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Day 1: Saigon Arrival. Welcome to Vietnam’s modern metropolis: Saigon. You will meet your guide and then enjoy an orientation tour through Ho Chi Minh City’s bustling streets en route to the hotel. Unwind after your flight.
Meals: N/AAccommodation: Hotel in Saigon
Day 2: Saigon City Tour – Cu Chi Tunnels.
In the morning, you will a half day city tour, our journey includes all the key sites of Saigon: Reunification Palace, the War Remnants Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Post Office and Ben Thanh Market.
After lunch we continue on our journey to visit the historic Cu Chi - the network of underground tunnels made up of 250 km and major part of this network were well preserved by the government of Vietnam.
Tunnels are an underground labyrinth of passageways, used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War (or “American War” as it’s referred to here) as protection against American air raids. Those inclined are invited to crawl through selections of the tunnels to better understand what life was like for the Vietnamese soldiers during wartime
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel in Saigon.
Day 3: Saigon – Mekong Delta – Can Tho.
After breakfast, you leave Saigon and travel to the Mekong River Delta. Arrive in Cai Be at around 11:00 AM and start your tour of the delta with a private cruise to visit Cai Be floating market, passing by a beautiful cathedral. Proceed to local cottage industries, home factories to see how rice paste, rice cookies and coconut candies are made, along with the longan fruit drying process. Sail along some of the Mekong’s innumerable branches and creeks and visit local orchards and traditional houses made of wood and palm tree leaves. Then cross Tien Giang River, one of the two large “arms” of the Mekong, by motorized boat to visit some fluvial islands and explore the countryside by bicycle. Your driver will be waiting for you on the other side of the river to take you on a 45 minute journey to the largest city in the Mekong: Can Tho, a buzzing town with a lively waterfront and a colorful mix of narrow back streets that make for some rewarding exploration. Rest of the day, you are at leisure.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
Accommodation: Can Tho.
Day 4: Can Tho – Chau Doc.
Wake early and leave the hotel to visit the famous Cai Rang floating market by motor boat. Experience the daily life of the Mekong River Delta as vendors from around the region gather to sell fresh fruits, local delicacies and handmade goods. Proceed your discovery of the region with a tour of the cottage industries to see people making coconut candies and rice paper. Continue to Chau Doc where a sunset journey up Sam Mountain provides sweeping views of the surrounding countryside. You also visit Lady Xu and Thoai Ngoc Hau Temple if time permits.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Chau Doc.
Day 5: Chau Doc – Phnom Penh by speed boat.
After breakfast, check-out the hotel then travel by speedboat up the Mekong to Cambodia’s capital: Phnom Penh. The total trip takes about four and a half hours (including visa formalities). Visas are easily obtained at the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. Your guide will meet you at the dock in Phnom Penh and take you to the hotel. Despite its recent turbulent history, Phnom Penh’s wide tree-lined boulevards and faded colonial mansions hold an undeniable charm. Free at leisure in the afternoon to explore the city or visit the center market on your own.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Phnom Penh.
Day 6: Phnom Penh City Tour.
Spend full day on a city tour, visiting the capital’s main attractions. Start by learning about the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia’s recent, bloody history on a guided tour of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the notorious Choeung Ek “Killing Fields”. Stop to visit the Russian Market and try out your best bargaining skills.
In the afternoon, we visit the National Museum and learn about the world's largest collections of Khmer art, including sculptural, ceramics, bronzes, and ethnographic objects. Later in the afternoon, we talk the leisure walk from National museum to riverfront, discover the neighborhood and visit the night market or watching sunset on the river. Driver and guide will take you back to your hotel or drop you at your favorite restaurant as you wish.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel in Phnom Penh.
Day 7: Phnom Penh – Fly to Siem Reap.
After breakfast, Driver will transfer you to Phnom Penh airport for the short flight to Siem Reap, the primary access point for the Angkor Archaeological Park.
On arrival, meet your driver then begin your tour at Angkor National Museum for a brief introduction to the history. The modern museum showcases artefacts from the Golden Era of the Khmer Empire by use of multimedia technology to picture this interesting historical period. Experience Angkor at its best on a guided visit to the museum. Then can take a leisure walk along river to the Old market in the central of Siem Reap city. Check in the hotel and relax in a few hours.
After time to freshen up, meet your guide at around 7pm and get your holiday off to a flying start with a visit to a circus show organized by the NGO Phare. The performance is artistic, creative, relaxing and assists poor and disabled children gain education and livelihoods (show time: 8:00-9:00pm)
Note: The circus mixes traditional and modern theatre, music, dance, acrobats, juggling, contortion, balancing, tight rob walking. More than a show, it's a joyful expression of Cambodian culture.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap.
Day 8: Siem Reap – Angkor Temples.
For the early birds and photographers, we offer morning tours by tuk tuk for those who want to see the sunrise upon the Angkor Wat and after sunrise we’ll return to hotel for breakfast (or you can have option with packed breakfast to explore more temples).
After breakfast, our tour continues with visiting South Gate of Angkor Thom, with its majestic doors, monumental temple of Bayon facing the tropical forest and Baphuon and Phimeanakas Mountains. Later, visit the Elephant Terrace, Terrace of the Leper King and Takeo "Jewel of Crystal", which is dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva and was erected at the end of the 10th century. You won’t miss Ta Prohm Temple, which is a wonderful combination of human genius and natural beauty with its giant trees that have grown there for centuries. On the way back to town, if time and weather is permitted you will watch the sunset in Pre Rup, considered as Mini Angkor Wat.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel in Siem Reap.
Day 9: Siem Reap Departure.
Today is free at your leisure for last minute shopping or sight-seeing before our driver transfer you to Siem Reap International Airport to catch your departure flight home.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: N/A.
: Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnam) 
