Tour Length | Tour 8 days / 7 nights |
Tour Type | Tour Packages |
Start From | Ho Chi Minh City |
Tour route | Cai Be - Xeo Quit - Tra Su - Cai Rang - Can Tho - Soc Trang - Phu Quoc island |
Summary itinerary
Day 1
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Welcome to Ho Chi Minh city |
Arrive at Tan San Nhat airport. Picking up and transfer to the city center. Overnight at in Ho Chi Minh city | |
Day 2
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Ho Chi Minh city & Cu Chi tunnels (Meals: Breakfast, lunch) |
Visit Independence Palace, some of French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office, Jade Emperor Pagoda and Cu Chi tunnels | |
Day 3
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Ho Chi Minh – Mekong Delta – overnight in Can Tho (Meal: lunch) |
Start the tour from Ho Chi Minh city and proceed to Mekong Delta. Take a boat trip along the river, seeing local people, orchard and fruit plantation. Getting on hand rowed sampan along canals where you can immerse yourself in nature | |
Day 4
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Cai Rang floating market -– Tra Su Forest – overnight in Chau Doc (Meals: Breakfast, lunch) |
Early visit Cai Rang floating market, wandering around the village to see the make noodle, orchard garden and try your best on bamboo bridge. Cruising small sampan to visit Tra Su forest | |
Day 5
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Chau Doc – Ha Tien – Phu Quoc Island (Meal: Breakfast) |
Morning, take a boat trip to floating village, Cham minority. Transfer to Ha Tien for the express boat to Phu Quoc | |
Day 6 & 7
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Phu Quoc Island (Meal: Breakfast) |
Full day at leisure | |
Day 8
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Phu Quoc – Tan Son Nhat airport (Meal: Breakfast) |
Today, take a flight back to Tan Son Nhat airport for your flight home. |
Meeting our tour guide and driver on arrival to Tan Son Nhat airport. Transfer to hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.
At 08.30am, 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 Independence 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.
In the afternoon, proceed to Cu Chi tunnels. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Vietcong during the American war. After visiting the tunnels, you can try for shooting (on guest’s account) or enjoying cassava and drinking green tea .Both were as food used by Viet Cong during the War.
Return to your hotel. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.
07.00am, pick up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city and depart for Vinh Long. Stopping to take photos in Tien Giang town and overlooking the picturesque flat rice fields.
Arriving to Cai Be district, getting on motorized boat along Tien River, visit the locals trading fruit and many other commodities on board their vessels.
Wandering into the small villages to visit the orchard and fruit plantation.
Cruising to Vinh Long through the small canals to explore the charms of the Mekong Delta. Visit a small family business to see how coconut candy, rice paper, rice wine and crispy rice popcorn are made.
Arrive in An Binh village. Enjoy a lunch of fresh river food served in the heart of the garden.
Getting on hand –rowed sampan a long canals where you can immerse yourself in nature.
Return to the dock and proceed to Can Tho. After two hours driving, we arrive to Can Tho.
Leisure in the evening. Overnight in Can Tho.
Optional: Overnight at homestay in Can Tho (Meal: dinner)
Arrive to Can Tho city. Transfer to a village in Cai Rang district by motorize boat, you will meet a friendly local farmer’s house where you will stay the night at their house. In the late afternoon, wandering around the village to see orchard garden or chatting with local people to experience the rural lifestyle of the Mekong Delta resident.
Having dinner with family and enjoy some of kind traditional local cuisines. Overnight at farmer’s house.
Have breakfast at the hotel. At 06.30am, 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.
The tourist will visit the local rice-noble factory and learn about the traditional method for producing the rice-noble.
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.
Visiting Ba Cong garden where you can enjoy some special seasonal fruits.
9:45: Cruising back to Ninh Kieu Wharf.
Visit Can Tho market and Binh Thuy ancient house village.
Then proceed to Chau Doc and visit Tra Su sanctuary bird which is renowned for not only its almost-untouched natural beauty but also its sanctuary of flora and fauna. Take a boat trip into the forest, you will immediately feel like you are harmonizing with nature because of all of the impressive pictures of cajuputs, the fragrance of the flowers and the music-like noise of birds, insects and animals making people relaxed and comfortable. From the observation post, you can overlook the forest with an area of nearly 900 ha, home of many birds and animals, including some rare ones.
Dinner on guest’s account. Overnight in Chau Doc
After breakfast, take a nice boat trip through the floating village to visit a fish farm to see how the Mekong Delta people raise fish in their floating houses. Visit the Cham minority with their traditional weaving village, followed by a local Islamic Mosque.
At 09.30 am, transfer to Ha Tien for boarding the express boat to Phu Quoc (13.15 – 14.35).
Arrive to Bai Vong ferry, pick up and transfer to Duong Dong town. Overnight in Phu Quoc Island.
Full day at leisure. Overnight in Phu Quoc Island.
Full day at leisure. Overnight in Phu Quoc Island.
Today, we return to Tan Son Nhat airport for your flight home. End of your wonderful trip.
Price is in USD per person |
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Hotel grade | 2 people | 3 – 4 people | 5 – 6 people | 7 – 8 people | 9 – 11 people | Single supplement |
Superior *** | 750 | 619 | 536 | 489 | 463 | 170 |
Deluxe **** | 980 | 853 | 770 | 722 | 697 | 350 |
Luxury **** | 1392 | 1265 | 1182 | 1134 | 1109 | 661 |
Tour price includes:
Tour price excludes:
Group size |
1 pax |
2 pax |
3 – 5 pax | 6 – 8 pax | 9 – 11 pax |
Single supplement |
Cost in US$ per person |
1,065 |
722 | 632 | 521 | 477 |
185 |
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