Duration: 8 Days/ 7 Nights
Date: Departure date upon your request
Start/ End: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)/ Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Tour Type: Landscape, Nature, Culture and Beach Break
Tour Customizable: Please advise if you have any other requests
Active Level: Walking, Boating, Farming, Beach Relax
BRIEF ITINERARY
Day 1: Saigon Arrival
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels & Saigon Vespa Tour after Dark
Day 3: Saigon – Mekong Delta
Day 4: Mekong Delta – Saigon
Day 5: Saigon – Mui Ne Beach
Day 6: Mui Ne Beach
Day 7: Mui Ne Beach
Day 8: Mui Ne – Saigon Departure
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City Arrival (D)
Upon arrival, our guide and driver will pick you at Tan Son Nhat airport and transfer you to the hotel in the center. After check-in, you will be free to explore the city. Dinner at a nice restaurant. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels by Speedboat & Vespa Tour After Dark (B, L, D)
After breakfast at the hotel, head to the pier for our speedboat trip to Cu Chi Tunnels which is known as the “Iron Triangle” or “Iron Land”. On the way, you will have a chance to admire the pleasant countryside, rubber plantations, and rice paddies. Enjoy a light breakfast, tea, and coffee on the boat. Before entering the tunnels, see a short introductory video showing how they were constructed, followed by an exploration of the maze of tunnels, some of which have been widened to allow tourist access. You also see various mantraps, the remains of an American tank, and bomb craters displayed in the tunnels.
After lunch at a floating restaurant in midday, return to Saigon for relaxation then join with the Vespa tour for Saigon After Dark food tasting tour. The Vespa drivers will pick you up at the hotel then to Café zoom for briefing, meeting tour guide and taste a special finger food before driving us around Saigon city. You will taste, enjoy many kinds of seafoods, local foods, drinks as well as experience two to three live bars in the city. Overnight in Saigon
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City – Mekong Delta (B, L, D)
In the morning, travel to Vinh Long city to soak into Vinh Long market where you can find many kinds of fishes, shrimps, prawn, crabs, snakes, seasonal fruits, and vegetables. Afterward, you will take the boat ride to visit handicraft villages and workshops to see the local people making their products as well as pick up some handmade gifts for your friends. Stop at the brick kilns to witness how the local people to create beautiful potteries from clays. Next, we boat deeper into the canals and check-in home-stay, enjoy delicious lunch and relax.
In the afternoon, you will ride a bike on the winding village paths. Then, return to home-stay, relax and try our hands to cook dinner with owners or just relax for the happy hour at home-stay. Dinner and overnight at home-stay.
Day 4: Mekong Delta – Cai Be Floating Market – Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)
After breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to Cai Be in the Mekong Delta. On arrival, visit Cao Dai Oratories, which is the religious symbol of local uniqueness. Then, you will be picked up by tourist boats to visit the floating market of rice in An Cu commune, Cai Be district – where is the rice trade largest exporter Southwest region of Vietnam.
The next stops are the ancient village of Dong Hoa Hiep commune and Cai Be floating market. Leaving the floating market, the boat will take us to visit Tan Phong islet and go to the Chin’s house by a rowing boat in the small canal. Here, you will have a Lotus tea and Lotus jam with the owners, chat and learn more about the daily life of the people Tan Phong islet and how to make lotus tea, lotus jam.
Continue to the orchard of Ms. Hang, enjoying the fruits in the garden picked by yourself. Then, you will transfer back to Ho Chi Minh City. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City – Mui Ne Beach (B)
In the morning, you’ll drive from Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet, then to Mui Ne beach. Mui Ne is one of the best beaches in Vietnam and famous for its huge rolling dunes. With a good range of hotels on the beach, Mui Ne offers a lot of good accommodation in bamboo villas and bungalows. You can find plenty of luxury restaurants along the beach road – a mixture of Vietnamese and international. On arrival in Mui Ne, you will check in our hotel and have time to relax, swim or sunbathe as you wish. Overnight in Mui Ne.
Day 6: Mui Ne – Free at Beach (B)
Today you are free to go shopping, wander around the town, relax on the sandy beach, or do whatever takes your fancy. Overnight in Mui Ne.
Day 7: Mui Ne – Free at Beach (B)
The day will be free for shopping, strolling in the town, lazing on the beach, or whatever takes your fancy. We’ll spend the night in Mui Ne.
Day 8: Ho Chi Minh City Departure (B)
Enjoy your pleasure time until be taken to take you back to Ho Chi Minh City in good time to connect our departure flight. Trip ends.
