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 | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch).
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch).
Day 4: Cu Chi Tunnels | Dinner Cruise | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 5: City Tour & Departure (Breakfast, Lunch)
DETAILS ITINERARY
Day 1: Arrival | Mui Ne Sunset Tour | Overnight in Mui Ne (Lunch, Dinner)
We pick you up from the airport and transfer to Mui Ne (3,5 hours driving). Reaching Mui Ne you will enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, check in hotel and relax.
15:00 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.
18:00 Enjoying fresh BBQ Seafood dinner at a local restaurant. After dinner you have free and easy time. Overnight in Mui Ne.
Day 2: Sunrise Tour - HCMC | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
5:00AM Tour guide pick you up from hotel lobby to white sand dune (~30 minutes driving) 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 jeep car or quad-bikes over sand dunes or ostriches riding (at your own expense).
After visiting White Sand Dunes we will transfer you back to hotel. Enjoying breakfast at hotel. After that you have free & easy time.
12:00 Checking out hotel & enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch you will depart to Ho Chi Minh city.
5:00PM Check in hotel in HCMC. After that you have free & easy time (Your hotel is nearby night market, sai gon square and Bui Vien beer street). Overnight in HCM City.
Day 3: Mekong Delta | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
8:30 Tour Guide picks you from your hotel and depart to Tien Giang province (~2 hours driving).
Visiting Vinh Trang Pagoda, it is the greatest pagoda of mekong delta, in an area of 2,000m2 with many beautiful trees. The beautiful structure features a mixture of Chinese, Vietnamese and Angkor (Cambodian) architectural styles. The pagoda consists of five buildings, two ornamental yards and 178 pillars.
After that you will depart to the pier area. Boarding the motorboat 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).
Visiting bee-keeping farm and enjoying local honey tea. After that you will keep walking to listening 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) and enjyoing seasonal tropical fruit.
Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat and slowly cruising through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees, the motorboat will waiting in main river to pick you up and cruise to Ben Tre area.
Reaching Ben Tre area you will visit workshop of coconut candies. You can taste many kind of coconut candy in here.
Taking a horse cart to local restaurant for lunch (you will have chance to taste local elephant ear fish). After lunch you will take a small motorboat trought the small river to outside and get back to big motorboat. It takes about 20 minutes to cruise back to the main pier area.
Our car will pick you up and transfer you back to HCM City (~2h driving). You will reach hotel around 4PM or 5PM depending on traffict.
In the evening you have free & easy time. Overnight in HCM City.
Day 4: Cu Chi Tunnels | Dinner Cruise | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
8:30 Tour guide pick you up from your hotel to Cu Chi Tunnels (~1,5h driving), it's 60 kilometers away from Ho Chi Minh City. Cu Chi is now considered as 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. Tour guide will show you history and 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". You will even have chance to fire an AK-47, M16 or M30 gun (at your own expense). It take about 1,5h to visit Cu Chi tunnels.
After Cu Chi tunnels, tour guide will bring you to a local restaurant for lunch. After lunch you will depart back to HCM city.
18:20 Tour guide picks you up from your hotel and transfer you to Sai Gon pier for boading a cruise. Relaxing on an evening cruise along the peaceful saigon river while savoring a delicious meal, taking in the scenic moonlit surroundings, enjoy tradditional music show in cruise.
21:10 The cruise will take you back to the pier & tour guide bring you back to your hotel. Overnight in HCM City.
Day 5: HCM City Tour & Departure (Breakfast, lunch)
8:30 Check out hotel, tour guide picks you up for city tour.
Visiting the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Central Post Office, this is one of the oldest buildings in Ho Chi Minh City, it was built around 1886 – 1891 based on Villedieu’s design, a famous French architect.
Visiting Pink Church, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a church built during the French colonial period in the 1880s when Vietnam was part of French Indochina.
Visiting War Remnants Museum, it is one of the oldest museums in Saigon. It was first opened to the public in 1975, established to show the real and brutal truth about the Vietnam War.
Enjoying lunch at local restaurant. After lunch, tour guide brings you to the airport.
Tour Inclusions
Tour Exclusions
Hotel Information
♦ Ho Chi Minh City: Avanti Boutique Hotel.
♦ Mui Ne: Ravenala Resort (with swimming pool)
Meals
♦ Mui Ne seafood
♦ Noodle and Spring rolls
Transportation
♦ From 4-12pax | 16s Van
♦ From 13-35pax | Bus
Why you should use my services ?
♦ Video of Mekong Delta Tour with Jack - Vietnam Tour Guide.
♦ Video of HCM city tour and Mekong River Delta
♦ Video of Dinner Cruise