Day 1: ARRIVAL IN HO CHI MINH CITY (by A/C car)
Arrival
in Tan Son Nhat
airport.
Warmly welcome to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then
self-introduce with tour guide at the meeting point's Tan Son Nhat
Airport.
Welcom to
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".
Please note that standard check in time is 14.00, check out at 12.00.
Early check in or late check-out is subject to room availability. Hotel
would probably guarantee early check in or late checkout as an extra
surcharge on depend to the rooming’s status at that time.
Transfer to hotel for check in and take
your time to free at leisure for your independent activities.
Overnight
in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day
2: HO CHI MINH CITY - CU CHI TUNNLES & HALF DAY TOUR
(by A/C car 70km)
After
breakfast, depart to Cu Chi Tunnels
located at the threshold of Saigon and adjacent to the revolutionary
base, pl
ayed
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). Drive back to
Ho Chi Minh city.
Afternoon, it would be a good time to the loveliest
aspects
of Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City. Photo-stop
at 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 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.
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. 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.
Drive back
to the hotel and free leisure at hotel.
Overnight
in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Day 3: HO CHI MINH CITY - MEKONG RIVER / MY THO
(by A/C car 70km, motor-boat, rowing-boat)
After
breakfast, take an interesting excursion to Mekong Rivers, overland
70 kilometres 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.
After that, take boats to come back to My Tho city. Drive then back to
Ho Chi Minh City.
Back to the
hotel for good night.
Overnight
in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Day 4: HO CHI MINH CITY - SIEM REAP (by A/C car,
plane)
This
morning, after breakfast free for your own activities until the time of
check out
transfer
directly to Tan Son Nhat airport for
your short
flight via VN827 at 11.40-12.40 to
Siem Reap.
Warm welcome to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then
self-introduce with tour guide in the meeting point's Siem Reap
Airport. Welcome to
Siem Reap
-
The Cradle of Angkor Civilization - Where
Cambodian were Born, this is also a famous Archaeological City,
as named as one of the seven greatest
architectural wonders of the World.
Covering approx 600 sq km, it contains more than 100 fabulous ancient
monuments and over dozen major compound Temples, which were built during
the most splendid Era of the Khmer
Dynasty between the 9th -
13th century and were the ancient capital of the
Khmer Empire. Transfer hotel for check
in and take a short rest before enjoying a half day in the afternoon.
Afternoon,
a
continuing half day tour for Angkor complex.
Visit
Thommanon,
small, attractive temple in very good condition, built at the same time
as Angkor Wat. It’s Angkor Wat style is most easily seen in the style of
the carved Apsaras and the shape of the tower,
Chaosay Tevoda, it seems to stand in
partnership with Thommanon but actually was built much later in
Suryavarman II’s rule than Thommanon,
Banteay Kdei,
Srash Srong.
Then visit Kravan & especially Ta Phrom Temple,
was a monastery built by Jayavarman VII as a residence for his mother.
Ta Prohm has been controversially left to the destructive power of the
jungle by French archeologists to show how nature can destroy man's
work. It has been largely overgrown by the jungle and as you climb
through the dilapidated stone structures you see many giant trees
growing out of the top of the temple itself. Ta
Prohm looks as many of the monuments did when European explorers
first laid eyes on them.
Back to hotel and free at leisure at night.
Overnight in Siem Reap.
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Day
5: SIEM REAP FULL DAY TOUR (by A/C car)
After breakfast, enjoy
a full day excursion to discover Angkor Temples. Firstly, you will visit
the wonderful Angkor Thom (the Great
City) including the Southern Gate,
famous Bayon
temple (12th century in the center of city remains one
the most enigmatic temples of the Angkor group composed of 54 gothic
towers decorated with 216 smiling faces of Avalokitesvara.
Baphuon temple
is lying just
to
the north of Bayon a pyramidal representation of mythical Mont Meru.
Terrace of Elephants used as a giant
reviewing stand for public ceremonies and served as a base for the
king’s grand audience hall; Terrace of the
Leper King a plateform 7m high, on the top stands a nude though
sexless statue; Phimean Akas
temple means “Celestial Palace”,
dedicated to Hinduism. Afternoon, visit the wonderful
Angkor Wat
- one of the seven greatest architectural wonders of the world,
as a temple and
mausoleum for King Suryavarman II at the
peak of the Khmer empire in the first half of
12th.
Angkor Wat is probably the best-preserved of the Angkorean temples, with
a central tower surrounded by four smaller towers. The central monument
represents the mythical Mount Meru, the
holy mountain at the centre of the universe, which was home to
the Hindu God Vishnu.
The whole
complex covers 81 hectares, a rectangular wall measuring 1025 meters by
800 meters borders the inner edge of the moat, and temple's greatest
sculptural treasure is its 2 km-long bas-reliefs around the walls...
In
the late afternoon, coming to the Phnom Bakheng
temple, is the first temple in Angkor region build by the
YacovarmanI King in the first of 9th
century, located on a slope gently hill where thousands tourist are
grouping on the hilltop to catch a memorable time of life when
viewing
the marvellous sunset, the
distant
Angkor Wat in the jungle and
Tonle Sap Lake.
Back to hotel and free leisure at night. Overnight in Siem Reap.
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Day 6: FLY BACK FROM SIEM REAP (by A/C car)
After
breakfast, take your time to free at leisure for your independent
activities until check out time (at noon)
and
transfer to Siem Reap Airport for a
flight back home. Have a safe trip back home!
It’s timely, you have to say
Good-Bye Vietnam-Cambodia.
You surely have plentiful memories of Orient also my country. We
(Toan
Vinh Tours)
thank you very much for your choice of our company as your ground
handler in Vietnam and 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, and then get the restful moments in a diversified World and
a
colourful Sub region of Mekong River:
VIETNAM - LAOS - CAMBODIA - THAILAND - MYANMAR! GOOD-BYE & SEE YOU
AGAIN!
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