What is a better way to gather all family members together than a family tour? Vietnam, located in the Southeast Asia Region, may be the one of the ideal destinations for your next family tour. With numerous choices for outdoor activities: Kayaking, Swimming in Halong Bay, biking trip and bamboo boat trip in the Water coconut forest in Hoi An Ancient Town, the kids’ spirit will be risen every time. In addition to the local friendliness, a wide range of delicious cuisine, local lessons on history and culture as well as the traditional workshop to make the regional souvenirs will surely blow your family away.

Highlights:

Ho Chi Minh → Mekong → Hoi An → Hue → Hanoi → Ninh Binh → Halong Bay → Hanoi

º A special family tour along Vietnam from the lively South to the authentic North

º Awaken the kids' excitement with Vespa tour in Saigon to capture the real local life and to taste typical food of the city

º Living the unique local floating Mekong Delta life with visit to traditional products workshop

º Refresh yourselves in colorful and charming Hoi An Ancient Town

º Enjoy the brilliant Hoi An Memories Show with a party of lights and sounds

º Join the members of the family immersing in the fuzziness of the fairy world on Ba Na Hills Complex and see the amazing views of Da Nang from the famous Golden Bridge

º Precious chance for children to learn about the history and royal culture in Hue Old Citadel

º Enjoy family moments by joining exciting activities in Halong Bay: swimming, go kayaking, cooking class, relaxing on cruise

º Please all the senses with the walk along Hanoi Old Quarter lively streets

º Take a relaxing boat ride through beautiful scenery with limestone caves in Tam Coc - Halong on Land.

DAY 1: HO CHI MINH - ARRIVAL (D)

Welcome to Vietnam - Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City

On arrival at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), you will be greeted by our guide and transferred to the hotel in the downtown. After doing the check in, you will be free on your own to walk around the city center to get acquainted with the liveliness of this young city.

In the evening, Your private car will transfer you to a local restaurant to have welcome dinner. After that back to your hotel by the car. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

DAY 2: HO CHI MINH - CU CHI TUNNELS - FOOD TOUR BY VESPA (B, D)

08.30AM: After breakfast at hotel, your private guide will meet you at your hotel lobby. A one and half hour drive takes you to Cu Chi Tunnels where human knowledge has been enriched by experiencing an web-like tunnels system of more than 200km in length which used to be the shelters of guerrillas during the war against American troops. After visiting Cu Chi Tunnels, you will be transfered back to your hotel. Lunch on your own account.

At 06:00PM: Part night excursion, part street food adventure. Your drivers will pick you up at your hotel lobby and first stop is to Café zoom to "watch the world goes by" (quoted by The Lonely Planet) and enjoy cocktail and appetizer (inclusive) before adventuring into favorite local eating spot. Guests experience the nightlife of Saigon the way locals do, all from the back of a vintage Vespa. The tour will start with a ride to part Chinatown and then heading to District 4 through busy streets and alleys to see the night life of locals and enjoy street seafood and cold drinks, places that foreigner won't be found. Leaving district 4 to district 3 the tour pass through downtown district 1 to take in the sights on the way to Banh Xeo, specialty of Saigon and southern food with the locals. Then the tour will continue to a hidden Vietnamese-style coffee shop to have a taste of Vietnamese music (live) as a local. After this the tour will bring guest to a lively music venue to enjoy the drinks with live music. Guests ride pillion behind our drivers.

Banh Xeo 

About 10.00 PM, the tour finshes and you will be dropped off at your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

DAY 3: HO CHI MINH - MEKONG DELTA (B, L)

07.30AM: After breakfast, your guide will take you to the trip to Cai Be pier from Ho Chi Minh city by car / van via Trung Luong Freeway.

The program will start with a visit of Cai Be floating market. Then, the rowing boat will take you deeper into the countryside on smaller canals to enjoy the peaceful time. Back to our boat to go across one of the longest river in the world, Mekong River, to come to An Binh Island. Travel on a handmade canal to Ut Trinh home & have an optional lunch. After lunch, we can walk around this orchard & enjoy some cups of tea when listening to the traditional music in the ancient house.

Walk in the local village to visit the local workshop to see how to make rice paper, coconut candy, pop-rice... Enjoy some sweets with a cup of hot tea. Optional biking can be made for a leisure! It will be so amazing to bike on village paths to see the local daily life: orchard, school, church, pagoda, traditional houses and maybe the ancestral ways to pick up fruits in Mekong Delta... Visit the brick kilns where you can see how the local people create beautiful potteries from clay. The cruise will end at Vinh Long city!

Meet the car for trip to Can Tho. Overnight in Can Tho.

DAY 4: MEKONG DELTA - HO CHI MINH - HOI AN (B, L)

About 05.30AM: In the very early morning, our guide will accompany with you to depart for Cai Rang floating market where locals go to buy and sell a variety of fruits vegetables from boats of all sizes and which is the most original ones and bustling places of the region. If you have experienced many exciting days when traveling to Vietnam, surly you get out of bed early one day to witness this lovely local market to fullfill your Vietnam Holiday.

Cai Rang floating market

The boat trip will give you valuable chance to observe the unique "advertisement" of local business - "Cây Bẹo": Sellers tie their goods to a tall pole so that buyers can see from a distance what they are selling. Seat on local trading boat, witness boasting activities in market, find out local life in stilt house along river.

After the trip, we will get back to the hotel for breakfast and relax.

About a scheduled time, your guide will take you back to Ho Chi Minh Airport and get flight to Danang. Lunch en-route at a local restaurant.

When arriving in Danang, you will be welcomed by our driver and transferred to the hotel in Hoi An. Overnight in Hoi An.

DAY 5: HOI AN ANCIENT TOWN (B)

At 18h00: Your private driver will come to take you at your hotel in Hoi An to Hoi An Impression Theme Park. The park is a boat that brings tourists back in time to one of the busiest commercial ports in Asia in XVI-XVII century and carries memories of Hoi An 400 years ago back to contemporary people.

After having a panoramic view of an ancient Hoi An through interesting activities and models displayed in the park, at 19:00, let's move to the area for the impressive Hoi An memories show. This show is an incredible spectacle. The sheer scale of it is comparable to an Olympic Games opening ceremony. Located in an over 25,000 square-metre area, the stage itself is more like a Hollywood set featuring both watery and mountainous scenery and using modern staging techniques, lighting technology and elegant audio effects. Boasting a cast of 500 actors and dancers, it uses stunning and spectacular imagery and as a viewer, you are invited along a 400-hundred-year journey of the town’s growth with all of its grace and prosperity.

Hoi An Memories show begins at 19h30 and finishes at 20h45 everyday (except Tuesday).

After the show, be transfered back by private car to your hotel.

Overnight in Hoi An.

DAY 6: HOI AN - HUE (B, L)

08.00AM: Our guide and driver will go to your hotel to pick you up and we will head to Ba Na Hills. Take Cable Car which gains 5 world scores to Ba Na hills station. Stop at By Night station to visit Vong Nguyet hills, Linh Ung pagoda, The Old Villas of French. Continue moving up by cable car to the Nui Chua Mountain – the top of Ba Na range, visiting Nghinh Phong top, Le Nim Villas, Orchid Garden… Experience hill climbing train (first and unique funicular in Vietnam) and visit an old French cellar (Debay Ancient Wine Cellar), flower garden Le Jardin D’amour.

Golden Bridge in Danang city

You should not miss walking on the famous Golden Bridge amid the foggy hills of the mountain, witness the amazing and gorgeous view of Da Nang City.

Have lunch at a restaurant on Ba Na Hills.

Afternoon: Free for joining games in Fantasy Park – the third biggest indoor games zone in Vietnam with series of interesting games: 4 – 5D film, skiver, The death race, dinosaur park…

At about 15h00: Transfer from Ba Na Hills to Hue city in about 02 hours and 15 minutes.

Arrival Hue and do the check-in your hotel. Free time at your leisure. Overnight in Hue.

DAY 7: HUE CITY TOUR (B, L)

08.30 AM: Our tour guide will wait for you at the hotel lobby to start the tour around Hue Old Citadel.

Rising up in the ancient land, you board on a private boat for cruising on the romantic Perfume River. Being the ancient capital, Hue is surrounded with ancient royal tombs of emperors past, and visit to some of these tombs will be on the itinerary for today. The charming Lady Pagoda (Thien Mu Pagoda) will be the first stop. Setting in the converge of rivers, and gives you a great view on the Perfume River and surrounding area. From here you will take a drive to visit King Minh Mang tomb & King Tu Duc tomb. Lunch at a local restaurant.

Thien Mu pagoda in Hue city

This afternoon you will join a tour of Hue City including the Old Citadel and the Forbidden Purple City - an amazing historic landmark in Hue - a definite must-see sight to learn more about the history and architecture that visitor should not miss when travelling to that peaceful area.

After the tour you will be transfer back to your hotel. Free in the evening. Overnight in Hue.

DAY 8: HUE - HANOI (B)

About 02 hours before your filght, our driver will come to the hotel and take you to the airport for the flight from Hue to Hanoi.

Welcome to Hanoi, the heart of Vietnam which is considered as a blend between the traditional and the modern beauties. At Noi Bai Airport, our guide and driver will welcome then take you to your hotel to do check-in.

After relaxation, it is your free time to discover the Old Quarter and taste very delicious local cuisine. Overnight in Hanoi.

DAY 9: HANOI CITY TOUR (B, L)

08.00 AM: After breakfast at the hotel, our tour guide will come to the hotel and pick you up, then we will start the Hanoi city tour.

We will start with a visit to Ho Chi Minh Complex. Here you can visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where the corpse of Uncle Ho kept there. Next you will visit the Presidential Palace - a nice French architecture in the garden and Ho Chi Minh House on stilt. Visiting the house you will see the simple life of Ho Chi Minh - the president in Vietnamese's spirit forever. We will finish this area with One Pillar Pagoda - one of the most attractions in Hanoi you cannot miss with the special in architecture.

Having lunch and you will continue to the Temple of Literature - The first University of Vietnam. The next destination will be Museum of Ethnology to learn more about Vietnam Culture. Next we will explore Hanoi by traveling through the Old Quarter with 36 ancient streets in a traditional cyclo. This slow - speed tour will give your great chance to fully enjoy the classic and modern of the capital. We will end the tour at about 04.00 PM then it is your free time to go shopping, relax in Hanoi. Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.

DAY 10: HANOI - HOA LU - TAM COC - HANOI (B, L)

08.00AM: After breakfast at your hotel, our tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and head out for Ninh Binh (2 hours driving). There is a beautiful roadside scenery on the way. Arriving in Ninh Binh city, first pay a visit to Hoa Lu – the ancient Royal Capital of Vietnam, visit the two temples: Temple of King Dinh and King Le, admire the unique architecture from ancient times.

Hoa Lu - the ancient royal capital of Vietnam

Continue to Tam Coc and have lunch at a nice restaurant with many local delicacies. Then boarding a small sampan to visit Tam Coc which means literally “three caves” (2.5 hour boat trip). With Halong bay type views of majestic limestone cliffs and mysterious caves, as well as countryside landscape like peaceful streams, rice paddies and deserted green fields, Tam Coc really has it all. You will feel the fresh air and peaceful moments, a very good opportunities for photo lovers, freezing the special moments and scenery.

We also cycle to Bich Dong pagoda nearby and climb up the mountain to have a wonderful perspective view of the Bich Dong and Tam Coc.

After the tour, we will drive back to Hanoi and arrive at your hotel at about 5.00 - 6.00 PM. Free time at your leisure. Overnight in Hanoi.

DAY 11: HANOI - HALONG BAY (B, L, D)

08.00AM: Our driver will pick you up at the hotel, departing 3.5 hours to Halong Bay – the World Natural Heritage recognized by UNESCO. Upon arrival, embark the cruise and enjoy welcome drink while having tour briefing. A sumptuous lunch will be served on board while the ship sailing further to the Bay, make your time to admire its dramatic limestone islands.

You can rest at your leisure on the sundeck or relax in your cabin. In the afternoon, you will have time to swim in the warm and calm water or get on kayaks of your choice. Kayaking is very easy for all levels and ages to do. Our expert and experienced guide surely instruct you basic paddling steps before leading you to explore the extraordinary beauty of Halong Bay. After 01 hour exploring the bay, we will get back to the cruise for relaxation before attending Cooking class in the late afternoon.

Enjoy the superb dinner and stay overnight on board.

DAY 12: HALONG BAY (B, L, D)

On this second cruise date, early birds are welcome to attend sunrise Tai Chi class on the sun deck to get your energy levels up for today’s adventures.

After having breakfast with freshly fruit juices and local dishes, we will board on the day cruise boat, gather with other cruise passengers who join in the 3 days 2 nights cruise program. Continue discovering Halong Bay in the off-the-beaten-track areas; admire the majestic landscapes, be deep in the sea for swimming, enjoy kayaking, and so much more.

In the late afternoon  you will be back on the cruise, take some time to freshen up, take a nap or just relax at your leisure when the cruise head to the overnight area. Spend overnight time on cruise in beautiful Halong Bay.

Cooking class on Halong Bay

DAY 13: HALONG BAY - HANOI (B, L)

We will continue our journey on Halong Bay in early morning. A Tai Chi Class on the sun deck is a must that you should not miss when on cruise.

Sitting on the upper deck; you can relax, sight-seeing while taking photos of the magnificent beauty of the rocky islands rising from the emerald water of the bay.

After breakfast, we will explore one of the finest and widest grottoes of Halong Bay. Next keep cruising and passing the bay with magnificent scene.

At 10.30AM, our boat cruises back to the jetty, and you will enjoy the last moment in the bay before having a traditional Vietnamese lunch.

You leave the boat around 11:30 at noon, we go ashore and transfer back to Hanoi.

Overnight in Hanoi.

DAY 14: HANOI - DEPARTURE (B)

Today is your free time at your leisure to enjoy last moment in the North of Vietnam. About 03 hours before your flight, we transfer you to the airport for your flight.

With the sincere thanks for your travel to Vietnam and with us, hope that you have enjoyed your Vietnam trip and look forward to see you again!

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