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The Grand Tour Hosts Are Racing Boats Through Cambodia and Vietnam in a New Special

This looks like one really watery adventure.

The Grand Tour , as we know it, is a car show. Its hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, do and talk about things that are usually, in one way or another, related to cars. The show's latest special takes things in a different direction.

That's right, this time around the British trio are challenging themselves to navigate Mekong Delta, a series of complex rivers, peninsulas, islands, and streams that snake throughout southern Vietnam, to see who can reach the other side the quickest.

The trailer gives us a good look at what sort of boat each of the hosts have chosen, and they're ask wacky as you'd expect. Clarkson shows up with a military-like service boat meant for police duty. May went for an older wooden boat that looks like it would be more suited to Lake Como than a Vietnam river. Hammond went for a full-on speed boat, complete with some extremely Nineties graphics.

As with any of The Grand Tour's specials, there are plenty of hilarious antics, close calls, and clever pranks in store. The full special will be available to Amazon Prime members on, December 13, 2019.

Brian Silvestro is Hearst Autos' former lead deputy editor for rankings content. He spent over seven years as a staff writer for Road & Track Magazine where he contributed car reviews, industry interviews, and more. He has a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.

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The Grand Tour “Seamen” – How we made it

After three seasons of The Grand Tour and 16 years on television together, there aren’t many parts of the world or outrageous challenges left for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James to conquer. Seamen

However, just in time for Christmas, the boys have regrouped for a feature-length Grand Tour special, which takes them on what is arguably their biggest, and most definitely, their wettest adventure yet.

Through Cambodia and Vietnam, their aquatic road trip involves an 800km journey that starts on the perilous Tonlé Sap Lake, and weaves its way via a series of adventures and calamities down through the Mekong Delta. Seamen

Clarkson’s ride is a recreation of a Vietnam war-era PBR (Patrol Boat River), the famed military vessel seen in Apocalypse Now. Hammond channels his inner Don Johnson by opting for a Miami Vice style speedboat – of the HMS Pornography, as Clarkson christens it.

And May lives out his canal holiday fantasy dream with a classic 1939 wooden river cruiser. Seamen

Packing in a genuinely dangerous finale that brings one of the trio to tears, stomach-churning dinners and a shocking climate change admission from Clarkson, The Grand Tour presents Seamen is a road trip  voyage to remember.

Swapping four wheels for water

Grand Tour exec producer Andy WIlman admits that there were nerves about ditching cars and heading out onto the water for the special episode.

“Boats are a minority hobby, there’s no getting around that, whereas most people drive so they engaged more easily with cars,” said Wilman. “But it’s just one film. We’ll be back with cars next time. It’s just a small diversion to ring the changes. If we try something and it doesn’t quite work, nobody gets hurt, and that’s always our attitude.

“But actually a massive proportion of our audience are not fussed about cars. They watch for the locations, the banter, the adventure, the friendship between those three. And I think those people won’t care at all that they’re in boats. We are ready for criticism and we’re ready to go, ‘Calm down’. But hopefully we’ll surprise people because it’s a good watch.”

And it wasn’t hard to find three different boats that matched up with the presenters own personalities. Seamen

“There’s a James boat, a Jeremy boat, a Hammond boat,” said Wilman.

“James went for a Norfolk Broads, Michael Parkinson type of pleasure boat. It’s a gin and tonic, wearing-a-cravat boat. Because it was a river cruise, James wanted something built for a river. He’s pragmatic like that.

“Hammond expressed his disinterest in boats by being a child and getting a Miami Vice style speedboat that drug dealers have. He didn’t give much thought to the practicalities of his choice.

“And then there’s Jeremy, who is a boating man and has always liked boats. He also loves the Vietnam War so it doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together and realise he’s going to come out on a PBR.”

The climate change message

The Grand Tour boys show no signs of growing up on this adventure – From the title of the episode to Jeremy and James respraying Hammond’s boat with the name ‘Jizzle Drizzle’.

However, there is a message about climate change at the heart of this special. An admission and slight change of heart from the petrolheads.

“It’s our job to make a show for people who like cars, and we are a tiny percent in terms of our influence, is the reality. The climate change people do what they do well. So we get on with our job and they get on with theirs,” explained Wilman.

“But the whole river and lake thing you see on the show is absolutely binary, in front of our eyes. The people couldn’t fish. The Mekong is a lifeline to hundreds of thousands of people and it’s dry, not helped by the fact the Chinese have built a dam which stops water flowing through. The Mekong is being threatened. Does it macke us hypocrites to point that out? I don’t think so, because I don’t think we’ve suddenly become Greta Thunberg.

“But we are in our right to point out that this whole thing is happening in a brutal and binary way. Critics might say, ‘Oh, you’re bothered about the Mekong River but you’re not bothered about driving a Ferrari’. I think our argument would be, ‘It’s not for us to worry about driving Ferraris because governments will decide whether or not people can drive them, and that’s not within our gift.’

“But what we saw in front of our eyes was worth talking about.”

For once – a warm reception

“We’ve had a less-than-warm welcome in some places we have been,” admits Richard Hammond.

It’s fair to say, the reputation of Clarkson, Hammond and May . often precedes them and wherever they travel . these days, they are typically . viewed with suspicion.

However, in Cambodia and Vietnam, . the trio were greeted with open arms and helped out of several tricky spots by the locals.

“In this part of the world, the attitude is so welcoming and friendly. I ended up being towed by a bunch of locals who saw me stuck,” said Hammond.

“People really do muck in and help and see the funny side. If you are at the back of your boat trying to cut the nets out of the prop, people will actually find that funny. They’ll laugh but they’ll still come and help you.”

James May admitted he even formed a special bond with one very helpful local who came to his aid in his hour of need.

“It’s a very hospitable, upbeat part of the world. In that kind of country they end up helping each other out,” said May.

“Especially on the water which is so important to them for their lives and their livelihoods. If you’re a foreigner and you’re being an idiot in a 1939 boat, . they’ll think, ‘Yes but he’s in trouble . so we’ll still get stuck in and help him’,” said May.

“I got a bit of net caught in the prop quite badly and a . local fisherman had the same problem so I went to help him and then he came to help me. I went around one side and he went around the other and we reached underneath and found each other’s hands and it was all very sweet.

“After an hour or two we eventually got both our boats free. The language barrier was complete and utter, but I had this moment of fantastic camaraderie with another man in peril on the sea. I loved it. He is my brother forever now.”

Battling sickness and fly-infested accommodation

It wasn’t all bromances at sea and plain sailing for our adventurers though. Richard Hammond had to battle a nasty infection after he caught cellulitis from open blisters on his heels.

“When it first struck I didn’t know what it was and I just couldn’t walk,” he said.

“The medic checked it out and told me I needed to be on very strong antibiotics quickly because it can creep into organs and turn into sepsis and that’s not good.”

“It felt like hell.”

And Clarkson described their first night on the lake on Cambodia as coming very close to the worst place they’ve ever stayed. Seamen

It was so bad that it will really wind him up if you mention that people believe the presenters don’t really sleep in the places where they film.

“There’s nothing more irritating than people saying, ‘You’re like Bear Grylls, you say you camp out there but you actually go and stay in a hotel’.

“I urge people to go on Google maps and see if they can find a hotel we could have gone to. Neither us nor the crew got a single second of sleep.”

Describing his evening, he said: “It was like sleeping in a fly-infested and extremely noisy oven at 400 degrees; if you filled your oven with every insect in the world, and then got in there with a pile driver and a deranged dog.

“You’d also have to crap your pants for the smell.”

A dangerous and tearful finale

The final stretch of the Seamen special is one of the . most dangerous and emotional sequences the presenters have ever filmed as they head out into open waters in their highly unsuitable vessels.

Filmed across a sea, close to where four people died . on the same day, Hammond was left in tears and May was briefly left stranded on his antique boat.

“If people want to see three TV presenters being . really hurt then this is a good place to go,” said Clarkson.

“My bruises lasted weeks. My boat was full of sharp edges and . I kept being hurled into those. It wasn’t much fun. Very close to where we were, four fishermen died. We weren’t exaggerating, they were big seas, it was scary.

“I can remember the panicky radio calls coming over my walkie-talkie. I was thinking, ’It’s bad but it’s not the end-of-the-world bad’. It was only when I saw the footage, particularly of James’ boat and the camera boats, that I . thought ‘Bloody hell.’ That’s the other thing of course: we can’t just think . about ourselves, there were 50/60 crew out there on small boats that were sinking. Boats were sinking, . I think Hammond may have been crying, and . James was stranded. I thought for once we were actually going to be . rid of James May but no, he survived.”

Hammond added: “At first it was the horrendous monotony of it, . just being bashed and bashed when water smashes against . the hull again and again. The sea water in my eyes – you see me at one point trying to pour bottled . water into my eyes to attempt to get the salt out. That was pretty close to despair.”

Andy Wilman confessed the production team were surprised . by the weather and the treacherous waters, which got “worse and worse and worse” as they filmed.

“Four people down the coast died that day,” said Wilman. “I don’t know any more details but I know it happened on that day. Driving on Death Road in Bolivia was terrifying psychologically, but mathematically you know . that if you stay away from the edge, you’re not going to go over. Whereas with the sea, you haven’t got a clue what it’s going to do, that’s the first thing.

“There’s no parallel with a road trip. It took several hours. It was properly brutal.”

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The episode saw the presenters travel across Vietnam and Cambodia in a trio of boats, heading across the Mekong River towards the Tonle Sap Lake.

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The trio switch from four wheels to zero as they attempt to take three powerboats across Mekong River.

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The episode was filmed in June/July 2019 in Vietnam and Cambodia. Filming for the conclusion of the episode was disrupted by a monsoon, with Jeremy Clarkson writing in a column that the production crew needed rescuing.

• This is the first special episode of Top Gear or The Grand Tour since the Burma Special to not feature cars as the primary mode of transport. The only other special episode not to feature cars is the Vietnam Special .
• Further, it is the first special episode of the show to not feature some form of on-road vehicles.
• This is the second time the trio returned to a country for a second Special. The only other occurrence of returning to a country previously visited, was during the Patagonia Special which briefly revisited Chile which had also been featured at the end of the Bolivia Special.

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Seamen is the first episode of Season 4 of The Grand Tour and the 39th of the whole series. It aired on the 13th December, 2019.

The episode saw the presenters travel across Vietnam and Cambodia in some boats.

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In the first of a series of feature length Specials, Clarkson, Hammond and May take a one time only break from cars and set out on an epic journey across Cambodia and Vietnam…in boats. This adventure packed voyage sees the hapless trio experience thrills, spills and genuine danger as they try to navigate their way through the world’s most iconic waterway - the Mekong Delta.

The trio bring a variety of boats to their journey. They are listed below.

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Amazon has dropped the trailer for a special episode of The Grand Tour , featuring Jeremy Clarkson , James May and Richard Hammond in a boat-based challenge.

The trio of presenters have vacated their cars for the first time and embark on a 500-mile river trip across Vietnam and Cambodia, in an episode titled The Grand Tour presents: Seamen. It premieres on December 13.

The feature-length episode is the first in a sequence of specials the team is making for Amazon Prime Video after they decided last year to ditch The Grand Tour ‘s studio format, set in a tent, and concentrate on a series of adventures.

Although they have parked their cars, the Seamen episode features many familiar format points, from the presenters showcasing the boats they have chosen, to racing challenges, collisions and unfortunate break downs.

For their journey along the Mekong Delta, Clarkson recreates a Vietnam war-era Patrol Boat River, Hammond charters a Miami Vice -style speedboat, while May enjoys a 1939 wooden river cruiser.

Amazon’s director of European originals Georgia Brown said: “We know fans love to see the guys take on these incredible adventures across exotic locations and The Grand Tour presents: Seamen does just that – this feature-length special promises to be a thrilling off-road escapade, full of challenges and jeopardy, climaxing in one of the most dangerous and exciting challenges Jeremy, Richard and James may have ever endured.”

With Seamen launching in December, work is well underway on their second special, which has just finished filming in Madagascar and will premiere next year.

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The grand tour: every special, ranked.

The Grand Tour has delivered many excellent specials, so we've ranked them to find out which one is best.

After Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May moved on from Top Gear , everyone wondered what their next adventure would take them. Happily,  The Grand Tour was soon announced by Amazon and was very similar to Top Gear in many ways. The main difference was the size of the budget given to the trio to spend per episode.

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Thanks to this large amount of money, Clarkson, Hammond, and May were able to produce more exciting and bigger scale episodes than they had ever done before. This resulted in special episodes becoming more and more frequent. Indeed, the fourth season of The Grand Tour will consist only of specials. To celebrate this, we've ranked all of the specials so far.

Operation Desert Stumble (Season 1, Episode 2)

In Season 1, viewers were still trying to adjust to the show's format. The first episode put their fears at ease (mostly) but the second episode had the unenviable task of introducing the traditional 'challenges' in a new light. Although it's not technically a special, "Operation Desert Stumble" was the show's first attempt at showing Clarkson, Hammond, and May outside of the tent being totally stupid.

Unfortunately, while a bit entertaining, the episode fell a bit flat. The series was trying too hard to be something different and resulted in the entire challenge feeling forced. The trio had to rescue hostages and take them to the embassy while fighting off insurgents. There was a distinct lack of vehicles present and even the banter felt wooden.

Sea To Unsalty Sea (Season 3, Episode 11)

The Grand Tour special episodes are known for their creativity, and also their hilarity, as they often involve the presenters using old cars or general vehicles and placing them well outside of their comfort zone. However, in this special, Clarkson, Hammond and May broke away from that formula and bought 3 grand touring cars for a drive from Georgia to Azerbaijan.

Since there were no real perilous obstacles for the trio to face, the whole episode felt a bit tame compared to their other adventures. There were still a couple of highlights, such as May breaking Stalin's cupboard and the 'real world race' but other than that, the episode just felt a bit dull. However, the stars of the show were, of course, the cars, which looked absolutely amazing.

International Buffoon's Vacation (Season 3, Episode 8)

This special was miles better than the previous entry but unfortunately, this space still had to be filled. Basically, Clarkson, Hammond, and May were told to go on holiday in the United States in RVs. Not willing to share, they each branched off and bought their own and modified them to their liking. May made his RV into a pub, Clarkson transformed his RV into a toilet/speedboat hybrid and Hammond bought a van and made it worse.

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It's always fun to watch the presenters create obstacles for themselves, and there were a lot of things that went wrong in this special, which was a very good thing. However, the one constant thread that ruined an otherwise great Grand Tour special was the weird thing with Jeremy and the show's ex-racing driver, the American. It just felt incredibly forced and detracted from the episode's sense of fun.

Feed The World (Season 2, Episode 11)

Season 2 of The Grand Tour suffered a lot of incidents behind the scenes. Firstly, there was Hammond's near-fatal car crash, which he miraculously survived almost unscathed. Then Clarkson fell ill for a while and so as a result, Season 2 had a shortened episode count (although 11 episodes are still fairly impressive).

One of the drawbacks of this season, however, was that it only featured one special. To be fair, Season 1 had one special as well, but it took up two episodes. "Feed The World" was a sort of mini special but despite that, it was surprisingly good. Tasked with transporting fish, the boys still regained their childish sense of humor and the special was all the better for it.

Colombia Special (Season 3, Episodes 2 & 3)

This was the first special of Season 3 and it really set the stage for what was to come. It was a traditional special in every sense of the word as Clarkson, Hammond, and May were given the simple task of becoming wildlife photographers. The trio was in top form as they made constant jokes about Colombia's certain trading export, as well as being totally useless at actually taking photographs.

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There were loads of great moments in these couple of episodes, such as Clarkson's encounter with a group of people who really liked donkeys and the trio's attempts at photographing the animals. There were also some highly dangerous obstacles, such as rackety old bridges and the king of all hailstorms. The only drawback of this special was that it started out fairly slow and didn't truly pick up the pace until the second act.

The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen (Season 4, Episode 1)

The most recent special on this list, "Seamen" was a welcome return to The Grand Tour , after the show had been off-air for almost a year. Currently, in its fourth season, the series decided to try something new with this special and so it ditched the car element in favor of boats. This idea was risky but they managed to pull it off. It helped as well that the specials had been less about the vehicles in recent years.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May were given the challenge of journeying across Cambodia and Vietnam by boat. Cue lots of swearing, jokes and basic faffing about. It was incredibly entertaining to watch, as the lads clearly had no control over their boats. Even Clarkson, who was the only one who remained enthusiastic about the challenge struggled to keep his boat under control. It made for a truly great episode.

The Beach (Buggy) Boys (Season 1, Episodes 7 & 8)

Season 1 of The Grand Tour was a fairly shaky start to the show. The main issue was that it was a car show fronted by Clarkson, Hammond, and May, yet it somehow had to be different from Top Gear . In this season, the show overdid it with the differences. There were some entertaining bits but a lot of the messing around felt forced.

The best episodes of the season by far were the two episodes dedicated to the Namibia special. This was the lads doing what they do best, and in this case, their best was racing beach buggies across a desert. Their banter was in top form, the scenery was amazing and there were some genuinely heart-stopping moments. This was exactly what you want from a Grand Tour special.

Survival Of The Fattest (Season 3, Episode 13)

This was an amazing episode. It had all the usual features that make a special, spectacular, but it had a unique twist that no one saw coming. Often, the presenters go ahead and buy a vehicle and modify it for their upcoming adventure, but here, they actually built their own car from scratch.

Once they had actually built their car, Clarkson, Hammond, and May still kept the laughs coming. From christening their car 'John', and watching it hop up hills, to Clarkson and May refusing to let Hammond drive due to his reckless history, this special literally could do no wrong. The fact that all three had to travel in the same car meant that there was a camaraderie present that we hadn't seen before either.

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Exotic Vietnam country 16 days will be a journey from North to South Vietnam, it gives you the exploration of the diverse beauties along the country. Soaking ancient villages in Hanoi capital as well as Hoi An Old Town ensures the great experience of old value. Hue Imperial City will have a great view of the last Dynasty and Royal Palace in Vietnam plus the fresh time to relax on the nice sandy beach of Nha Trang.

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• Rowing boat to discover beauties of Trang An Grottoes.
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Be welcomed by our guide and driver at Noi Bai International Airport flight from … to Hanoi.

Our guide waits for you at the exit gate of the airport and transfers you to downtown Ha Noi city, a city of lakes, shaded boulevards, public parks, and the capital of Vietnam.

Ha Noi Capital City is a great place for street food, night life to experience. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 2: Ha Noi City Tour & Duong Lam Ancient Village. O/n In Hanoi (B/L)

Morning activities:

Begins the morning City tour to the Westlake for a sightseeing and visit to the Quan Thanh Temple and Tran Quoc Buddhist Pagoda – two of the most ancient temples in Hanoi City.

Next continue to visit the Temple of Literature – Vietnam’s first National University where so many kings studied and the training of thousands of the best talented mandarin of the country.

And then leave Hanoi for Duong Lam Ancient village, 60 km from central Hanoi to the West. Duong Lam village is a purely agricultural village which still preserves and stands many hundred-year-old houses.

Once arriving at the village you will make your walking tour from the Main Entrance of the village, which gives you an amazing hamlet as original architecture still remains till today.

Visit Mong Phu communal house which is located in the very center of the Duong Lam village and is one of the beautiful artwork, typical of Northern Vietnam.

You have lunch at a local family to have a chance to interact with local villagers.

Afternoon activities:

Continue your walking through the narrow alleys of the village and have more chances for sightseeing and taking photos of the old laterite brick houses which make up the special feature and unique for the village.

Visit Mia Pagoda at another village since the 15th century with 287 statues of all sizes to get more knowledge of the history and its unique architecture.

And then return to Hanoi City and spend your balance time for more experience of its charms.

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Enjoy a great time to have your own experience along streets to try street foods, fresh beer, Ha Noi nightlife, etc. Overnight at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 3: Hanoi - Trang An Grotto - Mua Cave - Hanoi (B/L)

Leave your hotel in Hanoi at 8:00 am and transfer to Ninh Binh province (98 Kms). On arrival in Ninh Binh you start your visit day trip for Kong Skull Island 2017 Film.

First you start the route to visit Trang An Grottoes on a local rowing boat to see the beautiful scenery taken in this famous film. Visit Ethnic village in the film to get more experience.

And then visit one of the most beautiful caves in Trang An Grottoes complex by rowing boat to experience the amazing landscapes known as Halong on land. Free to have your lunch.

This afternoon you continue to visit Mua Cave and listen to its interesting stories from our guide. You will climb 500 stone steps to the top of the cave where you can view the majestic landscapes of Tam Coc cave. Especially Ngoa Long Mountain (Dragon Mountain) on the way to Mua cave will give you a great impression of beautiful landscapes. No better way to take photos of amazing scenery for mountains, countryside, wonderful Ngo Dong River, etc.

After that the driver and guide will transfer you back to Hanoi city.

Spend your balance dinner wandering around or you can join a water puppet show at a theater near Hoan Kiem Lake to learn more of an old art in Vietnam. Spend your night in Hanoi.

Day 4: Hanoi - Halong Bay - Bai Tu Long Bay. O/n On Dragon Pearl Junk (B/L/D)

Leave Hanoi city on a luxury van (optional can order a private car) to Halong Bay. You will have a stop at Yen Duc village to enjoy a water puppet show. Have lunch in Yen Duc village. At noon time you leave Yen Duc village and continue your trip to Halong bay.

Embark Hon Gai International harbor at 13:30 pm. Check in on board and enjoy welcome drinks and have a cruise briefing. Travel to Cap La where you enjoy paddling and kayaking in Tra San. After that you return junk for relaxing. Have dinner at a restaurant on board.

Evening is your time to relax in your cabin and enjoy your own time for the bay night. Overnight on board.

Day 5: Bai Tu Long Bay - Hanoi & Flight To Hue. O/n In Hue (B/L)

Enjoy the fresh air and gentle breeze of the bay in the morning. Have breakfast on board. Then cruise to Vung Vieng fishing village by a rustic row-boat, meet the local people and pass through the floating school and fish farms. You check out of the cabin at 10:00 am, start cruising towards the harbor. Have lunch on board.

Disembark at Hon Gai habor at noon time.

Our driver welcomes you at 13:15 pm in a luxury van to return to Hanoi city. You spend 3.5 hours to reach Ha Noi city.

Note : If traveling on shuttle bus will have a stopover at Yen Duc village to enjoy a water puppet show. In case you choose a private car there will be non-stop. And then the driver of a private car drops you off at Noi Bai airport to take a flight to Hue.

Reaching Phu Bai airport, you are welcomed and transferred to downtown in Hue city centre and checked in room.

Spend your first night in Hue city to wander around and get your own enjoyment. Overnight at your hotel in Hue.

Day 6: Hue Full Day Cycling To Countryside. O/n In Hue (B/L)

Start your cycling around Hue city today to Hue Imperial City to learn about the last Dynasty Palace in Vietnam. There are many constructions for you to visit right in The Forbidden Purple City

Next is cycling to Thien Mu pagoda and passing through tranquil villages and experiencing local life and its simple beauties. Travel along Perfume River to return to the city centre and free for your lunch time.

Continue your cycling this afternoon through the countryside road to visit Thanh Toan village. You have a chance to visit an ancient, roof-tiled bridge which was built back in the 18th century. This is also the chance to stroll around this lovely spot with a peaceful atmosphere, local market, and very interesting farming museum to help you understand more about local life. In April and May it is like gold silk when rice fields are in ripening time, it brings you a wonderful picture of the peaceful countryside.

Say goodbye to the peace village and bike back to your hotel.

Optional: You can join cooking class or Royal Dinner with extra charge

Free in the evening and wander around the streets along Perfume River, Trang Tien Bridge, walking streets for more enjoyment of its charm. Overnight at your hotel.

Day 7: Hue - Da Nang - Hoian. O/n In Hoi An (B/L)

Leave Hue in the morning on National Highway No 1 to Hoi An and have stopover time and get more enjoyment at Lang Co Beach, Fishing village, Hai Van pass and conquer its beauties for the windy road pass.

Then travel ahead to Da Nang city known as the famous beach in Vietnam. You are driven through a beach road along the coastline to chill in its beauties.

Make a visit to Da Nang city at Cham Museum with the whole collections of Cham Pa Sculpture displayed here and then Marble Mountain known as Five Mountains, named after the five elements of the ancient oriental philosophy: metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

Travel ahead to Hoi An Town and make a check in room late afternoon.

Evening is the time for your own experience around streets of Hoi An ancient town, enjoy street foods, local life, etc. Overnight at your hotel.

Day 8: Cooking Class & Walking Tour In Hoi An. O/n In Hoi An (B/L)

In the morning, you walk with a Chef to the local market and buy the ingredients. The Chef will introduce you to the local market as well as the things they sell there. Here is also the chance to see the local people habitant of going to the local market every morning as an indispensable tradition.

Then from the market, head to the cooking class in a beautiful restaurant where the chef will teach the group to make the dishes. After the instruction you will cook by yourself.

After dishes have been done, relax and enjoy your lunch.

Continue the trip by walking time to discover the beauty of Hoi An ancient town.

The tour includes stops at several famous landmarks. The first is Chua Ong Pagoda, dating back to 1653 and built in honor of the Chinese general Quan Cong, who is worshiped by many as a symbol of loyalty and justice.

Next is Phuc Kien Assembly Hall, to see the Jinshang Temple which is dedicated to the goddess of the sea and the protector of sailors.

Then visit Tan Ky ancient house, a 200 year old ancestral house. Finally, stroll across the often photographed 17th century covered bridge built by Japanese craftsmen called Japanese Bridge. The beautifully built bridge doubles as a temple and is a major landmark of Hoi An. Free to have your own account for dinner.

Evening is the free time to experience Hoian ancient town with sparkling lantern light and enjoy street food for your own enjoyment. Hoian is more charming at night with different lanterns. Especially, if you are in full moon time, the whole town has no electric lights, just only lantern lights which give you more charm and are ancient.

Day 9: Hoian Free & Take Flight To Nha Trang. O/n In Nha Trang (B)

Have more free time on your own way in Hoian and then the driver transfers you to the airport for taking flight to Nha Trang. Spend your rest of time on the beach to get more leisure time on the nice sandy beach of Nha Trang Beach city in Vietnam. Overnight at your hotel in Nha Trang.

Day 10: Nha Trang Boat Trip & Mud Bathing. O/n In Nha Trang (B/L)

Leave your hotel in Nha Trang transfer to Cau Da port for your boat trip cruising on the Nha Trang Bay. You take a boat trip to visit Mun island, the exciting boat start, we spend 45’to get to Mun island. You have one and half hours at Mun Island to observe the structure of Stalagmite Island and enjoy snorkeling on the extraordinary coral reefs which are covered with the multicolored fishes.

Then leaving for Mot Island. Have lunch with many excellent dishes, enjoying the floating bar with lots of fun.

Getting to Tam island and taking a rest at Tam Resort. You can enjoy the fruit party and also some water sports. Back to Tri Nguyen Aquarium on Hon Mieu island. Visiting aquarium and seeing sea biology inside Neptune’s place with hundreds of fishes.

The boat lands at the harbor then transfers to Thap Ba Hot Spring for relaxing with mud bathing to get new energy.

Free in the evening to discover Nha Trang beauties at night, walk around the seashore street and enjoy seafood, etc. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 11: Nha Trang Free On Beach. O/n In Nha Trang (B)

Have a full day free on the beach of Nha Trang and swim on pure blue sea water. Nha Trang is a beach bay city of Vietnam where there is a nice sandy beach for swimming and sunbathing. Overnight at a hotel in Nha Trang.

Optional: You can take a full day trip city tour in Nha Trang or discover Monkey Island, Nha Phu Bay, ect. Nha Trang offers you many other interesting island for enjoyment and discover.

Day 12: Nha Trang Free On Beach. O/n In Nha Trang (B)

Optional: You can take more enjoyment and discover more sites in Nha Trang: Yangbay waterfall, cycling around countryside, Binh Ba Island, snorkeling or diving in Nha Trang bay to see coral, etc

Day 13: Nha Trang Free Time - Take Flight To Ho Chi Minh. O/n In HCM (B)

Free in the morning to get more excitement on the beach of Nha Trang, wake up early to enjoy the sunrise, swimming in the early morning is also a great experience on the beach.

Take an afternoon flight from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City and spend your rest of time in Ho Chi Minh. It will be your impression that this big city of Vietnam is the busiest all day without having night sleep.

Have a free time in the evening for shopping at Ben Thanh night market or take a drink at a pub & bar along District 1. Overnight at your hotel in HCM.

Day 14: Cu Chi Tunnels & City Tour. O/n In HCM (B/L)

What impressive for Vietnamese in war to fight against the enemy! Visit Cu Chi tunnels. It will give you the chance to learn lively Vietnamese history and people. Try yourself through narrow tunnels which are the home, work, school… in the past underground.

Have a half day in the afternoon for your own experience around Ho Chi Minh City to get more discovery with French constructions: The Old Post Office, Notre Dame Catholic, Independent Palace, Ben Thanh market.

Have free time in the evening to get your own experience around Ho Chi Minh City with busy streets in District 1, etc. Overnight at hotel.

Day 15: Sai Gon - Mekong Delta/ My Tho - Ben Tre - HCM. O/n In HCM (B/L)

How exciting today is? Let’s take a full day to discover Mekong Delta – the land which is very famous for fruit tropical gardens and river life which give you the most impressive views in southwest Vietnam.

Leave your hotel in HCMC at 8.00 am and depart for My Tho. Take a boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses and the fruit plantation along the river bank.

Continuing the boat ride to Tortoise Island for lunch by your own account and enjoy more beauties in this island.

Have a boat ride to Tan An and enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shade of coconut trees along natural canals. You will enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music”, performed by the local people. Here is the chance to visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle. You taste delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantations and villages.

The boat takes you back to the pier and you continue back to Ho Chi Minh city and arrive back at the hotel late afternoon.

Free in the evening to walk around Ho Chi Minh city to experience the local life. Overnight at hotel

Optional : You can join a Dinner cruise on Saigon River to get more beautiful of Ho Chi Minh city at night along the river.

Day 16: Ho Chi Minh Depart (B)

After discovering Vietnam ‘s beauties, you say goodbye with much wish to have a chance to return in the near future. Wishing you a memorable time at your next destination!

• PRIVATE door to door transport (new vehicle) with air-conditioned
• Domestic flight (Priority Vietnam airline fisrt)
• Experience English speaking guide
• Entrance fees at sites mentioned in the program (once entry)
• Meals in Duong Lam village, Halong Bay cruise, cooking class in Hoian and Nha Trang boat trip as mentioned in the program (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)
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4 things we want to see from the final grand tour special.

We don’t know a whole lot yet about the upcoming special that will conclude eight years of The Grand Tour , Amazon’s successor to Clarkson / Hammond / May era Top Gear . We know it takes place in Zimbabwe, we know it’ll air at some point later this year, and, thanks to some behind-the-scenes images, we know what cars it’ll feature (more on that below).

Apart from that, we’re in the dark. Fresh from the debut of the penultimate episode, Sand Job , we’ve had a bit of a think about what we’d like to see from the final episode, which will wrap up over two decades of car TV fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.

It goes without saying, but here’s your fair warning anyway: this article contains spoilers for The Grand Tour: Sand Job, as well as the upcoming Zimbabwe special.

A return to cheaper, older cars

The earlier Top Gear specials followed the formula laid out by the regular show’s cheap car challenges: the presenters were given a pithy sum of money and told to buy a car. This led to some pretty memorable, plucky cars: Clarkson’s breakdown-prone Lancia Beta, May’s remarkably tough Volvo 850R and, of course, Oliver, the Opel Kadett. The fact that the three presenters tended to gravitate towards very different types of cars often lent the episodes a pleasingly mismatched, ramshackle feel too.

The idea of having a budget was quietly dropped for the Patagonia special, something that was carried over to The Grand Tour. It reached the point with Sand Job where they were traversing the Sahara desert in a selection of professionally modified, fairly modern open-top grand tourers. While it was deeply impressive to see the sort of abuse these complex cars could stand up to, it also felt a little like they lacked a little of the personality of some of the older, more beat-up cars seen in earlier specials (Hammond’s sentient Aston Martin notwithstanding).

Obviously, it’s far harder now to pick up interesting cars for a couple of grand than it was even five years ago, but even so, a return to some older, less high-end metal wouldn’t go amiss. Happily, it seems our wishes might be granted on this one: the few behind-the-scenes shots that have emerged of the Zimbabwe episode show that the featured cars are a Lancia Beta Montecarlo, Ford Capri and Triumph Stag.

Less predictability

Look, we’re not here to moan about either Top Gear or The Grand Tour being ‘too scripted’. That dead horse has been well and truly beaten by people on the internet, and quite frankly, anyone who truly believed either show was a free-flowing, non-scripted slice of reality in their latter years probably needs to take a good long look at themselves.

We mean the things that are included in those scripts. A perilous water crossing was entertaining when it was on a shaky homemade raft in Tanzania, but after building a rickety bridge over the River Kok in Thailand and a ‘floating road’ across a sound in Scotland, it’s diminishing returns each time, until we arrive at the rafts used to cross the river near the end of Sand Job. It’s entertaining, but we can’t help feeling we’ve been here before.

The TG and TGT specials have always leaned into set pieces like these, but the most memorable ones tend to be the least expected: a cow on the roof of a Chevrolet Camaro, a race around an ancient Roman chariot arena, a terrible waxwork of Nigel Mansell being met with misfortune after hilarious misfortune – you get the point.

More beauty and culture

Farcical and chaotic as they can be, Top Gear and The Grand Tour’s specials have always made a point of showing off the natural beauty, local flavour and welcoming people of the countries they visit. You can see it everywhere from the American South to the Scottish Highlands, but it’s most prominent in countries where most viewers’ perceptions are coloured by either what they’ve seen on the news or been told about in history lessons: Vietnam, Iraq, Rwanda and so on.

In other cases, it’s nations that we simply don’t really know anything about. We couldn’t have told you much about Mauritania before we watched Sand Job, but one of the absolute highlights of the episode was when the trio visited the capital city, Nouakchott, and looked at some of the astoundingly clapped-out cars that are kept on the road.

The big specials have always been filled with absolutely stunning scenery too – again, we direct you to the ending sequence of Sand Job, with the cars flying down the beach to the epic soundtrack of M83’s ‘Outro’. We hope for, and expect, more of the same from the Zimbabwe episode. The specials have always done a brilliant job of making the setting feel like an active part of the show, not just a backdrop.

A proper send-off

Once the Zimbabwe special is out, it’ll be the first time since 2003 that there hasn’t been a car show presented by Clarkson, Hammond and May either on TV or in the works (barring a few months of uncertainty in 2015 following Clarkson’s dismissal from the BBC). That’s a significant thing for a good couple of generations of car enthusiasts who grew up watching them, and whose car enthusiasm might not have burned as bright without hearing the opening riff of ‘Jessica’ on a Sunday evening or eagerly waiting for the new Grand Tour episode to drop.

It’s not really the trio’s style to get overly sappy about this sort of thing, but it would be remiss of them to not at least acknowledge the impact they’ve had on car culture for the last two decades.

We got something similar at the end of the final studio episode of The Grand Tour, but even then we already knew we had a few more years’ worth of specials to look forward to. This time, it’s a much more significant ending and, with Top Gear’s future totally up in the air, it means there’ll be no broadly popular big-budget car telly at all for the first time in a long time. That’ll be a strange thing indeed, and we hope it’s treated with the gravity it deserves.

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Good Morning Vietnam: The Vietnam Road Trip Special

One of the best indications that you have a solid presenting team is to take them out of their element and see if they’re still entertaining. The Vietnam Special from Top Gear Series 12 was one such occasion as it took Jeremy, James, and Richard away from the world of cars and onto three of the most rickety, beat up motorcycles that I have ever seen. The fact that it quickly became one of my all time favorite episodes speaks volumes about how entertaining the three boys are.

The episode had everything a good Top Gear episode needed; it had pranks between the hosts (Richard’s ship was awesome), bumbling moments of ineptitude (James’ colander and Jeremy trying to start his bike come to mind), tasteless jokes regarding the war, and jaw-dropping backdrop of gorgeous Vietnam scenery.

This single episode had some of my favorite moments in all of Top Gear/The Grand Tour history. Jeremy and James trying out snake bile vodka was one of them, and Richard’s subsequent face at everything Vietnam had to offer was another. The grueling train ride in what appeared to be ungodly heat and humidity made me cringe (I don’t do well in heat). The three gifts the boys got for each other were, well, exactly what I expected. Also, I couldn’t help but wonder how badly Jeremy must have smelled when he got that massage (those poor ladies).

The motorcycle driving test segment was hilarious as well, and even though it was clear that Jeremy speaking Vietnamese was scripted, it was still a funny surprise. The one segment of the episode that absolutely blew my mind away, however, was the final portion when the boys had to convert their bikes into boats and sail through a stunning network of islands. It was truly beautiful to see nature’s sense of style as they weaved in and out between the islands of Ha Long Bay:

It’s an absolutely gorgeous sight that I can stare at for the rest of my life, and the scenery easily is as stunning as any other in Top Gear history. Besides the scenery, this special was one of the earliest episodes that I can remember that eschewed hijinks with cars and focused more on the three presenters themselves. After all is said and done and 22 seasons of Top Gear are ready for my viewing, the Vietnam Special is one of a handful that stick out in my mind. It is truly one of the greats.

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