5D4N HO CHI MINH – MEKONG DELTA – CU CHI TUNNELS

• Pick up at Tan Son Nhat airport and transfer to the hotel to check in. Have dinner at a local restaurant.

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• Take a full day trip to the watery world of the Mekong Delta, just some hours by coach from Ho Chi Minh City. My Tho is a prosperous town of 175,000 inhabitants in the Mekong Delta. It is famous for its extensive orchards and immense rice fields. Take a cruise on the Mekong River to visit islands. Here, you can have a chance to visit coconut candy workshop & to taste fresh candy- specialty. Enjoy tropical fruits, honey tea & listening to Southern traditional music. Get on a small boat to discover a natural canal of Ben Tre province. Take a short walk in the coconut farm to visit a typical house in Mekong Delta. Back to big boat by rowing boat on small canal. Have lunch at garden restaurant. Then proceed to Can Tho.

• Visit Cai Rang Floating Market & the orchards. Cai Rang Floating Market, about 6km from Can Tho city, is the most famous and biggest floating market in the Mekong Delta. From the early morning, the waterway becomes a maze of hundreds of boats packed with fruits, vegetables, plants, foods, etc... Sellers hang a sample of what they have from the top of a long pole so that buyers can see from a distance what they are selling. Back to Ho Chi Minh and have lunch & dinner at local restaurant.

• Leave Ho Chi Minh for Cu Chi tunnels. Here you will have the opportunity to witness how rice paper is made and to explore the amazing labyrinth of tunnels used by the guerrillas during the war. Return to Ho Chi Minh city and then have lunch at a local restaurant before taking a half day city tour. Visit War Museum which primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War, and is a major tourist attraction, pass by Reunification Palace which was the workplace of the President of South Vietnam & was then known as Independence Palace. Visit outside Notre Dame Cathedral (under maintenance), the spiritual and cultural crucible of the French presence in the Orient & the General Post Office, the ancient & French colonial architecture style. The final stop is Ben Thanh Market which is always loaded with varieties of goods, such as consumer goods, cakes and candies, food and foodstuff, and particularly high-quality fruit and vegetables.

• You are at leisure till your transfer to the airport for your flight back to Singapore. We hope you have had an enjoyable trip with SA Tours!

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