Our North Vietnam tour 7days – Great combination to discover the best highlight of North Vietnam with World wonder, natural landscape, people for Family.
Our tour does not bring you the new stunning destinations with less touristic, but we also combine with various outdoor activities ( with different levels ) which made you & your kids have real experience and memorable Vietnam trips.
+ Enjoy full of highlights & must-sees of Hanoi. Explore the city and learn about its culture, history and local stories.
+ Hiking through mountain, village, rice terrace fields…in Pu Luong Nature Reserve
+ Exploring Ninh Binh with interesting activity like boating, cycling and a light hiking trip – was known as Halong Bay on land.
+ Visit Cuc Phuong national park and Endangered Primate Rescue Center (EPRC
+ Spend 2 relaxing days sleeping on a cruise and kayak in Lan Ha Bay
Noi Bai International Airport (Google Map)
Your hotel in Hanoi Old Quater area
Suggest program ( All of these are must-sees of the city but you can always customize the itinerary to fit your interests.)
Morning: Egg Coffee on Train Street – Hoa Lo Prison Memorial – Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum – One Pillar Pagoda
Lunch Break ( Eg: Bún chả Hương Liên, bún chả Obama, Phở chiên Hồ Tây, phở bò…)
Afternoon: Temple of Literature – Water Puppets Show or Cooking class
Walking around Old quarter to explore street food. ( Nem lụi bánh xèo, ) Finish the tour
( The train travels between Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi and passes through train street at 06:00, 08:30, 09:00, 13:15, 14:30, 15:30, and 19:30 on weekdays. – so depend on you choose many schedule in the day)
Morning:
Opt 1: Visit Museum of ethnology: The museum is packed full of information detailing traditional Vietnamese ways of life, from religious events to the symbolic rituals of all the Vietnamese ethnic groups, providing a rich tapestry of the culture melting pot existing in Vietnam. The exhibition hall features everyday objects representing each group, a research centre, library and auditorium.
Opt 2: Bat Trang Pottery Village
Bat Trang pottery village tour half day gives you an insight into the village lives and pottery-making tradition of Vietnamese in Red River Delta. Join us on the trip to explore Bat Trang in a most authentic way and try your hands at making your own pottery products.
Afternoon: After take the lunch, transfer to Pu Luong ( ~170km ~4hrs driving)
Option 1: Kids: 3-5y.o
Morning: row bamboo rafting at Chieng Lau stream. Your kid can play with water stream, try to catching snails and enjoy a picnic lunch with local people.
Afternoon: After lunch, come back resort to take the rest until ~4pm, do a short trekking with kids around beautiful Rice terraces, Bang villages, through small trail, a little bit stone & stream.
P/s: In the rain season or if the weather isn’t good, we will chance bamboo rafting activity by trekking to Kho Muong or Hieu village.
Option 2: Kid 6-12y.o
Visit Hieu Village ( ~14km hiking & trekking)
Ban Hieu ( Hieu village) is a remote and off- the-beaten- track village in Pu Luong nature reserve. Lying in the steep slopes of jagged mountains, Hieu village overviews stunning valleys with its natural waterfall running day & night; and ever-green terraced fields extending from thickly forested slopes to water edge of muddy river.
8 a.m, 8: 30 a.m, We start hiking into the valley, reach Uoi Village (Bản Ươi) and Lan Village (Bản Lặn). Following the trail along stream, you can enjoy the beautiful mountains scenery and get a glimpse for local daily life. Then, you will have a walk around the village, get your chance to learn how the locals weave brocades.
~12p.m We arrive Hieu Waterfalls (Thac Hieu) for lunch and swimming or playing in the nature pool in waterfall. Afterward, we will trek for 2 hours, have a bird-eyed view of rice terraces. Weaving through the forest, we head towards the banana farm and bamboo forest – excellent representatives for marvellous and pristine nature of Pu Luong.
5p.m, After 2-hour trek, you will be transferred back to your place by motorbike taxi.
Morning: Transfer from Pu Luong to Cuc Phuong national park ( ~100km / 3hrs driving)
Take the lunch before visit Cuc Phuong in the afternoon.
We will firstly visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation, breeding, research, and conservation of endangered primates, and to the protection of their habitats. Then keep going into the park central, stop to discover the “Cave of Early Man“, a place to keep archaeological sites of prehistoric people thousands of years ago. Have lunch and rest at a house-on-stilted in the park central.
Then take a short trek into the National Park for sightseeing and learn more of fauna and flora in this oldest forest of Vietnam, to the giant ancient tree in middle of the jungle.
Finally don’t miss a rest at Mac lake, located right in the middle of Cuc Phuong National Park, the quiet and fresh scenery of Mac Lake will bring you back to nature, dispel any fatigue after the long walking trip in the forest.
Come to sleep in a homestay in Ninh Binh.
Morning: 8:00: transfer to Trang An Grottos.
Take a boat trip to explore Trang An –is know as “Halong Bay on land” with stunning Karst mountain and enjoying unique cave complex.
After 3 hrs boating, we will move to the homestay. Take the rest.
Afternoon, Take a bicycle and traveling around. Biking in Ninh Binh brings you through beautiful rice fields, small rivers, towering limestone cliffs and buffalo’s and goats walking freely over the roads. You can visit some feature destination around like Mua Cave ( Climb up the steps on high mountain, see the over view of Tam Coc rice field and river), or surround the villages, explore the local life.
Option 2: Visit Bird Garden in Thung Nham ( the ticket doesn’t included)
Morning: 8:00am Travel from Ninh Binh to Halong Bay.
~12:00: Arrive ferry. Start to explore Halong Bay & Lan Ha Bay on cruise.
12:30: Check-in on cruise.
13:00: Have international buffet lunch while cruise pass islets.
14:15: We progress to Trung Trang cave by our bus on Cat Ba island which is located in the middle of Cat Ba National Park with Kim Giao forest around the cave.
17:00: Swimming
17:45: Enjoy sunset or join cooking class.
19:00: Enjoy dinner
Option accommodation such as Orchid cruise 5 star, Heritage, Indochina sail…
8:00: Kayaking activity
~10:00: Tea time & lunch
~12:00: The cruise return on ferry. The car will wait you here and transfer to Hanoi.
P/s: The itinerary North Vietnam Family Tour can change to match your inquiry.
