9 Days Mekong Delta and Cambodia Culture Private Tour

Day 1: Arrival in Saigon

1. Ho Chi Minh City
   Pass by
   Meet our guide at the airport and transfer to a hotel in Saigon. Welcome dinner and tour briefing in the evening. Overnight in Saigon

Day 2: City tour & Cu Chi Tunnel (B, L)

1. Reunification Palace. Hcmc. Vietnam
   3h · Admission ticket included
   After breakfast in the hotel we take a city tour to see the different faces of this bustling city on a full day tour with extensive visits to the Reunification Palace, the Central Post Office, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Jade Emperor Temple and the Ben Thanh market.
2. Cu Chi Tunnels
   2h · Admission ticket included
   Lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch we drive to the famous CuChi underground tunnel system to experience how the Viet Cong lived and fought during the American War. Back to Saigon in the afternoon.

Day 3: Saigon – Cai Be – Can Tho (B,L)

1. Cai Be
   4h
   7h30 am: Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. You leave Saigon for the Mekong Delta, especially when you visit Cai be. It takes you about 2h30 to get there. For people living in Mekong, their lives are attached to rivers, water. Almost all activities could be organized on the river as living, working, market gathering. On the way you can see the green paddy rice fields stretching forwards the horizon. Upon arrival in Cai Be town, you’ll be on board for an exploration of lush vegetation of Mekong Delta and you will be eye witnessing the real life of Mekong local people. Next, a crowing boat rides on the maze of shady canals to arrive at a local orchard to enjoy the local tropical fruits and visit the daily activities, the handicraft villages of local people as making coconut candy and rice paper with pop-rice and pop-corn, rice-wine. You have the tasty seasonal tropical fruit and enjoy the traditional folk music, called “Cai Luong”.
2. Tien Giang Province
   20h
   Break your time for lunch at Ba Kiet, an old house built since 1838 inside the garden. From here, you can walk around the garden before we get back on the transport for our trip to Can Tho overnight.

Day 4: Can Tho – Chau Doc (B, L)

1. Cai Rang Floating Market
   2h · Admission ticket included
   An early start for a boat trip to Cai Rang floating markets, one of the most lively and colorful markets in Southeast Asia. After the market we cruise back to town. Breakfast in the hotel and visit the center market of Can Tho. Transfer to Chau Doc.
2. Ba Chua Xu Temple
   2h
   On arrival, you start your trip visiting Chua Xu temple. Vietnamese people consider Chua Xu Lady to look like the Goddess of Mercy, she plays an important role in our society. Back to Chau Doc Town, you take the boat to visit the floating Houses where the fish are raised in the suspended metal Nets. The fish flourish in their natural river habitat. You continue to visit Cham village, Cham means Muslim people. With the traditional loom, Muslims people can weave the tissues and towels.
   
   Check in at the hotel. Night in Chau Doc. Overnight in Chau Doc.

Day 5: Chau Doc – Phnom Penh (B)

1. Phnom Penh
   Pass by
   Breakfast in a hotel and aboard a speed boat at 7 am to Phnom Penh. We would reach Phnom Penh International Port (Sisowath Street) around 12.30.
   
   Meet and greet our guide and transfer to a hotel in Phnom Penh. Check-in and remaining of the day is free.
   
   Overnight in Phnom Penh

Day 6: Phnom Penh City Tours (B)

1. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Breakfast at hotel
   08:30 am our guide & driver will meet and bring you to visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (from S21 prison). This prison was a secondary school and was used as a prison by Pol Pot's security forces and became the largest detention and torture center under the Khmer Rouge regime.
2. Royal Palace
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Followed by one of Phnom Penh’s most iconic landmarks, The Royal Palace, a complex of buildings that serves as the royal residence of the King of Cambodia.
3. National Museum of Cambodia
   1h · Admission ticket included
   continue to The National Museum, one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer cultural material including sculpture, ceramics, pottery, bronzes, and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian, and post-Angkorian periods as well as more recent works, such as a beautiful wooden royal barge.
4. Phsar Leu Market
   1h
   This afternoon, visit Phsar Thmey (Central Market), a large market constructed in 1937 in the shape of a dome with four arms branching out into vast hallways with countless stalls of goods. The four wings of this gigantic yellow dome are teeming with stalls that sell goods ranging from gold and silver, antique coins, money exchange, books, flowers, food, fabrics, shoes, souvenirs, seafood, and countless other products.
5. Wat Phnom
   1h
   Continue to visit Wat Phnom “Mountain Pagoda” is a Buddhist temple that symbolizes the name of Phnom Penh, located on the hill. According to legend, the first pagoda on this site was erected in 1372 to house four statues of Buddha deposited here by the waters of the Mekong River and discovered by Lady Penh. Wat Phnom is the most popular place for local people to come to play healthy spots or pray for their good luck as well as admire the sundown. Transfer back to your hotel.
   Overnight in Phnom Penh

Day 7: Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (B)

1. Siem Reap
   Pass by
   Breakfast at hotel
   08:15 am Our driver will drop you off at the bus station for your taking a shuttle bus to Siem Reap (314 KM / 6hrs drive). Upon arrival, meet our driver and you’ll be transferred to check-in at the hotel.
   Remain of the day is free or explore at your own.
   Overnight in Siem Reap

Day 8: Angkor Discovery (B)

1. Ta Prohm
   2h
   Breakfast at hotel
   08:30 am, meet our guide & driver at the hotel’s lobby and head out to visit Ta Prohm, one of the area’s most beautiful temples which has been left relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the way most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them, it was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider.
2. Angkor Thom
   2h · Admission ticket included
   Then head to see the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire, Angkor Thom, the Great Angkor City, established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII. We also visit the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King & Baphoun temple before continuing to visit Angkor Wat, the most popular tourist attraction in Cambodia-it is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Angkor Wat, also known as the “City of Temples” a temple complex in Cambodia and one of the largest religious monuments in the world, on a site measuring 162.6 hectares. Originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century.
3. Angkor Wat
   2h · Admission ticket included
   Seeing the architectural masterpiece of Angkor Wat. We stroll around this massive monument, exploring the many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards, and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple. Back to hotel
   Overnight in Siem Reap

Day 9: Siem Reap - Departure (B)

1. Siem Reap
   Pass by
   Breakfast at hotel
   Depending on the departure flight, our driver will pick you up 3 – 3.50 hrs in advance to transfer you to Siem Reap Int Airport for your flight home or next destination. End of Services!

Pickup details

After collecting your luggage, go through the lobby towards the main exit door, and in an area near the columns the guide will be waiting with a welcome sign.

• Wheelchair accessible
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels