VIETNAM , FROM NORTH TO SOUTH . - 12 Days

Welcome to Ha Noi Capital, meet your tour guide and driver at Noi Bai airport, car transfer to the city for check in hotel. Free at leisure time after a longtime flight. Overnight in Ha Noi.

8:00am: The bus and tour guide pick you up at your hotel.

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel then drive to Da Nang airport for short flight (1.15hrs) to Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon. Upon arrival, your guide and driver will greet you and then you have 1.5 hours journey to Cu Chi tunnel system located to northwest of Saigon. This tunnel system includes countless trap doors, entangled living areas, storage facilities and weapons factories, mini military hospitals, command centers and even kitchens. In this tour, you’ll not only explore the unbelievable facts of this underground tunnel system but also witness the hard but proud life of the Vietnamese soldiers in the past through the thrilling documentaries. With a feeling of surges, you seem not want to leave here for coming to Sai Gon. But the city’s beauty and a good lunch are waiting for you there. Upon arrival at the city central, enjoy lunch at the best local restaurant before driving to your hotel for check in. Take time for rest or stroll around some famous streets such as Dong Khoi, Nguyen Hue with the city’s main landmarks.

Exploring Mekong Delta starts with a car transfer to Cai Be. After 1.5 hours driving, you arrive at Cai Be boat wharf where you start a motorized boat trip to visit the Cai Be floating market, a characteristic style of trading in Mekong Delta area. You also have opportunity to visit a local workshop that produces coconut candy, rice paper, rice crispy before crossing a big river to An Binh, a small island where you have lunch in a nice bonsai garden. You then can relax on a hammock for a short rest or take the bike for a short ride on village road. Next, the boat cruise will bring you to a pottery factory before you arrive to Vinh Long town where your driver is waiting for you then transfer you to your hotel in the downtown of Can Tho.

You rise up early today for another cruise to visit the Cai Rang floating market. It is an opportunity to experience and understand precisely how important the Mekong River is for the Delta. Cai Rang is the main wholesale floating market near Can Tho, where hundreds of boats gather every morning. A piece of fruit or a vegetable hanged on a pole at the bow signifying what is for sale on each boat. Having explored the market, you continue your cruise to visit a fruit garden or a family’s rice pancake workshop. The cruise then ends at the other bank of the river, where your vehicle is waiting for your journey back to Saigon. You will have lunch on the way and arrive back to Saigon in late afternoon.