Full Exploration of Mekong Delta Tours

(7 Days)

Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City
Meet your tour guide and transfer to hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City - Cu Chi - Ho Chi Minh City ( B, L)
A morning city tour of dynamic Ho Chi Minh City, still called Saigon by many locals, takes in the former Presidential Palace, the Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Saigon Post Office, a lacquer ware factory and Thien Hau Pagoda in the city’s bustling Chinatown. In the afternoon visit the famous Cu Chi Tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City - Vung Tau – Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
Breakfast at Hotel. Continuing our trip to Vung Tau, only 125 km from Ho Chi Minh City, it offers you relaxation on the sandy beaches caressed by the cool breeze from the vast Pacific Ocean.

Afternoon visit Jesus’ Statue, Tam Thang Temple, on the way back, visit Fruit Market in Long Thanh District with fresh fruits: longan, jack-fruit, rambutan, durian, mangosteen … Com back to Ho Chi Minh City.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City - Can Tho (B, L)
Leave Ho Chi Minh City after breakfast and head south to Can Tho deep in the Mekong Delta. Break the journey at Mytho, 2 hours drive south of Ho Chi Minh City, to visit the ornate Vinh Trang Pagoda in a family-run rice-noodle factory. Arrive in Can Tho and check into hotel.

Overnight in Can Tho.
Day 5: Can Tho - Chau Doc (B, L)
After breakfast, check out the hotel and head northwest to Chau Doc, situated on the Cambodian border. Transfer to hotel on arrival. In the afternoon take a boat visit fish farms where fish are bred in wooden cages suspended under floating houses on the river. Continue by boat to visit a village of stilt houses belonging to the Cham minority where colorful traditional textiles are woven on old wooden looms. Return to the dry land in time to drive up Sam Mountain to watch the sunset over the Cambodian border.

Overnight Chau Doc
Day 6: Chau Doc - Vinh Long (B, L)
Leave Chau Doc after breakfast and head back towards Ho Chi Minh City via Vinh Long. Break the journey at Vinh Long to take a boat trip to visit Phan Thanh Gian Confucian Temple and the cottage industries of Cho Cua village. Visit a ceramic tile factory, a tofu and fish sauce factory, a blacksmith’s, a roof thatched and a rice husking factory. Continue to Cai Be Floating Market and rejoin the car to drive to Ho Chi Minh City.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 7: Depart Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Departure day. At leisure until transfer to Tan Son Nhat Airport for onward flight.

Quotation (US$/Person)