Experience the best of the Mekong Delta on a day trip from Ho Chi Minh City. Explore the tunnels and learn about the history of the Vietnam War under the Vietnamese perspective. Visit a traditional temple, canal island, and local homes along the way, then stop in a restaurant for a delta-style lunch.
Highlights:
- • Go back in time to learn the Vietnam war history through Cu Chi Tunnels
- • Paddling through the Mekong Delta small canals and islands
- • Visit a family home on a canal island
- • Enjoy a delta-style lunch at a local restaurant
Itinerary
- • 7:00 pick up at your hotel in city centre for Cu Chi Tunnels.
- • Upon arrival, you’ll be given an introduction about how Cu Chi Tunnels were created through a short documentary film which shows the incredible hardship and suffers Vietnamese people had to endure during the war.
- • Discover the remaining area of this 220km complex tunnels system, where the Vietnamese soldiers cooked, rested, made weapon, get treated and gathered for strategic meetings.
- • Have a chance to look at dangerous traps and hidden trap doors inside the maze-like tunnels for the guerrillas’ security purposes during war time.
- • Try the main food eaten by the Vietnamese soldiers to survive the war: boiled tapioca and hot pandan tea. Relax or try the real shooting machine at the shooting range in Cu Chi Tunnels.
- • Head towards to Mekong Delta, stop for lunch before arriving to My Tho Province.
- • Visit the stunning architecture and the solemn space of Vinh Trang Pagoda.
- • Have a leisure cruise along the Tien River while looking at the rural scenery, such as traditional stilt houses, fishing ports, boat-building workshop, and outstanding islands called Dragon, Phoenix, Tortoise, Unicorn.
- • Visit a local coconut factory then enjoy going along small canals by wooden sampans under the show of water coconut trees.
- • Savour seasonal fruits with a honey tea and enjoy the Southern folk music performed by locals.
- • Return to Ho Chi Minh City