Book a private car rental with driver Ho Chi Minh to Mekong delta - Cu Chi tunnels tour a day from Ho Chi Minh will be a great tour 1 day from Ho Chi Minh.
¤ At 7:00 am, our driver and car will pick you up at the hotel and travel for 1h30 minutes on the main road to the Cu Chi tunnels.
¤ Located 70 kilometers Northwest of Ho Chi Minh city, the Cu Chi tunnels are an underground network made up more than 200 km of tunnels. Its took around 20 years to be completed by hands + bamboo baskets. This network underground tunnels in Vietnam 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, fighting ...
At 9:00 am, when we are arrived at the Cu Chi tunnels. Then we 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 the 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 ...
¤ At 11:00 am, tour will finish after we try steamed tapioca such as taste food in the war time.
¤ Proceed to Mekong Delta My Tho City will be reach after 2 hours in driver by private car rental from Cu Chi Tunnels.
¤ We have lunch at Mekong rest stop
► The Mekong delta is the region where the Mekong river approached and empies to the sea by network of river and cannel interlaced.
The Mekong delta region is a large of portion of southeastern Vietnam of 40,000 square kilometer with 18 milion populations. As you know Vietnamese country is the country with main work is agricutuaral and most of peoples in mekong delta working in paddy rice field, farm of fuits, and fishermen ... this is the region gives the peaceful atmosphere suitable for ecotourism and exploring countryside in Vietnam.
● For Mekong delta tour we pass by a beautiful picture of paddy rice field and dragon fruit farms and we can see how is the vietnamese farmer working in a large of field without machines, most of them working by tranditional way using pair hands.
● At 13h30 pm after arrived at My Tho & Ben Tre, you will ride on a local motorboat and have a sightseeing tour of 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 and watching 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 seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted.
● Especially is we have a chance to try ride a sampan boat (kayak boat) on a canal with both sides covered by water coconut. “Vietnamese call xuồng ba lá, three part of wooden connected".
● We will visit and learning how the local people make the coconut candy at the coconut candy workshop (the famous candy in Mekong delta must taste).
● Tour will end after we have drink a fresh coconut on the way back to mainland.
● Visiting Vinh Trang Temple, 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.
► We will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City at 6:30 pm.
The tour ends.
