Exploring Saigon and Mekong Delta 7 Days

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 
Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat Airport, you will be welcomed our tour guide and transferred to your hotel for check-in (maximum 25 minutes driving).
Day 2: Discovering Full Day Tour in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City (Lunch)
At 8:00am, The driver and I will pick you up at hotel. The morning city exploration covers uniquely local places in the Saigon city: Saigon's Eco village located on Saigon riverside, this peaceful tourist village is full of green spaces with flowers and swaying trees. It is famous weekend location for the local people for picnics and fishing. we will introduce to you how they grow the rice, how they catch a fish but in Saigon city (This is unseen part of Saigon). Enjoying a cup of Vietnamese coffee here is a great way to kick-start this amazing city exploration experience. Then will stop at all symbolic destinations of the City:
- Saigon City Hall
- The Central Post Office
- The Notre Dame Cathedral
- Saigon Opera House
- A nice rest with local coffee style
- Visit inside Reunification Palace (Independence Palace), where witnessed the event that marked the end of Vietnam War.
- Enjoy traditional Vietnamese lunch at a restaurant
- Another half hours drive to Thien Hau Temple - the most charming and unit ancient temple in Saigon.
- Walking through a non-tourism wet market in another corner of the city.
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) – My Tho + Bentre Coconut Island – Can Tho (Lunch) 
08:00am Our tour guide and driver will pick you up at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and depart for My Tho City, enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields, stopping to see how the rice is cultivated an take pictures of the rice farms in the Mekong River Delta. On arrival at My Tho, take a leisurely boat trip to Unicorn island. Then disembark and go for a gentle stroll through the picturesque orchards and fruit garden. Have lunch at local restaurant then enjoy a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, Return to the water for a relaxing rowing boat ride along a small canal, cruising in the shade of the water coconut trees. Learn about bee-keeping in the delta and sip are freshing cup of honey tea to the accompaniment of traditional Vietnamese folk music. Then travel the narrow rural countryside road by horse cart to visit the coconut candy mill to find out how this delicious confectionery is made and sample the finished product. Then transfer to Can Tho City (100km away from My Tho) arrive Can Tho check in the hotel, free at leisure. Overnight in Can Tho.
Day 4: Can Tho: Cai Rang Floating Market – Chau Doc: Tra Su Cajuput Forest (Lunch)
After breakfast, around 15 minutes driving on a small boat, you will see the busiest Cai Rang floating market. Some hundred big sized boats, small sized boats stand nearby together and create lanes with seasonal goods are loaded on boards, such as: water melons, pineapples, papayas…

To attract buyers from distance, sellers tie their goods to a pole (a long bamboo stick) to show what they sell. A stop at a big sized boat for tasting the local fruits and a local wet market will help tourists learn more about the life style of this Mekong branch.  Drive to Chau Doc then continue to Tra Su Cajuput Forest is a must visit destination when visiting Chau Doc city the forest areas where there are many water hyacinths, lotuses and water lilies… Just an hour traveling trip by boat, tourists can see the lush greenery inside and many species of birds Check in hotel.
Day 5: Chau Doc: Floating Village – Xeo Quyt Hidden side village – Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (Lunch)
Next stop, tourists take a short boat trip to visit the fish farms in the floating village. Then visit Cham minority people village where you see the local Mosque and the way how they weave Sarong, silk and other hand-made products.

Drive back to Saigon on the way we stop at Xeo Quyt village one of the hidden village in Mekong Delta: Cajuput Forest Sampan Hand Rowing in Xeo Quyt Village.
- Stop at local restaurant for lunch then drive back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 6: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) – Cu Chi Tunnels – Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (Lunch)
Experience the authentic side of the vast tunnel network created by Viet Cong guerrilla fighters during the Vietnam War.
- 8:00am: Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to Cu Chi Tunnels with 1. 5 hour of drive around 70 km northwest of the city.
- Before entering the tunnels we will stop to discover rubber plantations or rice field.
- Discover how the tunnels were built by fighters as a base from which the Viet Cong could operate.
- We will visit a underground network dug-out which was being used during the Vietnam - USA war. There is little evidence to indicate the intense fighting, bombing and destruction that went on in Cuchi during the war.
- Lunch will be served with a local special style.
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Departure
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Free at leisure until transfer to the airport for your flight home. End of the trip.

WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Private transportation with A/C
- Local English speaking tour guide; other languages are -available on request
- Lunch at a local restaurant
- Bottled drinking water on the car/bus
- All entrance fee
- Private boat trip
- Hotel 3* with daily breakfast

WHAT’S EXTRA
- Beverage/drinks on meal (if any)
- Personal expenses
- Other expenses not clearly mentioned in the Inclusion part

Rate: Our rate is quoted in US dollars per person.

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