HCMC – CU CHI TUNNELS – MEKONG DELTA (5 DAYS)

This tour tends to sell out, please book it in advance

TOUR PLAN

Day 01: Saigon Arrive – Free at leisure

Day 02: Saigon city – Cu Chi Tunnels – Dinner cruise                   (B/L/D)

Day 03: Saigon – My Tho – Can Tho                                               (B/L)

Day 04: Can Tho – Saigon                                                                 (B/L)

Day 05: Saigon departure                                                                (B)

HIGHLIGHTS

1. Dinner at floating restaurant on Saigon River
2. Marvel at colonial architecture at the Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office
3. Check out historic buildings like Reunification Palace
4. Explore the tunnels in 1.5 – 2 hours with interesting scenes of traps, secret entrances, fighting trenches, functional bunkers, real gun fire game, free optional tunnel crawling and tapioca tasting.
5. What will you see and experience at Mekong Delta?

• Visit honey bee farm, taste honey tea & honey wine
• Coconut candy factory
• Workshop where local people make souvenir… by coconut and so on
• Lunch on an island with some activities: rowing boat, bicycle riding, horse-cart, enjoy southern traditional music and taste the tropical fresh fruits.
• Floating market
• See how the local people making noodle

TOUR ITINERARY:

DAY 01: HCMC ARRIVAL  (–/–/–)

Guide meet on arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport/ Ho Chi Minh City. Transfer to hotel, check in. Free at leisure. Overnight in Saigon.

Ho Chi Minh city – also called Saigon – is a center of commerce, finance, culture and tourism of Vietnam. Yet within the teeming metropolis remain the timeless traditions and the beauty of the ancient culture. There are pagodas where incenses are burnt and monks pray; many churches, especially Notre Dame Cathedral, were built by Gothic architecture in the 19th century; and workshops where artists create their masterpieces on canvas or carved wood.  

DAY 02: HCM CITY TOUR – CU CHI TUNNELS  (B/ L/ D)

Breakfast at the hotel, at 08:00,we drive to Cu Chi (75 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City) to visit an amazing complex of underground tunnels the former stronghold of Viet Cong with a network of tunnels three levels deep stretching over 200km. Return Ho Chi Minh City. Lunch at local restaurant. Afternoon, visit the War Remnants Museum, The General post office, the Notre Dame cathedral and make a quick photo stop at the former Presidential Palace. Shopping at Ben Thanh market or Saigon square. Enjoy dinner cruise on Saigon river. Overnight in HCM city.

DAY 03: HCM – MY THO – CAN THO  (B/ L/-)                         

At 08:00 AM, Heading out of the town, we travel by roads to the Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s largest rice bowl. On arrival in My Tho, we embark on a boat navigating around the intricate small canals in the delta region, which is a great way to observe the local lifestyle close-up and catch a view dotted by many islands. The exciting excursion will pass the lush green fruit orchards. Here we have opportunities to stroll around an orchard, taste many seasonal fruits. The next stop of our trip is Ben Tre Province to visit some fascinating local industries: coco nut candy workshop, we get on a horse cart for visiting the village, stop at a honey bee farm. Cruising along the cannel by rowing boat, get back to the big boat for cruising back to the station. Visit the Vinh Trang old pagoda. Lunch at a local restaurant. Continue by car to Can Tho. Dinner at a local restaurant. O/N in Can Tho.

DAY 04: CAN THO – HCMC  (B/ L/-)                         

07:30 AM, After breakfast at hotel, get on boat to visit Cai Rang floating market, you can see bustling activities along Can Tho riverbanks. Particularly, you may know how local people go fishing with plenty of fish traps and how they transport passengers as well as products by the waterway. Approaching Cai Rang floating market, you can reappear the selling activities in the past using a traditional “offering pole” exchanging consumer goods hanging on the pole for Mekong fruit and vegetables with local sellers. To understand more about lifestyle over here, keep on going into the small creeks called Rach Nho in which the Southern countryside can be seen clearly before cruising back to Ninh Kieu Wharf.

12:00 PM, Check out hotel. Lunch at a local restaurant.

02:00 PM Afternoon, back to Ho Chi Minh city.

DAY 05:  HCM CITY DEPARTURE  (B/–/–)

Breakfast at hotel. Free at leisure or shopping until transfer to the airport for flight departure.

Notes:   B: Breakfast/L: Lunch/D: Dinner

QUOTATION BASED ON TWIN/DBL  SHARING ROOM  – USD PER PERSON

Valid till 30^th Sep. 2019

HOTEL LIST

(*)Hotel availability depends on the date of booking/ We can use hotel of similar standard if above hotel is not available.

ABOVE PACKAGE TOUR PRICE INCLUDES

• Accommodation (twin/double sharing room with daily breakfast).
• Meals : 03 lunch – 01 dinner (set menu at local restaurants)
• Air-conditioned private car/bus for transfer and transportation
• Experience English speaking guide
• Sightseeing admission fees
• Boat trip in My Tho
• Boat trip in Can Tho

OFFERING SERVICES

• Drinking water on bus everyday (02 bottles of water/pax/day tour – 500 ml/bottle)
• Wet tissue (02 tissue/pax/day)
• Birthday cake and gift for clients (if any)

ABOVE PACKAGE TOUR PRICE EXCLUDES

• Personal expenses and other services not mentioned above
• Other meals
• Insurance (surcharge 1 USD/person/day)
• Tip for guide & driver (Min. 3 USD/person/day)

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