Day 1:
ARRIVAL IN HO CHI
MINH CITY
(by A/C car)
Arrival in
Saigon
or
Ho Chi Minh City.
Warmly welcome to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then
self-introduce with Indochina Incentive House's
representative and 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 centre 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 free at leisure for your own
activities for the rest of day.
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)
Back to your hotel for free at leisure. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh
City.
Day
2:
HO CHI MINH CITY FULL DAY TOUR
(by A/C car)
After
breakfast, let’s experience a full day tour to discover of Ho Chi Minh
City. In the morning, it would be a good ti
me
to have a glimpse of Saigon and Vietnam, would be a good time to have a
glimpse of Saigon and Vietnam, 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.
then drive slowly along a historical boulevard which the impressive
buildings as the old US Embassy the
Prime Misnisterial building and many
more, there are
like the historical
witnesses to the ups and downs, political upheavals of a Nation and its
generations.
In the
afternoon,
visit to the War Remnants
Museum where you will listen to about
and feel how the wars of resistance against the old and new colonial
powers, get the experience of the American War in Vietnam. Left time is
saved for you to do shopping at Ben Thanh
Market and at the streets of handicraft
shops
in the
heart of Saigon with how many things are available for your choice
at attractive prices.
Back to
your hotel for free at leisure. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
(B).
Day 3:
HO CHI MINH CITY - CU CHI
TUNNELS
(by A/C car 70km)
Morning
depart to Cu C
hi
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 guerillas 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,
visit
China
Town,
the really typical marketplace, a good indication of the importance the
Chinese have traditionally played in Vietnam's economy. Witness the
bustling Binh Tay Wholesales Market where the
most Oriental typical commercial center, continuing to visit a
Chinese Lady Temple of over 150 years,
with the legendary story of the ancient boat-men refugees from mainland
China during the feudal dynasties, which are illustrated via an impress
collection of Chinaware and porcelain masterpieces. Back to the hotel
for good night.
Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
(B)
Day
4:
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. Drive back to the city and free leisure at night.
You
shall not miss an
Outdoor
dinner at Binh Quoi VillageFor
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.
(B).
Day
5: FLY
BACK HOME 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!
(B)
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