Highlights:
- Overview Saigon city and understand the old and new of Ho Chi Minh City
- Leisure time in rustic accommodation with green atmosphere
- Take away cities and traffic to a remote islet in the Mekong Delta
- Mingle with local people, try your hands making handicrafts
- Biking or walking through paths through exuberant garden
Overview
Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh city – Sketch HCMC (G)
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City – Cai Be (B, L, D, G)
Day 3: Tan Phong – Cai Be – Ho Chi Minh city (B, L, G)
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City Departure (B, DP)
Itinerary
As you arrive at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh city, a local guide (and the driver) also gives you an overview of the central Ho Chi Minh City.
The guide will then take you to the vibrant and bustling Cholon (Chinatown Saigon), a mix area of old and new things. If time available, you may explore the big Binh Tay market and do shopping as you want.
In the morning, you leave Ho Chi Minh city and drive to Cai Be in the Mekong Delta. You leave the car and embark a boat to cruise small canals to explore the large rice trade area of Vietnam. You come to an old house over a hundred years by wood and with unique architecture. The boat takes you to the islet in the Mekong Delta to participate folk music. Experience “dinghy” through tiny canals rowing by local ladies living in the islet.
In the afternoon, you can catch fish, pick vegetables for your dinner. Dinner and overnight in the lodge.
You have breakfast at the lodge then exchange with people in Tan Phong islet. The path in the islet leads you to local houses to see their local life. You take a bicycle or walk (another option is rowing dinghy) to see how they make rice paper rolls, handmade banana leaves hammock. You go to others house to learn how to knit water hyacinth, see the process of making nail files by bamboo sticks. Now you come back to the lodge, let’s try making and enjoy jackfruit leaf cake, a specialty in Tan Phong.
You leave the ecolodge, experience local ferry to meet the driver for driving back to Ho Chi Minh city.
You spend the night in HMC.
Breakfast at hotel then your time for relaxing.
You should be available on time for drive to Tan Son Nhat airport for your international departure flight (or for your flight to the next destination).
Check-in time at hotel: 14.00 // Check-out time: 12.00
Prestations incluses
Includes
- 2 nights accommodation in chosen hotel in HCMC
- 1 overnight stay in rustic ecolodge (longer stay is upon your requirement).
- Boat cruise as itinerary
- Rowing sampan around canal
- Travel in appropriate air-conditioned vehicles with an experienced safe drivers
- Travel in appropriate air-conditioned vehicles with an experienced safe drivers
- English speaking local guide(s)
- All entrance fee as mentioned in the programme
- Meals as indicated in the itinerary.
- Free fresh seasonal fruits
- Use of local bicycle as itinerary
- 1 bottle water per person per day on the bus/car
Excludes
- International flight tickets and airport tax.
- Bank transfer fee(s)
- Visas
- Meal not included
- Drinks, gratuities and personal expenses.
- Insurance.
- Surcharge for public holiday and peak season
FAQs
(1.1) FIT – An initial deposit of 20% is required at the time of booking.
(1.2) Leisure groups – An initial deposit of 20% is required at the time of booking.
(1.3) Incentive and MICE groups – An initial deposit of 20% is required at the time of booking.
(1.4) In some circumstances it may be necessary for us to request additional deposits due to the contracture requirements of our suppliers. SKY ASIA TRAVEL will advise you of the complete conditions attached to any deposits required at the time of confirmation.
(1.5) In the event of the non-payment of any requested deposit, we reserve the right to cancel the reservation.
(1.6) Note that if many extra services are booked after initial confirmation, Cashel Travel may require extra payments.
(1.7) Please note initial deposits (20%) are non-refundable
Following the receipt of the initial deposit, the client will be furnished with a confirmation of the tour details. The client shall immediately notify in writing if any errors are noted. SKY ASIA TRAVEL shall not be responsible for any errors not so notified.
+/ Full payment must be received 45 days prior to the tour/programme commencement date unless credit facilities agreed.
+/ In the event of the non-payment by due date we reserve the right to cancel the reservation, and in such event all deposits received shall be non-refundable.
+/ In the event of billing errors we reserve the right to re-invoice the correct amount.
+/ Amendments: In the event of cancellation of individual participants which results in changes in number of passengers within the group, SKY ASIA TRAVEL might apply a charge.
Travel insurance and medical precautions are essential. We do not give specific advice on these matters as we are expert in neither, and individual circumstances differ.
We advise you to tell us the name of the company and its contact details so that we can give notification on your behalf if you are unable to do so in the unlikely event of an accident occurring.
If you are intending to engage in any activity that could be considered ‘hazardous’ in any way, you should check your insurance carefully to make sure that you will be covered in the case of an accident.
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Package name: Rustic Mekong delta 4 days
