Mekong Life Journey

08:00    Dandelion Adventure guide picks you up at your hotel lobby and travels to Cu Chi through pleasant countryside. Explore the maze of tunnels designed many floors deep in the ground, sheltering generations of people and guerrillas during the long-term war visit to South Vietnam.

12:00    After lunch at Cu Chi, back to Saigon. Start to visit the city with the central colonial architecture such as Notre-Dame Cathedral built from 1877 to 1883, the Central Post Office building… Move to the Reunification Palace, the political center of Vietnam. President of the Republic of Vietnam. Here on April 30, 1975, tank number 843 of the North Vietnamese Army crashed through the gate of the mansion ending the long war.

Continue to the American War Crimes Museum, which offers insightful exhibits on the futility of war. If time allows, visit Ben Thanh market, the wholesale center of goods in the city.

Stay overnight in Ho Chi Minh City

08:00    Our guide & driver will pick you up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, traveling to Cai Be.

Upon arrival, start the boat trip to visit Cai Be floating market. Then, you’ll come to Tân Phong island for biking/walk on village paths to see the local daily life. On the way, you can make some stops to see how they make rice paper for spring rolls, sew coconut leaves for cottage roofs and especially see how they wave the dried water hyacinth to make many products: baskets, bags, hats, wallets, and shoes

12:00    Have lunch at a local restaurant with Mekong river specialties. Then back to your boat crossing the Mekong river & some canals to An Binh Island, where you will check in at the local homestay.

17:00    Dinner made by your & members of local families.

Stay overnight in An Binh(Vinh Long)

08:00    After breakfast and check out for a walk along the village to enjoy the fresh air in the morning & stop having tea at the Coconut workshop.

Then, continues the cruise along the Hoa Tinh canal to see some families making brick, wave bamboo baskets, sewing conical hats, and process to make rice
noodles. Stop at Vinh Long market in the town, where you have a great chance to take photos of fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs, snakes, rice-field rats, tropical fruits, and vegetables.

Return to the car to visit Vinh Long Temple of Literature, which is a school for Confucian-influenced Confucian scholars or That Phu Mieu Chua Ong Temple, a meeting and worshiping place for overseas Chinese businessmen before leaving for Ho Chi Minh City

12:00    Stop for Lunch at Local Restaurant in My Tho.

16:00    Arrival to Ho Chi Minh City, free to walk around the city or shop for souvenirs

End the tour and say goodbye see you next time