 begin by 8 am.

How Booking and Payment Work

You pay a booking amount to confirm the trip and the rest in easy installments, as agreed with your travel agent. Before you pay anything, you see quotes from up to 3 verified agents and choose the one that suits you. If a storm warning stops your cruise from sailing, it moves to another day.

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