National Geographic Award Winning Vietnam For the Family

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Hanoi, Sapa, Halong Bay, Danang, Hoi An, Hue, Ho Chi Minh City

Figure out how to make lights, look at a B-52 aircraft, investigate caverns, and more.

Kayak and swim in Halong Bay on your own private sanctioned journey transport.

Wonder about the water manikins and excursion into the mountains of Sapa.

Appreciate private vehicles, controls, and including homegrown air and visa costs.

Highlighting a curated determination of family-accommodating lodgings.

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  • Group Size Medium Group
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All about the National Geographic Award Winning Vietnam For the Family.

A travel experience like no other

This example schedule was made by specialists and is intended to rouse your next trip. It is fit to be tweaked to suit your inclinations, tastes, and spending plan so you can associate with nearby societies and experience genuine travel on your own terms, and leaving at whatever point you pick.

  • DAY 1

HANOI The Adventure Begins

  • Vietnam Welcome Package
  • VIP Immigration Fast Track Meet & Greet with Visa – VIP Fast Track (Single Entry)
  • Airport – Vehicle/Guide/Driver.

 

  • DAY 2

HANOI Get a Lay of the Land

  • Hanoi City and West Lake Tour (with Lunch, 8 hrs) – Private
  • Lunch (included)
  • Water Puppet Show (with Dinner, 3-4 hrs) – Private Tour.

 

  • DAY 3

HANOI Hidden Gems

  • 1/2 Day Bat Trang Pottery Village (3 hrs) – Vehicle/Driver/Guide.

 

  • DAY 4

HANOI TO SAPA Chasing Waterfalls

  • Transfer – Private – Hanoi – Sapa [via Lao Cai – 5 hrs] – Vehicle/Driver
  • 1/2 Day Silver Waterfall & Heaven’s Gate (4 hrs) – Vehicle/Guide/Driver.

 

  • DAY 5

SAPA Live Like a Local

  • Lao Chai, Tavan & Giang Ta Chai (with Lunch, 7.5 hrs) – Private
  • Lunch (included).

 

  • DAY 6

SAPA TO HANOI Pedal Through the Past

  • 1/2 Day Cycling Tour to Muong Hoa Village (4 hrs) – Vehicle/Guide/Driver
  • Transfer – Private – Sapa – Hanoi [via Lao Cai – 5 hrs] – Vehicle/Driver.

 

  • DAY 7

HANOI TO HALONG BAY All Aboard!

  • Hanoi – Halong Bay
  • Embarkation
  • Lunch on Board
  • Halong Bay Highlights
  • Cooking Class & Candlelit Dinner
  • Kayak Halong Bay
  • Dinner on Board (Included)

 

  • DAY 8

HALONG BAY TO HANOI TO DANANG TO HOI AN The Journey Continues…

  • Tai Chi Lesson & Traditional Fishing Village
  • Breakfast on Board
  • Brunch on Board
  • Disembarkation
  • Airport – Vehicle/Guide/Driver
  • Halong Bay – Hanoi
  • Air – Hanoi – Danang [1.5 hrs] – Economy
  • Transfer – Private – Danang – Hoi An [1 hr] – Vehicle/Guide/Driver.

 

  • DAY 9

HOI AN Creative Cuisine

  • Lantern Making & Cooking Class by Bike (with Lunch, 8 hrs) – Bicycle/Guide
  • Lunch (included).

 

  • DAY 10

HOI AN TO HUE A Dazzling Drive

  • Transfer – Private – Hoi An – Hue [3.5 hrs] – Vehicle/Driver
  • 1/2 Day Biking to Vida Village & Kite Flying at Ngo Mon Gate (3 hrs) – Bike/Guide.

 

  • DAY 11

HUE Venture into the Outdoors

  • Phong Nha Cave (with Lunch, 10.5 hrs) – Vehicle/Guide/Driver
  • Lunch (included).

 

  • DAY 12

HUE TO HO CHI MINH CITY En Route

  • Airport – Vehicle/Guide/Driver
  • Air – Hue – Ho Chi Minh City [1.5 hrs] – Economy
  • Airport – Vehicle/Guide/Driver
  • Notre Dame Cathedral & Pagodas of Ho Chi Minh City (4 hrs) – Private Tour.

 

  • DAY 13

HO CHI MINH CITY Winding the Wind-Swept Shorelines

  • Vinh Long Mekong Delta (with Lunch, 9 hrs) – Private Tour
  • Lunch (included).

 

  • DAY 14

HO CHI MINH CITY Bon Voyage

  • Airport – Vehicle/Guide/Driver.

 

The tour package inclusions and exclusions at a glance
What is included in this tour?Items that are included in the cost of tour price.
  • A completely tweaked agenda dependent on your inclinations and timetable
  • Day in and day out in-objective help from our neighborhood office
  • All convenience stays, visits, and moves for booked exercises are covered, except if in any case recorded in the agenda
  • A private driver for visits and moves (in certain nations our neighborhood private aides likewise go about as your driver – your Destination Expert will examine with you if material)
  • Nearby private aides or shared visits that take you through your agenda features and encounters, your last schedule will affirm the sort of visit
  • Hello at the air terminal or at your convenience from one of our agents – your master will affirm your meet and welcome area with you
  • Breakfast every morning at your lodging, in addition to any suppers demonstrated in the agenda
  • One bag and one carry-on per individual for trip moves.
What is not included in this tour?Items that are not included in the cost of tour price.
  • Your worldwide airfare – kindly can let your master say whether you’d prefer to get estimating from our Air Team
  • Travel protection, which we offer and can be bought after you’ve booked your visit
  • Visas (except if noted)
  • Tips for administrations and encounters
  • Snacks, suppers, and beverages (heavy drinker and non-drunkard), except if determined in the schedule
  • Overabundance stuff charges, and where pertinent, things excluded from your passage
  • Individual charges like clothing, calls, SIM cards, or room administration
  • Early registration or late registration from lodgings (except if in any case indicated)
  • Extra touring, exercises, and encounters outside of your schedule
  • Discretionary improvements like room or flight redesigns, or nearby camera or video expenses
  • Identification charges, vaccination expenses, and nearby flight charges (when pertinent).
  1. Day 1 HANOI

    The Adventure Begins

    Welcome to Vietnam! Please note: Your travel archives contain a Visa-on-Arrival letter (except if in any case orchestrated). If it’s not too much trouble, guarantee to pack this in your portable gear. Your Visa-on-Arrival letter should be introduced to Customs upon section into the country.

    Upon landing in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport, you will be invited by an entertainer holding a sign with your name on it. This entertainer will manage you through quick track security administrations and, after you get a stamp for your Visa and have gathered your baggage, will lead the route to your anticipating aide and vehicle.

    You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Hanoi Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

  2. Day 2 HANOI

    Get a Lay of the Land

    Hanoi appreciates a rich Imperial history going back longer than a thousand years, and an astounding variety of neighborhood ethnic gatherings weave the texture of the city’s rich embroidery. Start your day on the edges of the city with your private driver and English-talking guide by visiting the Museum of Ethnology. The gallery gives an astute look into the country’s protracted history, with more than 15,000 photographs and 10,000 items and curios portraying a verifiable point of view of the lives, exercises, customs, and propensities of the 54 perceived ethnic gatherings of Vietnam. Crash once again into focal Hanoi, halting at the Temple of Literature, underlying 1070 and devoted to Confucius. Appreciate a nearby Vietnamese lunch at Banh Tom Ho Tay, an eatery celebrated for its shrimp cakes in the West Lake territory.

    After lunch, visit Truc Bach Lake, including a landmark to the late US Senator John McCain, recognizing where he dropped to security after his plane was shot down ludicrous. At the close by Huu Tiep Lake, the destruction of an American B-52 aircraft lies as a commemoration of the conflict. From here, visit Hoa Lo Prison, developed in 1896 by the French to house Vietnamese political detainees. Under the French system, it was known as the Maison Centrale and was a significant image of colonialist misuse of the period. The Vietnamese took it over in 1954, and the jail was thusly used to house detainees of battle from 1964 to 1973, where it came to be referred to mockingly as the Hanoi Hilton by American POWs. It will undoubtedly be a moving visit.

    Proceed to Ngoc Son Temple, a pagoda arranged on a little island in Hoan Kiem Lake open by a traditionally painted wooden extension. The perspective on the city from the pagoda is especially well known. End your day by strolling through the notable Old Quarter. The roads of this area are clamoring with bikes, bikes, cyclos, and vehicles hurdling around walkers. The most ideal approach to appreciate the enchanting pilgrim engineering is to meander with your guide at a relaxed speed and make certain to stop for some Vietnamese espresso or a neighborhood nibble from one of the many tempting road sellers. Your guide and private driver will go with you back to your inn, or in the event that you like to appreciate supper at your speed in the Old Quarter and absorb the air, you can make your own particular manner back to your inn at your recreation.

    Water puppetry has a long and celebrated custom in Vietnam, tracing all the way back to the 11th century. The manikins are made of lacquered wood, and the shows acted in a midsection profound pool, with a going with customary Vietnamese ensemble. This evening, meet with your driver and English-talking guide for a night out at the Thang Long Opera Theater for a conventional dramatic exhibition, trailed by a tasty supper at La Verticale, an eatery that represents considerable authority in French-Indochina food. In the event that La Verticale is amazingly occupied or not accessible, another eatery of similar quality will be advertised.

  3. Day 3 HANOI

    Secret Gems

    Today you will be taken to the Bat Trang Pottery Village. The well-known town is arranged roughly 15 kilometers outside of Hanoi, encircled by prolific farmland. Watch the craftsmen framing, painting, and coating their items, which are then heated for a few days in enormous ovens.

  4. Day 4 HANOI TO SAPA

    Pursuing Waterfalls

    Move from Hanoi to Sapa through the Noi Bai-Lao Cai interstate. The movement time is around five hours.

    You will be gotten from your Sapa lodging by private vehicle for a drive to the Silver Waterfall (best in the stormy season from May to November). Go for a short stroll to the cascade where an extraordinary view is offered of the encompassing mountains and the rich woods of Hoang Lien National Park. En route, your guide will explain about this uncommon piece of Sapa, where many tree species are become, for example, plum and peach trees. Proceed via vehicle up to Heaven’s Gate where you can see Fansipan Mountain, ’the top of Indochina’ at the stature of 3143 meters above ocean level.

  5. Day 5 SAPA

    Live Like a Local

    Withdraw from Sapa and appreciate the brilliant view from your private vehicle while in transit to Lao Chai town. En route, stop at slows down that serve tea, natural product, and desserts. Show up at the Black Hmong town of Lao Chai, where you will encounter the everyday life of the local area. A short time later, stroll from Lao Chai to Ta Van town, where the Zay slope clans live. Here you will rest and appreciate a delightful lunch arranged by your neighborhood control. After lunch, appreciate an evening of journeying across bamboo timberlands, trailed by unwinding next to a cascade. Proceed and investigate the Red Dao town of Giang Ta Chai.

  6. Day 6 SAPA TO HANOI

    Pedal Through the Past

    Leave Sapa by going downhill to the towns. The ride brings you into quite possibly the most delightful valleys of the zone. From Lao Chai, you turn to an earth trail that sneaks through rice paddy patios and towns, home to various slope clans like Black Hmong and Giay. You will have the opportunity to stop by the neighborhood house just as appreciate phenomenal perspectives over immense rice paddy patios. You will later show up in Ta Van, where the vehicle will return you to Sapa.

    You will be secretly moved from Sapa to Hanoi through the Noi Bai-Lao Cai turnpike by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. The inexact travel time is five hours.

  7. Day 7 HANOI TO HALONG BAY

    All Aboard!

    Early earlier today, head profound into the Vietnamese field with your private driver and English-talking guide for the grand drive to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Halong Bay, adjoining the Gulf of Tonkin. Spotted with grand limestone karsts, solid islands, energizing grottoes standing by to be investigated, and sea blue waters, this regular marvel is an absolute necessity for guests to Northern Vietnam. The exchange is around 4 hours. Your guide is glad to make stops en route to take in the flawless landscape.

    Welcome locally available the Bhaya Legend Cruise!

    Registration at Tuan Chau Marina, and prepare to head out towards Bai Tu Long Bay. After embarkation, appreciate an invite mixed drink during the Cruise Manager’s security preparation and schedule presentation. Loading up time is at roughly 12:30 p.m. Appreciate lunch on board as you head towards Halong Bay’s acclaimed limestone arrangements. The Bhaya Legend is a secretly sanctioned voyage, so there is adaptability in the cruising agenda.

    In the early evening, visit Thien Canh Son Cave, an interesting characteristic cavern loaded up with underground rock formations and stalagmites. The common topographical developments of the cavern incorporate rocks that take after a lotus and a child elephant and the roof shimmers with characteristic gemstones that look like hanging lights.

    A short time later, get back to the boat where you can select to unwind on the sundeck or enjoy a back rub (Spa can be reserved at the gathering). This is additionally a fortunate chance to swim in the sky blue waters of the sound.

    In the late evening participate in a Masterchef cooking rivalry with conventional Vietnamese dishes on the sundeck and watch the nightfall over the charming Halong Bay while cruising to the short-term safe haven spot. The cooking class might be held inside the café if the climate doesn’t allow it.

    Appreciate a candlelit set-menu Vietnamese supper ready. After supper, resign to your lodge for the night or decide to join the team for a special chance for squid fishing.

    As a component of your overnight Halong Bay journey, free kayak utilization is incorporated for your delight, permitting you to set out and investigate the bayous and rock developments in a more personal setting. This is a really delightful approach to find the normal view.

  8. Day 8 HALONG BAY TO HANOI TO DANANG TO HOI AN

    The Journey Continues…

    Get going your day with a Tai Chi exercise on the sundeck with free tea and espresso being served. Restore your body and psyche with the sluggish development of Tai Chi and appreciate the sunrise on the inlet.

    After a light breakfast ready, visit the conventional fishing town of Vung Vieng by customary dinghy or by kayak. This is the most un-touristy of the four fishing towns in Halong Bay, where you’ll discover roughly 50 families living in groups of houses secured inside the common assurance of the limestone tops.

    Later in the first part of the day get back to your boat where early lunch will be served ready while the vessel travels back to the harbor.

    Upon appearance at the Tuan Chau Marina in Halong Bay, you’ll land from the boat.

    You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Hanoi Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

    Meet your private driver and English-talking guide for exchange back to Hanoi.

    Load onto a departure from Hanoi with direct assistance to Danang. The surmised flight time is one hour and 20 minutes.

    Appreciate a picturesque exchange from Danang to Hoi A with a private vehicle and an English talking guide. The exchange is around 40 minutes.

  9. Day 9 HOI AN

    Imaginative Cuisine

    Start your day with a guided bike ride through old roads to the home of skilled workers. Get a concise prologue to the set of experiences, shape, and shade of conventional lights just as the way toward making them. You will have a chance to make your own lamp and keep it as a trinket. Next proceed to a Hoi A cooking school, where you will figure out how to prepare conventional Vietnamese food, eat and unwind. For lunch, you will figure out how to prepare conventional Hoi A food. After lunch, you will be told the best way to enrich and pack your lamp. The visit closes with a guided ride back to the lodging.

  10. Day 10 HOI AN TO HUE

    A Dazzling Drive

    You will be secretly moved from Hoi A to Hue by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. The estimated travel time is three hours and 30 minutes.

    The trekking visit along the Perfume River begins toward the beginning of the day. You will get an opportunity to perceive how the nearby individuals live. In the Vy Da town, guests can appreciate the Hue espresso and become familiar with the old design. Later in the early evening, you will return to Hue City and participate in a kite-flying challenge. The individual who can fly their kite the most noteworthy successes.

  11. Day 11 HUE

    Adventure into the Outdoors

    Get a solid beginning to the day for the 200-kilometer drive from Hue to the Son River in Quang Binh territory. At the point when you show up, you’ll take a boat ride to the celebrated caverns at Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park. The recreation center is one of the world’s two biggest limestone areas. In correlation with 41 other world legacy locales that have karsts, Phong Nha has divergent geomorphic, geologic, and biotic conditions. The karsts of Phong Nha can be followed back to the Palaeozoic 400 million years prior. This makes Phong Nha the most seasoned major karst in Asia. Vietnamese and British researchers have overviewed an aggregate of 20 caverns with a complete length of 70 kilometers up until this point. Of these overviewed caverns, 17 were in the Phong Nha zone and three in the Ke Bang zone. Following the tight underground stream, you’ll investigate the most amazing Phong Nha cavern. A while later, get back to Dong Hoi for lunch prior to driving back to Hue.

  12. Day 12 HUE TO HO CHI MINH CITY

    On the way

    You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Hue Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

    Get onto a departure from Hue with the direct support of Ho Chi Minh City. The estimated flight time is one hour and 30 minutes.

    You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Ho Chi Minh Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

    The historical backdrop of Ho Chi Minh City has numerous layers, telling a story of many years of outside impact from the Chinese and the French. With your private driver and English-talking guide, start your visit today by investigating Cholon, the city’s Chinatown and generally viewed as the biggest one on the planet by region. The city used to be known as Saigon-Cholon until Vietnam’s autonomy from France in 1955. From here proceed to the Jade Emperor Pagoda, otherwise called Phuoc Hai and viewed as perhaps the most intriguing pagodas with regards to the country. Worked by the Cantonese people group around the turn of the twentieth century, it is as yet occupied with admirers. Loaded up with smoky incense, the pagoda with its extravagantly cut dolls and designed boards of cut overlaid woodwork is devoted to Buddhist and Taoist gods. On the off chance that you just visit one pagoda in the city, this ought to be the one. At last, head over to Dong Khoi Area in the focal point of the city where the French pioneer presence can be felt at the Notre Dame Cathedral, a Catholic Basilica charged totally of imported French structure materials. End with a visit to the Saigon Central Post Office, a staggering compositional wonder with rich Gothic, Renaissance, and French impacts.

  13. Day 13 HO CHI MINH CITY

    Winding the Wind-Swept Shorelines

    The powerful Mekong River is the soul of Vietnam and its neighbors. Beginning high up in the Tibetan level in China, it twists across Southeast Asia for more than 2700 miles and arrives at its Delta on the edges of Ho Chi Minh City. The Mekong Delta is an authentic organic mother lode of extraordinary species discovered no place else, the zone is additionally basic to rural creation in southern Vietnam. Today, head into the field for 62 miles to Cai Be on a grand excursion with your private driver and English-talking guide. Here you’ll jump in a since quite a while ago followed boat to journey around the drifting business sector, where you’ll discover townspeople trading products and produce from their kayaks. The Catholic church behind the scenes of the drifting business sector makes for a sensational photograph opportunity. Head to the contrary side of the Mekong River to Hoa Binh Phuoc islet, an intriguing labyrinth of obscure brooks that are best investigated from the solace of your boat. Stop for an average Vietnamese lunch at a little nearby eatery. After lunch, blend with the nearby individuals and visit a bonsai garden, where you can gain proficiency with a couple of tips on focusing on these fragile small-scale trees. Visit the neighborhood provincial homes of the district, where families actually produce customary tiles and earthenware production and look at the home ventures at a rice paper oven and coconut candy oven. Toward the day’s end, get comfortable for the two-hour move back to the city.

  14. Day 14 HO CHI MINH CITY

    Bon Voyage

    You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Ho Chi Minh Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.