5 days 4 nights
Ho Chi Minh & Around
HO CHI MINH
Overview
Day 1: HCM- Mui Ne | Sunset Tour | Overnight in Mui Ne (Lunch, Dinner).
Day 2: Sunrise Tour | Transfer to HCM | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch).
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch).
Day 4: Cu Chi Tunnels | City Tour | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 5: Departure (Breakfast)
Itinerary
Day 1: Mui Ne Sunset Tour | Overnight in MuiNe (Lunch, Dinner)
We pick you up from the airport and transfer to Mui Ne (~4 hours driving).
Reach Mui Ne. Enjoy Lunch at local restaurant. After lunch, check in hotel and relax.
3:15PM We pick you up from your hotel for sightseeing.
- Visiting the Fairy Stream. Fairy Stream 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 colour of the sand is great contrast to background scenery.
6:00PM Enjoying fresh BBQ Seafood dinner at a local restaurant.
You have free time in evening. Overnight in Mui Ne.
Day 2: Sunrise Tour - HCMC | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
5:30AM Tour guide and driver will pick you up from hotel lobby for Sunrise Tour.
-Visiting White sand dunes. At the top of the sand dune, catching the first sunrise of the day. Other activities can be taken: riding quad-bikes over sand dunes and ostriches riding (at own expense), sliding down sand dunes’ slopes with surfboards…
-After visiting White Sand Dunes we will transfer you back to hotel. Enjoy breakfast and free swimming time at the resort.
12:00PM Check out. Head back to HCMC after lunch.
5:00PM Check in hotel in HCMC. Free time exploring Ben Thanh Night Market.
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch).
8:15AM Tour Guide and driver will pick you and depart from your hotel for My Tho city by air-conditioned car/van/bus. In My Tho, boarding the motorboat at a pier and cruising on the Mekong River. Here, overlooking floating houses where fishes are farmed beneath the house (viewing from the motorboat).
- Continuing the journey on the river until reaching Cồn Thới Sơn (Unicorn Island), from here taking a horse cart to reach a performance site where Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca Tài Tử - A folk art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) can be heard and seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted (included).
- Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat (the main mean of transportation in My Tho & Ben Tre) and slowly cruising through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Lives from both sides of the creek can be observed.
- Before heading to lunch, passing through bee-keeping farm and enjoying honey tea, a typical Mekong house can be viewed here.
12:30PM It is lunch time after a short walk.
- After lunch, boarding the motorboat and heading to learn coconut candies making process from a workshop. Sample of candies can be tasted.
03:00PM Returning to car/van/bus and head back to HCMC. Free night.
Day 4: Cu Chi Tunnels | City Tour | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
8:30AM We pick you up from your hotel to Cu Chi Tunnels, just 60 kilometers away from Ho Chi Minh City.
- Cu Chi is now considered a heroic district for its role in the anti-American war in Vietnam.
- It is legendary for its 220 kilometer-long tunnel system and is a popular spot for both Vietnamese and foreigners to visit.
- The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery is home to ducks and water buffalos swimming in the rivers along the side of road.
- You will find it hard to imagine the destruction and damage all over the area caused by bombing and mines when Cu Chi was a "Free Target Zone".
- The remnants in Cu Chi are evidence of the fierce battle that took place.
- You will even have chance to fire an AK-47, M16 or M30 gun
After lunch, return to HCM city center.
- 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 5: Departure (Breakfast)
Depends on your flight schedule, we will pick you up and transfer you to the airport. Tour ends.
Tour Inclusions
Tour Exclusions
Hotel Information
Ho Chi Minh City: Avanti Boutique Hotel.
Hotel in Mui Ne: Ravenala Resort.
Transportation
Ford Transit 16s.
From 13pax - 25pax | Bus 29s.