DISCOVER SOUTHERN VIETNAM - 5 DAYS/ 4 NIGHTS - From: 356$

Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City ! As you arrive at Tan Son Nhat Airport, your local guide will be waiting there to pick you up. You will be tranfered to the hotel to check in. From 13.30 the room is under your service. You will be free for the rest of the day. Look for a good meals on your own, and overnight at the hotel.

Ho Chi Minh City, once and still known as Saigon, was the former capital of French Indochina. Today we take a city tour to visit the Old Saigon post office, Notre Dame Cathedral, the War Museum – all around Saigon’s famous historic landmarks. Our next destination is a local pagoda where you will meet a master of calligraphy. She will tell you the history of calligraphy and you will be excited to enjoy her demonstration, to see how talent she is in this kind of art. After that, take a visit to the ethnic Chinese district of Cho Lon and Thien Hau Pagoda. Ho Chi Minh is also known as the paradise for gourmet. So we wish i would not be so hard to find a dish that will satisfy you. Have a good night at your hotel!

At around 7.30am, departure for your interesting story today. There are many areas in the agricultural villages we will visit, and each has its own produce that you can see through its name: big herbs, spices, vegetables and mushrooms areas, Cow and buffalo areas, lush rice fields,… Get on a Vietnamese traditional hat, pick up a lot of vegetables and mushrooms, herbs and spices on the garden and you will experience the feeling to be a real Vietnamese farmer. Around 10 am is the time for cooking challenges. Join in the cooking course and give a try with three dishes and 1 dessert.  It will be so exciting to enjoy your own results. You will also be shared great healthy cooking tips and gave nice certificate, recipes, and souvenirs for congratulation.

After lunch, take a visit to rice paper village, where you will learn how to make rice paper and also practise to make one for yourself. Then you will also learn benefits rubber tree bring for people as we visit rubber tree forest. At around 2.00pm, departure for Cu Chi Tunnels for another interesting trip. During the wars, over 16,000 Vietcong guerrillas use this incredible system, covering almost 250km in length, as their shelter. Initially they started to built it in 1948. In that time the tunnels were just used as shelter against the French air and ground sweeps. Throughout the American war, the network even contained supply hospitals, storage facilities, communication routes and living quarters for Vietnamese fighters. Vietcong guerrillas used to live there and they had to face such harsh conditions.  If you are interesting, descend into the tunnels and you will have a closer look to their situation. As we are close to end this today trip, have a break and taste boiled tapioca, served with Vietnamese hot tea. Return to Ho Chi Minh city and around 5.30pm you will arrive at your hotel. Look for a good meals on your own, and overnight at the hotel.

In the morning, drive about 2.5 to 3 hours towards Mekong Delta of Ben Tre (130km). Upon arrival at Phong Nam pier, hop a boat and cruise along a branch of the Mekong of Chet Say river. Along the trip you will explore how the local economy works, as we visit various local workplaces. The brick kilns for the first. Then you will see the marvelousness of coconut as it is so useful for local people’s daily life. Visit a charcoal factory to see workers put coconut shell into high heat kilns to produce coconut charcoal. Our next destination is a coconut processing workshop. Sample fresh coconut while discovering how they turn every single part of this versatile nut into food and other products.

Afterwards, cruise through the small canals to have a clearer picture of the local life. Take a short walk at a quiet village to fall into the real Delta village life. Stop at a mat weaving house where you will see people use a hand loom to weave straw mats and you can even give a try to weave for yourself.  Board your xe loi (a kind of motorized rickshaw) or go cycling into the village. Let yourself immerse in the peace of those farms, rice fields and vegetables before having lunch at a local house. You will be filled and pleased by such delicious local specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp. Have it with some cold drinks or beers.

After lunch, board a sampan and enjoy your time while cruising along narrow canals. Back to the pier on a boat to disembark and return to Ho Chi Minh City in the late afternoon. Have a good meals there on your own, and overnight at the hotel..

Have a nice free morning time there, until we transfer you to the airport for your onward flight. Room is available before noon only. Enjoy your last meals there on your own, and our service end here.