Real Local Life Experience of Southern Vietnam 5D4N

Our guide will meet you at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, and take you to the hotel located in the downtown area. You can explore the city center on your own to get a feel for this vibrant, young city after completing the check-in process.

At 6:00 PM, drivers will pick you up at the hotel. You’ll head to Café to “watch the world go by” and have an appetizer and cocktail (all included) before visiting your preferred neighborhood restaurant. Travelers see Saigon’s nightlife just like the locals do.

The tour will begin with a ride through a portion of Chinatown before traveling through crowded streets and alleys to District 4, where visitors can observe local nightlife and savor street food and cold beverages in areas uninhabited by tourists.

After departing from district 4 and heading toward district 3, the tour visits downtown district 1 to see the sites before heading to Banh Xeo, a specialty of Saigon, and enjoying southern cuisine with the people.

Next, the tour will go to a secret coffee shop with a Vietnamese flair where guests may experience live Vietnamese music like a local. The trip will then take attendees to a bustling music venue where they may have cocktails while listening to live music.

Return to your lodging by 10 p.m.

In Ho Chi Minh City, spend the night.

You will be driven to the Cu Chi Tunnels area via the 22 highway for an hour starting at 9:00 AM from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

When we get there, we switch to a sidecar and tour the region where the actual tunnels are still below ground. Spend around 1.5 hours exploring the Cu Chi tunnel system to learn about air holes, backwalks, sandals, bobby traps, secret entrances, and crawls within actual tunnels.

Following that, you will have the opportunity to learn about Southern Vietnamese cuisine by cooking for yourself under the guidance of our chef and enjoy lunch that you prepared on the rubber plantation.

Upon completion of the excursion, you will be returned to your hotel.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

07.30 AM: Following breakfast, your guide will drive you or put you in a van to go the 86 km to Cai Be from HCMC via the Trung Luong Freeway.

The first activity on the schedule is a trip to the Cai Be floating market.

After that, we’ll visit Tan Phong Island and go riding or strolling along village paths to observe the everyday activities of the locals, including orchards, churches, schools, pagodas, traditional homes, and perhaps even their ancient methods of gathering fruit in the Mekong Delta.

While traveling, we can stop and observe how they manufacture rice net for spring rolls, how they stitch coconut leaves for cottage roofs, and most importantly, how they wave dried water hyacinth to create a variety of items, including baskets, bags, hats, wallets, shoes, and more.

The rowboat will then take you on smaller canals out into the countryside so you can enjoy the quiet time.

Lunch at restaurant.

Returning to our boat, we navigated the Mekong River, one of the world’s longest rivers, to reach An Bình Island. Arrive at the Trinh homestay by taking the handmade Muong Lo canal.

Before preparing some special meals with the local family, take a long, hot shower. After supper, we’ll spend the night at the homestay.

After breakfast, head out to enjoy the morning air with a stroll through the village. Visit the neighborhood workshop to learn how to make pop-rice, rice paper, coconut candies, and other items.

Savor some tea with some treats. Take a boat excursion to the brick kilns to observe the locals making exquisite clay potteries. The floating village will be traversed by our boat.

We’ll look at Mekong River catfish farming. We can also go to the town’s Vinh Long Market. This is the ideal option for you to capture images of tropical fruits, vegetables, snakes, rice-field rodents, shrimp, prawns, crabs, and more. In Vinh Long City, the cruise will end at around 10:00 a.m..

Lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer back to Ho Chi Minh city.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

After breakfast, our driver will come to your hotel to transfer you to Tan Son Nhat airport. Take your onward flight.
Ends of services.