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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.
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