HA NOI – WEST OF VIETNAM – HO CHI MINH – HA NOI 6 DAYS 5 NIGHTS
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Price: 5,750,000 VND
Duration: 6 days 5 nights
Transportation: Airplane + Car
Departure: daily
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Visit Cai Rang Floating Market - the largest in the Mekong Delta region
• To Chau Doc: visit Hang Pagoda, Muop Pagoda, Ba Chua Xu Shrine, Tay An Ancient Pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb, Tay An Pagoda, Ba Chua Xu Shrine, visit Basa fish farms, visit Cham Village
• Vinh Sang Resort: ride Ostriches, fish for Crocodiles, catch fish in ponds
• Con Lan: visit honey farms, enjoy honey tea with fruit jams, visit coconut candy factories, witness the coconut candy production process
Child tour price: Applies according to the price list. Age will be calculated from the date of birth to the departure date.
- Children from 10 years old and above are considered as adults.
- From 5 to under 10 years old: Standard ½ portion for meals, one seat on the bus, sharing bed with parents.
- From 2 to under 5 years old: Tour price only includes airfare, insurance, drinks. Parents will cover additional costs for meals, entrance fees if any.
- Under 2 years old: Tour price only includes a seat on the plane as per airline regulation, insurance, drinks.
Included/Excluded
- New model air-conditioned vehicles for airport transfers and tours according to the program, including boat trips.
- 5 nights in Hotels: 2 guests per room.
- 5 breakfasts included in the room rate.
- Natural hot spring resort fee
- 8 main meals: 05 lunches and 03 dinners.
- Entrance fees, dock fees.
- English/Vietnamese speaking tour guide.
- Bottled water + cold towel 1 set per day of tour.
- Airfare Hanoi - Saigon - Hanoi.
- Expenses not mentioned in tour
- Tips, insurance, VAT taxes.
Tour Plan
DAY 1: HANOI – CAN THO
Morning: Guests make their own way to Noi Bai Airport for a flight to Can Tho. Start the Hanoi - Mekong Delta - Saigon 6 Days Tour. The bus and guide will pick up the group at Can Tho airport and take them to the hotel for check-in and rest.
Noon: Guests have lunch.
Afternoon: Guests have free time in the afternoon.
Overnight at a hotel in Can Tho.
DAY 2: CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET – CHAU DOC
Morning: After breakfast. Before 7:15 AM, leave the hotel for a boat trip (35 – 40 minutes) to visit Cai Rang Floating Market - the largest in the Mekong Delta region. Guests stop by a boat selling pineapples – enjoy Can Tho pineapples. Then, guests return to the hotel for check-out. The group departs for Chau Doc.
Noon: Arrive in Chau Doc, guests have lunch at a restaurant, check into the hotel and rest.
Afternoon: Guests visit Hang Pagoda, a pagoda associated with the legend of two large snakes that listen to Buddhist scriptures, continue to Muop Pagoda for fortune-telling, and pray for wealth, blessings, and family peace. After that, the group goes to Chau Doc market, also known as the "kingdom of fish sauce" in the West, selling many types of dried fish and fish sauce, especially puffed pangasius fish, a flavor unmatched elsewhere. Guests shop for Chau Doc specialties.
Evening: Guests visit the famous spiritually potent Ba Chua Xu Shrine – light incense with sincere reverence, pray for peace and happiness for relatives and family. Visit Tay An Ancient Pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb – a person credited with pioneering An Giang land.
Overnight in Chau Doc.
DAY 3: CHAU DOC – VINH LONG
Morning: Guests have breakfast at the hotel, then check out. The bus takes tourists to visit: Tay An Pagoda (the pagoda with the most Buddha statues in the country); Ba Chua Xu Shrine (The most famous pilgrimage site in the South). Take a motorboat to visit Basa fish farms – characteristic of the Chau Doc river area; visit Cham Village to learn about the customs and life of the Cham people; and shop at Chau Doc market (specialties include dried fish, fish sauce…)
Continue to Long Xuyen - visit Bang Lang Stork Garden in Thot Not district. This is one of the largest bird yards in the garden region. Bang Lang Stork Garden. Here, guests can see thousands of storks of various kinds flapping down to the green bamboo branches, learning about the life of the flock in this peaceful river region. The bus takes guests back to Vinh Long - to Vinh Sang Tourist Area for check-in and rest.
Evening: Overnight at Vinh Sang Tourist Area.
DAY 4: VINH SANG – FISHING IN THE CANAL – MY THO
Morning: After breakfast, guests will participate in the signature activities of VINH SANG resort such as grass sliding with specialized grass sleds on lush Japanese grass (not included in the tour price), ostrich riding with friendly African ostriches weighing over 100 kg giving a very interesting feeling like “HUGO riding an ostrich” (included in the tour price).
Furthermore, we will continue with a “thrill-seeking” game which is Crocodile Fishing with Siamese crocodiles over 05 years old, offering “exciting surprise” moments when the crocodiles snap at the bait (included in the tour price). Next, guests will participate in a variety of fun folk games such as shooting bottle caps, walking on a monkey bridge, throwing cans, ring toss, dart throwing, etc. (not included in the tour price).
Following that, guests will receive and change into "Ba Ba" traditional clothes to participate in the "Slap the Canal to Catch Fish" program, where guests can catch fish like snakehead, catfish, shrimp, crab, snails in the canal and cook the fish by grilling it and enjoy it right in the garden along with rice paper, raw vegetables, fruits, and a bit of fragrant distilled sticky rice wine. After trying various games, guests will swim in the river and immerse themselves in the cool waters of the gentle Co Chien river at the swimming area - water sliding. Although it's river swimming, it's absolutely safe as the entire area is secured with safety nets, even children can participate (included in the tour price).
Noon: 12:30 lunch at the cool OSTRICH RESTAURANT next to the lake and Co Chien riverbank. Afternoon: Guests will visit areas such as: The breeding and conservation area for rare BIRDS - ANIMALS that are now very scarce and rare in nature such as: Sarus Crane, Hornbill, Large Egret, Water Monitor, Le Le, Flameback, Green Peafowl, Ostrich, Siamese Crocodile... and animals like: Sika Deer, Bearcat, Porcupine, Civet, Squirrel, Cần Đước...etc. Sticky rice wine and coconut candy workshop – see the process of making sticky rice wine and coconut candy – guests can try the products for free. Additionally, guests can try rowing a three-leaf canoe in the lake, pedaling a Swan paddle boat, rowing a coracle, or dressing up and playing King and Queen at the “throne” of VINH SANG (not included in the tour price).
Afternoon: At 15:00, the boat will take guests across the river. The tour at VINH SANG resort ends. The car will take guests back to My Tho. Check-in at the hotel and overnight in My Tho.
DAY 5: MY THO - ISLAND TOUR - SAIGON
9:00 am, the car and guide will pick up the group at the hotel, starting the My Tho - Ben Tre garden tour. Guests board a motorboat (about 20 minutes) to the first visitation point - Lan Islet. Along the way, guests can view the floating fish market on the Mekong River, a special kind of market unique to the river region. Arriving at Lan Islet (Thoi Son): Guests visit the honey farm, enjoy honey tea with fruit jams. Then, the guide will take the group around the village, exploring the life of the river region's garden dwellers. Continuing the journey, guests will be on a small sampan - three-leaf sampan (about 30 minutes of rowing) along the green canal flanked by water palm trees, the sampan takes guests back to the motorboat. Guests continue to visit the second islet - Qui Islet (in Ben Tre), the boat runs along the canal bank with fruit orchards on both sides, Guests visit a coconut candy workshop, witnessing the coconut candy production process.
1:00 pm: return to the boat for lunch. After resting and having lunch
2:00 pm: guests continue the garden tour: visiting the fruit orchard (seasonal fruits), Guests have the opportunity to enjoy fruits and listen to traditional southern folk music, a very characteristic cultural feature of the Southwestern region. Guests return to My Tho by motorboat, and the car will take guests back to Ho Chi Minh City.
4:00 pm: Guests return to Saigon. Overnight in Saigon.
DAY 6: SAIGON - HANOI
Morning: Guests have breakfast at the hotel and are free to shop at Ben Thanh Market.
Afternoon: The car takes guests to Tan Son Nhat airport, guests complete procedures for the flight back to Hanoi (15:00 flight). The tour ends and see you