11 days 10 nights
Ho Chi Minh & Around
HO CHI MINH
Overview
Day 1: HCM arrival - City Tour | Overnight in HCM (Lunch)
Day 2: Cu Chi - Cao Dai Temple | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 4: HCM - Da Lat | Overnight in Da Lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 5: Da Lat sightseeing | Overnight in Da Lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 6: Da Lat sightseeing | Overnight in Da Lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 7: Da Lat - Nha Trang City Tour | Overnight in Nha Trang (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 8: Nha Trang Vinwonders | Overnight in Nha Trang (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 9: Nha Trang - Mui Ne | Overnight in Mui Ne (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 10: Mui Ne - HCM | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 11: HCM Departure (Breakfast)
Itinerary
Day 1: HCM arrival | City Tour | Overnight in HCMC (Lunch)
When you arrive, Tour Guide will pick you up from airport and transfer to HCM city center.
Enjoy lunch with Vietnamese Beef Noodles "Pho" at a local restaurant.
- Visit HCM City Hall and Nguyen Hue walking Street.
- Visit Coffee Apartment and enjoy Vietnamese local coffee.
- Visit Pink Churck
- Visit Post Office and Notre Dame Cathedral
- You have free time in evening to visit Ben Thanh Night market nearby hotel.
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels & Cao Dai Temple | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
8:30AM Tour guide will pick you up at your hotel head to Tay Ninh Province to visit Cao Dai Temple and attend a morning Caodaism ritual praying. The Temple with its ceremonies is a unique example of the combination of the Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam.
12:25PM Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
After lunch we will drive to Cu Chi - the underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese fighters during their struggle for independence. Covering nearly 250km, the tunnels system was the shelter to over 16,000 communist guerillas during the war. After a short introductory video showing how the tunnels were constructed will be given, we will spend time in exploring the maze of tunnels including the secret cellar-door, museum of self-made weapons, shooting range, garment-factory ammunition, the tunnels to have a real look at how the Vietcong communists were able to survive in this tiny underground network.
3:30PM Drive back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
8:15AM Tour Guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel and depart from your hotel for My Tho.
Visit Vinh Trang Pagoda. The beautiful structure of pagoda features a mixture of Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian architectural styles. Specially, the extremely beautiful structures in the pagoda are two triumphal arches bearing an art of inserting bottle and porcelain fragments which create harmonious pictures illustrating the Buddha’s legendaries.
In My Tho, Boarding the motorboat at a pier and cruising on the Mekong River. Continuing the journey on the river until reaching Unicorn Island, from here taking a horse cart to reach a performance site where Vietnamese traditional music.
Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat and slowly cruising through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Passing through bee-keeping farm and enjoying honey tea, a typical Mekong house can be viewed here.
12:30PM Have lunch at local restaurant. After lunch, boarding the motorboat and heading to learn coconut candies making process from a workshop.
03:00PM Returning back to car and going back to Ho Chi Minh City at 5:00PM.
Day 4: HCM - Da Lat | Overnight in Da Lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:30AM After breakfast, check out and leave for Da Lat City (8-hour drive)
12:00PM Enjoy Lunch at a local restaurant.
2:00PM Visit Pongour waterfall. Pongour Falls is the largest in the area when the dam above the river hasn't siphoned off all it’s water.
Visit Dalat Square - Doha Cafe and Big C supermarket.
Check in Hotel and relax.
You have free time in the evening to visit Dalat Night Market.
Day 5: Da Lat sightseeing | Overnight in Da Lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:30AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM We pick you up from your hotel.
- Visit Datanla Waterfall. Enjoy Bustling scenic spot with a small series of waterfalls, a roller coaster, cablecar & hiking trails.
- Visit Tuyen Lam Lake.
- Visit Clay Tunnels - A special unique architecture in Dalat. It is a nice place to take picture, the tunnel describes of Dalat history from the past until now.
12:30PM Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
- Visit Van Thanh Flower Village - where thousands kinds of flowers and vgetables are grown.
- Visit Hoa Son Dien Trang, an emerging ecotourism area attracting a large number of tourists amidst a "forest" of virtual living places in Dalat.
Day 6: Da lat Sightseeing | Overnight in Da lat (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:30AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM Tour Guide picks you up from hotel lobby.
Get on a 45-minute drive to reach Pongour Falls - one of the most scenic falls in Vietnam.
12:00PM Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
Visit Crazy House. It is a joyously designed, outrageously artistic private home.
Visit Bao Dai Summer Palace from where you will learn more about the last Vietnamese King.
Visit Domaine de Marie, the church is located atop a hill in Dalat. It is built in a style reminiscent of 17th Century French architecture, there have a lovely garden in the back yard and have a good view from the hill.
Visit Dalat Railway Station. It was designed in 1932 by French architects Moncet and Reveron, and opened in 1938.
Day 7: Da Lat - Nha trang City Tour | Overnight in Nha trang (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:30AM: Enjoy breakfast at hotel
8:30AM: Check out and head to Nha Trang Beach City
12:00PM: Arrive in Nha Trang, enjoy lunch.
- Visit Nha Trang Cathedral. Locally known as the stone church or Nui Church.
- Visit Po Nagar Cham Tower. Commonly known as Thap Ba, the Po Nagar Cham Towers are a complex of temples erected approximately before 781 A.D.
- Visit Long Son Pagoda, the temple is famous for its large white Buddha statue, which sits atop the mountain crest and can be seen from anywhere in town.
- Take some memorable pictures at Chong Rock - an icon of Nha Trang.
- Visit Dam Market, where local products and specialities are sold.
Check in hotel and relax.
Day 8: Nha trang Vinwonders | Overnight in Nha trang (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:00AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM Visiting Vinwonders – one of the place is viewed as “paradise travel and entertainment” at Nha Trang city with longest cable car around the world (3320m sealine).
Take part in adventure games outdoor: speed games, waterfall games…In addition, passenger will be enjoying a unique and magic that cute dolphin circus and fun, specially enjoyed country music displays vivid, colorful pride is a Vinpearland.
6:30PM Have dinner at a local restaurant. You have free time in evening.
Day 9: Nha Trang - Mui Ne Sunset Tour | Overnight in Mui Ne (Breakfast, Lunch)
7:30AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM Check out hotel. Tour guide and driver will pick you up from hotel lobby and transfer you to Mui Ne.
12:00PM Enjoy Lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, check in hotel and relax.
3:00PM Tour Guide pick you up for sunset tour.
- Visiting the Fairy Stream. It is a photography hotspot in Phan Thiet and Mui Ne due to its dramatic landscape of reds, whites, oranges and pinks.
- Visiting the Fishing Village, observing the daily lives of fishermen, morning catch is hauled to shore and women are busy sorting out the catch and fishing boats are lining up and waiting to depart.
- Visiting Red Sand Dunes, slopes are less steep than the White sand dunes, great opportunity for taking photo as red color of the sand is great contrast to background scenery.
Day 10: Mui Ne - HCM | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast, Tour Guide picks you up and transfer to White Sand Dunes. Other activities can be taken: riding quad-bikes over sand dunes and jeep riding (at own expense), sliding down sand dunes’ slopes with surfboards.
Returning back to the resort and relax.
At noon, checking out the resort and have lunch on the way back to HCMC.
5:00PM Arrive in HCMC
Day 11: HCM Departure (Breakfast)
7:30AM Breakfast at hotel.
Have free time until our car will take you to the airport. You will take a flight to your home. End of the tour.
Tour Inclusions
Tour Exclusions
Hotel Information
1. Ho Chi Minh City: Avanti Hotel.
2. Mui Ne: Ravenala Resort (with swimming pool)
3. Da Lat: Dalat Park Hotel.
Transportation
From 4-11pax | Ford Transit 16s van.
From 13pax - 25pax | Bus 29s.
Meals
“Pho” and spring rolls | “越南特色河粉”和春卷
Sea food 特色海鲜
Vietnamese speacilities 越南特色
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