A glance of Southern Vietnam 5 Days

Welcome to Vietnam! You are warmly greeted by our driver at Tan Son Nhat Airport. Transfer to your hotel, check-in, and take a rest to recover from jetlag. Overnight in Saigon.

Tour guide: N/A
Meals: N/A

After breakfast, you will venture out and be surprised by the vibrancy of this bustling metropolis; you will tour must-see sites such as the Notre Dam Cathedral, Central Post Office, the torn-up War Remnants Museum, Independence Palace, and the age-old Ben Thanh Market

Spend time immersing yourself in the chaos of traffic and commercial activities of this fascinating city’s life and the lights that never seem to stop.

You will get the opportunity to get “off-the-beaten-path” by discovering and walking through Saigon’s small lanes, witnessing Saigonese daily life, and interacting with locals. Overnight in Saigon.

Tour guide: English-speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

You will have breakfast at your hotel. Then, depart from Saigon around 8 am and head south to Ben Tre province, famous for its coconut production and quiet, peaceful waterways.

On arrival, take a Xe Loi ride through the local village of Huu Dinh to enjoy the green fields and gardens. Continue with a short walk to Huu Phuoc Bridge, where you will start your private day cruise Mango boat trip through small canals with beautiful tropical scenery.

On board the boat, enjoy a welcome drink and tropical fruits while cruising. The cruise will first stop at a coconut-processing family-owned business. Here you will learn what Ben Tre is known for and the hundreds of uses of each single coconut.

Return to your boat and cruise across the water to a brick-making factory, where the locals still use centuries-old traditional methods to make the bricks by hand. Enjoy a casual cycling trip that will take you to visit a local rice noodle factory that produces Hu Tieu noodles, one of the most popular dishes in the region.

After your visit take a short walk to one of our friends, Mrs. Huong, who lives with her 3 children and grandson – they live on fishing, shrimp and fruit orchards. Enjoy fresh fruits and tea and then board a rowing sampan taking you through a lush narrow canal, displaying the tranquil nature of the region.

After our team rows you through the quiet canal, reconnect with your Day Cruiser and enjoy a cruise to a private riverside restaurant. It is time for you to relax and enjoy a 5-course lunch of local specialties. Relax and have a walk around the lush garden setting.

Then continue your cycling trip to My Long to visit Mr. Sau Tuong, a former Vietcong soldier who survived two years fighting the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh. Now he and his wife live by making rice paper, which is the most famous specialty of My Long village. Have a chat with him, enjoy the crispy rice paper made by his wife, and see how it is made.

After the visit, the boat will be waiting for you at the pier nearby to bring you back to Ben Tre city where your car will be ready to bring you onward to Vinh Long.

Tour guide: English-speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Breakfast at your homestay. The program will start with a visit to Vinh Long market in the town. This is the best choice for you to take pictures of fish, shrimp, prawns, crabs, snakes, rice rats, tropical fruits, and vegetables.

The Mekong travel boat will take you downstream on the Mekong River, seeing many floating cages for farming fish. Visit brick kilns where you can see how the local people create beautiful potteries from clay.

Then, we visit the local workshop to see how to make rice paper, coconut candy, and pop rice. Enjoy some sweets with a cup of hot tea. Then, we’ll walk to visit the orchard. Here, we will enjoy some kinds of fruits and tea while listening to traditional music.

Optional lunch should be served on board when our cruise comes to the Red Kingdom, where you can see hundreds of brick kilns on both sides of Thay Cai, Mỹ An & Hòa Tịnh canals. We will take a leisure walk or a soft bike ride in the peaceful village to see how they make bricks, floor tiles, wave bamboo trays, bamboo baskets, etc.

Our boat continues to travel on the Long Ho canal- cruising back to Vinh Long. Your driver then takes you back to your hotel in Saigon. Rest at leisure, overnight in Saigon.

Tour guide: English-speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

Free at leisure on your own until the driver picks you up and transfers you to the airport for your onward flight.

Tour guide: English-speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast