Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City Arrival (D)
When you arrive at Ho Chi Minh City (Tan Son Nhat International Airport), the driver collects you and transfers to your hotel for check-in. Ho Chi Minh is a buzzing city of southern Viet Nam, formerly known as Saigon, is a tantalizing mix of old and new.
Explore Ho Chi Minh City’s historic Chinatown, named Cho Lon, by the local transport. Feel the hustle and bustle of street vendors selling a mixture of herbs for traditional medicine. Snake your way down tiny alleys on the agile vehicles, passing many small, family-run businesses. Come in the 250-year-old Lady Thien Hau Temple (God of the Sea). Then you have time for shopping at Binh Tay Market. Enjoy Vietnamese noodles soup – Phở.
Back to hotel, free time for leisure.
Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City – Cu Chi Tunnels – Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
Breakfast at the hotel
Take a half-day tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels. The tour guide will give you an overview introduction to Cu Chi and its legendary history. A documentary film about the tunnels will explain the tunnel’s histories and how fierce the war was in the area. You will be guided to the tunnels system, including the weapon factory, hospitals, and kitchens, crawl under the tunnels, etc. Leave Cu Chi tunnels and return to Ho Chi Minh City. Have lunch at a local restaurant.
After lunch, take a half-day city tour to visit the War Remnants Museum and the Reunification Palace, Saigon Central Post Office, and Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica (neo-Roman cathedral built by the colonial French)
Stay overnight at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City – Mekong Delta: My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho (B, L)
Breakfast at the hotel
The driver and the tour guide will collect you at the hotel and travel by road to Mekong Delta (Vietnam’s largest rice bowl). The first destination is My Tho. Embark on a boat and navigate through intricate canals. Visit the Con Thoi Son (Unicorn Island).
Move on to the second Delta Province, Ben Tre (watch local villagers make coconut candy in a rural workshop, walk around briefly, and try riding a horse-pulled carriage). Next, cruising to some keeping households to taste fresh homegrown honey and honey tea and take a rowing boat to Tan Thanh canal. Lunch at a local Restaurant
Proceed to Can Tho (the capital city of the Mekong Delta)
Overnight at a hotel in Can Tho
Day 4: Can Tho – Cai Rang Floating Market – Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
Have breakfast at the hotel or homestay in the early morning. Take a leisure boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River (Bassac River) then visit the Cai Rang floating market which is the liveliest one in the whole region. Walk trip to visit the fruit plantation and local noodle factory. Continue to visit Binh Thuy communal house and Munir Ansay Pagoda – a Khmer pagoda, renowned for its unique structure.
Have lunch and return to Ho Chi Minh City.
The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City – Departure (B)
After breakfast, you will have free time to relax, shop, or continue sightseeing on yourselves. Collect from your hotel for transfer to Tan Son Nhat Airport for international flights or a domestic extension. End of our service.
