FANTASTIC VIETNAM AND LAOS FAMILY HOLIDAY
Looking for a vacation to Vietnam and Laos during 15 days? This combined tour exactly is a great choice for you family. It will take you into the heart and soul of Indochina – Vietnam and Laos. The journey includes 10 days in Vietnam from the South to the North, starts in vibrant Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), the beautiful riverine areas – Mekong Delta, Hoian ancient town, Hue royal capital, descending dragon bay – Halong Bay, and rising dragon capital – Hanoi. Then continue to Laos – the most laid back country in Indochina with a special visit to Luang Prabang, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its outstanding cultural, historic and architectural values. This city is famous for Pak Ou Caves filled with 4000 of Buddha images, breathtaking Kuangsi Waterfall which all members in your family can go swimming. Vietnam and Laos Family Vacation finishes in Vientiane – the largest city and the capital of Laos. Visit a few of the must-visit wats, including Wat Sisaket, Wat Ho Phra Kaew and if you’re up for a quiet, green spot further from town, Wat Sokpaluang.
Viet Prestige Travel offers private and flexible tour for your family to enjoy your happy time together. With expertised travel consultants, excellent English-speaking local guides, tailor-made itineraries, and high-quality accommodations, we can customized your tour to totally match your travel needs and budget.
Awesome UNESCO Heritage Sites
- My Son Sanctuary
- Royal Capital in Hue
- Heritage City of Hoi An
- Rich cultural heritage of Luang Prabang
Interesting activities for kids
- Exploring the underground Cu Chi Tunnels
- Cycle through the paddy fields
- Go swimming, paddle-boarding in beaches
- Join a Vietnam Cooking Class
Stunning natural landscapes
- The magnificent scenery of Halong Bay
- Bustling floating market in Mekong Delta
- Magnificent Kuangsi Waterfall
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh Arrival (B)
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City Tour - Cu Chi Tunnels (B)
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City - Mekong Delta (B)
Day 4: Mekong Delta - Ho Chi Minh City - Hoian (B)
Day 5: Hoian Free Day (B)
Day 6: Hoian - Hue (B)
Day 7: Hue City Family Tour (B)
Day 8: Hue - Hanoi (B)
Day 9: Hanoi City Tour (B)
Day 10: Hanoi - Halong Bay Overnight Cruise (B, L, D)
Day 11: Halong - Hanoi - Luang Prabang (B)
Day 12: Luang Prabang City Tour for Family (B)
Day 13: Luang Prabang - Kuangsi Waterfall - Vientiane (B)
Day 14: Vientiane Family Sightseeing Tour (B)
Day 15: Vientiane Departure (B)
- Once arriving in Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Viet Prestige Travel’s guide and driver will welcome and escort you for hotel check in.
- Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon City) – the business and financial hub of Vietnam.
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Ho Chi Minh City's Book Street near Notre Dame Cathedral
- In the morning of the first day in Vietnam and Laos Family Holiday, drive about 40 kilometers outside of Ho Chi Minh City to visit the amazing Cu Chi Tunnels. As the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, the tunnels were the Viet Cong’s base of operations for the Tet Holiday (Tết) Offensive in 1968. Visitors get to crawl around in the safer parts of the tunnel system. The 100-meter long tunnel (designed specifically for tourists) situated 7 meters underground was very dark, narrow, and feels claustrophobic.
- In the afternoon, back to Sai Gon for Ho Chi Minh Sightseeing Tour by making a halt at many highlight attraction of this bustling city:
- – Former Presidental Palace (Reunification Palace) now preserved as a museum
- – 19th century Notre Dame Cathedral, Central Old Post Office – the well examples of classical French Colonial architecture.
- – Remnant War Museum where foreigners learn about crimes committed by other country’s troops and the affection of wars, especially the effect of Agent Orange on children born after war.
- – Ben Thanh Market – great destination to buy local handicrafts, branded goods, Vietnamese art and other souvenirs. Your family will find eating stalls inside the market where you can get a taste of hawker-style Vietnamese cuisine.
- Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
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A girl visits Remnants War Museum
- Depart Saigon and drive south to Ben Tre, about 90 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, a province of Mekong Delta and is famous for its tropical fruit gardens and traditional handicrafts made of coconuts. Your family first stop is a brick kiln to see how the locals still use traditional methods to make the bricks.
- Then board on your private boat and start cruising to My Long craft village, stop at local house to see the production process of rice paper.
- Next, your kids will be very excited when joining local coconut workshop to learn how coconut candy and coconut souvenirs are made by hand by a cruise through coconut jungle.
- Take a fun tuk tuk ride on village paths to a tropical garden of a fruit farmer, enjoy a walk around his orchard. Chat with the farmer whilst tasting fresh seasonal fruits in his garden.
- Continue your leisure sight-seeing until reaching a charming local restaurant for lunch with Mekong specialties such as deep-fried elephant-ear fish. After lunch, have a short break before getting on sampan for rowing through the idyllic water palm creek. Arrive at your main boat and cruise back to Hung Vuong Pier where your driver awaits for a drive to Can Tho.
- Overnight in Can Tho.
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The production process of rice paper
- Wake up early this morning for an exploration of the real Mekong Delta. A trip to Can Tho would not been considered finished if you miss the famous Cai Rang floating market – the biggest one in Mekong Delta.
- Board a local boat at Ninh Kieu pier and explore the colorful Cai Rang floating market, where many boats laden with fruits, vegetables and fish jostle for trade. The best time to visit is around 6am to 7am, and it’s well worth getting here early to beat the boatloads of tourists and the heat. Sellers advertise their wares by crying out across the waters or tie their goods to a tall pole attached to their boat so that buyers can see from a distance what is being sold.
- Relax and enjoy the cruise back to the hotel where we will freshen up before we check-out and return to Saigon.
- After having lunch, ready for the domestic flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Danang City – a melting pot of the country’s old and new. Your family moves to Hoian Ancient Town, which used to be Southeast Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century.
- After hotel check-in, take a walk in Hoi An town and visit the unique architectures mixed from Chinese, Japanese, French styles such as the former merchants’ homes, the 400 year-old Japanese Covered Bridge, Phuc Kien Pagoda, etc. When the sun sets, the pedestrian-friendly streets of Hoi An transform into a vibrant display of traditional lanterns, folk dance performances, and lit candles floating down Thu Bon River.
- Overnight in Hoian.
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Sparkling Hoian Lantern at Night
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Have a day free in Hoian Ancient Town.
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Cycle through the rice paddy fields in the countryside of Hoi An ancient town, shop for souvenirs among the antique shops and art galleries, or just sit at sidewalk cafes and soak up the atmosphere of this quaint town.
- Share in the daily work life of local farmers – hoeing and a soil, watering veggie at an organic herb garden, riding water buffalo in the field, join a cooking class and enjoy the freshest air of the countryside beauty, for example in Tra Que Herb Village.
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Then, your kids will be excited when your family goes cycling to the famous An Bang Beach. The most popular activities at An Bang Beach are swimming, paddle-boarding, and surfing.
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Learn and try your hand at local traditional fishing techniques using round and cast nets or origami creations from reeds of palm leaves such as birds, grasshopper, ring, bracelets, sunglasses, etc.
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Paddle the strange and unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boats while exploring the now tranquil coconut-palm flanked waterways of a past war.
- Overnight in Hoian.
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Hoian Cooking Class
- After breakfast, leave Hoian for Hue city by vans. Hue was chosen to be the capital of the Southern Kingdom under Nguyen Lords’ Dynasty, and officially became the nation’s capital under Tay Son Dynasty, King Quang Trung. This is the last imperial capital of Vietnam, well-known for magnificent architecture, pagodas and royal tombs laid in small villages and surrounding hills and one of the most popular cities for all the Vietnam Family Tours.
- On the way, have a look at the famous Danang Beach, and visit Cham Museum which contains the finest collection of Cham sculpture in the world, Marble Mountain – a well-known pilgrimage site with peaks, caves, tunnels and temples and Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village located at the foot of Marble Mountains.
- Upon arrival, check in hotel and enjoy your free time.
- Overnight in Hue.
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Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture
- After breakfast, spend an entire day touring the Vietnam’s former ancient capital.
- Start the day with a visit to the Imperial Citadel, home to the Imperial City and Forbidden Purple City where your family will get better understanding of the beauty of Vietnamese Royal architecture and culture.
- – Imperial City of Hue was once an enormous complex full of all the executive and bureaucracy you would expect from a country’s capital. It was enclosed within a square fortress (also known as the Hue Citadel), with each of the four walls about 2 kilometres long and a wide moat on the outside. All through this huge city were temples, palaces, offices, gardens, and residences. The most important bit was in the middle.
- – Purple Forbidden City, located in the middle of the city, is the most important bit. This place is used to be the private residence of the emperor and his closest confidants lived and worked. In the past, it would have been inaccessible to most people. Now, of course, we can all walk through it and see what remains.
- Then, take a beautiful dragon boat trip along Perfume River and visit to Thien Mu Pagoda – one of the oldest and prettiest religious buildings in Vietnam.
- In the afternoon, continue on your family journey with the visit to King Ming Mang and King Khai Dinh tombs which are the most beautiful works of royal architecture of the Nguyen dynasty.
- Overnight in Hue.
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Gateway to Hien Lam pavilion, Hue Citadel
- In the morning, transfer to Hue Airport for a short domestic flight to Hanoi Capital – the French-colonial city is also known for its delectable cuisine, vibrant nightlife, silks and handicrafts, as well as a multi-cultural community that’s made up of Chinese, French and Russian influences.
- Upon your arrival at Hanoi airport, your tour guide and driver will greet you and escort you to your hotel, help with your check-in.
- Then, enjoy the food tour experience with a first visit to one of the local markets in the city to see all different kinds of food that used for a Vietnamese breakfast, lunch, dinner and understand more about life of Vietnamese.
- Secondly, we walk to explore everyday life of Hanoian, try some more different dishes which are very special, popular and preferred such as: Banh Ran – Sticky rice pancake; Bun Cha – Hanoi Style Vermicelli with Grilled Pork; Hanoi grilled pork in stick; Banh My Pate – Stuffed French Baguette; Bia Hoi – Draft beer; Trung Vit Lon – Fertilized duck eggs; Egg coffee…
- Finally, we will try Cha Ca Grilled Fish which is considered as one of the best dishes to try while you are traveling in Hanoi. This unforgettable Hanoi food tour will take about 4 hours and you will end the trip at your hotel.
- Overnight in Hanoi.
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La Vong Grilled Fish - a Hanoi specialty
- After breakfast, have a full day today to explore Vietnam’s charming capital. With its French colonial architecture, wide tree-lined boulevards, peaceful lakes and ancient oriental pagodas, Hanoi is an eclectic mix that offers something for everyone. Hanoi Sightseeing Tour passes through:
- – Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum Complex – the final resting place of Ho Chi Minh (Uncle Ho), the most iconic and popular leader of Vietnam. This site includes Ho Chi Minh mausoleum where his body is preserved here in a glass case; Presidential Palace, his simple stilt-house, One Pillar pagoda, and Ho Chi Minh Museum.
- – Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest temple in Thang Long – Hanoi in particular and in Vietnam in general.
- – Museum of Ethnology where preseves and presents the cultural heritage of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.
- – Hoa Lo Prison was originally used to detain political prisoners and formed part of a Northern network of “cruel prisons”.
- – Temple of Literature, the first University for the sons of mandarins built in 1070 dedicated to Confucius.
- – Ngoc Son Temple (Temple of the Jade Mountain) built in 18th century on Jade Island in the centre of Hoan Kiem Lake.
- Enjoy a one-hour rickshaw sight-seeing tour around Hanoi Old Quarter for great fun.
- Then, watch a Hanoi traditional water puppet show in the late afternoon.
- Overnight in Hanoi.
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A rickshaw with kids around Hanoi Old Quarter
- Spend a 3.5 hour driving through the Red River Delta, which offers plenty of chances for taking photos of Vietnamese farmers tilling the vast green paddy fields to Halong Bay.
- Arrive at Halong Bay, enjoy approximately 24 hours journey in the spectacular bay: a natural wonderland composed of jutting limestone islands and sparkling turquoise waters.
- Have a lunch of fresh seafood onboard as we sail out into the mystical bay.
- In the afternoon, experience some activities in the bay such as swimming, climbing to Sung Sot Cave and Ti Tov Mountain or just spend some time relaxing on board.
- Overnight on board.
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Halong Bay Overview from above
- Awake early and participate in Tai Chi Class on the sundeck or simply relax and enjoy the sunrise over the bay’s towering islands.
- Kayak freely between the blue water through Luon Cave, Ba Trai Dao, Ba Ham, Dau, or Hang Co.
- Take a visit to one of five fishing villages such as Cong Dam Fishing Village, Cua Van Fishing Village, Hoa Cuong Fishing Village, Ba Hang Fishing Village, and Vung Vieng Fishing Village.
- Have brunch on board the boat before returning to Halong pier.
- Drive back to Hanoi Airport for your family flight to Luang Prabang meaning “the city of the Golden Buddha Phra Bang” .
- Hotel check-in and overnight in Luang Prabang.
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Kids playing onboard in Halong Bay
- Participate an Alms Giving Ceremony, the daily morning rituals of saffron-clad monks collecting offerings of Alms (ubiquitous sticky rice) from the faithful residents. Hundreds of Luang Prabang monks from the different 35 temples walk in silence, meditating as they collect their daily alms from devotees. This tradition is unique in Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving the procession.
- Drop off at the morning Phousi Market, where you will see such diverse offerings as dried buffalo skin, local tea and saltpeter among the chickens, vegetables and hill-tribe weavings.
- Enjoy a family sightseeing the city’s oldest temple of Wat Sene, the magnificent Wat Xieng Thong with its roofs sweeping low to the ground, which represents classical Laotian architecture; and Wat Mai with its impressive gilded facade.
- Do not forget to climb 328 steps to the top of the mount Phousi and enjoy the panoramic views of the city.
- When the sun sets, take a one-hour walking tour to Luang Prabang Night Market, which opens from dusk until 10 p.m selling various kinds of souvenirs such as colorful textiles, carvings, ceramics, clothing, etc.
- Overnight in Luang Prabang.
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- Take a boat up along the Mekong River, which also gives us a breathtaking view of the tranquil countryside as well as explore the mysterious Pak Ou Caves, two linked caves crammed with thousands of gold lacquered Buddha statues of various shapes and sizes left by pilgrims.
- On the way to come back, pay a visit to Ban Xiang Hai which is famous for its home-made rice alcohol “Lao-lao” ang Ban Xiangkhong – a village well-known for its silk weavings and Jute Papermaking.
- Discover stunning giant Kuang Si Waterfalls that flows through limestone-rich jungle and empties out into a series of three gently cascading pools.
- Be ready for a short domestic flight from Luang Prabang to Vientiane – the capital and largest city of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River near the border with Thailand.
- Overnight in Vientiane.
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Family Holiday in Kuangsi Waterfall, Luang Prabang
- Take a sightseeing tour of Vientiane city, to visit:
- Religious museums of Wat Sisaket, situated on Lan Xang Road, on the corner with Setthathirat Road, is the oldest temple to have been survived from the Siamese war of 1828 and its cloister contains more than 8000 Buddha statues.
- Wat Ho Prakeo, the former home-temple of the Emerald Buddha statue or Pra Keo, but today it contains a collection of Buddha statues, antiques and all artifacts found in around Vientiane.
- Pha That Luang Stupa, Symbol of Lao nation the single most important monument in Laos, which was built to cover the original small stupa containing a piece of the chest bone of Buddha.
- Patouxay (Arch de Triumph), built quite recently in commemoration of those who died during the wars in the past and it is today as the land-mark of Vientiane.
- Overnight in Vientiane.
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Wat Ho Prakeo in Vientiane
- After breakfast, spend your last minute shopping before transferring to airport for your flight home.
- Vietnam and Laos Family Holiday comes to an end. Thank you for traveling with us and warmly welcome you to visit Vietnam again!
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Family in Pha That Luang, Vientiane
| Vietnam Airline Economy |
Saigon16:00 | VN 134 1hr 20min |
Danang17:20 | Availability | 60 Domestic |
| Vietnam Airline Economy |
Hue10:20 | VN 1542 1hr 20min |
Hanoi11:40 | Availability | 95 Domestic |
| Vietnam Airline Economy |
Hanoi12:40 | VN 931 1hr 10min |
Luang Prabang13:50 | Availability | 155 International |
| Laos Airline Economy |
Luang Prabang11:45 | QV 826 40min |
Vientiane12:25 | Availability | 120 Domestic |
- Airfare and schedule are subject to modification without prior notice from the airlines
- Each ticket is inclusive of 7kg hand baggage and 20kg checked baggage
- Confirmation is subject to availability
- Private door-to-door pick-up & drop-off services
- Accommodation shared in Twin/Double room with daily breakfast
- Experienced English speaking guide
- Domestic flights & Entrance fees according the above program
- Meals as stated in the itinerary (B: Breakfast ; L: Lunch ; D: Dinner)
- 2 days 1 night on board cruise in Halong Bay
- Complimentary Vietnam visa on arrival pre-approved letter
- Services charges and government tax
- No extra charge after confirmation
- 24/7 hotline support guaranteed
- All the International flight
- International departures taxes,Travel insurance
- Surcharge for early check in and late check out the hotel
- Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
- All the meals which does not mentioned clearly above
- Peak season or Public holidays surcharge if any
- Compulsory Gala dinner on X-Mas or New Year if any
- Vietnam visa stamp fee
- Other services not mentioned above
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