From Angkor to Saigon 7 Days

7-day tour that covers the highlights of Vietnam and Cambodia, which include Angkor Wat, the Cu Chi Tunnels, and the Mekong Delta. You’ll benefit from the insider historical and cultural knowledge of a guide, and travel between cities

Day 1: Flight to Siemreap - Apsara Dinner (Dinner)

Transfer to airport for flight to siemreap. Upon arrival, transfer to hotel for checking-in, free at your own arrangement until evening time for Apsara traditional show including buffet dinner. Note: Transfer to apsara show by tuk tuk.

Day 2: Angkor Thom, Bayon, Neak Pean, Bantreay Srei, and Bakheng temple
This morning heading to toward Angkor Thom. This majestic site once served as the Khmer Empire's glistening capital city. Take a moment to consider its grandiosity before venturing inside the city. Arriving at the temple at Bayon, appreciate its beautifully crafted central towers covered in more than 200 enormous faces. Move to Neak Pean an artificial island with a Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray.
Visit the well-preserved Banteay Srei. The detailed reliefs on this smaller sandstone structure are regarded as the finest, most skillfully crafted in Cambodia.
One the way back brief stop at well-preserved Banteay Samre, a laterite structure which once featured internal moats. We end our discoveries of the temples of Angkor with clamp up for sunset at Bakheng temple.

Day 3: Temples of Angkor with Sunrise
We begin with a pre-dawn departure from your hotel for sunrise outside Angkor Wat. Soak up the atmosphere of dawn at Angkor, from the edge of one of the ancient library pools. We then explore the interior of the great temple, spending a thorough two hours discovering the corridors, central chambers and upper terraces of this truly great temple.
Continue the morning by moving on to Preah Khan temple, a ruined but highly atmospheric mélange of tree roots and crumbling stone structures. At the end of the morning return to your hotel for lunch and a swim, and in the afternoon drive to Ta Nei a late 12th Century stone temple located in Angkor. It was dedicated to the Buddha.
End your tour with set out for the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm – one of the most atmospheric of all temples in Angkor.

Day 4: Siemreap - Great Lake (Lunch) - Flight to Saigon
After breakfast, we are heading to Pre Rup (the pyramid-shaped temple) then to East Mebon, Ta Som, Neak Pean, Preah Khan and Baksei Chamkrong that all represent the unique feature of Angkorian sites.
The afternoon is the time to experience boat trip on the Great Lake Tonle Sap, which is renowned for its basin of fresh water fish (10 tons/ 1Square Km in the 60s).
Visitors may also view the fresh water exhibition where we can see various kinds of fish in Tonlesap Lake before continuing to visit the Floating Village.

You will be picked up to airport for your ongoing flight to Saigon.Overnight in Saigon

Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City and Cu Chi Tunnels (Lunch)
Begin your half day tour of the city’s major sights in the morning after breakfast at your hotel.
Pass the now demolished wartime American embassy on the way to the Reunification Palace which was the residence of the President of South Vietnam until April 1975. Near the palace are some striking examples of French colonial architecture including Notre Dame Cathedral and the old Sai Gon Post Office. Visit the Jade Emperor Pagoda and the War Remnants Museum before finishing the tour at the central Ben Thanh Market where anything and everything is for sale.
After lunch, drive to the famous Cu Chi Tunnels, an amazing underground network constructed by Vietnamese fighters in the long struggle for national independence. The tunnels included hospitals, schools and living quarters, and were used as a military base for the Viet Cong during the American war. Return to Ho Chi Minh City to enjoy a free evening to explore the city further and dine in one of its many fine restaurants. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City

Day 6: Mekong Delta River Tour (Lunch)
A smooth one-and-half-hour bus ride through rice field scenery along National Highway 1 brings you to the beautiful rural district of Trung Luong. We will take the boat ride on the Ba Lai River in Ben Tre. The motherland of coconut to understand how the locals not just only have coconut for juice, but for other manufacturers, including coconut candy and coconut oil. Cruising to discover the local culture of the South and to see how the locals live their life such as lively activities on waterways by cargo boats, fishing boats, kinds of fish traps, and handicraft factories of coconut process. Continue the journey to visit coconut charcoal ovens – make products from coconut shells as active charcoal (a kind of material for battery). Taking the rowing boat which is paddled by the local people on the amazing beautiful coconut canal in Ben Tre. Hop on a tuk-tuk (cycling is optional) through the coconut grove of the village to see how the locals make sleeping mats. We will have a set menu of delicious Southern local lunches in the riverside family restaurant. After lunch, you might Relax and keep going by rowing boat on a shady palm tree canal. Boat will ride back to the boat station and head back to Saigon.

Day 7 ; Departure

INCLUSION

• Air-conditioned vehicles with experienced driver
• English speaking licensed guide
• All admission fees as mentioned in the program
• VAT 7% and all Government taxes (no service charge)
• Accomodation based on twin/double/Triple sharing room
• All meal as mentioned in itinerary

EXCLUSIONS

• Food and drinks
• Travel insurances
• Gratuities
• Single Suplement for single traveller
• Surcharge for another languages
• Internal Air ticket