Untouched Vietnam 20 Days

Have breakfast at your hotel. 

Start your day with morning hotel pickup and transfer to your luxury speedboat at Ho Chi Minh Pier. From there, travel comfortably in a high-quality speedboat to Vietnam’s famed Cu Chi Tunnels. The river cruise takes approximately one hour and local fruit with unlimited refreshments are served on board. Observe life along the riverbanks as your guide informs you about the local people's river-based livelihoods. Enjoy great photo ops of the Saigon River's jungle-fringed canals and tributaries, where you might see houses on stilts or water buffalo at work. Disembark at Cu Chi and follow your guide through the historic site, now a war memorial that features the impressive labyrinth of tunnels dug by Viet Cong guerrilla fighters during the Vietnam War (known in Vietnam as the American War). Tour sections of the 75-mile-long (121-km) complex, which proved key to military campaigns such as the Tet Offensive of 1968. You can even slip into one of the narrow passageways to imagine how the supply routes and communications, hospitals, and food and weapons caches were operated underground.

After experiencing the tunnels, enjoy lunching on traditional Vietnamese fare at a riverside restaurant. Return to Ho Chi Minh City in a climate-controlled minivan, passing through the countryside to get a taste of rural life. Stop at a cricket farm and discover a Vietnamese delicacy as you watch crickets being prepared as food. Then taste the fresh herbs that go into many Vietnamese dishes at a nearby organic herb farm. Top off your experience by visiting a home where rice paper is made the traditional way, shaped by hand then cooked over a fire and dried in the sun. Your tour ends with drop-off at your Ho Chi Minh City hotel in the late afternoon.

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City

Travel south by private bus for about three hours to Cai Be. When you arrive, you’ll board a boat and explore the intricate waterways of the Mekong Delta. Often referred to as ‘the rice bowl’ of Vietnam, the fertile delta is where rice, tropical fruit and flowers are grown for the whole country. The views along the canal will take your breath away. 

Hop off the boat to visit an orchard and sample some tropical fruit. You’ll then continue on the cruise towards some local cottage industries. Get to see local life and the industries surrounding the river up close. Around sunset, you’ll make your way up one of the many canals to your homestay where you’ll enjoy a wonderful meal of local specialities. The accommodation tonight will be simple, but the experience will be rewarding.

Accommodation: Homestay

Special Information

At the homestay, you’ll be sleeping in a dorm-style arrangement on simple beds. Bedding and mosquito nets will be provided, and there will be shared toilet and bathroom facilities with cold water only.

Local Meal

Travel back to Ho Chi Minh City (about three hours) and do 4,5 hours tour for you to enjoy a wonderful evening in Saigon. You will travel to non-tourist destinations and see the real life of local people. This four hours food tour on the back of our own scooters will take you through districts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 where you will see the local’s activities in the night time. And guess what, we're gonna sample 10-15 different dishes during this food challenge. 

At 5:30 PM, your personal English speaking tour guide will be waiting at your hotel lobby to meet and greet. We will do a quick instruction on how to drive safely and what you need to do in the back of our scooters. And hang on tight, let's the journey begin!!!

Accommodation: Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City