Start your two days tour in Ho Chi Minh City – a largest center of Viet Nam about culture and commerce. Dynamic life, old French architectures, China Town and numberless of pagodas and temples… Different from Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta is a multiform ecological area with tangled canals system which integrates into mountains and forests, create unusual landscapes. In here, you may discover culture and life of waterways people where the main transportation is canoes and motorboat.
DAY 1: HO CHI MINH CITY
Full day tour with your guide around Ho Chi Minh City and discover famous sightseeing places: Reunification Palace was built first in 1865 as a residence for the French Governor General. It is 5-story building consists of 100 rooms and chambers. Next is Notre Dam Church, Even if you’re not a Catholic, it’s worth taking a look at this lovely red-bricked church that was built using bricks from Marseilles and stained glass windows from Charters. It was built during the late 1870s-1880s by the French with The neo-Romanesque architecture and its two 40m-high square towers tipped with iron spires. Adjacent to the church is Central Post Office, it was built from 1886 to 1891 by Gustave Eiffel. The architecture style is French colonial. Continue your trip to China Town, Thien Hau pagoda and before back to your hotel, you will have time to shopping at local market.
DAY 2: HO CHI MINH CITY – CAI BE – VINH LONG
Cai Be market is a famous floating market in Mekong Delta where you will visit in this morning. You may leave Ho Chi Minh City in the early morning and cruise on Mekong Delta upon arrival to visit crowded and busy of market where experience how local people exchanging goods on canoes and motorboats. After that, boat will take you through canals to An Binh islet in Vinh Long. In here you may indulge yourself into the pure nature, visit orchards with variety of fruit trees, enjoy fresh fruits right in the garden and Southern Vietnamese Traditional Folk Music show. End your trip at Ho Chi Minh City in late afternoon.