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Around Ho Chi Minh city and floating market in Mekong River 2 days tour

Beside learning about Vietnamese history in the past and present through the remains of  the city, tourists will also have more chance to see the beautiful natural landscape by cruising along Hau river or riding on bicycles around the village.

Price from: $118
Tour LengthTour 2 days / 1 night
Tour TypeTour Packages
Start FromHo Chi Minh City
Tour routeHo Chi Minh city – Cu Chi tunnels – Can Tho
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Tour Program

This trip is the best solution to tourists who just have limited time for sightseeing in Ho Chi Minh city but also want to see the busiest floating market in Mekong River. Beside learning about Vietnamese history in the past and present through the remains of  the city, tourists will also have more chance to see the beautiful natural landscape by cruising along Hau river or riding on bicycles around the village and see Mekong floating market.

Summary itinerary

Day 1

Ho Chi Minh city – Cu Chi tunnelsMekong Delta – overnight in Can Tho (Meal: lunch)
Start the tour from Ho Chi Minh city to Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office, Jade Emperor Pagoda, War Remnants Museum, Cu Chi tunnels

Then proceed to Mekong Delta. Overnight in Can Tho

Day 2

Cai Rang floating market – biking around the village – Ho Chi Minh city(Meals: Breakfast, lunch)
Early visit Cai Rang floating market, biking around the village to see the make noodle, orchard garden and try your best on bamboo bridge.

 

 Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city – Cu Chi tunnelsCan Tho (Meal: lunch)

At 08.00am, meeting our tour guide and driver at your hotel to start a full day sightseeing around Ho Chi Minh city.

Stopping at the 30 – 40 park, taking a walking tour to visit the Reunification Palace, which was the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of the war in April 1975

Then seeing some of French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office.

Continue your sightseeing to Jade Emperor Pagoda which was built in the first years of XX decades. At here, you can see many of Statues of wooden Deity that is always mentioned in Vietnamese’s tales stories.

Visit War Remnants Museum. Here you can image the War in the past through the photos, helicopters, tanks…

Then depart for Cu Chi to visit the tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Viet Cong during the American war.

After that, proceed to Mekong Delta. Leisure in the evening. Overnight in Can Tho

 

 Day 2: Cruising to early Cai Rang floating market and biking around villages in Mekong River (Meals: breakfast, lunch)

At 05.30am, boarding on a motorized boat to Cai Rang floating market. In the way, you can see many bustling activities along Can Tho riverbanks. You have chance to know how local people go fishing and transport passengers as well as product by the waterway.

Approaching Cai Rang floating market, you can reappear the selling activities in the past by using a traditional “offering pole” for exchanging consumer goods.

To understand more about lifestyle over there, you keep going into some small creeks, you will fell the pure atmosphere and enjoy the Southern countryside.

Then biking to Cai Son village paths to look at the rural activities of the local people, through the canal, rice paddies, orchard, Noodle factory. Stop at Mr Ba Cong’s orchard, walk around the garden and enjoying fruit, drinking tea, chatting with the local people to see the Mekong inhabitants’ life.

Continue cycling through the ferry, arrive to Ba Lang and have lunch there.

After that, running along the village access the river, visitors sometimes see the rural activities of the local people… You feel like relaxing at the peaceful and quite garden.

14.30, proceed to Ho Chi Minh city.

Arrive to the city and drop you off at your hotel around 18.00.

Private tour – price is in USD per person
Hotel grade 2 people 3 – 4 people 5 – 6 people 7 – 8 people 9 – 11 people Single supplement
Superior 236 179 149 132 118 17
Deluxe 246 189 157 140 131 25

Hotel list:

Superior: Hau Giang hotel, Sai Gon Can Tho hotel, International hotel

Deluxe: Ninh Kieu riverside hotel, TTC Premium hotel, The West hotel

What’s inclusion in the tour price

  • Private transport for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program
  • Hotel picking up and drop off service
  • Mineral water on car (1 bottle/ person/ day)
  • English speaking tour guide
  • Private boat trips in the Mekong Delta
  • All entrance fees, sport bicycles
  • Seasonal fruits, honey tea
  • Meals as indicated in the tour program (02 lunches, 01 breakfast)
  • Nice and clean hotel base on two people share a room
  • Clean and safe homestay arrangement on request

What’s exclusion in the tour price

  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Single supplement
  • Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program

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