Detail Itinerary for Vietnam vacation tour packages 5D4N - Saigon - Cu Chi - Mekong
Viet Fun Travel has offered Vietnam vacation tour packages 5 days 4 nights to travel from Saigon, Cu Chi to Mekong Delta. Not do you only explore Cu Chi Tunnels where you can see the peaceful rice paddy field and its tunnels system in underground, but you also visit Unicorn Island, a bee farm, traditional handcrafted villages and enjoy the fresh air in Mekong Delta. Especially, Vietnam vacation tour is a great opportunity to enjoy the typical folk music and visit Cai Rang floating market in the 5 days 4 nights tour.
Highlights:
Explore Cu Chi Tunnels.
Unicorn Island + a bee farm + coconut candy shops.
Visit Cai Rang floating market + a rice processing factory.
DAY 1: ARRIVE IN SAIGON CITY - VACATION PACKAGE
Our driver will pick you up at Tan Son Nhat airport and transfer to hotel for check in.
Included: Pick-up at airport & transfer to hotel and accommodation.
Excluded: Meals, travel insurance, tip and personal expenses.
DAY 2: SAIGON CITY - CU CHI TUNNELS TOUR (BREAKFAST)
Breakfast at hotel. At 08.30am - 0900am our guide will pick you up from hotel and depart for Cu Chi - Located 60km from Saigon City, Cu Chi is now considered a heroic district for its role in the anti - American war in Vietnam. It is legendary for its tunnels system of over 220km and is a popular spot for both Vietnamese and foreign visitors.
The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery contains ducks and water buffalos swimming in the rivers alongside the road. Visitors will find it hard to imagine the destructions, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines when Cu Chi was "A Free Target Zone". The remnants visitors will see that Cu Chi still has her evidence to prove the fierce battleground that took place there and visitors will see the remnants.
In the early afternoon, return Saigon City at the meeting point. A taxi will send you to hotel. Free at leisure.
Stay overnight in Saigon City.
Included: Transport picks up & drops off at hotel, entrance fee, breakfast, one Aquafina water bottle/pax and accommodation.
Excluded: Lunch, dinner, travel insurance, tip and personal expenses.
DAY 3: MEKONG: MY THO - BEN TRE - CAN THO (BREAKFAST/LUNCH/DINNER)
07.45am - 08.00am Free pick-up at hotel and depart to Mekong (one and half hour by air con tourist bus or private transport).
You arrive My Tho, board a wooden motor boat to Unicorn Island. It takes 20 minutes.
On this boat along the river’s bank, you’ll be passing through natural creeks, interesting fisherman's port, stilt houses (half on land, half on water).
Next, our guide will take you to a bee farm where you have a chance to taste a tasteful cup of authentic honey tea. After that we walk around quiet villages and watch the life of rural people in Mekong Delta.
Now we will try to take a small row boat (it contains around 3-4 pax). During this 15 minutes trip, you’ll witness all kind of interesting transportation modes that local people use to move around, while enjoying the fresh air along the canal and beautiful water coconut tree scenery. Away from the city, that is it all about!
Let's get back to the large motor boat for something different. You'll cruise a canal whose 2 long sides are orchards. After that, we cruise to a village where the sweat smell coconut candies are in the air. To satisfy your curiosity, we'll get to a village that has many small shops that make coconut candy and handcrafted items from coconut trees of Mekong Delta. You might learn that those people can amazingly make dozens of useful products out of coconut trees. It is indeed inseparable from the villagers' life.
Time for lunch at local restaurant should be around 12 noon now.
One of the boat’s stops during this trip is at a seasonable orchard that has many different types of tasty tropical fruits for your enjoyments. You can enjoy the fruits for free while checking out the folk music that is typical to only the people in Southern Vietnam.
As your journey ends, you will return to My Tho by motorized boat and then travel to Can Tho.
Stay overnight in Can Tho.
Included: Transport, boat trips in Mekong delta, English speaking tour guide, 01 breakfast at hotel in Saigon, 01 lunch, 01 dinner, entrance fees and 01 Aquafina water bottle and accommodation.
Excluded: Travel insurance, tip and personal expenses.
DAY 4: CAN THO - SAIGON (BREAKFAST/LUNCH)
After breakfast, around 7:15 am, we board a boat and travel for about 40 minutes to get to our first spectacular landscape ---- Cai Rang floating market...
This is the largest of its type in the whole Mekong delta. During this visit, you'll have a chance to board a merchant boat that sells pineapples which come from Can Tho City.
After that, we continue on our riverine route for 5-7 minutes and then on foot for about 5 minutes to reach a noodle and a rice paper factories.
The next stop is a rice processing factory where you'll learn the many steps that transform "rice with a brown cover" to the delicious and beautiful rice grain that we consume daily.
The time now should be around 12 noon. Time for lunch! Let's go back to Can Tho for that.
We end our sightseeing trip at downtown Can Tho. On the way back to Saigon by air con tourist bus or private transport, we'll have a stop at an interesting point to rest and also have photographs.
The stop will be brief, ensuring that we come back to SG before 7 PM.
Included: Transport, boat trips in Mekong delta, English speaking tour guide, 01 breakfast at hotel, 01 lunch, entrance fees and 01 Aquafina water bottle and accommodation.
Excluded: Dinner, a tour guide at night, travel insurance, tip and personal expenses.
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