From Ho Chi Minh city to Mekong Delta

Highlights

  • Experience the lifestyle of the largest city in Vietnam.
  • Explore the longest tunnels, a Viet Cong base during the war and understand the histories of Vietnam.
  • Get view of local life in the Mekong Delta.

About tour

This 5 – day Southern package will be really wonderful when you discover the most bustling city in Vietnam. Visit famous Cao Dai temples, Cu Chi tunnels – the historical place in the South. Move to the Mekong Delta to see amazing tributaries hidden among vibrant tropical fruit gardens, experience a sampan boat in small cannels, and acres of emerald rice fields.

Itinerary

  • Ho Chi Minh arrival

    Welcome to Ho Chi Minh: Once dearly called Diamond of the Far-east with the luxury level overriding that of Hongkong or Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City is now the most populated city in Vietnam
    Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat Airport, our guide and driver will welcome you at exit gate and transfer you to hotel in the city center.
    Free at your leisure time.
    Meals included: //__
    Parameter: 8km/ 20 minutes
    Free time idea(s):
    Enjoy local food at Pham Ngu Lao street and surrounding such as Corn stir fried with dried shrimp (Bap Xao), Grilled Rice Paper AKA Vietnamese Pizza (Banh Trang Nuong)
    “Café Bet” easily found on the street from the Notre Dame Cathedral at the park or at the cross street of Pasteur and Han Thuyen. Just take a seat wherever you think you might be comfortable, a vendor will soon be by to take your order. “Cafe Sua Da” is good suggestion.
    Overnight in Ho Chi Minh

  • Ho Chi Minh city tour (B, Halal lunch)

    In the morning
    At 8.00 a.m, our guide and driver will pick you up to start the tour of dynamic City.
    Firstly, you will visit the Reunification Palace, whose architecture is a blend of traditional ritual and modern architecture, typical of the 60s’.
    Next you go to the central Post Office which one of the oldest buildings in Ho Chi Minh. Being a mixture of Gothic, Renaissance and French influences, this building fascinates tourists by its typical colonial French features, from exterior to interior decorations.
    After that, you visit the Notre Dame Cathedral, which is considered the symbol of this dynamic city. It is located in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh and reaches a height of up to 60 meters.
    Lunch time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m at a Halal restaurant
    In the afternoon
    After taking a short rest, you will visit the War Remnants Museum which is a unit under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Chi Minh City. This is museum of thematic research, collection, and display of the material on the evidence of the crime and the consequences of the war that the invasion force has caused to Vietnam
    Then you visit Ben Thanh Local market. It is a bustling market in the daytime and a social center after sunset.
    Meals included: Breakfast at hotel/ Halal Lunch/__
    Today useful note(s):
    Wear comfortable clothes, bring walking shoes.
    Ho Chi Minh may rain anytime, so you should prepare umbrella or light rain coat.
    Overnight in Ho Chi Minh

  • Ho Chi Minh – Cao Dai – Cu Chi (B, Halal L)

    In the morning
    8:00 a.m, you will be met up by our guide and transferred to Cao Dai Temple which is the combination of Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity, and Buddhism. This place will show you the eclectic mix of colors and the amazing use of architecture create a space of beauty, spirituality.
    Lunch time: 12:30 – 1:30p.m at a Halal restaurant
    In the afternoon
    After having a rest, you will visit Cu Chi tunnels, famed for its 200-kilometre-long tunnels, an incredible underground network built by Vietcong during the Vietnam war.
    Then you will be transferred to Ho Chi Minh City and enjoy your time.
    Meals included: Breakfast at hotel/ Halal Lunch/__
    Parameter: Driving: Ho Chi Minh – Cao Dai – Cu Chi: 200 km
    Overnight in Ho Chi Minh

  • Ho Chi Minh – Mekong Delta – Ho Chi Minh (B, Halal L)

    In the morning
    At 08:00, our guide and driver will meet you up at your hotel and departs to Phong Nam that belongs to Ben Tre province
    Reaching Phong Nam Bridge at around 10:00, you will straightly cruise along the Chet Say River to see the view of transferring goods by boat, the coconut organ along the river…
    You will stop to visit the brick kilns with the way to do brickwork of local people, see coconut shells charcoal, this is the material to make activated charcoal, coconut preliminary processing such as skinning coconut, smashing coconut, prizing coconut, smoothing coconut, …
    Afterwards, you will have time to enjoy the fresh coconut water on the cruise and move to Cai Son canal to see the pudding scene along the river
    You will also visit coconut candy oven - enjoy hot coconut candy at the oven, seasonal fruit, honey tea
    After that, you will visit the village of weaving mats in Nhon Thanh. On the way, you will see the peaceful village road by a xe-lôi (a kind of motorized rickshaw) or by bike.
    Having lunch at local restaurant
    In the afternoon
    After lunch time, getting on the sampan boat to enjoy the view along coconut canal.
    Getting on motorboat come back to to Hung Vuong Dock, where our driver is waiting to take you back to ho Chi Minh
    At around 16:30, you will reach your hotel in Ho Chi Minh
    Meals included: Breakfast/Lunch/__
    Overnight in Ho Chi Minh

  • Ho Chi Minh Departure (B)

    Upon your departure flight, our guide and driver will come to pick you up and transfer you to the airport for flight to your home country.
    Meals included: Breakfast at hotel//
    Today useful note(s): Please check your luggage carefully and all your personal items of passports, visa etc. before leaving your hotel.

Inclusion

  • Qualified English-speaking tour guide
  • Land transfer by air-con vehicle
  • Twin-shared room
  • Meals as mentioned in the program (no drinks ), 3 breakfasts 1 lunch 1 dinner
  • Entrance fees

Exclusion

  • Airfare (international and domestic) and airport tax
  • Visa arrangement
  • Early check-in, late check-out surcharge
  • Other meals
  • Drinks and personal expenses (phone call, laundry, tipping etc.)
  • Any services not mentioned in the program

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