Itinerary:
Day 1: HCM Arrival
- City tour [no meals]
Welcome at the airport and transfer to hotel for check in. Take a rest before our city tour starts, visit sites of Reunification Hall, City hall, Notre Dame Cathedral,
War
crimes
Museum
,
Chinatown
, Ben Thanh Market. Overnight in
Saigon
.
Day 2:
Tay
Ninh and Cu Chi tunnels [B/L/-]
Breakfast before taking the van at 8:00AM to Tay Ninh with the Great Cao Dai temple (a mixture of Buddhism, Confucius, Taoism, Hinduism and Christian). We see the noon mass (~one hour). Lunch in
Tay
Ninh. Afternoon we visit Cu Chi - a fabulous tunnel. You will have an opportunity to get the unique experience of guerillas living and fighting underground during the war (a crawl through 50 -100 meters out 200 km of the tunnel system is unforgettable). Local rice paper workshops, nice paddy fields are pleasant sights on the way. Back to
Ho Chi Minh city
for overnight.
Day 3: SaiGon to the fertile
Mekong
Delta (Vinh Long - CanTho)
[B/L/-]
Leave hotel at 8:00AM from HCMC heading to Cai Be. On arrival, walk through the village streets and watch locals making manioc chips before boarding a boat for a journey through the town of the floating market. Cruise through the secluded canals to an island where we stop to enjoy seasonal fruits before our boat takes us to Vinh Long where we get back on the bus for our trip to Can Tho to overnight.
Day 4: CanTho –
SaiGon
[B/L/-]
Early start for a boat trip to Cai Rang floating markets. We stop for a walk on a quiet country road to take in the magnificent scenery and get close to the locals as they go about their daily routine. We try a “xe loiâ€- the local colonial-era cab pulled by motorbike, on a country road.
In the afternoon, we head back to
Saigon
, with a visit at bonsai garden in My Tho. Get back
Saigon
in the late afternoon.
Day 5: Sai Gon [B/-/-]
Breakfast at your hotel. After a long visit throughout
Vietnam
, here is a good pace for you to relax, shop, note things and pack for your flight home on the next day!
Day 6: Departure [B]
Breakfast at hotel. Free at leisure to be transferred to the airport for the onward flights. Tour ends
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