“From History to River Life: 4-Day Ho Chi Minh & Mekong Delta Tour”

HO CHI MINH ARRIVAL – CU CHI TUNNELS ( MEALS: L) Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport, our guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer to your hotel in city center. Have lunch in restaurant. In the afternoon, you’ll start the journey to Cu Chi Tunnels, where the people of Cu Chi spent the whole days living in underground tunnels, only able to come out at night when the sun is down during the Vietnam War. It spends approximately 1 hour and a half on the car. You’ll see with your own eyes the very small secret wooden entrance doors which were only fit the small Viet Cong soldiers and covered with camouflage leaves; the traps of different types: booby trap, rolling trap, clipping armpit trap, conical trap, sea saw trap, folding chair; and a B-52 bomb crater. After the trip ends, our guide’ll take you back your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

• Airport pickup & hotel transfer
• Lunch at a local restaurant
• Drive to Cu Chi Tunnels
• Explore underground tunnel system used during the Vietnam War
• See hidden trapdoors, bunkers, and war remnants
• Return to hotel & overnight stay

HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR ( MEALS: B,L) After breakfast, our guide and car will meet you at your hotel in HCM city center and start the tour to explore HCM city. The first place to visit in the tour will be the Reunification Palace, which was the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of the war in April 1975. After Reunification Palace, you can walk to see some French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office. Continue on to Chinatown, Thien Hau pagoda, which is dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea. Explore the highlights of this fascinating area, beginning with intricate friezes, carved tableau and impressive incense coils make for some great photos. Then observe street life through the narrow streets to Binh Tay market that sells everything from clothes to dried squid. In the afternoon: Have Lunch at a local restaurant, then continue to visit War Remnants Museum where there is a vast display of the both the Indochina wars. In courtyard massive military vehicles are for exhibition as well as tiger cages for the visitor to get a feel on how it was to be a prisoner during wartime. In the museum building itself, each floor will represent a separate theme from the war and the war crimes committed towards the Vietnamese people. We end the city tour with Ben Thanh market where anything and everything is for sale. We drive back to hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

• Visit Reunification Palace
• Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon & Saigon Central Post Office
• Discover Chinatown & Thien Hau Temple
• Visit War Remnants Museum
• Shopping at Ben Thanh Market

: HO CHI MINH CITY – MEKONG DELTA ( MEALS: B,L) Around 08:00, our tour guide picks you up at your hotel lobby, then driving to the mighty Mekong Delta where boats, houses and market float upon the uncountable rivers and canals. We get on the boat, it will cruise along the river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces including a brick works, a coconut processing workshop and a mat weaving house. The boat will then stop at a quiet village where you can have a short walk to experience real Delta village life and take a bicycle ride through dense coconut plantations. 12:00 Have lunch at a local restaurant right at the rural area. 13:30 Continue to Can Tho – the heart of Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Check in on your arrival, time at leisure and overnight in a Can Tho hotel.

• Drive to the Mekong Delta
• Scenic boat cruise through canals
• Visit local workshops (brick kiln, coconut processing, mat weaving)
• Walk through villages & enjoy cycling in coconut plantations
• Lunch at a local rural restaurant
• Transfer to Can Tho & overnight stay

CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET – HO CHI MINH CITY – TAN SON NHAT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ( MEALS: B) In the early morning, we take a river boat to visit the Cai Rang floating market - highlights of Mekong Delta where you will enjoy the beautiful scenery and see the daily activities of the locals who live along the Mekong canals, you will roam through the village to visit a rice husking mill, a rice noodles making shop which are nice chances to discover the daily life of Vietnamese people in Mekong Delta. NOTE: Cai Rang floating is busier and less tourisic in the early morning. You are advised to wake up at 06:00 and be ready for boat trip at around 06:30. The breakfast will be served during your boat trip at a local home. After that, you are free at your leisure. In the afternoon, our driver & guide transfer you to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

• Early morning boat trip to Cai Rang Floating Market
• Experience local river trading & daily life
• Visit rice noodle workshop & village
• Free time at leisure
• Transfer back to Ho Chi Minh City
• Airport drop-off for departure