Vietnam & Cambodia Family 9 Day Tour

Land in Phnom Penh and find the driver with your family name board at the airport. We will take the transfer into the centre of the city after this and drop you off at your hotel.

Have free time and stay overnight in Phnom Penh.

Take breakfast in your hotel in Phnom Penh before our city tour today.

Our first destination today will be the the Royal Palace.

Take a walk around and have beautiful photos. If you are a Buddhist that is a great place for praying the good luck for your family. The golden architecture shines from many different angles, so we will take a walk around its grounds and its accompanying Silver Pagoda, adorned in remarkably intricate decorations.

Afterwards, we move the tour to Wat Ounalom. The construction was built in 1443 and it is a famous place destination for the pilgrimage as this temple is the home of Buddhism in Cambodia.

Lunch will be served in a local restaurant.

After lunch, you will visit the National Museum with majority of exhibits from the Angkor period  9th to 15th century but some date from early as 4th century.

After that, you will go back to your hotel for staying overnight.

Have a leisurely breakfast today, as you will be able to enjoy some free time in Phnom Penh. You can take this time to simply relax or to discover some of the sites of the capital you haven’t yet seen.

The driver will pick you up from the hotel and transfer you to the airport, where you can catch your flight to the lively town of Siem Reap in the northwest of the country.

Once arrived in Siem Reap, a new driver will collect you and transfer you to your hotel, where you can enjoy the rest of the day and evening at your leisure. 

Eat breakfast in your hotel and prepare for one of the highlights of your tour – an exploration of the resplendent Angkor Wat.

Our departure time is an early one to ensure that we avoid the crowds. We begin at Ta Prohm, one of the most famous temple ruins of Angkor Wat due to its featuring in the Tomb Raider movie. The beautiful temple is an evocative state of ruin, with jungle vines creeping through dismantled walls and gateways. We explore around here for a while, enjoying the exquisite merging of ancient architecture and lush nature.

We follow this with a trip to Angkor Wat's main temple, reachable by a bridge over a lotus-filled pond. The stunning temple is the icon of the entire complex and a breath-taking ambassador for the beauty found throughout it. We climb upstairs, head through tunnels and find remarkable, antique ornaments carved out of stone.

We will break for lunch, where you can choose from the many options around the complex. After this, we continue onto another of Angkor's greatest achievements, Angkor Thom, an entire city carved out of stone that acted as the capital of the Khmer empire from the 12th century. We head to some of the best temples within the city, including the 216 lifelike faces of King Jayavarman VII at Bayon Temple, along with the Elephant Terrace, Royal Palace and Temple of the Leper King.

After returning to the hotel and resting our feet for a while, the guide will meet you and take you on a tuk-tuk tour of Siem Reap. We drive around for a while, noting the beautiful sites and the attractive buzz of activity that engulfs the town every evening. Walking through the night markets, we find many interesting aspects of culture and food, eventually sitting down for dinner and a drink at a local beer garden.

Enjoy your breakfast in Siem Reap again before the driver arrives and takes us to the outskirts of Siem Reap, where we find a lovely village nestled amongst the rice paddies. 

Life in Cambodia's countryside is very different from that of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, so a walk through here will be a good chance to learn of how Cambodia’s millions of rural residents live on a daily basis. We can take a ride in an ox-driven cart along the rice paddies for 30 minutes, giving you and the kids the chance to live the farmers' life, before arriving at a local workshop to see how rice wine and handicrafts are made.

We continue to Tonle Sap Lake, where we will arrive shortly afterwards. At the lake's shores, we board a motorised boat, which will take us along the flat surface and give us the opportunity to gaze at the verdant hills surrounding it. Before long, we reach the colourful silt houses of Me Chrey village, where we can find excellent views of the wetland vegetation around.

Cruising around Tonle Sap Lake, we find utter serenity in its wide expanses. We continue to enjoy this for the rest of the morning, during which time you can try kayaking at an additional cost, before arriving at the shore and taking the transfer back to Siem Reap. 

Here, we will have lunch and you will have some time to relax. Our driver will arrive in the afternoon to take you to the airport, from where your flight to Hanoi will leave. Arrive in the Vietnamese capital and take the following transfer to your hotel in the central district.

Rise for your first breakfast in Vietnam and prepare for an exploration of its capital of strong traditions. Your new guide will introduce themselves before we head over to the Ho Chi Minh Complex, an area of buildings devoted to the memory of the great wartime president of Vietnam. On a visit to his former stilt house and the mausoleum, we can see where Ho Chi Minh lived his later years and where his body is now embalmed. A look around Ba Dinh Square will reveal the area where the leader gave his speech after toppling the French and claiming independence for his country.

Following this, we decide on a museum that is most suitable for you and your family and make our way over there. To choose from, there is the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, the Vietnam Military History Museum, The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and Hoa Lo Prison Museum.

Once we have looked around one of these museums, we take a rest with lunch at a local restaurant. 

After this, we move onto the Temple of Literature, where we can discover the heavily Vietnamese aesthetic of the architecture and carefully manicured gardens. This was Vietnam’s first university, built in 1070, now a relic to the country’s ancient system of studying Confucian philosophies.

Our full-day tour finishes in Hanoi Old Quarter, Hanoi’s beating heart and the location for its liveliest atmosphere. A cyclo (a cart attached to a bicycle) will take us around the narrow streets of Hanoi Old Quarter, where you may not be able to take your eyes off the constant flow of action around you.

The tour ends at your hotel and you end the Hanoi City Tour Day Tour. Stay overnight in Hanoi.

Please Note: The destinations and activities of the cruise that you select during the booking process with us may vary from the itinerary listed below. This itinerary is merely meant as a generic guide, though each cruise follows this basic pattern during their time in Halong Bay.

Morning

Take breakfast with the family before the driver arrives at your hotel. From here, you will board the bus and head eastwards to Halong Bay. The boat will be a majestic sight as it sits in the water surrounded by perfect limestone mountains.

Afternoon

We climb onto the boat and enjoy a welcome drink, followed by a glorious lunch served as we begin cruising. For the next few hours, your only activity will be to relax on the top deck of the cruise or in your cabin, soaking in majestic views of isolated, tree-topped mountains standing in an emerald sea that gently laps their bases.

We make one stop in the afternoon to a fishing village called Cua Van. This very special enclave is one of the last of its kind in Halong Bay – a colourful collection of floating houses atop wooden barges, tethered together in the shadows of overarching limestone mountains. A local will take us around here on a sampan boat, or we have the chance to kayak at our own leisure.

Evening

As the sun begins to set, we climb back aboard the cruise and melt into Halong Bay’s beautiful golden hour. Happy hour at the bar will help the social atmosphere, as will a cooking class on the top deck of the cruise. Dinner is served shortly afterwards in the dining room and after this, the evening is yours to spend in the blissful silence of the bay. Stay overnight on Halong Bay Cruise.

The day starts in the early morning when sunrise and a tai chi session will be on the agenda. We move downstairs afterwards and enjoy a light breakfast in the dining room.

We begin or cruising into the bay and stop at Sung Sot Cave, which will reveal the geological mysteries of Halong Bay on a walking tour through. The guide will point out the most interesting rock formations and explain the local legends behind them.

For the remainder of the morning, we will relax on board and enjoy a filling brunch as we make our way back to the harbour. Once arrived, we wave goodbye to the crew and step back onto solid ground, from where our bus will collect us and take us back to Hanoi.

Upon your return to Hanoi, you will be dropped off at your hotel. End of 2 day 1 night in Halong Bay cruise.

Enjoy your final Hanoian breakfast with the family before the driver appears outside of your hotel. The transfer to the airport will take about 45 minutes to an hour, after which you can board the flight to your onward destination.

Your Vietnam & Cambodia Family 9 Day Tour will end at Hanoi Noi Bai Airport. 

We thank you kindly for your time with us and we wish you well for your future travels throughout Southeast Asia!