Boomers Abroad

Description

Cultural Immersion Tours Program is a program offering language training and cultural immersion programs. Our program combines travel and sight-seeing from the city to the countryside, cross-cultural training, local language training and activities such as volunteering, sport training. It is a fantastic and helpful program for your vacation. You will find the amazing aspects of a different culture, do volunteer work with children and get to know some of the language. You can also enjoy the fresh air in the fields, the breeze on a boat in the river, the cool climate of the jungle and fresh water in the blue sea.

Whether you are a student or a traveler looking for a new place and a different culture to experience, or a person who wants to get to know the background of a new environment, you will find our program both helpful and interesting. Our mission is to ensure you have a nice time during your trip in Vietnam.

What we do is to make sure you have a nice time during your trip in Vietnam. Not just for that, you will learn and try new things and do such things which seem common but are great and valuable to others.

- You can make it individually or by your own group.
- Whether you are an employee, a student or a independent traveler, you can have your own fantastic Cultural Immersion Tours Program.

You can customized your trip or let us design it for you. You can choose to be discovering, experiencing with local people or relaxing only, etc.

What you will do in the program:
- Ho Chi Minh City sightseeing at cultural, historical and architectural relics
- Visiting the latest famous historical site Cu Chi
- Traveling to the pristine beach Mui Ne, Con Dao
- Trekking in the tropical reserve jungle Nam Cat Tien
- Getting trained on Cultural lessons (Optional)
- Getting trained on some of Vietnamese language (Recommended)
- Volunteering at orphanages playing and making handicraft with homeless and disabled kids. "Give happiness to others and to yourself as well."
- Entertainments, especially at night-time (a dinner cruise on the river, terrific water-puppet show, Vietnamese style coffee garden, dancing, karaoke singing, fishing) (Recommended)
- Having a motorbike ride (Optional)
- Travel to the Highland Dalat
- Travel to the Centre in Hoi An Old town, Cua Dai beach
- Travel up North visiting Ha Noi, Ha Long Bay, Sapa

The program has received great feedbacks which make us very happy and encouraged to make it better. Having your plan for the Cultural Immersion Tours program, send us a booking.

Look at the destinations and places to visit hereunder and let us set up your own tailor-made trip, whether you travel on your own or arrange the trip for your group.

* Ho Chi Minh City sight-seeing 1 to 2 days
- Ho Chi Minh City is the nation's largest and also the most populous city, an important economic, cultural, educational, media, sports, entertainment center of Vietnam. Visit museums, temples, markets and architectural buildings on history, art, culture at The Jade Emperor pagoda, The Unification palace, The old city post office, The Nortre dame Cathedral, Ben Thanh market, The war museum, Thien Hau pagoda, China town Cho Lon, Giac Lam pagoda, ect.

* Cultural activities (Optional):
- Take several sessions on historical summary and culture introduction to know the habit and behaviour patterns of the local people.

* Volunteer activities (Recommended):
- Work at one or two disabled children centers or charity homes

* Short course of language (Recommended):
- Take 2-3 survival language classes: to be able to communicate with the local people, do shopping and make orders in coffee and restaurants.

* Entertainment in Ho Chi Minh city
- Take some activities and cultural entertainment, especially at night time: by having a dinner cruise on the river, terrific water-puppet show, karaoke singing, go dancing at a nice ballroom, sitting in a bar with a live band, having a motorbike ride, going fishing, etc.

1. Cu Chi underground tunnel - Cao dai Holy temple - Tay Ninh -01 day
Taking about one hour, around 65 km North West of downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The tunnels system was first created around 1948 to assist Viet Minh in their combat with the French. This is a critical shelter and fighting network for VC during America Vietnam war. Most of visitors visiting Vietnam come to see this site.

Cao dai religion originated from Tay Ninh was an attempt to create the ideal religion through the fusion of the secular and religious philosophies of the East and West. The temple is one of the striking old structures in Vietnam.

2. My Tho Mekong delta - 01 day
Less than one hour, about 80 km from Ho Chi Minh city, where you find yourself in the middle of the orchards, rivers and canals on your boat cruise tasting the Vietnams tropical fruit, coconut candy and enjoy the Southern Vietnam traditional folk music.

* Travel To The Beaches:

1. Mui Ne beach 2 days
Around 4 hours, 180 km from Ho Chi Minh City, it is one of the most beautiful beaches in Vietnam. You can also walk on the sand hills looking down on the mild sea.

2. Con Dao 2 to 3 days
Con Dao is an archipelago off the coast of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, with beautiful unspoiled beaches, cool blue water, long smooth sand. Con Dao is considered as a paradise resort island where you can enjoy the fresh air, primeval forests, along with rich flora and fauna systems, cool climate year round, gentle hospitable people.

More destinations and activities for your trip:

- Phu Quoc island- 2 to 3 days
In the Gulf Thailand, Kien Giang province, Phú Quoc island lies in front of the Cambodian coast. Being among the blue water, untouch beaches, enjoying coral gardens offshore, varieties of wildlife species, are the pleasures which visitors tell each other.

- Nha Trang beach - 2 to 3 days
Nha Trang city is located on the beautiful Nha Trang Bay which is widely considered as amongst the world's most beautiful bays, with mountain surrounding three sides and an island in the ocean front of the city. Ideal place for you to relax on pristine beaches and have an excellent time scuba diving in mild waves watching wildlife in the sea.

* Trekking In The Jungle and Highland:

-. Cat Tien National Park - 2 days
Is an important national park, approximately 150 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. Having an area of about 720 km2, it is one of the largest areas of lowland tropical rainforests left in Vietnam. As well as being a critical reserve for the Javan Rhino, it also is home to 40 IUCN Red List species, and protects around 30% of Vietnam's species.

- Da lat city 2 to 3 days:
The city of mist is located 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbiang Plateau, inheriting a year-round temperate climate. An ideal place for you to relax, sightsee among tens of romantic waterfalls, valleys and pine-tree hills in the city of flowers.

- Hoi An Old Town:
Hoi An, where you can see an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique world heritage site (UNESCO). The town lies by Thu Bon river and 5km from Cua Dai beach which is the perfect beach with fine white sand, blue water, small waves and always shining sun.

* Further Up North:

- Ha Noi city:
Ha Noi is the capital and the second-largest city of Vietnam, which is located on the bank of the Red River. Hanoi is 1,760 km (1,090 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City. The city is very rich in history, culture and ancient architecture.

- Sapa:
Sa Pa District is located in Lao Cai Province, north-west Vietnam, 350 km from Hanoi, close to the border with China. Sa Pa is a quiet mountain town, with ethnic minority people working their land on sloping terraces. With sub-tropical summers, temperate winters and 160 days of mist annually makes it a truly unique place for a rich variety of plants, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects. The impressive physical landscape has resulted from the work of the elements over thousands of years. Here you can see Vietnams highest peak, Fansipan, at 3,143 m and the Hoang Lien Mountains.

- Ha Long Bay:
Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in northern Vietnam, 170 km east of Hanoi. Arriving here, you will be impressed by the scenic rock formations in the sea. There you can do lots of activities such as cave visiting, kayaking, swimming, island stopovers to climb mountain, bike riding amongst rice paddies and see monkeys.