South vietnam & angkor wat 9 days

posted by henrynguyen1 - private message on April 29, 2009 around 11 pm from vietnam, laos, cambodia

South vietnam & angkor wat 9 days


This nine-day tour focuses on South Vietnam with visits to Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh, Cu Chi, Mekong Delta, and Angkore Wat in Cambodia. The tour is the combination of culture, history and nature. Our unique tailor-made service enables you to make amendments, additions or any other modifications to the itinerary without a limit to the changes or any charges for the design work.


:> Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City Arrival (D)


Arrive at the Tan Son Nhat airport, you’ll be greeted by your guide and driven to the city centre for hotel check-in. You’ll have time to relax after your journey before a welcome dinner at a Vietnamese traditional restaurant. Your overnight will be in Ho Chi Minh City.


:> Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City (B/L)


After breakfast, your guide will arrive to show you around Ho Chi Minh City. You will visit the History Museum, the Museum of War Remnants, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Centre Post Office and the huge Ben Thanh market, one of the liveliest areas of Ho Chi Minh City. After lunch, you will visit China town, Binh Tay market and Thien Hau Pagoda. You will spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City.


:> Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City – Tay Ninh – Cu Chi (B/L)


A morning drive will take you to Tay Ninh to visit the temple of Cao Dai and attend the fantastic mid-day ceremony. After lunch, you’ll visit the famous Cu Chi tunnels, a byzantine maze of underground passages, chambers, rooms and booby traps used by both the Vietminh and the Viet Cong to suddenly materialise as if from nowhere, launch a lightning ambush, and vanish equally rapidly. Your overnight will be in Ho Chi Minh City.


:> Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City – Vinh Long – Can Tho (B/L)


After escaping from Ho Chi Minh City’s urban sprawl, you’ll travel to Vinh Long. There, you’ll cruise on the Mekong River, visit Cai Be floating market, fruit orchards, a traditional family-run brick kiln, and drop in to look at some traditional cottage industries - a workshop making the huge coffins unique to the Mekong is particularly interesting. Your overnight will be in Can Tho.


:> Day 5: Can Tho – Ho Chi Minh City (B/L)


The day begins with boarding a boat to cruise to Cai Rang and Phong Dien floating markets on the Mekong Delta – both the journey and the markets provide insights into the Mekong rural lifestyle. Take in the beautiful scenery and the daily activities of the locals who lives along the Mekong canals and you will roam through the village to visit a rice husking mill and a rice noodles making shop. In the afternoon, you’ll drive back to Ho Chi Minh City. Your overnight will be in Ho Chi Minh City.  


:> Day 6: Ho Chi Minh City – Siem Reap (B/D)


After breakfast, you’ll be free until your driver arrives to take you to Tan Son Nhat airport for your flight to Siem Reap. Arriving at the airport in Siem Reap, you will be picked up to your hotel for check in. You will have dinner at a local restaurant with Apsara Show. You will spend the night in Siem Reap.


:> Day 7: Siem Reap – Angkor Thom – Angkor Wat (B/L)


This morning you will visit the South Gate of Angkor Thom: Bayon, Baphoun, Terrace of Elephants, Terrace of Leper King and Phimean Akas temple. After lunch, you have a visit to the most famous temple of Cambodia: Angkor Wat, then take a romantic view sun set & Siem Reap city from the top of Bakheng Hill. Your overnight will be in Siem Reap.


:> Day 8: Siem Riep (B/L)


After breakfast at hotel, you will depart to Banteay Srey (means “the citadel of the women”), around fourty kilometers from Siem Reap town. The citadel displays some of the finest examples of classical Khmer art. You will continue to visit Bantey Samrei. After lunch, you will visit other Angkor Ruins: Thommanon, Takeo - one of Angkor's great mountains temple, Chao Say Tevoda, Ta Prohm with a part of the jungle, Bunteay Kday, Sras Srang a Royal bathing place until sunset. Your overnight will be Siem Reap.


:> Day 9: Siem Riep Departure (B/L)


After breakfast at your hotel, you will take a cruise on Tonle Sap Lake, visiting fisherman’s life, floating fishing village dot the semi-submerged forest that lines the flood plant rim of the lake. Back to the town to visit Chantier Ecole-Artisan d’angkor, the place are in the Ministry of Education was constructed in 1992 and this place renowned woodworking, stone carving and polychrome training center and workshops. After lunch in the town, you will be free until being transferred to the airport for your departure flight.


More information:


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Website: www.littlevietnamtours.com.vn OR www.holidaysinindochina.com


Email: info@littlevietnamtours.com.vn


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