Vietnam Family Tour 15 Days (From Ho Chi Minh)

Vietnam tops the list of the most attractive destinations and tours of Vietnam are diversified. Moreover, your travel to Vietnam organised by Vivutravel, will be the best holiday ever. Arrive at Tan Son Nhat airport, welcome by our private Vietnam tour guide and driver, and transfer to your hotel for check-in. Ho Chi Minh, the most exciting city in Vietnam, a mecca of commerce, also a city with a chequered history and a rich culture, its pagodas, museums, public buildings, parks, and boulevards make it one of the most delightful Vietnam tours and cities to visit in Vietnam.

Free time at leisure.  Overnight in a Ho Chi Minh Hotel

18:00 Experience Saigon nightlife the way locals do, all from the back of a vintage Vespa scooter.

To start this Saigon night tour, enjoy drinks at our Vespa-themed café, Café Zoom, to watch “as the world goes by” (as said in the Lonely Planet guidebook). Throughout the night, try a variety of food and drinks at 2 local restaurants and samplings of Saigon’s best authentic street food. Zoom past the famous must-see sights of Ho Chi Minh City while in the bustling traffic. We’ll also go to a Vietnamese-style coffee shop with special live music, and then wrap up the evening at an exciting Rock music bar where the new generation of Vietnamese unwind and flaunt their unique styles.

Guests ride pillion behind our drivers to enjoy and experience the Vietnamese nightlife with friends. This tour includes free-flowing drinks and all-you-can-eat, so come with an appetite! End the trip at your hotel at around 20:00.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Around 08:00, the tour guide pick you up in your hotel lobby, then drives 90 km (2 hrs) to Ben Tre. The boat will cruise along the Ham Luong River (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces including brickworks, a coconut processing workshop, and a mat-weaving house.

The boat will then stop at a quiet village where you can have a short walk to experience real Delta village life, boarding your Xe Loi (a kind of motorized rickshaw) and stopping at a riverside restaurant for a delicious and filling lunch, featuring such local specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp.

After lunch, it’s time to board a sampan for a relaxing trip along narrow canals. You will get back to the river to board your boat. Then, we will head to Can Tho city – the heart of the Mekong Delta.

Overnight in Can Tho

In the morning, we make the boat cruise to see the Cai Rang floating market (the nicest one with heaps of rowing boats), truly the highlight of any Vietnam tour where you will enjoy the beautiful scenery and see the daily activities of the locals who live along the Mekong canals and later, you will roam through the village to visit a rice husking mill, a rice noodle making shop which are nice chances to discover the daily life of Vietnamese people in Mekong Delta.

After lunch (arranged by your own account), we will drive back to Ho Chi Minh for the flight to Nha Trang.

Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel. Overnight in a Nha Trang hotel.

At 8:00 am, our driver and representative will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to Nha Trang Port to board the Emperor Cruises Junk. On arrival at the port, our experienced manager will welcome you with a cold drink. There will be an introduction to Nha Trang Bay, the locals, the food, the culture, the emperor, safety precautions, and the Emperor Cruises Junk. Start cruising through the spectacular landscape of Nha Trang Bay.

Continue to cruise past the Tam, Mot, and Mun islands in Nha Trang Bay. Your destination is Bai Cau in Dam Bay Lagoon, near the famous diving Mun Island site where you can opt for some scuba diving. Your destination is Bai Cau in Dam Bay Lagoon, near the famous diving Mun Island site where you can opt for some scuba diving.

You arrive at our Emperor Cruises’ Secret Beach in Bai Cau where you can either go snorkeling, swimming, fishing, walking, kayaking in either a normal or glass-bottomed kayak or try a basket boat. Alternatively, just relax at our Mango Bar under the big tree, enjoying the stunning views of the Emperor Cruises’ sails against the clear blue waters of the bay.

After so much activity, you will surely be hungry. You will be served a sumptuous set lunch on board with local beers, fine wine, or premium spirits as the boat anchors near Hon Tam Island with its tranquil lagoon and fish farms.

After lunch, you cruise back to Nha Trang Harbor passing Vung Ngan floating village, Vinpearl Island, and Tri Nguyen Aquarium, catching a glimpse of the inhabited Mieu Island.

The next destination this afternoon is Mieu Island for a walking tour to visit the local fishing villages. Learn about the way of life away from the mainland and interact with the friendly locals while learning a little about the daily lives of the villagers. Spend a few minutes exploring the beautiful landscape by basket boat as you head over to fish farms.

You then transfer back to the mother by speedboat. Welcome back to the boat and enjoy a refreshing coconut milk, which is the specialty of the region. At the port, your Emperor Cruises Van will be waiting to take you back to your hotel.

Overnight in Nha Trang.

Nha Trang is Vietnam’s best-known Vietnam beach destination, a perfect break during your Vietnam Tours with miles of white sandy beaches, swaying coconut palms, and wonderful fresh seafood restaurants. Day free at leisure, water sports abound including parasailing, jet skiing, water skiing, and relaxing boat trips to the outlying islands. If you prefer to keep your feet dry then hop into a taxi or take a cyclo for an exploratory trip around Nha Trang.

Overnight in a Nha Trang hotel.

Free until our Vietnam tour guide and driver in Nha Trang transfer you to the airport for your flight to Da Nang.

Pick up and transfer to Hoi An Ancient Town – the highlight of any tour to Vietnam – is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.

Check-in and free at leisure. Overnight in a Hoi An hotel.

Day free to cycle through rice paddies 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. Or relax on the white sandy beach of the famous Cua Dai Beach.

Overnight in a Hoi An hotel.

OPTIONAL TOURS:

1/ Hoi An biking tour: This tour will take you on a visit to artisans making bricks according to old. You will discover how wooden river boats are made and learn the secret of weaving the colorful straw Hoi An sleeping mats. Try the renowned Vietnamese basketboats. You will spend the day with first-hand contact with one of the rural inhabitants of the region, far from the usual tourist circuits. At lunchtime, you will be invited into a local home for a traditional Vietnamese meal, and learn their customs and traditions. After you have relaxed for a while under the shade of a mango tree, you will begin your return to Hoi An, which will take about an hour. Overnight in Hoi An.

2/ Hoi An – My Son – Hoi An: Visit My Son Holy land in the morning, once the spiritual capital of the Champa Kingdom that dominated South East Asia for nearly a thousand years and occupied most of the central parts of Vietnam from 2nd century to 16th century with very rich in history and culture. In the afternoon, drive back to Hoi An to visit the former merchants’ homes, the 400-year-old Japanese Covered Bridge, Phuc Kien Pagoda, and the colorful riverside market. Overnight in a Hoi An hotel.

3/ Tra Que vegetable village tour: Take a beautiful bicycle ride from your hotel to Tra Que vegetable village. Upon your arrival, enjoy cold towels & welcome drink before starting your farming tour using Vietnamese traditional hats and farmer’s clothes and taking part in farming activities such as: picking up seaweed, digging, landboarding, making beds, and watering. After the farming tour, soak your feet, relax with some herbs in the Tra Que vegetable garden, and enjoy light food. We will also visit the rice paper-making village where you will be introduced and learn how to wash the rice, soak the rice, and grind the rice by traditional methods. At the end of your trip, join an interesting cooking class.

After breakfast, leave Hoi An for Hue, the last imperial capital of Vietnam, well-known for magnific architecture, pagodas, and royal tombs laid in small villages and surrounding hills and one of the most popular cities for all the Vietnam Tours. En route have a look at the famous Da Nang Beach and visit the Cham Museum which contains the finest collection of Cham sculptures in the world.

Upon arrival in Hue, visit the Imperial Citadel, the Purple Forbidden City.

Overnight in a Hue hotel.

A full-day trip to visit the old capital city of Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty ruled from 1802 to 1945, with the first stop at the Imperial Citadel giving you a better understanding of the beauty of Vietnamese Royal architecture and culture.

Then we will take a beautiful dragon boat trip along the Perfume River and visit Thien Mu Pagoda – one of the most popular attractions in Hue. It is located on the banks of the poetic Perfume River with the typical traditional architecture of Hue pagodas and is famous for the event in which a Buddhist monk from this temple, Thich Quang Duc, burned himself to death for an anti-government protest in 1963. The next stops will be King Ming Mang and King Khai Dinh’s tombs which are the most beautiful works of royal architecture of the Nguyen dynasty.

Overnight in Hue.

After breakfast, our Vietnam tour guide and driver in Hue will transfer you to the airport for the morning flight to Hanoi. Upon arrival, our private Vietnam Tour guide and driver will welcome your Vietnam Holiday, pick up, and transfer to the Vietnam hotel for check-in. Hanoi is a city where the exotic chic of old Asia blends with the dynamic face of new Asia. A city with a blend of Parisian grace and Asian pace, an architectural museum piece evolving in harmony with its history, rather than bulldozing through like many of the region’s capitals. Hanoi is where imagination becomes reality.

Free at leisure.  Overnight in a Hanoi hotel.

Free day at leisure.

Optional tour: Hanoi without a doubt is a beautiful stop for your Vietnam Travel. Today, we enjoy a full-day city tour of this charming capital city including the mausoleum of the nation’s founder Ho Chi Minh (closed on Monday & Friday), the Presidential Palace, the Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts, the One Pillar Pagoda, the Temple of Literature, the impressive Ethnologic Museum (or Museum of Fine Arts, Army Museum, History Museum, Woman Museum, Hoa Lo Prison), the beautiful West Lake, the Tran Vu Pagoda, the peaceful lake of the Restored Sword. Late afternoon we take a cyclo tour for a short excursion through the bustling old quarter streets named after the specific goods once offered for sale at these places. Enjoy a glass of “Bia Hoi – draught beer – included” at Ta Hien Street before we enjoy a fantastic traditional water puppet show.

Overnight in a Hanoi hotel.

Halong tour must be the most beautiful tour in Vietnam for any Vietnam Holidays. We start at 8.00 A.M for the 3-hour drive (170 km) through the Red River Delta, which offers plenty of chances for taking photos of Vietnamese farmers tilling the vast green paddy fields. At halfway, we’ll have a visit to a handicraft workshop with fine clothes, embroidered paintings, stone statuettes, and all kinds of gems mined in Vietnam such as star rubies or sapphires… Our destination is the World Heritage Site of Ha Long Bay. The bay offers some 3000 mountain islands and islets towering in the Gulf of Tonkin in the East Vietnam Sea.

Upon arrival, you’ll be welcomed on board our luxury junk and treated with wine and fresh local seafood. As our junk glides further into the tranquility of Ha Long Bay amid the towering mountain cliffs and on the emerald green water, you’ll have a relaxing time combining the fine tastes of the wine and the freshness of Ha Long Bay. During the cruise, we’ll stop sometime to visit the amazing Sung Sot cave and the Ti Top white sand beach before anchoring for the night. Overnight on board the junk in the wild of Halong Bay.

It is said that your Vietnam Tours will not be complete without a tour to Halong Bay and spending one night on a romantic Halong Cruise. People describe Halong Bay as majestic and mysterious, inspiring and imperious and words alone cannot do justice to the natural wonder that is Halong Bay, a priceless collection of unfinished sculptures hewn from the hand of nature.

After breakfast, we’ll take a little sampan to visit the secret lagoon of Ha Long Bay while the surrounding mountains are just waking up. After that, our cruise takes us further into the Bay of Bai Tu Long traveling past the Human Head Island, the Turtle Island, and the Duck Islet… to the studio site where the famous Indochine film was shot. Around noon, our junk travels back to the harbor, picks up, and drives back to Hanoi.

Arrive in Hanoi, and enjoy the food tour experience with a first visit to one of the local markets in the city to see all the different kinds of food that are used for a Vietnamese breakfast, lunch, and dinner and understand more about the life of Vietnamese.

Secondly, we walk to explore the everyday life of Hanoian and try some more different dishes that are very special, popular, and favorite such as:

1. Banh Ran – Sticky rice pancake
2. Fried Tofu and Vermicelli Shrimp Sauce
3. Bun Cha – Hanoi Style Vermicelli with Grilled Pork
4. Hanoi grilled pork in stick
5. Bia Hoi – Draught beer
6. Trung Vit Lon – Fertilized duck eggs
7. Egg coffee
8. Mix fruits

Finally, we will try Cha Ca – Fried Fish which is considered 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 at around 19:00.

Overnight in Hanoi.

Free time at leisure until our private guide sees you off at the airport. We hope that you have enjoyed your Vietnam family holiday with us and look forward to organizing your next trip. We say goodbye and see you again!!!