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Mekong Delta Tour - 7 Days / 6 Nights

Mekong Delta Tour - 7 Days / 6 Nights

Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta
From USD
$437 /pp
$636
The tour offers you a chance to discover the mysterious Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Visiting some local villages, floating on amazing river or enjoying regional fruits surely will make you feel satisfied. Taking the tour and you will have a memorable trip in your life.
Highlights:
 
  • Discover Ho Chi Minh and some famous places in the heart of city.
  • Visit Cu Chi Tunnel, the historic shelter and try creeping through the tunnels.
  • Float along the tranquil river and witness the local daily life.
  • Savour some kinds of local foods in regional orchards.
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Arrival |
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Arrival
Welcome to Ho Chi Minh city, our guide will pick you up at Ho Chi Minh Airport and take you to hotel for check in. The room is at your disposal from 14.00 onwards. Balance the day as your leisure. Meals on your own and overnight at the hotel.
 
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels - Ho Chi Minh City (B) |
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
In the morning, we will visit Cu Chi Tunnel, the historic shelter of Vietnamese soldiers during the war. We will pay a visit to the traps, the mysterious way-in, the network of bunkers and the underground hermitage. Furthermore, there gives you a unique and wonderful chance to use real guns and bullets at riffle range as well as even creep into the Cu Chi Tunnels to understand the historic harsh life of Vietcong guerrillas. Covering almost 250km, the tunnels system helped over 16.000 communist guerillas alive during the war.
 
Relaxing with green tea and tapioca as Vietcong in wartime, you will understand more about their former life.
 
In the afternoon, we will transfer back to Ho Chi Minh city to visit this dynamic metropolis. Let’s visit some historic sites of the city such as the Old Post Office of Saigon, the Notre Dame cathedral , Dong Khoi street and the Chinese District of Cho Lon as well as astonishing Binh Tay Market. Thien Hau pagoda is also an interesting destination for peaceful feeling that you should not miss.
 
Transfer back to hotel. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
 
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta - Home stay (B,L,D) |
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta - Home stay (B,L,D)
After breakfast, we will head to Mekong Delta for Ben Tre exploration (130km from Ho Chi Minh city). Reaching Phong Nam Pier, get on boat and float along the Chet Say River to various regional working areas. There give you time to observe a picture of local economy when visiting the brick kilns; coconut activated charcoal factory where coconut shell is put into high heat kiln to produce coconut wood coal. Certainly, you can try fresh coconut and you will be impressed with the way every single of this versatile nut is turned into daily foods and other products.
 
Subsequently, the boat will give you a deliberate excursion floating through the small canal and witness the local life. Stopping at a peaceful village, let’s pay a walking trip to have an exhaustive look at Delta village life. You should also visit a mat weaving house, where straw mats are woven using a handloom – you can even have a try at weaving yourself.
 
Next, we will board xe loi (a kind of motorized rickshaw) or ride bicycle into another village where you can enjoy a verdant picture of farms, rice fields, and vegetable plans. Once satisfied with your eyes, we will stop at a local house and savour a delicious lunch including regional specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp with some cold drinks and beers before taking a short rest.
 
In the afternoon, we will embark a sampan to relax and drift along narrow canals. Then we will return to pier and visit a local house where we will overnight there. If you feel excited, you can visit the host’s kitchen and help them to prepare the dinner as well as learn how to cook some traditional dishes.
 
Day 4: Mekong Delta (B,L) |
Day 4: Mekong Delta (B,L)
The morning comes with fresh air for you to enjoy the new day. You can wake up early to cycle around or enjoy a breakfast before we transfer to Cai Lay. Along the highway, you can see a beautiful landscape of immense paddy fields and fruit farms. Arriving Cai Lay, we will relax and take a boat trip around to immerse in the river life here. Afterwards, we will take a riding trip along the quiet village lanes and through some fruits orchards. Stopping at a fruits famer’s home, we will visit the orchard and you also can sample the local fruits. Saying goodbye to the host, we will boat a sampan and float along tropical canals and observe the daily life of inhabitants. 
Dinner on your own. Overnight in Mekong delta. 
 
Day 5: Cai Be - Can Tho (B) |
Day 5: Cai Be - Can Tho (B)
A pleasant morning comes among the peaceful sound of the river. Free time at your leisure to relax at your room in hotel or in hotel’s pool during the morning.
 
In the afternoon, we will leave Cai Be for departure to Can Tho (80km). Arriving there, we will visit Binh Thuy ancient house. This is an ideal house for you to discover the local history. Visiting the house, you will see many features representing rural areas in Mekong Delta region during the 20th century. 
 
Leaving the house, transfer to hotel for check in. Free time at your leisure. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
 
Day 6: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City (B) |
Day 6: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Early in the morning, we transfer to Ninh Kieu Quay and get onto the magnificent Mekong for a cruise to the tumultuous and vivid floating market in Cai Rang. 
 
We will run adrift along the river on boat, witness many other floating boats selling from well-known fruits such as mangos, bananas to the most exotic ones like mangos teens, star apples, or the sweetened longans and the very odorous durians. You will be satisfied with their flavours before entering the gaze of the channels and streams around Can Tho. Sitting on boat and have a look at locals’ activities, you will partly understand more about their daily life.
 
Transfer back to hotel for a short rest before departure back to hotel in Ho Chi Minh. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure (B) |
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure (B)
Free time at your leisure until we transfer to Ho Chi Minh Airport for your departure flight. Meals on your own. 
 
End of the tour!
 
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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Arrival
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Arrival
Welcome to Ho Chi Minh city, our guide will pick you up at Ho Chi Minh Airport and take you to hotel for check in. The room is at your disposal from 14.00 onwards. Balance the day as your leisure. Meals on your own and overnight at the hotel.
 
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
In the morning, we will visit Cu Chi Tunnel, the historic shelter of Vietnamese soldiers during the war. We will pay a visit to the traps, the mysterious way-in, the network of bunkers and the underground hermitage. Furthermore, there gives you a unique and wonderful chance to use real guns and bullets at riffle range as well as even creep into the Cu Chi Tunnels to understand the historic harsh life of Vietcong guerrillas. Covering almost 250km, the tunnels system helped over 16.000 communist guerillas alive during the war.
 
Relaxing with green tea and tapioca as Vietcong in wartime, you will understand more about their former life.
 
In the afternoon, we will transfer back to Ho Chi Minh city to visit this dynamic metropolis. Let’s visit some historic sites of the city such as the Old Post Office of Saigon, the Notre Dame cathedral , Dong Khoi street and the Chinese District of Cho Lon as well as astonishing Binh Tay Market. Thien Hau pagoda is also an interesting destination for peaceful feeling that you should not miss.
 
Transfer back to hotel. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
 
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta - Home stay (B,L,D)
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta - Home stay (B,L,D)
After breakfast, we will head to Mekong Delta for Ben Tre exploration (130km from Ho Chi Minh city). Reaching Phong Nam Pier, get on boat and float along the Chet Say River to various regional working areas. There give you time to observe a picture of local economy when visiting the brick kilns; coconut activated charcoal factory where coconut shell is put into high heat kiln to produce coconut wood coal. Certainly, you can try fresh coconut and you will be impressed with the way every single of this versatile nut is turned into daily foods and other products.
 
Subsequently, the boat will give you a deliberate excursion floating through the small canal and witness the local life. Stopping at a peaceful village, let’s pay a walking trip to have an exhaustive look at Delta village life. You should also visit a mat weaving house, where straw mats are woven using a handloom – you can even have a try at weaving yourself.
 
Next, we will board xe loi (a kind of motorized rickshaw) or ride bicycle into another village where you can enjoy a verdant picture of farms, rice fields, and vegetable plans. Once satisfied with your eyes, we will stop at a local house and savour a delicious lunch including regional specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp with some cold drinks and beers before taking a short rest.
 
In the afternoon, we will embark a sampan to relax and drift along narrow canals. Then we will return to pier and visit a local house where we will overnight there. If you feel excited, you can visit the host’s kitchen and help them to prepare the dinner as well as learn how to cook some traditional dishes.
 
Day 4: Mekong Delta (B,L)
Day 4: Mekong Delta (B,L)
The morning comes with fresh air for you to enjoy the new day. You can wake up early to cycle around or enjoy a breakfast before we transfer to Cai Lay. Along the highway, you can see a beautiful landscape of immense paddy fields and fruit farms. Arriving Cai Lay, we will relax and take a boat trip around to immerse in the river life here. Afterwards, we will take a riding trip along the quiet village lanes and through some fruits orchards. Stopping at a fruits famer’s home, we will visit the orchard and you also can sample the local fruits. Saying goodbye to the host, we will boat a sampan and float along tropical canals and observe the daily life of inhabitants. 
Dinner on your own. Overnight in Mekong delta. 
 
Day 5: Cai Be - Can Tho (B)
Day 5: Cai Be - Can Tho (B)
A pleasant morning comes among the peaceful sound of the river. Free time at your leisure to relax at your room in hotel or in hotel’s pool during the morning.
 
In the afternoon, we will leave Cai Be for departure to Can Tho (80km). Arriving there, we will visit Binh Thuy ancient house. This is an ideal house for you to discover the local history. Visiting the house, you will see many features representing rural areas in Mekong Delta region during the 20th century. 
 
Leaving the house, transfer to hotel for check in. Free time at your leisure. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
 
Day 6: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Day 6: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Early in the morning, we transfer to Ninh Kieu Quay and get onto the magnificent Mekong for a cruise to the tumultuous and vivid floating market in Cai Rang. 
 
We will run adrift along the river on boat, witness many other floating boats selling from well-known fruits such as mangos, bananas to the most exotic ones like mangos teens, star apples, or the sweetened longans and the very odorous durians. You will be satisfied with their flavours before entering the gaze of the channels and streams around Can Tho. Sitting on boat and have a look at locals’ activities, you will partly understand more about their daily life.
 
Transfer back to hotel for a short rest before departure back to hotel in Ho Chi Minh. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel. 
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure (B)
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure (B)
Free time at your leisure until we transfer to Ho Chi Minh Airport for your departure flight. Meals on your own. 
 
End of the tour!
 
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Inclusion:

  • Accommodation in a shared twin or shared double room with daily breakfast
  • Vietnam visa approval letter
  • Tours and transfers as mentioned by private air-conditioned vehicle
  • Boat trips as mentioned in the itinerary 
  • Local English speaking guide
  • Meals where mentioned (B: breakfast; L: lunch; D: dinner)
  • Entrance fees

Exclusion:

  • International flight to and from Vietnam
  • Vietnam visa stamp fee
  • Other meals than mentioned
  • Other services than mentioned
  • Drinks, other than water on activity days
  • Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tip...)
  • Travel insurance

 

Important notes:
 
  • We strongly recommend the purchase of travel insurance (covering emergency medical evacuation) for trips to Vietnam.
  • Prices are valid 30 days from the date of offer. After this date price and conditions may be readjusted.
  • The cost of air tickets is subject to change without prior notice by the airlines.
  • Reservations during peak times (Christmas, New Year, Vietnamese Lunar New Year, National Holidays) may be subject to supplementary charges.
  • Rooms at hotels are available only from 14.00 on arrival day till 12.00 on departure date. A supplement will be added if early check-in or late check-out is desired.
  • Please note that all the above services & tours have yet to be booked, they are proposed for your information only and we will not make any reservations before we receive your confirmation to do so.
  • If one or some proposed service(s) is (are) not available at the moment of booking, we will try to find other possibilities/options or other similar service(s) in order to avoid changes to the program.
 
Visa:
You will require a visa to enter Vietnam. Your consultant will be happy to advise you on visa requirements.
 
Passport:
Please ensure that you have a valid passport with at least 6 months validity remaining after your return date. You will also need at least one blank page for each of the countries you are visiting.
 
Booking Procedure:
Only once you are completely happy with any holiday itinerary we create for you will we ask for a payment. In order that we can secure availability for your booking we would typically require a deposit of 30%.
 
Money Exchange:
The official currency of Thailand is the Baht (THB).
The official currency of Cambodia is the Riel (KHR). 
Unofficially however, US currency (US$) runs the country and is the currency you should bring, mostly in cash - notes should be 2006 series onwards. Clean bills in small denominations are most useful. Notes should be 2006 series onwards. Torn, dirty or old notes, as well as the $2US note will be refused in most businesses. ATMs are available in Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and Siem Reap and also dispense in both KHR and US$. 
The official currency of Vietnam is Dong (VND).
Some establishments will accept US currency (USD), but usually only for large purchases and in some restaurants and hotels that cater to tourists. It's not possible to exchange Vietnamese Dong outside the country, so convert or spend all your Dong before leaving.
The most convenient and cheapest way to obtain local currency in is via an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). ATMs are now available in most towns and visa cash advances are available in major banks. The use of credit cards is restricted, mainly to major hotels. Foreign currency notes that are old, torn or faded can be very difficult to exchange; clean bills in small denominations are most useful. Traveller's cheques are unacceptable to change. 
 
Tipping:
If you're happy with the services provided a tip - though not compulsory - is appropriate. While it may not be customary to you, it's of great significance to the people who will take care of you during your travels, inspires excellent service, and is an entrenched feature of the tourism industry across many Asia destinations. Although can be difficult to source we advise you to carry small notes of local currency each day to make tipping easier. Please note we recommend that any tips are given directly to the intended recipient by a member of your group as our group leaders are prohibited from collecting cash for tips.
The following amounts are per person suggestions based on local considerations and feedback from our past travelers:
Restaurants: Local markets and basic restaurants - round your bill up to the nearest US$1. More up-market restaurants we suggest 10% to 15% of your bill.
Local guides: Throughout your trip you may at times have a local guide in addition to your tour leader. We suggest US$2-US$3 per day for local guides.
Drivers: You may have a range of drivers on your trip. Some may be with you for a short journey while others may be with you for several days. We would suggest a higher tip for those more involved with the group, however, we suggest US$1-US$2 per day for drivers.
Please don't tip with coins, very small denomination notes, or dirty and ripped notes. This is regarded culturally as an insult.
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1. ITINERARY AND ACCOMMODATIONS

This tour is designed with balanced activities and pace. If you want to customize it, you may always change its itinerary and accommodations according to your needs.
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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Arrival
Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh - Mekong Delta - Home stay (B,L,D)
Day 4: Mekong Delta (B,L)
Day 5: Cai Be - Can Tho (B)
Day 6: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City (B)
Day 7: Ho Chi Minh City - Departure (B)

2. PARTICIPANTS AND DATE OF TRAVEL

This tour is designed with balanced activities and pace. If you want to customize it, you may always change its itinerary and accommodations according to your needs.
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Child(ren) (2 - 11 years)

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