Vietnam mekong river tour (7days/6nights)
Trip Start
Nov 28, 2009
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Trip End
Dec 10, 2009
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Mytho - Mytho - Cantho - Chau Doc - Phnom Penh - Siem Reap
7Days/6Nights
Day 1 : HCMC - My Tho - Ben Tre - Can Tho (L/-)
8 : 00 AM Pick up at hotel in HCMC. Depart for My Tho. Take the boat ride through the Bao Dinh natural canal, view the stilt houses and the fruit plantation along the river sides. Proceed to the Tortoise island. Lunch served in the heart of the orchard. Enjoy the nice boat ride through the Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruise under the shadow of the water coconut trees. Visit the family where you can experience the agricultural lifestyle. Trekking through the fruit plantation in Thoi Son island, enjoy the rowing boat ride along the creeks before returning to My Tho by motorized boat. Proceed to Can Tho via Vinh Long, visit the snake market. Check in on arriving. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Cantho.
Day 2 : Can Tho - Long Xuyen - Chau Doc (B/L/ -)
After breakfast. Visitors first take the boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong river (the Bassac river) . The boat trip later takes you to the Cai Rang and Phong Dien floating markets, which are the most original ones and bustling places of the region. Visitors will have the most probably tried the Vietnamese vermicelli soup? So, they will now go and see how it is made. Visitors then roam into the village to get in touch with the local people. Here, they have a chance to experience how to pass a Monkey bridge which is built by only one bamboo. Stop for lunch. Proceed to Chau Doc via Long Xuyen to visit the Thot Not bird Sanctuary. Check in on arriving in Chau Doc. Admire the landscape from the Sam Mountain summit down the Vietnamese - Cambodian border, visit the caved pagoda. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Chaudoc.
Day 3 : Chau Doc - PhnomPenh ( B /- /-)
After breakfast. Visitors then take the nice rowing boat trip through the floating village to visit the fish farm to see how the Mekong Delta people raise fish on their floating house. Visit the Cham minority with their traditional weaving village. Change to the speed boat to board to PhnomPenh ( Schedule 9 : 30 - 14 : 30 ). Arrive in PhnomPenh around 14h00pm at the Sisowath tourist dock. Pick up and transfer to hotel. Free at leisure. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Phnom Penh.
Day 4 : Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (B/L/-)
After breakfast, City Tour to visit National Museum of Khmer Art, Silver Pagoda, on the same ground of the Royal Palace and the renowned Central Market. In the afternoon, witness the reign of terror during the Khmer Rouge Regime by visiting the Killing Field of the Choeung Ek, and the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crime. Before returning to the hotel, visit the famous Wat Phnom. Transfer to Pochentong airport for boarding to Sim Reap on late afternoon flight FT 996 ( 18 : 20 - 19 : 15 ). Pick up and transfer to your hotel. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Siem Reap.
Day 5 : Siem Reap Angkor (B/L/-)
After breakfast, tour to small Circuit including Prasat Ravan, Banteay Dei, Srah Srang, Ta Prohm, Takeo, Thommanon, Chau Say, Tevoda, to the World Seventh Wonder of the Magical temple city of Angkor Wat until view sunset at Pnom Bakheng. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Siem Reap.
Day 6 : Siem Reap Angkor (B/L/-)
Early morning, view sunrise at Angkor Wat. Transfer to hotel for breakfast. The same morning visit South Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon, Baphoun, Terrace of the Elephants, Terrace of the Leper King. Afternoon, visit Grand Circuit including Pre Rup, East Mebon, Ta Som, Neak Pean, Preah Khan, Baksei Chamkrong and South Gate of Angkor Thom. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Siem Reap.
Day 7 : Siem Reap – departure (B/-/-)
Breakfast at the hotel. Free until transfer to the airport for departure.
Include
Entrance fees
Motorised boat
1 mineral water bottle/pax/day
Accommodation: hotel in cantho
Full transportation by as tour program indicated.
Full meals as indicated in the itinerary.
English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request)
Not include
Personal expenditure
Tipping for guide and driver
Other services not mention above
Private tour:
To do the tour privately. The tour is not fixed, it is possible to be customized for your group. All service is reserved for your group only. You do not have to share the bus, boat, tour guide with other tourists. One exception, if you stay at the boat in Mekong - it is like the hotel in Mekong - you still have to share the boat with other people
