Day 1:
ARRIVAL IN HO CHI MINH CITY (by A/C car)
Arrival in
Saigon
or
Ho Chi Minh City.
Warm welcome to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then
self-introduce with tour guides in the meeting point's Tan Son Nhat
Airport.
Saigon
or
Ho Chi Minh City,
a
young city with the age of more than 300 years, a center of culture,
education, commerce and tourism of Vietnam,
the biggest city of Vietnam mix with the West and the Orient, and
once known as the "Pearl of Far East".
Transfer to hotel for check in and time of rest.
NOTE:
CHECK-IN TIME IS AFTER 14.00HRS.
Evening, we highly recommend a good dinner cruise on
Saigon River in a floating restaurant
and getting the admirable feel of the charming views of Saigon river and
city-by-night during a short river-cruising (see
supplement).
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2:
HO CHI MINH CITY - CU CHI TUNNELS (by A/C
car 70km)
Morning
depart to Cu Chi Tunnels located
at the threshold of Saigon and adjacent to the revolutionary base,
played an important role in the two wars on before 1975. Visitors will
have a lot of questions as knowing that Cu Chi was an
"underground
village" with its labyrinth of
interlaced tunnels having a combined length of more than 200 km of
tunnels built here by the Communist guerrillas are the highlight of
South Vietnam tours. You will be guided to the bedrooms, meeting rooms,
air-raid shelters, smokeless kitchens, and experience life underground
during your short visit to this extraordinary tunnel complex.
Opportunity to crawl into the tunnels for discovering and hearing all
things of it. You can also try shooting with real bullets here (your
own account).
In the afternoon,
you will
visit Neo-Roman
Notre Dame Cathedral
- one of
the most splendid and typical of the beautiful French-built churches in
Ho Chi Minh city,
next
Municipal Post Office - Saigon's
French-style main post office to admire and take photos of its nice
architecture that is one of the Ho Chi Minh City’s symbolizing images,
then drive slowly along a historical boulevard which the impressive
buildings as the old US Embassy the
Prime Ministerial building and many
more, there are
like the historical
witnesses to the ups and downs, political upheavals of a Nation and its
generations. Followed up, you will visit to the
Reunification Palace -
a symbol
of Saigon old Government before 1975,
(also called former President Palace) to
learn the sorrowful historic of Vietnam
Ideology War from 1954-1975.
Later, pass by
Ho Chi Minh City People Committee
(also the
old French City Hall before 1975), and
Municipal Theatre
built in 1899. Left time is saved for you to do shopping at
Ben Thanh Market - a most typical market
of Vietnam, with how many things are available for your choice: jewelry,
gold and silvers items, silk, lacquer-ware, woodcarving, ready-made
clothes... all at extremely attractive price.
You shall not miss an
Outdoor
dinner at Binh Quoi Village.
For
those travelers thirsting for cultural highlights of Vietnam, try dinner
at Binh Quoi village for the most traditional surrounds accompanied with
the best of regional Vietnamese cuisine.
Evening is the time of Cultural Show-Dinner,
is a fantastic dinner in a garden-riverside
restaurant on
buffet or
set-menu, transfer to Binh Quoi tourist village,
and enjoy a traditional show of wedding
ceremony before having buffet dinner on the
riverside restaurant with a very
pleasant setting. The show will tell you the Southern Vietnamese
traditional wedding with folk music and classic melodies, rites
expressing Vietnamese humanity, a cup of
reception herbal tea is good beginning to wake-up your mind for a night
show. (See supplement & This show is
available on Tue, Thu & Sat only).
Overnight
in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Day 3:
HO CHI MINH CITY - MEKONG RIVERS (MY THO)
(by A/C car 70km, motor-boat, rowing-boat)
After
breakfast, take an interesting excursion to Mekong Rivers, overland
70 kilometers to
My Tho town - the "Gateway
of Mekong River
and
its Delta", short stopover at Cao Dai
Temple in Ben Luc town, a very specific religion of countrymen in
Mekong Delta which combines Buddhism,
Christianity, Taoism and Confucianism, and
native Vietnamese spiritualism. Mekong
Delta - the rice granary of Vietnam and has vast areas of durian, mango,
rambutan and other delicious tropical fruit trees.
Arrival My Tho and transfer to the bank
of Mekong River,
take a
motor river-boat which
to be rent exclusively for the group
then crossing the Upper River and
cruising along Tan Long Peninsula, let’s
enjoy this golden moment to relax the verdant luxuriant sceneries of the
watery region, taste very fresh coconut milk, disembark and visit a
island, stop-over a handicraft village
that produces house-hold items from materials of
coconut trees. Walking on the quite
country roads, you will reach to local lush orchards, taste delicious
fresh fruits, drink hot tea with honey during the traditional melodies
and folk music surround you. From here you can observe the life of the
Mekong River Delta, the main source of rice and many other agricultural
products of Vietnam. Enjoy also a short tilbury
carriage tour on the village road. Take boat trip along the canal
network with a bit of adventure mood in
Ben Tre Province to visit a bee farm and
then a coconut candy workshop. Till now
rivers and artificial canals are an important circulation system of the
Mekong Delta.
Lunch will be served
to you in a garden restaurant with the specialties of the Delta (see
supplement).
Drive
back to the city and free leisure at night. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.
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Day 3:
DEPARTURE FROM HO CHI MINH CITY (by A/C
car)
After
breakfast, free at leisure for your independence activities until time
to check-out (at noon) then transfer to
Tan Son Nhat international airport
for flight come back home. Have a safe
trip come home!
NOTE: CHECK-OUT TIME IS BEFORE 12.00HRS.
It’s timely; you have to say good-bye
Vietnam.
You surely have plentiful memories of the Orient - my colourful country
land. We (Toan
Vinh Tours)
thank you very much for your choice of our company as your ground
handler in Vietnam then may be Indochina countries on further, be sure
all our people are your best friends always and beyond. May we will meet
and honoured welcome you have other voyages to Indochina in the days
coming, continuing to discover, to experience the endless imposing
landscapes, then get the really restful moments in a diversified World
and
this colourful Sub-region of the Mekong River:
VIETNAM - LAOS - CAMBODIA - THAILAND - MYANMAR! GOOD-BYE & DO HOPE TO
SEE YOU AGAIN!
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