Ho Chi Minh City & Mekong Delta: Classic Southern Vietnam Tour

A warm welcome to Vietnam awaits you!

Our staff will pick you up at the airport and drive you to the hotel for check-in. Just relax and enjoy the remaining part of the day at leisure. You can either stay at the hotel or go out and explore the local attractions of Ho Chi Minh City on your own.

A comfortable overnight stay at the hotel marks the end of the first day of your HO CHI MINH CITY & MEKONG DELTA: Classic Southern Vietnam Tour.

Meals Included: Dinner

Have Breakfast at the hotel

08:00: Tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. Then visit around city center: 

• Saigon Central Post Office: is one of the most famous and iconic attractions in Ho Chi Minh City with its unique structure and remnants of the city’s past.
• Saigon Opera House: also known as the Municipal Theatre Saigon. Here still remains some iconic structures and buildings that have been standing inside the heart of Saigon for centuries and become its own symbols.
• Saigon City Hall: the building has been the headquarters of the People's Committee in Ho Chi Minh City. 
• Independence Palace: is a popular historical site in Ho Chi Minh City and continues to be used for Government meetings and receptions. 

11:30: Have lunch and take a short rest. 

13:00: After lunch, we will visit:

• The War Remnants Museum: offers a shocking reminder of the long and brutal Vietnam War, displays old military equipment and other related items from the Vietnam War.  In the courtyard we will find some larger exhibits including a F5A fighter and a UH1-Huey helicopter.gg
• Thien Hau Pagoda: is the most famous sacred place in the middle of prosperous Saigon, Vietnam. This 200-year-old temple is also a peaceful spot to pray for blessings for families and loved ones.

15:30: Visit Ben Thanh Market, where people sell everything you might need from clothing, household items to food so you can definitely find souvenirs here.  Then back to your hotel. 

Have dinner. Free at night. Recommended activities: Visit Nguyen Hue Walking Sweet, Bui Vien Walking Street, Sky Bar, cruise dinner… to enjoy the nightlife of Saigon.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 2!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

08:00: Tour guide and GTrip team will pick you up at your hotel. 

Depart for Cu Chi Tunnels, which is just 60 kilometers far away from the city center. 10:30: Arrive at Cu Chi Tunnels, which is “land of steel”, and learn about the history of the underground systems dug during the Vietnam War by Viet Cong soldiers as a way to move undetected and launch surprise attacks.

• The weapons that used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in the war, including hand-made guns.
• Watch the documentary about the tunnel system and the people’s war.
• Learn about the tunnel system structure.
• Witness many kinds of Vietnam war era deadly TRAPS which were used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (VC) & how it worked.
• Get into the tunnels, experience as a VC soldier.
• Visit B52 bomb hole
• Weapon Workshop, VC Soldier's combat sandals Workshop (Dép Râu).
• Experience Vietnam war’s era real gun fire (personal fee - buy at least 10 bullets)
• Taste the boiled tapioca, which were widely eaten by the VC during the wartime, try jasmine tea.
• Go back to Ho Chi Minh City Center.
• Try the sugarcane juice on the way.

13:00: Arrive at Cơm Tấm Đỗ Phủ - Since 1946, a restaurant with Saigon pre75’s style decoration:

• Have lunch with traditional Saigon Broken Rice (Cơm Tấm)
• An old Renault car that used to transport weapons.
• Explore the secret base, where VC used to store equipment.
• Explore the secret weapon armory, learn how VC hid their weapon.

15:00: Back to the hotel. 

Free at night. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city. Finish Day 3!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

08:00: After having breakfast, Tour guide and GTrip team will pick you up at your hotel. Depart for Mekong Delta to admire the rustic, idyllic but poetic beauty of the Southern Vietnam countryside, where there are vast rice fields, tropical fruits and poetic rivers. 

10:00: Visit Vinh Trang pagoda, which has a beautiful structure that features a mixture of Chinese, Vietnamese,  Angkor (Cambodian) and European architectural styles. 

11:00: Take a boat to watch the fish farming village and enjoy Tien River

• Visit the honey bee farm, enjoy honey tea, pollen, and royal jelly.
• Walk into the village, where you can visit a local fruit garden and enjoy seasonal fruits while listening to Vietnamese traditional music (Don Ca Tai Tu - A folk art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity).
• The boat leads you to Ben Tre province - "the land of coconuts." Here you'll see a typical agricultural model called "Garden - Pond – Cage,” then visit the coconut candy-making shop and have a chance to learn about the coconut candies making process.

13:30: Afterward, take a short walk to a restaurant and have lunch with Mekong Delta specialties.

14:30: Enjoy a rowing boat trip on the small sampan, fully covered by the shadow of the water coconut’s trees. Enjoy Siamese coconut on the boat.

15:30: Move to Can Tho City - the heart of Mekong Delta

Free at night. Recommended activities: visit Ninh Kieu Wharf to enjoy the nightlife.

Overnight in Can Tho City. Finish Day 04!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

06:00: Have breakfast at the hotel and check-out the room.

07:30: Start to discover Can Tho: 

• Get on board to take a boat to visit Cai Rang Floating Market, the largest wholesale floating market in the Mekong Delta, where all goods trading takes place on the river. Visit a local noodle village, to experience how to produce local noodles by the traditional way.
• Visit Binh Thuy ancient house which was built in 1870 with Eastern architecture mixed with a little Western breath and contains the orchid garden where “The Lover” was filmed

Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant on the way back to Ho Chi Minh city. Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City in the afternoon. Take a rest.

Free at night. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Finish Day 05!

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

It’s time to collect all the memories of this trip!

Have breakfast, complete the check-out and enjoy the morning on your own. You can take a rest, use hotel services or go shopping before moving to the airport for the flight 

Driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby for about 45 minutes to Tan Son Nhat airport (international or domestic hall according to your request). 

Note: International flights require you to be at the airport 3 hours and domestic is 2 hours before departure time. In the rush hour (07:00 – 08:30 AM and 16:30 – 18:30 PM), it takes around 1 hour from the city center to Tan Son Nhat Airport.

Meals Included: Breakfast