Southern Vietnam 7 Days Itinerary

Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at the airport and depart for Southern Vietnam 7 Days Itinerary then take you go to hotel. Free to discover city.

After your breakfast, our driver and tour guide pick you up at hotel and take you to visit Independence Palace, also known at the Reunification palace, was built on the sight of the former Norodom palace. The Independence palace is a widely known landmark of Ho Chi Minh City and was designed by the architect Ngo Viet Thu. Continue seeing the beautiful structures from the French Colonial times such as the Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Central Post Office. Followed by the remarkable site of the War Remnants Museum the museum has a vast display of the both the Indochina wars.

Have lunch at local restaurant.

Depart for Cu Chi tunnel; the trip will take approximately one and a half hours bus driving. Upon arrival, before exploring the tunnels, you will have some short introduction followed by introductory video about how the tunnels were constructed and how the people survived in the harsh conditions of the war time. Then, spend your time to explore the remaining area and tunnel systems which included the special constructed living areas with kitchens, bedrooms side by side with other martial facilities like storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, and command centers helping whoever lives inside the tunnels meet their basic needs. Besides, there are also many hidden trap doors and dangerous traps within the maze-like tunnels for security purpose during the war. Afterward, special tea and cassava (guerilla’s food during the war) will be served.

Break time for relax or time for those who want to try the real shooting gun (personal fee)

Return to hotel.

You have dinner with you own budget. Overnight in Sai Gon.

After your breakfast, pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and start the trip to My Tho. Upon arrival, visit Vinh Trang pagoda which sated back to the late 19th century. Then boarding the sampan and cruising down the river around the four beautiful islands known as Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise islands.

Stop over at Unicorn Island, go walking in the village paths to contemplate orchards, enjoy tropical fruits, and Vietnamese folk music performed by the local people. Visit the fruit plantation.

Be rowed in a small sampan through the Thoi Son canal and treat yourself to the beauty of the countryside, visit the family business & bee-keeping farm, enjoy honey tea and coconut candy workshop.

Have lunch at the local restaurant. Break time.

The afternoon is time for cycling around the Tan Thach village, meeting the local people to experience their daily life in the Mekong delta. Relaxing on hammocks to enjoy the cool breeze is for those do not want to join the cycling trip. Proceed to Can Tho City and overnight in Can Tho.

After breakfast at the hotel, take an early morning boat trip to visit the Cai Rang Floating Market, a wholesale market of fruit and vegetable at its busiest time of the day. Keep cruising through the small channel system and visit a rice noodle making village. (Note: If you want to visit the floating market early to know more about the daily trading activities, you should go around 05:30 am. You will be free to have breakfast on the local people’s noodle oven ( Personal fee).

In the very early morning, the river has become a busy commercial site where hundreds of boats packed with fruits, vegetables, plants and foods…line along the river and are ready for trading. Sellers will hang samples of what they are selling on the top of a long pole on their boats so that buyers can see from a distance what sellers are selling.

After the Cai Rang market, Next, you will roam through the village, see a rice noodles making shop.

Then, our driver will pick you up and take you go to Chau Doc town. On the way, you have lunch at restaurant.

Upon arrival in Chau Doc town, you will check in to the hotel.

You have dinner at your own budget. You are free to discover Chau Doc at night.

After your breakfast, you go to Tra Su forest. You get on the boat to visit forest. Tra Su Forest is an ecosystem of cajuput trees that line dusty dirt paths and home to a large variety of birds and other wildlife. Tra Su Forest, also referred to as Tra Su Flooded Forest, Tra Su Mangrove Forest, Tra Su Bird Sanctuary or Tra Su Melaleuca Forest, Tra Su Cajuput Forest is located in Van Giao Commune, Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province, just about 10km from Cambodian border. For those who love the beauty of wild nature, Tra Su is an ideal place to explore the typical ecosystem of Mekong Delta. In flood season, the forest is dressed up with the appealing look of the green carpet of duckweed covering the whole large area.

After visiting Tra Su forest, you have lunch at restaurant.

After your lunch, you go to visit Sam Mountain.

Sam Mountain is the highest mountain in the Mekong Delta. On the way there, you can enjoy the sights of the two rice fields along the road, and drop by for a short visit to a small Khmer village. On the mountain side, you will also see how mountain people live on a regular basis.

The mountain does not only offer beautiful landscapes, but it is also where many historic remains deeply loved by the inhabitants of Nam Bo plain are located.

After finish at Sam Mountain, we come back hotel in Chau Doc town.

You have dinner at your own budget.

After your breakfast, you go to Ho Chi Minh airport. Finish your tour Southern Vietnam 7 Days Itinerary

We also have other Mekong Delta tours, you can refer: Mekong Delta to Phnom Penh 3 days 2 nights, Mekong Delta – Cu Chi tunnel 3 days 2 nights( small group)