Ho Chi Minh Tour 3 Days - City Tour - Cu Chi Tunnels - Mekong Delta

Ho Chi Minh Tour 3 Days - City Tour - Cu Chi Tunnels - Mekong Delta

Our car rental with driver Ho Chi Minh offers the best tour cost for your Ho Chi Minh Tour 3 Days - City Tour - Cu Chi Tunnels - Mekong Delta.

Tour highlight : Mekong delat tour, Cu Chi Tunnels - Temple, City Tour 

Today, Ho Chi Minh City is a popular tourist destination due to its fascinating culture, classic French architecture, and sleek skyscrapers as well as ornate temples and pagodas. The city is also filled with rooftop bars that overlook Saigon and beyond, while fantastic restaurants offer a combination of French, Chinese, and, of course, local Vietnamese cuisine.

¤ Day 1: Pick Up at Tan Son Nhat international Airport For City Tour

¤ Our guide or driver will pick you up at Saigon airport as your arrival time.

¤ This is itinerary we offer for you. However we can make it flexible as your arrival time.

¤ First of destination we will visit the Notre Dame Cathedral and Central Post Office, which were two typical buildings built by the French in Ho Chi Minh City.

¤ After learning about the architectural art as well as meaning of the buildings we continue to visit the famous temple in Ho Chi Minh City that is Ngoc Hoang pagoda (Jade Emperor pagoda). Many people come every day by spiritual and ancient of its. Special, beside visitors came here prayed for peacefully, healthy, and lucky. This temple also knew as good for couples pray for children.

¤ We keep going to War remnants museum, the very important museum in Ho Chi Minh City for learning about the Vietnam War. It’s displayed so many photos and weapons used to during the war.

¤ In the afternoon, we have lunch at Vietnamese cuisine restaurant with lots of Vietnamese foods, specially is Vietnamese beef noodle soup (Pho) or other kind of foods that you refer.

Recommend for Ngon restaurant - add: 160, Pasteur str, district 1, Ho Chi Minh city, tel: 02838277131.

¤ Visiting Saigon SkyDeck Tower (Bitexco Financial Tower) is 262m high compared to the ground. With the concept taken from the shape of lotus bud - the national flower of Vietnam, Bitexco Financial Tower is not merely a building surrounded by glass and steel, but also a symbol of beauty and development of the fast-paced economy of Ho Chi Minh City, the key economic region of Vietnam. Furthermore, Bitexco Financial Tower is also an example of outstanding creativity and design.

¤ We are going to Ben Thanh market, this is the market as knew as good for tourist because they have nearly all of items souvenir featured in Vietnam. And they can communication with tourist by a few languages.

¤ The last destination we should visit is Independent palace (Reunification palace). The place was used to Generations president of The Government Of The Republic Of Vietnam in South Vietnam. And also this place on April 30th, 1975 Sir Duong Van Minh the last President gave up power South Government and Vietnam the end the war.

¤ At 17:00 we are watching the water puppet show at dragon golden theater.

What is the water puppet show?  Please see the video for water puppet show as below:

 

the Water puppetry "Making puppets dance on water" is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the northern Vietnam. The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large bamboo rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them. Thus the puppets appear to be moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.

¤ The show takes 50 minutes.

We are going to hotel check in after the show finished. Enjoy your free time by yourself

Day 2: Cu Chi Tunnels – Cao Dai Temple

 ¤ At 7h30 am, private car rental with driver Ho Chi Minh will pick you up at the hotel and travel for 1h30 minutes on the main road to the Cu Chi tunnels (Ben Dinh tunnels).

Video for Cu chi tunnels tour from Ho Chi Minh

¤ Located 70 kilometers Northwest of Ho Chi Minh city, the Cu Chi tunnels are an underground network made up more than 200 km of tunnels. It took around 20 years to dug this network underground tunnels in Vietnam which has been preserved by the Vietnam Government and has become a popular tourist attraction.

¤ The Cu Chi tunnels were used to hiding during Vietnam War by Viet Cong soldiers and operation as transfer communications, supplies foods and weapons for the Viet Nam army. They also used the underground tunnels to continue their daily life such as eating, sleeping, meeting, fighting..

¤ At 9:00 am when we arrive at the Cu Chi tunnels (Ben Dinh). Then we watching a short document video about the tunnels and fighting for survive of the soldiers.

¤ Next hour we walk around tunnels area to exploring and learning how the tunnels was constructed, how people go in and how were a few thousands of guerrillas managed to stay underground many days at a time. And also seeing many traps were used to during the war.

¤ For extra experience, we have a chance try to shooting a real gun such as Ak47 or M16..

¤ At 11:00 am tour will finish after we try steamed tapioca such as taste food in the war time.

¤ Proceed to Cao Dai temple at Tay Ninh province just 1 hour to ride to Moc Bai border.

¤ At 12:00 pm we will arrive and see the followers praying at midday.

¤ Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh - a province 95 kms South East of Ho Chi Minh city, close to Cambodia border.

¤ The Great Holy See Temple, built in 1926, is considered one of the most striking structures in all of South-East Asia. It is the headquarters of the unique Cao Dai sect, Cao Dai is the religion combination of Confucianism, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism.

¤ Cao Dai Temple is the eclectic mix of colours and the amazing use of architecture create a space of beauty.

¤ Afterwards, we have lunch at local restaurant.

¤ At 13:30 pm we are going back to Ho Chi Minh City, the tour ends at 17:00 pm.

Day 3: Mekong Delta My Tho – Ben Tre Tour

The Mekong delta is the region where the Mekong River approached and empties to the sea by network of river and cannel interlaced. The Mekong delta region is a large of portion of Southeastern Vietnam of 40,000 square kilometers with 18 million populations.

As you know Vietnamese country is the country with main work is agricutuaral and most of peoples in mekong delta working in paddy rice field, farm of fuits, and fishermen... this is the region gives the peaceful atmosphere suitable for ecotourism and exploring countryside in Vietnam.

● At 8:00 in morning we will pick you up at your hotel for Mekong delta tour. This journey will take you in 2 hours by private car rental to Mekong delta go through a beautiful picture of paddy rice field and dragon fruit farms and we can see how is the Vietnamese farmer working in a large of field without machines, most of them working by tranditional way using pair hands.

Video for Mekong delta tour with Kayak

● After arrived at My Tho, you will ride on a local motor boat and have a sightseeing tour of Dragon Island, Turtle Island (view from the boat) and stop at the Unicorn Island. While at the Unicorn Island, you will visit natural pure honey at a bee farm, taste some honey tea. Walking around the island to see the local people daily life and watching Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca Tài Tử - A folk art form Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) and seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted.

● Especially is we have a chance to try ride a sampan boat (kayak boat) on a canal with both side covered by sea coconut. “Vietnamese call xuồng ba lá, three part of wooden connected".

● Leaving the unicorn island we pass by the phoenix island the riverside of Ben Tre to visit the coconut candy workshop (the famous candy in mekong delta must taste).

● Getting another motorboat ride deeper we will stop at local restaurant for lunch.

●  At 14:30 pm tour will end after meals and drink a fresh coconut on the way back to mainland.

● Visiting Vinh Trang pagoda, it is the most famous Buddhist architectural temple in the Southern Vietnam. The peaceful temple is like a palace with flower gardens and fruit trees. Special by architecture combination between Asian and Europe making for it’s more featured and interesting.

 At 17:30 pm get back to your hotel and ended of the Ho Chi Minh Tour 3 Days - City Tour - Cu Chi Tunnels - Mekong Delta.

The tour ends.