8 Days 7 Nights
Da lat & Around
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+ Duration: 8 Days 7 Nights
+ Arrival: Da Lat (Lien Khuong Airport)
+ Departure: Can Tho (Can Tho Airport)
Overview
Day 1: Da lat Arrival | City Tour | Overnight in Da lat (Lunch, Dinner)
Day 2: Da lat Countryside Tour | Overnight in Da lat (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 3: Da lat – Mui ne | Overnight in Mui Ne (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 4: Mui Ne – Ho Chi Minh City | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City Tour | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 6: Cu Chi Tunnels | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 7: Mekong Delta - My Tho - Can Tho | Overnight in Can Tho (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 8: Can Tho Floating Market & Departure (Breakfast)
Itinerary
Day 1: Da lat Arrival | City Tour | Overnight in Da lat (Lunch, Dinner)
Tour Guide & Driver pick you up from Da Lat Airport.
Transfer to Dat Lat city (35 minutes) for lunch.
Visit Dalat Railway Station. It was designed in 1932 by French architects Moncet and Reveron, and opened in 1938.
Stairways to Heaven, Linh Phuoc Pagoda.
Visit Hydrangea Flower Farm which is often planted on the hillside, is very large.
Visit Xuan Huong Lake, Doha Coffee, Big C Supermarket.
6:00PM Have dinner at a local restaurant.
Visit Night market.
Overnight in Dalat.
Day 2: Da lat Countryside Tour | Overnight in Da lat (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
7:30AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM Tour Guide picks you up from hotel lobby.
Visit Datanla Waterfall. Enjoy Bustling scenic spot with a small series of waterfalls, a roller coaster, cablecar & hiking trails.
Visit Tuyen Lam Lake. Set on top of a hill shrouded in pine forest, it’s a pleasure to take a quiet stroll through the grounds which are full of exceptionally pretty gardens.
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.
12:00PM Lunch at a local restaurant.
Visit Crazy House. It is a joyously designed, outrageously artistic private home.
Visit Hoa Son Dien Trang - The only primary forest in Dalat city.
Visit Van Thanh Flower Village, where thousands of flowers and vegetables are grown.
6:00PM Have dinne at a local restaurant.
Free time in the evening.
Overnight in Da lat.
Day 3: Da lat – Mui ne | Overnight in Mui Ne (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
7:30AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
8:30AM Check out hotel in Dalat. 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.
Check in hotel and relax.
3:00PM Tour Guide pick you up for sunset tour.
- Visiting the Fairy Stream. It is a scenic spot 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.
6:00PM Enjoying fresh BBQ Sea Food Dinner at a local restaurant.
After that tour guide will bring you back to your hotel.
Overnight in Mui Ne hotel.
Day 4: Mui Ne – HCM City | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
5:00AM Tour Guide pick you up and transfer to 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 jeep riding (at own expense), sliding down sand dunes’ slopes with surfboards.
8:00AM Enjoy breakfast at hotel.
After breakfast, relaxing at hotel.
12:00PM Enjoy lunch at local restaurant.
After lunch, depart to Ho Chi Minh City.
Check in hotel.
Free time shopping at Ben Thanh Night Market.
Day 5: HCM City Tour | Overnight in HCMC (Breakfast, Lunch)
8:30 We pick you up from your hotel lobby and start to do sightseeing.
- Head to Cholon the city’s Chinatown and Thien Hau Pagoda which is dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea. With intricate friezes, carved tableaus and impressive incense coils make for some great photos.
- Visit the War Remnants Museum. The museum contains displays of military aircraft, weaponry and many photographs – some that are quite graphic in nature.
12:00 Enjoy Vietnamese lunch at a local restaurant.
- Visit the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Central Post Office built between 1877 and 1883 by renowned designer Gustav Eiffel.
- Visit Pink Church. 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.
- Visit Ho Chi Minh City Hall and Coffee Apartment and enjoy Vietnamese special coffee.
4:30PM After city tour, we will transfer you to your hotel.
You have free time in evening to explore HCM City.
Day 6: Cu Chi Tunnels | 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 your hotel.
Day 7: Mekong Delta | Overnight in Can Tho (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
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 back to car/van/bus and going to Can Tho City.
05:00PM Reaching Can Tho City, you will be dropped at your hotel.
Have free time to visit Can Tho Night Market. Overnight in Can Tho.
Day 8: Floating Market - Departure | Overnight in HCM (Breakfast, Lunch)
05:00AM Being at a wharf to board a motorboat for sightseeing the Cai Rang Floating
Market which is the biggest and most colorful floating market in the Mekong Delta’s region.
6:30AM Check out and head to the airport.
Tour Inclusions
Tour Exclusions
Hotel Information
1. Ho Chi Minh City: Avanti Boutique Hotel.
2. Mui Ne: Ravenala Resort (with swimming pool) or equivalent.
3. Da Lat: Dalat Park Hotel or equivalent
4. Can Tho: Holiday One Hotel or equivalent.
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
Seafood 特色海鲜
Vietnamese speacilities 越南特色
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- All of my tours is non-shopping, no traps. If you would like to buy local specialities, I will bring you to the local markets where they offer affordable prices.
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