# 4-Day Historic and Poetic Ho Chi Minh City Guided Tour: Mekong Delta, Cu Chi Tunnels, Lady Thien Hau Temple, Vinh Trang Pagoda and Cho Lon

Tour in AS — Ho Chi Minh City Saigon → Ho Chi Minh City Saigon.
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## Key facts

- Type: multiday
- Country: AS
- Route: Ho Chi Minh City Saigon → Ho Chi Minh City Saigon
- Duration: 4.00 day
- Price from: $279.3
- Rating: 5.00 / 5 (24 reviews)
- Operator: Tours4Fun Provider 5713

## Summary

• Cyclo ride through Saigon's colonial streets • Drift along the poetic Mekong waterways • Savor tropical fruits in riverside villages • Step into history at Cu Chi Tunnels • Sunset dinner cruise on the Saigon River

## Categories

Daily Departure, Daily breakfast, Select Meals Included

## Itinerary

### Day 1: Hochiminh Arrival

Our Guide & Driver will pick up at the airport transfer to the hotel in the center. Then visitting: Option 1: Explore Ho Chi Minh City's historic by the locals, and experience the city as it was before the war. Traveling by cyclo which is the typical pedicabs of the city, experience local life up close, stopping to enjoy tasty food. Ho Chi Minh City Tour visits the War Remnants Museum – originally opened in September 1975, it displays old military equipment and other related items from Vietnam War. We continue to visit the Reunification Palace , formerly known as the Presidential Palace that was the sight of South Vietnam's Surrender in April 1975. Walk down to see Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office which are beautiful examples of architecture from the French colonial period. After that, you transfer to local restaurant for enjoying Vietnamese noodles soup – Phở. Back hotel, free time for leisure. Option 2: Explore Ho Chi Minh City's historic Chinatown, named Cho Lon , by the local transport. Feel the hustle and bustle of street vendors selling a mixture of herbs for traditional medicine. Snake your way down tiny alleys on the agile vehicles, passing many small, family-run businesses. Come in the 250-year-old Lady Thien Hau Temple (God of the Sea) . Then you have time for shopping at Binh Tay Market. Enjoy Vietnamses local food at our restaurant. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

### Day 2: Mekong Delta

Start: 8:00am – Return: 17:00pm 7:30am Our tour guide welcome you at your hotel, then transfer to the City of My Tho by bus. During 1.5 hours bus drive to My Tho join activities of local people and enjoy nice scenery of green rice paddy fields. We visit Vinh Trang pagoda – biggest pagoda in Mekong delta. Continue going to My Tho, where we take a boat trip along Mekong River. During a boat cruise along Mekong River, you can see fish cages, floating houses on the river. The boat take you to small canal, where is the place you totally escape from the busy town. The boat cruise in the coconut trees canal takes you to a coconut island in Ben Tre. We disembark and have a walk around the village. Stop at a local family to enjoy tropical fruit, taste honey tea, honey wine and listen to Vietnamese traditional music, performance by the villagers. Continue walking on the village's road to coconut candy shop, learn how to make candy, show some handicraft made by coconut tree. Take a walk through village with two sides there are so many kind of fruits, flowers, trees, local houses, children in Mekong delta, take your time to have nice photos and enjoy nature scenery. Then, we head to the local restaurant. Lunch is set with special Vietnamese food at here. Enjoy lunch under tree shadow you will feel the life is so beautiful. After lunch you relax half an hour to walk around the village or biking, travel on the river to back the ferry, transit to the bus back Saigon, get back your hotel around 17:00pm. Tour ends with the sweet memories. Free time for leisure. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city.

### Day 3: Cu Chi Tunnels

Start: 8:30am – Return: 15.00pm We depart from Ho Chi Minh City to Cu Chi Tunnels for 60km from Ho Chi Minh city. Cu Chi is now considered a heroic district for its role in the anti – American war in Vietnam. It is legendary for its tunnels system of over 220 km and is a popular spot for both Vietnamese and foreigner. The peacefully rural rice paddy scenery contains ducks and water buffalos swimming in the rivers along the side of road. You will find it hard to imagine the destructions, damage and defoliation all over the area, caused by bombing and mines, when Cu Chi was "A Free Target Zone". The remnants you will see that Cu Chi still has her evidence to prove the fierce battleground that took place there. Ever wonder what it feels like to fire an AK-47? Visit Cu chi tunnels, you have a chance to find out! Back Ho Chi Minh city, free time for leisure. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city. Extra option: Dinner Cruise and Water Puppet Show from 18:00pm to 21:30pm. Please confirm the extra service when you book, it is $65.00/person.

### Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City Departure

Driver take you to Tan Son Nhat Airport for next trip. Say goodbye and hope to see you again.

## Guide languages

English Live, Vietnamese Live

## Links

- Yatra page: https://yatraforfun.com/tour/105183774-4-day-ho-chi-minh-city-including-cu-chi-tunnels-mekong-delta
- WhatsApp concierge: https://wa.me/9779708072951