The Bustling South

Having a shorter history compared to its Northern sister, the South of Vietnam offers less traditional sightseeings, but more fascinating experience of the modern dynamic life and opportunities for shopping and leisure in beautiful resorts.

 

• Travel insurance is not included in our quotation
• You may need a visa to Vietnam

• Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City arrival
• Day 2: HCM – Cu chi tunnels
• Day 3: HCM – Can Tho
• Day 4: Can Tho – Chau Doc
• Day 5: Chau Doc – Vinh Long - HCM
• Day 6: HCM – Da Lat
• Day 7: Da Lat – Nha Trang
• Day 8: Nha trang
• Day 9: Nha Trang – HCM
• Day 10: HCM – Departure

 

 

Our car and tour guide will meet you upon your arrival at Tan Son Nhat Airport. Transfer to your hotel in the city centre for check-in. Free at leisure in the rest of the day. Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City after welcomed dinner

A morning city tour of dynamic Ho Chi Minh City, still called Saigon by the locals. The orientation tour will be commenced on the Cach Mang Thang Tam Square (August Revolution Square) featured by the graceful colonial–style Notre Dame Cathedral and HCMC Central Post Office, from where you can walk up to visit the historical Reunification Palace. The tour is continued with a visit to a famous lacquer ware factory and Thien Hau Pagoda in the bustling China Town. In the afternoon, we drive overland to Cu Chi Tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese guerrillas to protect numerous villages against the American attacks during the Vietnam War. O/N in HCM City.

AM: We visit part of the Mekong Delta today. Head south to Can Tho province and have a break after two-hour driving at My Tho to visit the ornate Vinh Trang Pagoda and a family-run rice noodle factory. Check-in hotel in Can Tho at noontime. PM: We leave for Thot Not, 45km to the north of Can Tho to visit the bamboo basket-making hamlet of Long Thanh before going on to the Thot Not Stork Sanctuary, from where you can view thousands of egrets and herons arrive to roost in the branches from a watching tower. Return to Can Tho late afternoon for dinner. O/N in Can Tho.

After breakfast, check-out and drive northwest to Chau Doc, situated on the Cambodian border. Transfer to hotel on arrival. Afternoon, take a boat to visit the Fish Farms where fish are bred in wooden cages suspended under floating houses on Mekong river. Stop at an islet for visiting a Cham minority group village where people are continuing their traditional simple life on stilt houses with fishing, weaving and practicing their daily Muslim ceremonies. Return to the mainland in time to drive up the Sam Mountain to watch the sunset over the Cambodian border. Stay overnight in Chau Doc.

Leave Chau Doc for HCM via Vinh Long. Break the journey at Vinh Long to take a boat trip to visit Phan Thanh Giang Confucius Temple and the cottage industries of Cho Cua village. You will have a chance to visit a ceramic tile factory, a tofu and fish sauce factory, a blacksmith's, a roof Thatcher's and a rice husking factory. Continue to Cai Be Floating Market and rejoin the car to drive back to HCMC for dinner. Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City

Take flight to Dalat that depart at 6: 30, upon arrival in Dalat, you are picked up visit Bao Dai palace, Mong Mo hill, Love valley. Afternoon visit Truc Lam Monastery and enjoy Lat Ethnic band. Stay overnight in Da Lat.

Leave Da Lat for Nha Trang after breakfast. The road descends to the arid coastal city of Phan Rang. Break the journey here to visit the 13th century Po Klong Jarai Cham Towers perched high on a rocky hill surrounded by prickly pear cacti. After Phan Rang Highway One turns north and follows the coast past salt ponds and vivid green rice fields to Nha Trang. Check-in hotel in Nha Trang upon arrival. Afternoon, visit the city including the Po Nagar Cham Towers and Long Son Pagoda with its enormous white Buddha statue. Stay overnight in Nha Trang.

08.45: Pick up in Nha Trang city. 09.15: Making a boat trip to some islands. - Mun Island: Swimming and snorkeling for beholding various kinds of multi – colorful corals and fishes - Mot Island: Having lunch with seafood Joining floating bar for heart to heart animating game. - Mieu Island: Visiting the fishing village for learning the way of raising groupers, lobsters… - 16.00: Back to Nha Trang, ending tour

You will be transferred to airport for your outgoing flight.