Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh city. Airport welcome by NTS guides with signboard. Transfer to hotel in air-conditioned coach while luggage is taken care of by porters and transported separately. Welcome banner on arrival at hotel and welcome cocktail while checking-in. A welcome gift is left in each room. A city tour visits two fine examples of French colonial architecture : the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Old Saigon Post Office. Free time to relax until transferring to Panorama Restaurant on the top of the highest Saigon Tower Center building for dinner. Guests can have a beautiful panorama of Saigon by night. Overnight in Ho chi Minh city.(D)
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh-Mekong delta/Ho Chi Minh
After breakfast at the hotel, a trip to My Tho in the Mekong delta. Guests will have a nice boat ride on the Mekong river to Thoi son island, where they can experience the life of the Mekong river plains community. Lunch at Mekong Rest stop restaurant. Transfer back to Ho chi Minh city. In the evening transfer to the Binh An Village for a very special farewell dinner. The Binh An Village has been built in the style of a traditional village and is set in beautiful tropical gardens on the banks of the Saigon river. Dinner is alfresco in the large gardens with entertainment provided by martial arts display and a jazz band. After dinner, there is more jazz with a private performance by the owner, who is a well-known singer. Transfer back to the hotel after dinner. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city. (B,L,D)
Day 3: Ho Chi Minh
After breakfast at the hotel, the city tour continues to Cholon, the city’s chinatown, with a visit to Thien Hau pagoda and Binh Tay market, the lagest and famous one in Ho chi Minh city. At Binh Tay market, there is 30 minutes free time for shopping. Leavint chinatown, visit a lacquerware factory, where guests can do shopping. Lunch at the hotel. Afternoon, visit the historic museum, the Reunification Hall (former Presidential Palace) and finish the afternoon with a stroll down Dong Khoi street, the fashionable Rue Catinat of old Saigon. Transfer back to the hotel. In the evening, enjoy a gala dinner with a traditional Vietnamese musical and dance performance. During the evening a farewell gift of a traditional oriental marble stamp engraved with the guests initials is left in each hotel room. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh. (B,L,D)
Day4: Ho Chi Minh/Siem Reap
After breakfast, free time and a fleet of microbuses and guides will be available outside the hotel for guests who would like to do some last minute shopping. Transfer to Tan San Nhat Airport for a flight to Siem Reap ( dep. 11:40 – arr. 12:40 ) by air-conditioned coach while luggage is taken care of by porters and transported separately to the airport for check-in. Guests are welcomed by our guides on arrival in Siem Reap airport. Transfer to hotel in air-conditioned coach while luggage is taken care by porters and transported separately. Welcome banner on arrival at hotel and welcome cocktail while checking-in. A welcome gift is left in each room. Lunch at the hotel. Visit the Angkor wat – one of the seven greatest architectural wonders of the world, built between the 9th and 13th century, its general view are five ancient towers ‘ figure that are now embroidered or printed on the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Flag. Then visit to the Phnom Bakheng temple, the first Temple in Angkor region built by Yacovarman I King in the first of 9th century, just a short moment guests will remenber forever the sunset view over the antique towers’ top of Phnom Bakheng temple. In the evening, guests will enjoy a gala farewell dinner with Apsara Dance Show. During the evening a farewell gift is left in each hotel room. Overnight in Siem Reap. (B, L, D)
Day 5 : Departure Siem Reap
After breakfast at hotel, discovery of the Angkor sites built from the 12th–13th century such as : the South Gate of Angkor Thom, the famous Bayon temple-built byJayavarmen VII at the end of 12th century, Baphuon, Phimean Akas, Elephants Terrace and Terrace of Leper King. Transfer back to hotel for lunch. Free time and a fleet of microbuses and guides will be available outside of the hotel for guests who would like to do some last minute shopping. Check-out and transfer to Siem Reap airport for onward return flight by air-conditioned coach while luggage is taken care of by porters and transported separately to the airport for check-in. (B, L)
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