sales@indochinacharmtours.comWelcome to Ho Chi Minh City – the largest city in Vietnam. Our guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel. The city is the hub of commerce and culture with the great blend of temples and skyscrapers on the streets. There are so many things to do in this vibrant city.
12h00: Enjoy a half day City tour to explore this fascinating metropolis. You will visit some must see historic sites of the city including the Post Office, the Notre Dame cathedral , Dong Khoi street and the Chinese District of Cho Lon as well as astonishing Binh Tay Market. You also visit Thien Hau pagoda to get the peaceful feeling and then return to your hotel to relax.
Dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.
Today our guide will collect you for your tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels.
The historic tunnel system used by the Vietnamese soldiers during wartime. This fantastic network of tunnels stretches over 250 km and became legendary during the 1960’s when they played a vital part in the American War, allowing the Viet Cong to control a large rural area close to Ho Chi Minh City. In their heyday, the tunnels were functioning underground cities and included hospitals, schools, meeting rooms, kitchens and sleeping quarters.
Once you’re back above ground you’ll be taken back to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh.
Free to go shopping in the afternoon.
Lunch and dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel.
Today we transfer from your hotel to Ben Tre. On arrival in Hung Vuong Pier, boating on Ben Tre River – one of the tributaries of Mekong river- is along mangrove tree from town to country. Witness lively activities in morning as fishing, coconut cargo boats carrying on river.... Stop at traditional brickwork to see how to make bricks by hand. Go on by boat to My Long village, walking to hamlet to see making rice paper and enjoy some rice cake. Turn on Cai Son canal winding through coconut jungle, visit coconut workshop, have a look stage of coconut processing from husk off, prize out to peel out by hand. Go on a small waterway and stop at a bee garden, enjoy some fruits, honey tea and listen to local music as well. Visit candy mill and enjoy some sweet by the way. Continue short walking to visit farmer house who making sleep mats.
Cycle rural tracks or drive tuktuk through coconut grove, vegetable plains (cucumber, bitter melon...). Keep going by rowing boat on shady palm tree canal and stop for lunch at Green Garden riverside restaurant. Boating back Hung Vuong pier by motorboat. Then we transfer back Ho Chi Minh City and check in your hotel with the remainder of day freely at your leisure.
