Day 1
Transport
Meals:D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Meet your guide at Tan Son Nhat Airport and transfer to hotel.
Detailed Itinerary:
Arrival to Saigon, the biggest city with the new name of HoChiMinh City that constitute the industrial and commercial heart of Vietnam. Meet your guide at Tan Son Nhat Airport and transfer to hotel. Tour the main streets before check in. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 2
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Take an excursion to the famous Cu Chi tunnels dug during the wars.
Detailed Itinerary:
Take an excursion to the famous Cu Chi tunnels dug during the wars. Try a crawl into the tunnels. On the way back, stop for photo at rice paper workshop and rice fields. Back to Saigon, city tour includes the Reunification Palace, the War Museum. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 3
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit tropical orchards, local houses.
Detailed Itinerary:
After breakfast at hotel, excursion to Mekong Delta. On arrival at Cai Be, take a boat trip to explore the floating market, typical of Mekong Delta. Continue by boat to Binh Hoa Phuoc island in Vinh Long Province, the island is given to agriculture, especially the raising of tropical fruits which are shipped to markets in HoChiMinh City. Visit tropical orchards, local houses. Having lunch in the famous Bonsai garden. Continue to Can Tho, 35km away. After checkin hotel in Can Tho, leave the hotel for Thot Not Stork Sanctuary visiting. Back to Can Tho in the late afternoon. Overnight in Can Tho.
Day 4
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit Cai Rang & Phong Dien floating market and orchards
Detailed Itinerary:
AM: Boat ride on Mekong River, is known to the Vietnamese as Song Cuu Long. Visit Cai Rang & Phong Dien floating market and orchards, by sampan rowing along narrow canals with dense vegetation and enjoy various tropical fruits and folk music in the orchard.
PM: Proceed to Chau Doc, is a riverine commmercial center not far from the Cambodian border. Arrival in Chau Doc, check in hotel. Tour to the dry land in time to drive up Sam Mountain to watch the sunset over the Cambodian border. Overnight in Chau Doc.
Day 5
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Take a boat visit Ca Be Village
Detailed Itinerary:
AM: Take a boat visit Ca Be Village, where fish are bred in wooden cages suspended under floating houses on the river. Continue by boat to visit the Cham minority where colourful traditional textiles are woven on old wooden looms.
PM: Return to Saigon. Overnight in Saigon
Day 6
Transport
Meals:B, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit Toul Sleng Museum
Detailed Itinerary:
Downtown shopping (embroideries, lacquerware, wood - carving) or at leisure before check-out. Transfer to airport for departure to Phnom Penh.
Upon arrival, meet and transfer to hotel for check-in or dropping off your luggage (Early check-in is NOT included & subject to hotel’s availability). set out on a city tour to visit the National Museum where houses Khmer art, especially sculptures from different periods of Cambodian history; Royal Place built in 1866 by King Norodom; Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5,000 silver tiles and located within the Royal Palace compound, and visit Toul Sleng Museum, a reminder of the Khmer Rouge regime
Accommodation: Hotel in Phnom Penh
Day 7
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit to food market where the local people having dinner picnic
Detailed Itinerary:
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for flight to Siem Reap. Upon arrival, meet and transfer to hotel for check-in or dropping off your luggage (Early check-in is NOT included & subject to hotel’s availability). City tour of Siem Reap and driving a long the riverside, visit to local shrine of Preah Ang Chheck/Chhorm and have a lunch at local restaurant in Siem Reap town. Late afternoon we enjoy the Tuk-Tuk ride along the riverside of Siem Reap, visit to food market where the local people having dinner picnic and then we continue to local pagoda of Wat Phoum Rath where we got the Monk Blessing Ceremony for good luck, happiness, and best successful in your life. Drop off at old market for dinner (your own account) and recommended restaurant in the down town is Khmer Kitchen Restaurant (You can ask our driver to wait for you and if you don’t want driver to wait for you can hire another tuk tuk to go back to hotel own your own. It is not difficult because Siem Reap is small town and tuk tuk will cost around US$ / person / way)
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap
Day 8
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit the picturesque Ta Prohm
Detailed Itinerary:
Early morning, visit the picturesque Ta Prohm that had nearly disappeared into the jungle and remains overgrown, an oddly haunting and exotic scene. The magnificent roots of a tree, pushing between the huge stone blocks of the temple in a sort of embrace, evoke feelings that you may remember forever. And continue to visit the intricately carved Khmer ruins at Angkor Wat - one of the world’s most impressive ruins. The temple still owns fine Apsara carvings in Angkorian era art. At 09am come back to hotel for breakfast and rest in the noon to avoid of the heats of the day until 15:00 continue exploring the mysterious Royal city Angkor Thom. Its 50-tower temple is an awesome sight. At first glance it seems a shapeless mass of stone, but further scrutiny reveals a face, and then another and another until suddenly you are engulfed by the silent, heavy, enigmatic and silent gaze through half-closed eyes, staring out from a primitive and remote time. Further, visit to the surroundings of the complex including the Baphou, Elephant Terraces, Lepper King Terrace and Royal Place area.
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap
Day 9
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Enjoy a drive to the rural outskirt 35km from Angkor area to visit the smallest
Detailed Itinerary:
Breakfast at hotel, 6:30 enjoy a drive to the rural outskirt 35km from Angkor area to visit the smallest, but magnificent, Banteay Srei built in the 10th Century and dedicated to Shiva. The temple was the birthplace of Khmer classical style architecture and the bas-relief work is the best example of Khmer classical art remaining. The pink sandstone structure bears a series of striking and beautiful sculptures, lintels, pediments and friezes. Khmers say the temple must have been carved by women for the details are too fine for the hands of a man. Return to hotel for relaxation and swimming at your hotel during the noon to avoid of the heats of the day until 15:00 we continue exploring more of the Angkor ruins, possibly including Preah Khan, Neak Pean, East Mebon, located on an islet in the centre of the Eastern Baray, and Ta Som, a Buddhist temple built in the late 12th century and in a ruined state
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap
Day 10
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit to Beng Melea temple
Detailed Itinerary:
Breakfast at hotel, visit to Beng Melea temple which is 60km from Siem Reap and then visit to Kompong Khleang Village by boat and keep cruising another 1 hour through the Great Lake of Tonle Sap, lunch box will be provided on boat. On arrival at Kompong Phhluk Village, visit the local pagoda and typical houses build on stilt from 4 to 5 meters. Our boat continues cruising through the flooded forest to reach our vehicle and transfer back to Siem Reap Town.
Meals: Breakfast, picnic lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap
Day 11
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit to local village of Peam
Detailed Itinerary:
Breakfast at hotel, we will visit to local village of Peam which is located 12km from Siem Reap town north of West Baray (By Tuk Tuk). You will have a lot of opportunities for pictures of Khmer Traditional houses, Buffalos, cows, and interaction with local family. Picnic lunch at West Baray and return to Siem Reap for check out, visit to local market and transfer to airport for departure