PACKAGE CATHOLIC TOUR IN VIETNAM 16D15N

Arrival in HCMC

• Have lunch
• Visit Saigon pastoral center
• Go to Thu Duc, visit a male & a female monastery (separate)
• Go to Đồng Nai province (1.5-hour drive – 67 km)
• Stay overnight in a hotel in Đồng Nai

Visit Mother Mary of Nui Cui,

• Visit a retreat house Run by Priests of Society of Jesus
• Have lunch
• Go to Vung tau (206 km ~ 4.5 hours)
• Check in hotel

City tour in Vung Tau

• Visit Christ the King statue in Vung tau
• Visit Song Vinh church
• Monastery of Xito Thien Phuoc
• Have lunch
• The whale temple – local belief
• Buddist Chon Khong monastery
• relax at the vung tau beach

Go to Ta Pao

• transfer from vung tau to Ta Pao, Binh Thuan (185 km, ~ 3.5 hours)
• visit the holy site & a local parish
• hotel in Binh Thuan

Tapao to Mui Ne for site seeing (118 km – 3 hours)

• Visit Red and White sandune
• Fishing village, Fairy Tale spring

Go to Dalat

• Visit the Cathedral church
• City tour

Dalat 1 more day: natural beauty of the city

Dalat fly to Da Nang

• Cathedral church of Da Nang
• Mother Mary – sea stars
• House of saint Paul’s sister & an elderly centre run by the nuns
• Spend time at Da Nang beach

Pay a visit to Bana hills

• French village with castles & gardens
• Cable car system
• Golden bridge with the hands
• Go to Hue in the afternoon

Visit Hue – religious sites

• Visit a Catholic monastery of Thien An
• Buddhist monastery of Huyen Khong Son Thuong
• A local family who are decendants of a high ranking mandarin of Nguyen dynasty
• Visit some historical places which are not often introduced to foreign visitors (Emperor Gia Long & An Dinh palace)

Drive to Lavang holy land

• Spend time at the holy land
• Transfer to the 17th parallel (the border between the North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam war
• Go back to Hue for a flight to Ha Noi
• Check in hotel

Hanoi to Sapa

• Take a shared limousine bus to go from Hanoi to Sapa
• Have lunch
• Check in hotel
• Free visit the center of Sapa

Sapa – sightseeing day

• Take cable car to reach the peak of Fansipan mountain (the roof of Indochina countries)
• Visit Silver Waterfall & Ham Rong mountain

Sapa trekking day

• Visit Cat Cat village
• Trekking to Muong Hoa valley (around 2 hours)
• Have lunch
• Go back to Hanoi by shared limousine bus and check in hotel
• Relax

Churches of the North

• Visit Chau Son monastery
• Phat Diem church
• Take a boat to discover Tam Coc bich dong
• Visit two more beautiful churches in Nam Dinh

• Back to Ha Noi in the afternoon
• Ready for your flight home