Saigon - Phnom Penh 4 Days

 

 

Day 1: HCMC - My Tho - Ben Tre - Can Tho (L)
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 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 in Chaudoc.
 


Day 3: Chau Doc - Phnom Penh (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. Arrive in PhnomPenh in the  afternoon at the Sisowath tourist dock. Pick up and transfer to hotel. Free at leisure.

Overnight in Phnom Penh.
 


Day 4: Phnom Penh (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.

Free in the evening and overnight in Phnom Penh.

 

Tour ends.