Saigon – Mekong Delta – Beach extension 7 days

Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. Depart from Saigon to Cu Chi tunnels (about 50km). As you know, Cu Chi tunnels is one of the most famous historical Vestiges of Vietnam’s national liberation War. Its network consists of over 200km of tunnels linked to each other like a Cobweb. You go inside the tunnels which have the kitchens, food and ammunition storage caches, medic-care chambers (a small clinic), meeting room, commanding chambers …etc. You discover the tunnels by entering inside it, about 15 m, 30m, 60m and 100m long belong to your health. At the end of the tunnels, you can eat Cassava (called Khoai Mi), which was the main food for Vietcong people during the war...

Goodbye to the Cu Chi tunnels, back to Saigon for lunch.

Afternoon, visiting Notre dame Cathedral, built between 1877 and 1883 by the French, most of the materials were transferred from Marseille (France). Next to the Church, you walk to visit the Central Post Office, built 1886 and ended 1891 by Gustave Eiffel. Your next destination is Reunification Palace which was built in 1868, named Norodom Palace and inaugurated in 1873. In 1963, this palace was heavily destroyed by bombs. On 30 April 1975, the tanks of the liberation army entered Independence Palace. After the liberation, Independence Palace became the headquarters of the City’s military Administration Committee. You can discover the activities of war during the US war by visiting. The War Museum in which is an interesting collection of American Weapons. 

Overnight at the Hotel.

In the morning, our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel or the airport. You leave Saigon to My Tho city, about 75km, 1h30 by freeway, this is the first freeway in the South of Vietnam. An unforgettable way of seeing the Mekong Delta is driving along the provincial Roads down on the Southern Region of Vietnam through the Paddy rice fields, orchards and small hamlets. Stop to visit Vinh Trang pagoda.  On arrival in My Tho city, you’ll take a local motor boat, cross the Mekong River (the biggest River in Asia, through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, its length about 4.800km long). You enjoy fresh coconut juice on the boat. Your first visit at Unicorn island where you taste the natural pure honey bee, bee pollen and Royal jelly bee. Your second visit by boat is to Dragon Island where you can see how the local people make coconut candy. This is a special product in the Ben Tre province. Walking on the village, then you take the local vehicles (Xe Lam) about 1,5km around the village. Upon arrival at the Garden, you can eat the tropical fruits such as pine-apple, water melon, longan, royal bananas. You listen to traditional folk music, called “Cai Luong”. Next, you take a sampan, rowing boat by hand, about 2km, you can discover the rural daily life of local people inside the water coconut tree jungle. 

You have lunch in Turtle Island with the special food as the “Elephant Ear fish:  ,.. ect Back to harbor. Pick up and transfer to Can Tho. 

Overnight in Can Tho

Early in the morning, the tour guide meets you at your hotel. You are transferred by boat to visit the Cai Rang floating market (about 50 minutes from your hotel) where you can see the products hung on the bole of the boat. The local people just only sell and buy the tropical fruits at a cheap price. Next, you visit a factory where people make rice noodles. Say goodbye to Can Tho city.  Transfer to the airport for a flight to Phu quoc. On arrival. Pick up and transfer to the Hotel. 

Overnight in Phu Quoc.

Phu Quoc island is considered a pearl of Vietnam with many stunning beaches, small beautiful wild islets, and many hidden gems for tourists to explore.

Fringed with white-sand beaches and with large tracts still cloaked in dense tropical jungle, Phu Quoc rapidly morphed from a sleepy island backwater to a must-visit beach escape for Western expats and sun-seeking tourists.

Breakfast at hotel then transfer to the airport for flight back Saigon, Connect flight departure.
End trip.