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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh Airport + City Tour

● Our private car rental with driver will greeting you at the Tan Son Nhat international airport as your time arrival at the airport then driving you to Ho Chi Minh for your tour sightseeing around.

First of destination we will visit the Notre Dame Cathedral Church and Central Post Office, which were two typical buildings built by the French in Ho Chi Minh City.

After learning about the architectural art as well as meaning of the buildings, we continue to Dong Khoi Street walking along to admire what is left of the colonial architecture.

Starting from the southern end on the bank of the Saigon River, have a look along the way at the Continental Hotel, the Opera House, the Caravelle Hotel, the Hotel de Ville (which is now the City Hall).

2. War remnants museum, the very important museum in Ho Chi Minh City for learning about the Vietnam War. It’s displayed so many photos and weapons used to during the war.

3. Saigon Square: if you are looking for bargains while in Saigon should head to Saigon Square. Even though it’s always bustling with shoppers, Saigon Square is air conditioned and under cover so it is far more pleasant.

4. You might have lunch at Vietnamese beef noodles (Pho) restaurant. Pho Hung (241-243 Nguyễn Trãi, Phường Nguyễn Cư Trinh, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh).

5. China town: Binh Tay market is Vietnam’s largest Chinatown with roots dating back to 1778; it’s also a place of great historical and cultural importance. it is an interesting place to see classical Chinese architecture reminiscent of years gone by.

6. Visiting Thien Hau temple “the Chinese sea goddess”. This is one of the oldest temple was built in 1760. It’s believed that she protects and rescues ships and people on the sea by flying around on a mat or cloud.

● 17h30 drop off at Ho Chi Minh hotel.

Day 2: Mekong delta tour a day from Ho Chi Minh

Mekong Delta is also known as Vietnam's 'rice basket’-- a fertile area spreading nearly 40,000 square kilometers. Here the mighty Mekong river ends by splitting itself into nine major tributaries.

The Vietnamese name these nine tributaries “Nine Dragons.” Here’s our itinerary that is designed to help you experience local daily activities along the Mekong.

● Depart from Ho Chi Minh city at 8h00am in morning for Mekong delta tour a day from Ho Chi Minh we pass by a beautiful picture of paddy rice field and fruit farms and we can see how is the Vietnamese farmer working in a large of field without machines.

● At 10am, we arrive at My Tho, you will ride on a local motor boat and have a sightseeing tour of fishing village, Dragon Island, Turtle Island (view from the boat) and stop at the Unicorn Island.

While at the Unicorn Island, you will visit natural pure honey at a bee farm, taste some honey tea.

Walking around the island to see the local people daily life, taste seasonal tropical fruit and watching Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca Tài Tử - A folk art from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity).

Especially, we have a chance to try rowing a sampan boat (kayak boat) on a canal under shadow sea coconut.

● Leaving the unicorn island you will continue your motor boat trip to Ben Tre province (coconut kingdom) to visit a handmade coconut candy workshop. Then transfer to a small boat and travel along the lush, green canals, and stop at local restaurant for Vietnamese lunch.

● Take a nap break on hammock.

● At 15:00pm, back to mainland. We going to Vinh Trang pagoda, it is the most famous Buddhist architectural temple in the southern Vietnam. The peaceful temple is like a palace with flower gardens and fruit trees. Special by architecture combination between Asian and Europe making for it’s more featured and interesting.

● At 17:00pm arrived at the hotel. 

Overnight at Ho Chi Minh.

Day 3: Cu Chi tunnels – Cao Dai temple - drop off at Moc Bai border

● Visiting to Cu Chi Tunnels will give you a taste of the area of steel where the Vietnamese showed their endurance through the Vietnam war. This network underground tunnels in Viet Nam which has been preserved by the Viet Nam government and has become a popular tourist attraction.

The Cu chi tunnels were used to hiding during Viet Nam war by Viet Cong soldiers and operation as transfer communications, supplies foods and weapons for the Viet Nam army. They also used the underground tunnels to continue their daily life such as eating, sleeping, meeting and fighting.

● At 7:30am, we will depart from Ho Chi Minh City and head towards the Cu Chi Tunnels. Traveling to this destination by highway will take you about 1.5 hours.

● When reaching the Cu chi tunnels (Ben Dinh tunnels). Then you watching a short document video about the tunnels and fighting for survive of the soldiers.

● Next hour we walk around tunnels area to exploring and learning how they dug the tunnels, how they go in and how were a few thousands of guerrillas managed to stay underground many days at a time. And also seeing many traps were used to during the war.

● For extra experience, we have a chance try to shooting a real gun such as Ak47 or M16.

● After the exploring, you will enjoy cup of tea and some steamed tapioca, the main food of former Vietnamese guerillas.

Proceed to Cao Dai temple at Tay Ninh

● At 12:00pm we will arrive and see the follower praying at midday.

● Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh - a province 95 km South East of Ho Chi Minh city, close to Cambodia border.

● The Great Holy See Temple, built in 1926, is considered one of the most striking structures in all of South-East Asia. It is the headquarters of the unique Cao Dai sect. Cao Dai is the religion combination of Confucianism, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism.

● Cao Dai Temple is the eclectic mix of colors and the amazing use of architecture create a space of beauty.

● Afterwards, we have lunch at local restaurant. Our recommendation: Lan Phuong restaurant. Address: 1369 Cách Mạng Tháng 8 str, Ninh Thạnh, Tây Ninh city.

● At 14:00pm after lunch time we are going to the Moc Bai border to process to the Cambodia.

● 15h00 check in at Moc Bai border then going to the Cambodia for 4 hours

Check in and overnight at Phnompenh.

The tour ends.