General

Tour infomation
  • Price From: $ 189
  • Tour Length: Tour 5 days / 4 nights
  • Tour Type: Tour Packages
  • Start From: Ho Chi Minh City
  • Tour route: Ho Chi Minh City – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho
Mekong Delta Tours sincerely introduce you the Joining Ho Chi Minh city tour 5 days as follows:
  • Ho Chi Minh City has appeal whether it be its museums, the Saigon River or Chinatown’s markets, pagodas. The nightlife is also varied, whether you seek a cultured evening or a walk on the wild side. Enjoy a boat ride on the Mekong river and floating market. Paddle though palm lined canals on a long boat. Enjoy a lovely lunch in an orchard on Tortoise Island. Visit a family run business. Enjoy some free time to relax or discover the area.

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city and arrival.

  • Upon arrival at Tan San Nhat Airport, you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
  • Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city (B/L/_)

  • Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.15am, tour of Chinatown to explore the Binh Tay (Cho Lon) and Thien Hau pagoda in the morning. We then visite the War Remnant museum. After break time for lunch, we will visit the Independence Palace – the residence of the president of South Vietnam until the end of the war in April 1975, and some beautiful French colonial structures including the Notre Dame Catheral and the Old Central Post Office, the City hall.
  • We end the trip at Ben Thanh market where anything and everything is for sales.
  • Dinner on guest’s account.
  • Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 3: Ho Chi Minh – Cao Dai Temple – Cu Chi tunnels(B/L/_)

  • Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.15am –  Drive west to Tay Ninh, the centre of Caodaism. O­n arrival we attend the fantastic mid-day temple service when the followers fill the hall wearing colored robes, a symbol of the curious combination of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
  • O­n the way back, stop to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Vietcong during the American war.
  • Drive back to HCMC around 6.00pm.
  • Dinner on guest’s account.
  • Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 4: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho (B/L/_S)

  • Breakfast at the hotel. At 8:00 AM Depart for My Tho. Take a boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses and the fruit plantation along the river bank. Visit the My Tho fishing village, floating fish farm. Proceed to Tortoise island and have lunch in the orchard. Enjoy a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruising under the shadow of the water coconut trees. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle. Enjoy a rowing boat ride along the creeks, after trekking through the fruit plantation, village.
  • Proceed to Can Tho. Transfer by motor boat to a small village in Cai Rang district. Check into your riverside cottage. In the afternoon, go trekking around the village to experience the rural lifestyle of the Mekong Delta people.
  • Join a family as they prepare dinner, then share the meal with them.
  • Overnight in your riverside cottage. (Hotel arrangement on request)

Day 5: Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh city & departure (B/L) 

  • After breakfast, take a leisurely boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong river (Bassac River), then proceed to visit Cai Rang floating market which are the liveliest in the whole religion. Have you ever tasted Vietnamese vermicelli soup? Well, now go and see how it is made. Then wander around the village and meet the friendly local people and experience how to cross a “Monkey bridge” which is built by only o­ne stem of bamboo.
  • Visit theorchard garden.
  • Stop for lunch.
  • Back to HCM city.
  • Transfer to the airport for your next destination.
  • Private car/ van for airport pick up and drop off
  • Escorted English speaking tour guide
  • Pick up & drop off at the hotel on daily tours.
  • Group tour on the A/c bus, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, boat trips.
  • Daily breakfast, service charge, tax
  • Meals as indicated in the program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)
  • Accommodation based on 2 guests sharing a twin / double room (Ho Chi Minh city: Ha My 3 hotel, Sai Gon sport 3 hotel, Gia Vien hotel. Can Tho city: Hau Giang hotel, Kim Tho hotel)
  • Homestay arrangement on request

Exclude:

  •  International flights to /from Vietnam
  • Vietnamese entry visa
  • Single supplement
  • Travel insurance
  • Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program.
  • Tipping is at customer’s discretion

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