Saigon with Cu Chi & the Mekong Delta, 3 Nights

You land at Tan Son Nhat Airport, where you are met and driven to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Rooms are available from the hotel's standard check-in time. The rest of the day is free. You stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. No meals are included today.

A shared guided day, with pick-up at about 7:30 and return at about 19:00. The morning covers the Independence Palace, also called the Reunification Palace, then Notre Dame Cathedral, seen from outside while restoration continues, the Central Post Office and the War Remnants Museum. Lunch is at a local restaurant. The Cu Chi tunnels are about an hour and a half from the city by bus. A short film explains how the network was dug and how people lived in it during the war. You then walk the site with the guide: living quarters with kitchens and bedrooms, storerooms, a weapons workshop, a field hospital, a command post and the concealed trap doors. Tea and cassava, the wartime staple, are served at the end. The firing range is optional and paid for on the spot. You stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City. Meals included today: breakfast and lunch.

A shared guided day trip, with pick-up at about 7:30 and return at about 17:30. At My Tho, on the Mekong, you visit Vinh Trang Pagoda, built in the late nineteenth century, then board a sampan past the four islands named Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise. On Unicorn Island you walk the lanes between the orchards, taste the fruit and hear a performance of southern folk songs. A hand-rowed sampan takes you along the Thoi Son canal to a bee farm and a coconut-candy workshop, with honey tea to try. After lunch you can cycle around Tan Thach village or rest in a hammock before the drive back to Ho Chi Minh City. Meals included today: breakfast and lunch.

After breakfast and check-out the time is your own until a driver takes you to Tan Son Nhat Airport for your flight home. The package services end at the airport. Meals included today: breakfast.