Vietnam Tours
goodlife_sale2
Specialized Travel Stores

Jeep Tours
7 Days Southern Vietnam By Jeep

Tour Code: VTDJT07

From US$ 1,245
Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City - Cu Chi Tunnels - Tay Ninh
Can Gio - My Tho - Vung Tau

Highlights :  

  • Private tour
  • Saigon City sighseeing
  • Cu Chi underground world of Vietnam soldiers in wartime
  • Noon Mass at Tay Ninh Holy See Temple
  • Can Gio Mangrove Forest Park Fauna Conservation 
  • Rung Sac Guerilla Base
  • Experience real rural Vietnam at My Tho (Mekong Delta)
  • Vung Tau Sightseeing

Day By Day Itinerary:

Day 1 Airport Pickup – Saigon City Tour – Welcome Dinner
Ben Thanh MarketOur Jeeps and guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to Hotel for check in & relax then have lunch in local restaurant.

In the afternoon, you will take a half day city tour by jeeps to the major attraction sites of Saigon include Re-Unification Palace, Central Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the War Remains Museum.

At 7.30 pm, enjoy a welcome dinner with Vietnamese local dishes.
Overnight in Saigon

Activity: Saigon sightseeing by Jeep
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Day 2 Full Day Cu Chi Tunnels & Tay Ninh Holy See Temple
Tay Ninh8.00 AM, Our Jeeps and guide will pick you up at hotel in Saigon and take 2 hour drive to Cu Chi Tunnels. Stop at rice-paper-making village to see how one of the key ingredients of Vietnam cuisine is made. Arrive in Cu Chi Tunnels at 10.00 AM. This is an amazing complex of underground tunnels used during the Vietnam War, if interested here you also can fire an AK 47 or M 16 with minimum 12 USD for 10 bullets (optional). Have lunch in local restaurant.

Then proceed to Tay Ninh, centre of the Cao-Dai religion founded in 1926, a combination of Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and Confucianism.You will have the opportunity to watch the worshippers in their white long tunics during noon mass. Back to Ho Chi Minh City at late afternoon.
Overnight in Saigon.

Activities:
  • Visit Cu Chi tunnels on foot
  • Joining Noon Mass at Holy See Temple (subject to change upon time request)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3 Discover Rung Sac Guerilla Base (Cangio Mangrove Forest)
Rung Sac7.30 AM: Our guide and Jeeps will pick you up at your hotel from Ho Chi Minh City and drive to Can Gio Mangrove Forest, almost ruined by bombings and defoliants sprayed during the war time, but has been fully recovered and developed after several years of reforestation.

8.30 AM: Arrive at Forest Park (Monkey Island), you will visit Can Gio Museum that displays antiques dating back 2,000 years. Then heading to visit Mangrove Forest Park Fauna Conservation: observing the wild life of Salt water crocodiles, wild cats, otters, pythons, deer, and more than 1000 wild monkeys that are always ready to have fun with visitors. After that, enjoy some shows with tamed and untamed beasts, including crocodiles in Animals Circus (09:00 AM on Saturday, Sunday and Holiday).

Can Gio10.00 AM: Take canoe to visit Mangrove Forest Ecosystem. Here you will have chance to plant trees by your own (optional if time permits). Canoe is also the only way to reach the astounding Rung Sac Guerilla Base, which represents a page of Vietnam history. The tenth commando regiment stationed at the jungle from 1966 – 1975. This used to be a base for them to set up a 1000 combats to Saigon. There are many pictures as the proofs about the contribution and sacrifice of the young soldiers to the nation unification. 

11.30 AM: Relax at the Can Gio Beach and Have lunch with local dishes in Carrot Restaurant.

Leave Can Gio Park to visit Whale’s royal tomb. Jump on jeeps, cross the river by Binh Khanh Ferry to return Ho Chi Minh City. 
Overnight in Saigon.

Activities:
  • 2.5 hrs speed boat trip
  • Free swimming at Can Gio Beach
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 4 Full Day Explore Rural My Tho (Mekong Delta)
Can Tho8.00 AM, Our Jeeps and guide will pick you up at hotel in Saigon and we start a “photo rally of rural Vietnam” trip by transfer to Can Duoc Market - a stunning rural market. Here our jeeps will wind into a rural route to My Loi Ferry to see farmers working on paddy fields and cross Vam Co river by the ferry then jeeping to Go Cong then Tan Hoa to visit an incense workshop, a local village where the people have produced some of the finest pieces of furniture in the South, and a legumes nursery.

Continue winding to Tan Thanh beach for seafood lunch, do a short pause at some remote villages on the way. Then keep driving from this Mekong Delta beach to My Tho (45km), the heart of the Mekong Delta.

Arrive My Tho, stop by the bank of Tien Giang River. Take a boat trip on Mekong River to Phoenix Island where local handicrafts and sweets from coconut are being produced. Enjoy fresh seasonal fruits and traditional live music and songs performance. Take a short ride on a horse carriage to a typical local house to taste some homemade honey-tea. Proceed by small sampan boats through the small canals and side arms of the river to observe the daily life along the river banks with a stop and short leisurely walk at the Turtle Island. Disembark and back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Overnight in Saigon.

Activities:
  • 03 hrs boat trip
  • Short trip by horse carriage
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 5 Saigon – Vung Tau Beach Relax
Vung TauMorning, after breakfast in hotel, Jeeps will pick you up and depart to Vung Tau Beach city, 125km from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Upon arrival, do a drive along the paved road, one of the most beautiful roads in Vietnam along the beach to take photos then lunch with seafood before check in & free leisure at beach full day.
Overnight in Vung Tau.

Activities: 
  • Vung Tau sightseeing by Jeep
  • Free swimming at Vung Tau Beach
Meals: Breakfast
Day 6 Vung Tau Sightseeing – Saigon
Vung tauMorning, back on jeeps and start a Vung Tau city tour on paved roads along the beach to visit “Statue of Jesus Christ with outstretched arms”, on top of Small Mountain. Then heading to visit the beautiful pagoda of “Reclining Buddha”. Continue jeeping to visit the “White House” (Villa Blanche) which was built by the French (1898-1916) as a summer holiday house of French Governor General Paul Doumer. From its balcony there's a panoramic view of Front Beach & small islets.

Have lunch in a local restaurant before transfer back to Saigon by Jeeps.
Overnight in Saigon

Activities: 
  • Vung Tau sightseeing by Jeep
  • Free swimming at Vung Tau Beach

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 7: Departure
Free at leisure until transfer to Tan Son Nhat international Airport for flight home or onward travel. The tour concludes.

Meals: Breakfast


Number of guests
2
guests
3
guests
4
guests
5
guests
6
guests
Single
Supple.
US$/guest
1,496 1,668 1,402 1,245 1,375 322

INCLUDES :

  • Jeep transfer as program
  • English/French speaking guide
  • Sightseeing fees
  • Boat trips
  • Accommodation in standard hotels on twin basis. Surcharge for single room use
  • 02 water bottles/ person/day
  • Travel insurance

EXCLUDES :

  • Meals not mentioned
  • Surcharges for other languages speaking guides, during festive seasons and peak season surcharges, which will be advised at time of booking
  • Personal expenses