SIGHTSEEING π Ho Chi Minh city tour, Mekong Delta tour and Cu Chi Tunnels
Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City β the largest city in Vietnam. Upon arrival at Ho Chi Minh Airport meet our tour guide and transfer downtown, drop off at your hotel for check in. Overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh
After the breakfast, depart to Mekong Delta, My Tho, Tien Giang Province. Drive past the freeway surrounding the rice paddy fields, where you can see and understand the rice culture of the Mekong Delta β visiting Vinh Trang Pagoda, the mix art of Chinese β Cambodian β Vietnamese architecture. Get on the boat to visit the local life on Unicorn Island and understand the local work of growing fruit and having bees at home. Surely you will enjoy the cup of the local honeybee. Walk continuously in the village to the fruit orchard. Have a taste of the seasonal tropical fruit and enjoy the traditional Southern Vietnamese music performance (Don Ca Tai Tu). Highlight of the trip is a relaxing, peaceful calm rowing boat on the small canal of coconut water. Take another boat trip to the other side of the island to experience the floating fishing farm. Head to Ben Tre, the kingdom of coconut, to understand the local work of making coconut candy. Take one more boat trip or tuk-tuk to the local home for lunch. Get on the boat again to the boat station and head back to Saigon. Drop off at your hotel. Overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh (B,L)
Ho Chi Minh city tour/ SIC ** In the morning, after the breakfast pick up from your accommodation in the city centre and drive to Cu Chi, around 65km. On the way to the Tunnels, visit the handicapped handicraft workshop. Watch a documentary film about the Vietnam War. Discover special constructed living areas with kitchens, bedrooms, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals and command centres helping whoever lives inside Cu Chi tunnels meet their basic needs. Discover many hidden lefts behind trap doors and dangerous traps within the maze-like tunnels and learn more about the handmade weapons and traps used during the Vietnam War. Seeing huge bomb craters and the mere 10β13 feet thick level of upper soil can support the bearing weight of a 55-ton tank and the explosive damage of bombs left from the war. Break at the shooting range to shoot some real guns with Ak47, M16, M30, M60 (shooting fee is paid separately from the trip). Highlight of the trip is to crawl and experience the underground town of Cu Chi Tunnels. This is the best part of the trip when you crawl into it to feel what it was like in the war. Guests who have claustrophobia are not afraid of crawling inside, you still can see it from above the ground. Taste the pandan tea and tapioca (guerillaβs food during the war) before heading back to Saigon. In the afternoon: 1. THE HIDDEN WEAPON BUNKER: Viet Cong soldierβs hidden bunker located in the heart of Saigon. 2. WAR REMNANTS MUSEUM: Vietnam War storytelling from the other side. 3. NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL SAIGON: The pride of Saigon culture. 4. CENTRAL POST OFFICE: The everlasting architecture of the French influence. 5. THE LAST HELICOPTER: Remarking the fall of Saigon. Just to see, I can't enter it legally. Drop off at your hotel. overnight. Overnight at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh (B,L)
After breakfast, free time for relaxing or discovering the city on your own until our driver comes for transfer to the airport for departure flight. Trip ends.(B)
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