This package turns your vacation into an adventure; discover the countryside of Vietnam in your style.
Take a flight to Sai Gon. Welcome at the airport and check-in at the hotel. Free at your leisure. Overnight in Sai Gon.
Start your morning with an hour around the center of this bustling city by cyclo – the special vehicle used popularly during early 20’s in Sai Gon. After that, we spend hours walking to the main attractions of this city such as: War remnant Museum, Unification Palace, Post Office, Notre Dame Catheral, Opera House, City Hall, Ben Thanh Market… Have lunch in the local restaurant with HUE style
Afternoon, travel like a VIP and arrive hours before the large tour groups. Your English-speaking guide will introduce you to life along the banks of the Saigon River as your boat gracefully slips through knots of floating water hyacinths on this scenic one-hour boat trip. After a short documentary, your guide will lead you through the historic Cu Chi Tunnels, dug by resourceful guerrilla fighters to provide communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters during numerous conflicts. A traditional Vietnamese lunch or dinner of local specialties like lemongrass chicken and caramelized clay pot pork will be served after your visit to the tunnels. Overnight in Saigon.
Pick up and drive 02 hours to Ben Tre province. On arrival, take a boat on Ben Tre River – one of tributaries of Mekong River, sightseeing lively activities along river. Stop at local brick kilns to see how to make bricks in handy traditional style. Continue going through palm tree- lined canals and visit one of coconut-processing workshops located along canal. It is a chance to interact with local people to know more about rural life and enjoy some candies, coconut juice. Take a short walk to family workshop where they make traditional mats and enjoy some fruits and tea.
Take a motor cart or cycle riding on shady road, pass by green fields and vegetable plantation and find out about tropical culture from peasants. Lunch at “Coconut riverside “Restaurant with specialties such as: Elephant- ear Fish, spring rolls… After lunch, take rowing boats along water palm creek back to pier and driving to Can Tho City. Overnight in Can Tho.
Take a morning boat to the biggest floating market in Mekong to experience other lifestyle in Mekong that you can’t see it whenever you go in Indochina. In the early hours, boats of all different sizes make their way to Cai Rang on the river to sell and buy farm products and whatever products they have to offer. After that, Drive to Xeo Quyt Relic – A revolutionary base during the anti-French and US resistance wars, the 20ha cajeput forest of present-day Xeo Quyt has been reclaimed and become an attractive historical and ecological tourist site in the southern delta. Boating along the crisscrossing canals, built in the early 20th century and discovers the cajeput forests, submerged in the red brown water. Arrive in Sai Gon in the afternoon. Overnight in Sai Gon.
In the morning, take 2.5 hours driving to Nam Cat Tien National Park. Registration and transfer to Forest Floors Lodge. Welcome drink, check in and shown to your room. After lunch, trek through the forest. Lagerstroemia Trail: from Forest Floor Lodge the trail starts opposite the entrance and takes you through a well used track with good examples of large trees (Lagerstroemia or Bang Lang and the well-known Thung or Tetrameles tree) with palms and cycads in the under-storey. If you look up into the canopy you will see ferns and orchids; lianas and strangler vines are abundant. As with many trails, this is best walked in the early morning, before it becomes too hot and other people arrive, or in the late afternoon. Good possibilities of seeing pitas, partridge and other bird species.
17.00 Pick up the bicycles at the Lodge then cycling to Elephant Hill, returning in the dark with the good chance to see the wild life. 19.30 Dinner. Overnight in the Forest Floor Lodge.
05.30 Early morning walk through Botanic Garden to Heaven Rapids. This walk gives you the good chance to see the primates and plenty of opportunities to see the wide variety of birds and other jungle life. On returning to the Lodge at about 08.00, breakfast is ready for you. After breakfast you will have a couple hours relaxing at our viewing platform, looking to the river and bird watching, and listening to the gibbons singing. At 11.00 you will be taken by our golf car to the Bear Rescue Centre to see them from the viewing platform. The aim of this Centre is to rescue and rehabilitate endangered bears and when appropriate release the back into the forests of Cat Tien National Park.
At 11.45 you will go to the ferry, cross the river for departure. A packed lunch will be provided for your journey. Check out the lodge and drive up to Da Lat. Overnight in Da Lat.
Free at your leisure to discover Da Lat in your style. Overnight in Da Lat.
Start your new challenge by joining water rafting tour. This fantastic day trip goes into one of the least explored areas of Da Lat, and down a fantastic stretch of the Langbiang River with Class 2,3, and 4 rapids. A fantastic way to see the deep countryside of Vietnam and get your adrenaline fix for the week at the same time.
This is expedition style rafting with no close access to the river by any major roads. This river is remote. The walk down to the river and the boat launch area is about 45 minutes and through 3 kilometers of stunning scenery. Overnight in Da Lat.
Free on your own until transfer to the airport for the flight to Sai Gon. Tour ends.
HAVE A GREAT TRIP!
No. of Guest(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Price/Person | VND * 1,000 | 10,200 | 6,200 | 4,950 |
~USD | $443 | $270 | $215 | |
No. of Guest(s) | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
Price/Person | VND * 1,000 | 4,300 | 3,900 | 3,600 |
~USD | $187 | $170 | $157 | |
No. of Guest(s) | >=7 | Child | ||
Price/Person | VND * 1,000 | 3,400 | 2,100 | |
~USD | $148 | $91 |
● Accommodation on a twin shared basis
● Air-conditioned Private Car
● Boat trips as stated in the itinerary
● Meals: As indicated in above itinerary
● English speaking guide
● Admission fees to sites stated in the itinerary
● Government and service charges
● Personal expenses
● Tips and Gratuities (recommended)
● Drinks (beer, soft drinks…)
● Visas and Immigration fees on arrival
● Domestic air ticket (Da Lat – Sai Gon)
● International air tickets to/from Viet Nam
● Travel and/or Medical Insurance
● Lunch or dinner unless stated in the itinerary
● Single suppl. room accommodation (quoted separately)
● Child or adult in triple share accommodation
● Foreign language guides other than English
● Peak Season or Special Events Surcharges
● Within 24 hours before departure: Guests pay 100%
● From 24 – 48 hours before departure: Guests pay 50%
● Prior to 48 hours before departure: Guests pay 20%
● We also offer pickup service at other districts with extra fees:
● If you want to have a guide who can speak different language than English, please check availability with us; there might be an extra charge for below languages
● Children Policy
● Please request in advance if you have a food allergy, you are a vegetarian, you observe Halal or diet menu. Some special requests might be applied with an extra charge:
● What to expect at your homestay:
● Extra payment for accommodation in a hotel on request:
● During the tour, you might see some things that you don’t like, such as animals in cages (python, crocodile, frog…). Most of them are managed by local villagers for economic reasons. We don’t promote these activities and we don’t promise those activities in our tours. However, sometimes you will see them by accident on the way without our control. We hope to receive your understanding and sympathy. If you really don’t want this to happen during your tour, please contact us in advance so we can suggest you other suitable programs.
● What to bring: