Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have become a friendly destination for family
holiday makers looking for private tours and travel deals to key
tourist attractions at affordable prices. The countries share things in
common, including a list of World Heritage sites, stunning landscapes,
great cuisines, exotic cultures and traditions and particularly fun
things to do. We ensure smooth holidays with children, parents and the
elderly to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and all members of your family will
experience the cultures, relax, learn about our traditions and enjoy
best cuisine. Take a look at the ready made tours below or contact us to
tailor make one to suit your family.
Suggested Itinerary
Day 1 (Thu, 26 June): Hanoi Arrival from Australia
Your connecting flight lands at Noi Bai International Airport. Our
private car and tour guide will come and pick you up, transfer to the
hotel right in the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Depending on your arrival time
we will design appropriate short tour for the day. Overnight in Hanoi
Tirant Hotel.
Day 2 (Fri, 27 June): Hanoi Highlights (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today we will explore key attractions of Hanoi. In the morning, we
drive to Ho Chi Minh complex, spend a couple of hours to visit Ho Chi
Minh Mausoleum and museum. We walk to the One Pillar Pagoda, the iconic
Buddhist temple of Vietnam. We continue to the Temple of Literature
originally built as a temple of Confucius. This is the site of the
Vietnam first university dating back to 1070. The Temple highlights the
importance of education. Have lunch in the KOTO restaurant. In the
afternoon, we visit the Museum of ethnology, the most interesting museum
in Vietnam, showing the diverse cultures of 54 ethnic groups in the
country. Let your kid explore Vietnam cultural values; play with sample
huts and outdoor playground. In the late afternoon, we enjoy an unguided
performance of Hanoi’s famous Water Puppets - kids and parents will be
equally delighted! After the show, explore the best cuisine of Hanoi in
the Old Quarter by yourself. Free and enjoy the pool with your kid in
the evening. Overnight in Hanoi Tirant Hotel.
Day 3 (Sat, 28 June): Halong Bay (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
At around 8AM, a shared shuttle bus will pick you up for a four hour
drive to Halong Bay, the World Heritage site, before boarding on the
cruise boat. Let’s explore this wonder of the world! We will cruise
through remarkable limestone formations of Halong Bay. Your family will
have the opportunities to enjoy a swim, visit stunningly beautiful
grottos and do some kayaking if the weather permits. Overnight on the
cruise boat will be a memorable experience for your family. Overnight on
Oriental Sails boat.
Day 4 (Sun, 29 June): Halong Bay - Hanoi - Sapa (Breakfast, Lunch).
In the next morning, enjoy some guided Tai Chi exercise on the
sundeck. We continue sightseeing and cruising around Halong Bay, before
turning to the harbor and driving back to Hanoi. Get a short rest in our
hotel lobby for free, then have a shower. Find some dinner before our
private car and tour guide come and transfer you to the Tran Quy Cap
station for our train to Sapa, the centre of colorful and culturally
diverse ethnic groups. Overnight on Orient Train.
Day 5 (Mon, 30 June): Sapa Ethnic Groups (Breakfast, Lunch)
A visit to the North West of Vietnam to see the magnificence of
mountains, valleys, waterfalls and ethnic communities is a must. Kids
will love getting closed to nature and the habitats or just taking
photos with a water buffalo. Our private tour guide and car will pick
you from the train station, some 30km away from Sapa town and transfer
to the hotel for breakfast and a rest. We will then have a private day
tour to see Lao Chai and Ta Van villages, home to H’mong ethnic group.
This is the best tour to explore highlights of ethnic tribal groups in
Sapa. Enjoy the traditional lifestyles, scenery and landscape, and daily
activities of the group. Overnight in Sunny Mountain View hotel.
Day 6 (Tue, 01 July): Sapa – Hanoi (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)
This morning, we will visit the Silver Waterfall. This is a great
place to enjoy taking lots of awesome photos! Climb up the waterfall
over rocky steps and have a panorama view of the mountains. Get back to
the town and have your lunch. In the afternoon, check out and we will
drive to Ta Phin village and explore the local herbal medicines. Ta Phin
is a picturesque thirty minute drive away to the North of Sapa. Set
within a valley with a towering mountain peak at one end, this village
is alive with the daily life of the Kinh, Red Dao and Black Hmong
people. After the visit, we will drive to Lao Cai city and have dinner.
In the evening, we will take the overnight train back to Hanoi,
departing at around 9PM. Start to share your own photo shows and great
moments in this lovely town on the train! Overnight on Orient Train.
Day 7 (Wed, 02 July): Hanoi-Hue Cultural Complex (breakfast, lunch)
The train arrives in Hanoi at around 6AM. Our private car will pick
you up and transfer to the hotel for a short rest. Enjoy the breakfast
and then our private car and tour guide will pick you up and transfer
the airport to take the flight departing at for Hue, then transfer to
the hotel. Have lunch. In the afternoon, we will sit on the dragon boat
cruising on the romantic Perfume River and visit Hue's best-known
religious site, the Thien Mu Pagoda (celestial lady pagoda). This is one
of the iconic places that characterize Hue land and people. Overnight
in Camellia Hotel.
Day 8 (Thu, 03 July): Hue discovery (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today, lets explore the complex of monuments in Hue. Our tour starts
with a visit to the Imperial Citadel and the Forbidden Purple City.
Built in the 19th century by the Nguyen dynasty, the City was home to
the former Emperors of Vietnam from 1802 until 1945. Have lunch. Then we
will continue the tour by visiting the enchanting mausoleum of Emperor
Khai Dinh, the famous emperor of the Nguyen dynasty. Then get to the
Dong Ba market to get a glimpse of the local life. Overnight in Camellia
Hotel.
Day 9 (Fri, 04 July): Hue – Danang Highlights (Breakfast)
Check out this morning and take a three hours drive to Da Nang city,
driving over the legendary Hai Van Pass. Check in hotel by the most
stunning beach of My Khe. Have a rest and lunch on your own. Then in the
afternoon, we will visit the Marble Mountain, a cluster of five marble
mountains lying close to the sea. It is so famous that many people
consider it as the symbol of the area. Cultural and historical vestiges
of the Marble Mountains are still on every pagoda and tower of the early
19th century and on Champa sculptures of the 14th and 15th century.
Then we will go to Cham Museum to see a collection of remnants from the
golden Champa era. Have lunch and our journey continues to the Son Tra
peninsula, which overlooks the whole city of Da Nang. Get back for a
great swim in My Khe beach. Overnight in Hoi An Glory and Spa.
Day 10 (Sat, 05 July): My Son and Hoi An (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast, we start the journey to My Son Holy Land – one of
the 5 UNESCO World Heritages in Vietnam. Considered to be Cham's
counterpart to the grand cities of South-East Asia's other Indian
influenced civilizations: Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar) Ayuthaya
(Thailand) and Borobudur (Java); My Son Holy Land is famous for its
oriental architecture and ancient civilizations once known as the former
kingdom of the ancient Cham people in Central Vietnam from the second
to the thirteenth century. Return to Hoi An which was for three
centuries one of the most important ports in Central Vietnam. We will
visit Japanese covered bridge, Tan Ky Old hose, Phuc Kien Pagoda, Cham
Museum and Chinese Assembly Hall. All these places symbolize the golden
days of this ancient city. Overnight in Hoi An Glory and Spa.
Day 11 (Sun, 06 July): Danang – Nha Trang (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)
In the morning, we transfer to Da Nang airport to take the flight for
Nha Trang city. Get transferred to the hotel in Nha Trang for lunch. In
the afternoon, we will visit key attractions of the city including the
Cham tower to get to know a local civilization which existed in this
land some hundred years ago. Visit the market to get all the taste and
sounds of local life. Then get back for a great swim. Often referred to
as one of the best bays on earth, Nha Trang beach is stunning,
beautiful, clean, with clear sky and water. We will have the opportunity
to enjoy a tropical paradise right on the beach. Kids will love all
kinds of games and water activities in the amusement park and aquatic
park on this luxurious island. Overnight in Vin Pearl Resort Nha Trang.
Day 12 (Mon, 07 July): Nha Trang Boat trip (Breakfast, Lunch, dinner)
In the morning, we will enjoy a private cruise on a wooden boat to
Tam Island, a small island strictly protected by the Government (with
support of Danida Denmark). The cruise will provide opportunities to
enjoy an amateur snorkeling, discovering marine lives thanks to crystal
clear blue water. Then visit an island and have lunch. Take a sun bed,
start enjoy fresh seafood with a cup of wine or beer. In the afternoon,
we continue visiting a village and an aquarium before transferring back
to the hotel. Overnight in Vin Pearl Resort Nha Trang.
Day 13 (Tue, 08 July): Nha Trang – Ho Chi Minh City (Breakfast)
Check out and transfer to the airport for the flight VN1355
(10.40-11.40) to Ho Chi Minh city. We will transfer you to the hotel
right in the heart of the city. Have your own lunch. Saigon is a
bustling city, yet there are great stories that can be of interest to
travelers. In the afternoon, we will start our half day city tour by
visiting the War Remnants Museum to discover one chapter of the city,
then head to Reunification Palace close by. Take a walk around Ben Thanh
Market, Notre Dame Cathedral and the central Post Office. Overnight in
Saigon Eden hotel.
Day 14 (Wed, 09 July): Mekong Delta Day tour (Breakfast, lunch)
How much have you known of this low-lying land? Well, today we will
leave Saigon for the town of Cai Be town (80 kms away) in the Mekong
Delta to take a river private boat trip. This journey cruises through
floating markets, rice fields, fruit plantations and so on along a
densely connected network of rivers and canals. An absolutely amazing
view of a totally flat, low-lying delta that seems to have no have no
boundary will bring you an immense feeling of this region. Take the
opportunity to explore local life on floating boats, which is very much
in contrast to life on the mountains in Sapa! Overnight in Saigon Eden
hotel.
Day 15 (Thu, 10 July): Cu Chi Tunnels - Cao Dai Temple (Breakfast, Lunch)
In the morning we will explore an incredible network of underground
tunnel designed and constructed to withstand fierce crack down of the
external forces, the Cu Chi tunnel. No word could describe it better
than experience it yourself. Come and see how Viet Nam won the war.
You’ve got to appreciate the talent of the country. Then we will visit
Tay Ninh City nearby to discover at the colorful temple of Cao Dai, the
centre of a unique religion in Vietnam. Overnight in Saigon Eden hotel.
Day 16 (Fri, 11 July): Departure for Australia (Breakfast)
Enjoy a free day today for last minute shopping and sightseeing. Then
we will transfer you to the airport for your flight to either Kuala
Lumpur, Bangkok or Singapore. From there you will take an overnight
flight back to Australia. End of service.
Your connecting flight lands at Noi Bai International Airport. Our
private car and tour guide will come and pick you up, transfer to the
hotel right in the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Depending on your arrival time
we will design appropriate short tour for the day. Overnight in Hanoi
Tirant Hotel.
Day 2 (Fri, 27 June): Hanoi Highlights (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today we will explore key attractions of Hanoi. In the morning, we
drive to Ho Chi Minh complex, spend a couple of hours to visit Ho Chi
Minh Mausoleum and museum. We walk to the One Pillar Pagoda, the iconic
Buddhist temple of Vietnam. We continue to the Temple of Literature
originally built as a temple of Confucius. This is the site of the
Vietnam first university dating back to 1070. The Temple highlights the
importance of education. Have lunch in the KOTO restaurant. In the
afternoon, we visit the Museum of ethnology, the most interesting museum
in Vietnam, showing the diverse cultures of 54 ethnic groups in the
country. Let your kid explore Vietnam cultural values; play with sample
huts and outdoor playground. In the late afternoon, we enjoy an unguided
performance of Hanoi’s famous Water Puppets - kids and parents will be
equally delighted! After the show, explore the best cuisine of Hanoi in
the Old Quarter by yourself. Free and enjoy the pool with your kid in
the evening. Overnight in Hanoi Tirant Hotel.
Day 3 (Sat, 28 June): Halong Bay (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
At around 8AM, a shared shuttle bus will pick you up for a four hour
drive to Halong Bay, the World Heritage site, before boarding on the
cruise boat. Let’s explore this wonder of the world! We will cruise
through remarkable limestone formations of Halong Bay. Your family will
have the opportunities to enjoy a swim, visit stunningly beautiful
grottos and do some kayaking if the weather permits. Overnight on the
cruise boat will be a memorable experience for your family. Overnight on
Oriental Sails boat.
Day 4 (Sun, 29 June): Halong Bay - Hanoi - Sapa (Breakfast, Lunch).
In the next morning, enjoy some guided Tai Chi exercise on the
sundeck. We continue sightseeing and cruising around Halong Bay, before
turning to the harbor and driving back to Hanoi. Get a short rest in our
hotel lobby for free, then have a shower. Find some dinner before our
private car and tour guide come and transfer you to the Tran Quy Cap
station for our train to Sapa, the centre of colorful and culturally
diverse ethnic groups. Overnight on Orient Train.
Day 5 (Mon, 30 June): Sapa Ethnic Groups (Breakfast, Lunch)
A visit to the North West of Vietnam to see the magnificence of
mountains, valleys, waterfalls and ethnic communities is a must. Kids
will love getting closed to nature and the habitats or just taking
photos with a water buffalo. Our private tour guide and car will pick
you from the train station, some 30km away from Sapa town and transfer
to the hotel for breakfast and a rest. We will then have a private day
tour to see Lao Chai and Ta Van villages, home to H’mong ethnic group.
This is the best tour to explore highlights of ethnic tribal groups in
Sapa. Enjoy the traditional lifestyles, scenery and landscape, and daily
activities of the group. Overnight in Sunny Mountain View hotel.
Day 6 (Tue, 01 July): Sapa – Hanoi (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)
This morning, we will visit the Silver Waterfall. This is a great
place to enjoy taking lots of awesome photos! Climb up the waterfall
over rocky steps and have a panorama view of the mountains. Get back to
the town and have your lunch. In the afternoon, check out and we will
drive to Ta Phin village and explore the local herbal medicines. Ta Phin
is a picturesque thirty minute drive away to the North of Sapa. Set
within a valley with a towering mountain peak at one end, this village
is alive with the daily life of the Kinh, Red Dao and Black Hmong
people. After the visit, we will drive to Lao Cai city and have dinner.
In the evening, we will take the overnight train back to Hanoi,
departing at around 9PM. Start to share your own photo shows and great
moments in this lovely town on the train! Overnight on Orient Train.
Day 7 (Wed, 02 July): Hanoi-Hue Cultural Complex (breakfast, lunch)
The train arrives in Hanoi at around 6AM. Our private car will pick
you up and transfer to the hotel for a short rest. Enjoy the breakfast
and then our private car and tour guide will pick you up and transfer
the airport to take the flight departing at for Hue, then transfer to
the hotel. Have lunch. In the afternoon, we will sit on the dragon boat
cruising on the romantic Perfume River and visit Hue's best-known
religious site, the Thien Mu Pagoda (celestial lady pagoda). This is one
of the iconic places that characterize Hue land and people. Overnight
in Camellia Hotel.
Day 8 (Thu, 03 July): Hue discovery (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today, lets explore the complex of monuments in Hue. Our tour starts
with a visit to the Imperial Citadel and the Forbidden Purple City.
Built in the 19th century by the Nguyen dynasty, the City was home to
the former Emperors of Vietnam from 1802 until 1945. Have lunch. Then we
will continue the tour by visiting the enchanting mausoleum of Emperor
Khai Dinh, the famous emperor of the Nguyen dynasty. Then get to the
Dong Ba market to get a glimpse of the local life. Overnight in Camellia
Hotel.
Day 9 (Fri, 04 July): Hue – Danang Highlights (Breakfast)
Check out this morning and take a three hours drive to Da Nang city,
driving over the legendary Hai Van Pass. Check in hotel by the most
stunning beach of My Khe. Have a rest and lunch on your own. Then in the
afternoon, we will visit the Marble Mountain, a cluster of five marble
mountains lying close to the sea. It is so famous that many people
consider it as the symbol of the area. Cultural and historical vestiges
of the Marble Mountains are still on every pagoda and tower of the early
19th century and on Champa sculptures of the 14th and 15th century.
Then we will go to Cham Museum to see a collection of remnants from the
golden Champa era. Have lunch and our journey continues to the Son Tra
peninsula, which overlooks the whole city of Da Nang. Get back for a
great swim in My Khe beach. Overnight in Hoi An Glory and Spa.
Day 10 (Sat, 05 July): My Son and Hoi An (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast, we start the journey to My Son Holy Land – one of
the 5 UNESCO World Heritages in Vietnam. Considered to be Cham's
counterpart to the grand cities of South-East Asia's other Indian
influenced civilizations: Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar) Ayuthaya
(Thailand) and Borobudur (Java); My Son Holy Land is famous for its
oriental architecture and ancient civilizations once known as the former
kingdom of the ancient Cham people in Central Vietnam from the second
to the thirteenth century. Return to Hoi An which was for three
centuries one of the most important ports in Central Vietnam. We will
visit Japanese covered bridge, Tan Ky Old hose, Phuc Kien Pagoda, Cham
Museum and Chinese Assembly Hall. All these places symbolize the golden
days of this ancient city. Overnight in Hoi An Glory and Spa.
Day 11 (Sun, 06 July): Danang – Nha Trang (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)
In the morning, we transfer to Da Nang airport to take the flight for
Nha Trang city. Get transferred to the hotel in Nha Trang for lunch. In
the afternoon, we will visit key attractions of the city including the
Cham tower to get to know a local civilization which existed in this
land some hundred years ago. Visit the market to get all the taste and
sounds of local life. Then get back for a great swim. Often referred to
as one of the best bays on earth, Nha Trang beach is stunning,
beautiful, clean, with clear sky and water. We will have the opportunity
to enjoy a tropical paradise right on the beach. Kids will love all
kinds of games and water activities in the amusement park and aquatic
park on this luxurious island. Overnight in Vin Pearl Resort Nha Trang.
Day 12 (Mon, 07 July): Nha Trang Boat trip (Breakfast, Lunch, dinner)
In the morning, we will enjoy a private cruise on a wooden boat to
Tam Island, a small island strictly protected by the Government (with
support of Danida Denmark). The cruise will provide opportunities to
enjoy an amateur snorkeling, discovering marine lives thanks to crystal
clear blue water. Then visit an island and have lunch. Take a sun bed,
start enjoy fresh seafood with a cup of wine or beer. In the afternoon,
we continue visiting a village and an aquarium before transferring back
to the hotel. Overnight in Vin Pearl Resort Nha Trang.
Day 13 (Tue, 08 July): Nha Trang – Ho Chi Minh City (Breakfast)
Check out and transfer to the airport for the flight VN1355
(10.40-11.40) to Ho Chi Minh city. We will transfer you to the hotel
right in the heart of the city. Have your own lunch. Saigon is a
bustling city, yet there are great stories that can be of interest to
travelers. In the afternoon, we will start our half day city tour by
visiting the War Remnants Museum to discover one chapter of the city,
then head to Reunification Palace close by. Take a walk around Ben Thanh
Market, Notre Dame Cathedral and the central Post Office. Overnight in
Saigon Eden hotel.
Day 14 (Wed, 09 July): Mekong Delta Day tour (Breakfast, lunch)
How much have you known of this low-lying land? Well, today we will
leave Saigon for the town of Cai Be town (80 kms away) in the Mekong
Delta to take a river private boat trip. This journey cruises through
floating markets, rice fields, fruit plantations and so on along a
densely connected network of rivers and canals. An absolutely amazing
view of a totally flat, low-lying delta that seems to have no have no
boundary will bring you an immense feeling of this region. Take the
opportunity to explore local life on floating boats, which is very much
in contrast to life on the mountains in Sapa! Overnight in Saigon Eden
hotel.
Day 15 (Thu, 10 July): Cu Chi Tunnels - Cao Dai Temple (Breakfast, Lunch)
In the morning we will explore an incredible network of underground
tunnel designed and constructed to withstand fierce crack down of the
external forces, the Cu Chi tunnel. No word could describe it better
than experience it yourself. Come and see how Viet Nam won the war.
You’ve got to appreciate the talent of the country. Then we will visit
Tay Ninh City nearby to discover at the colorful temple of Cao Dai, the
centre of a unique religion in Vietnam. Overnight in Saigon Eden hotel.
Day 16 (Fri, 11 July): Departure for Australia (Breakfast)
Enjoy a free day today for last minute shopping and sightseeing. Then
we will transfer you to the airport for your flight to either Kuala
Lumpur, Bangkok or Singapore. From there you will take an overnight
flight back to Australia. End of service.
