Cat Tien National park trekking 2 days tour

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Cat Tien National park trekking 2 days tour as follows

Cat Tien National Park  is an important national park located in the south of Vietnam. It was protected initially in 1978 as two sectors, Nam Cat Tien and Tay Cat Tien. Another sector, Cat Loc, was gazetted as a Rhinoceros Reserve in 1992 upon the discovery of a population of the Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros, an occasion that brought the park into the world's eye. The three areas were combined to form one park in 1998.

The park also has impressive bird species including:

• Red Junglefowl


• Green peafowl


• Siamese firebacks (although found elsewhere, these are especially easy to see in the park)


• Germain's peacock-pheasant


• Orange-necked partridge


• The great, oriental pied and the wreathed hornbills


• Bar-bellied, blue rumped, blue winged and other pittas


• Broadbills: including the black & red, dusky and banded species


• An endemic sub-species of the red-vented barbet


• Grey-faced tit babbler


• Woodpeckers: including pale-headed, white-bellied, black-and-buff, heart-spotted and the great slaty woodpecker


• Lesser adjutant birds, various herons and egret species


• Milky stork and the woolly-necked stork has also been reported in recent years


• A wide variety of resident and migratory waterfowl; although recorded, white-winged ducks may no longer be present in the park


• Birds of prey including osprey, lesser fish eagle, grey-headed fish eagle, crested serpent eagle, collared and other falconets.

Itinerary:

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city – Cat Tien National park (Meal: Lunch & dinner)

• At 08.00an, leaving the busy city of Ho Chi Minh City (former named Sai Gon), turning off the National Highway 20 leads visitors to a mountainous area full of roadside plantations of rubber and green coffee. A short, smooth 150 km  car rides  takes visitors to a former volcanic crater, known as Lava tubes. Crossing the Dong Nai River to enter the Cat Tien National Park enables visitors begin their wildlife experience.


• After having lunch, meeting your local tour guide, we do a three hour trekking to through the Reserved Core Area. We will see many kinds of hundreds of years old trees. Then return to the center for dinner.


• Highlight: Two-hour night cruise in to the jungle, in a jeep, allows visitor to enjoy the feelings of watching wild animals drinking and hearing the calls of rhinoceros.


• Return to the center area of the park.


• Overnight in Cat Tien park.

 Day 2: Cat Tien National park – Ho Chi Minh city (Meal: Breakfast & Lunch)

• Visitors wake up to the nice songs of native birds. Breakfast prepares them for another four-hour trekking to see the Crocodiles swamp and back to the head quarter for lunch, transfer back to Ho Chi Minh City.


• The tour ends at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city around 16.00.

Hotel grade	Cost in US$ per person
	2 pax	3 – 4 pax	5 – 8 pax	9 – 11 pax	12 – 15 pax	Single supplement
Two stars	180	143	121	96	86	17
Three stars	195	157	132	111	100	29

Tour price includes: 

• Air conditioner private transfer Ho Chi Minh city – Cat Tien park – Ho Chi Minh city


• Private jeep transfer for sightseeing in Cat Tien park


• Local English speaking tour guide


• Boat trip


• All entrance fees


• Hotel accommodation based on two persons share a double/twin room 


• Meals as indicated in the tour program: 1 breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 dinner


• Travel permission

Tour price excludes:

• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expenses.

 Thank you for visiting our Cat Tien National park trekking 2 days tour. We are looking forward to serving you.

Cu Chi tunnels half day tour

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Cu Chi tunnels half day tour as follows

The Relics of Cu Chi Tunnel are being preserved at Ben Duoc and Ben Dinh, about 70 km in the North - West of Ho Chi Minh city centre. Arriving at Cu Chi Tunnel, in addition to finding facts about the  Tunnel which well-known victories, tourists also visit those structures which simulate the former Liberated Area of Cu Chi during 1960 - 1975. They can also visit Ben Duoc Temple of Martyr Memorial to show gratitude to the heroes and martyrs who already sacrificed themselves to the cause of national liberation; visit the Temple's basement wherein there are displayed 9 spaces under the topic" The persistent and unconquerable people of Sai Gon- Cho Lon - Gia Dinh", visit the Forest of precious timber trees collected from the three regions of Vietnam; and other characteristic symbols such as: One-Pillar Pagoda (Ha Noi), Gate of Noon (Hue), Nha Rong Harbor (Southern Vietnam). Beside, visitors can take part in entertainment, recreation, and buy souvenir items in the cool, airy and fresh atmosphere; can submerge in the clear and blue water of the swimming pool designed separately and suitably to natural style; and enjoy the countryside specialties.

Cu Chi is an attractive place for sightseeing, and for gathering to review traditions, as well as an ideal place of picnic and camping for different groups, bodies, pupils and students.

Each year, there are more than one million tourists, domestic and overseas, who come to visit the tunnel, Ben Duoc Temple of Marty Memorial, as well as activities of traditional review and entertainment and recreation. Its growth rate is 12% to 15% per year. Cu Chi Tunnel becomes more and more perfect in its service style to meet the needs of visitors.

Cu Chi tunnels half day tour

• Morning: Depart at 08.15am – Finish at 14.30


• Afternoon: Depart at 13.00pm – Finish at 18.00

• Depart for Cu Chi to visit the tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Viet Cong during the American war.


• Return to Ho Chi Minh city.


• End of Cu Chi tunnels half day tour
  

Joining tour : US$13/person

Includes

• A/c bus for pick up and transfer as per program


• Escorted English speaking tour guide


• Entrance fee


• Mineral water on bus (1 bottle/ pax)

Excludes:

• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Hotel pick up & drop off

Note:

• Private tour is available on request. We highly recommend you do private tour for more privacy as well as more convenience.

Cao Dai Temple and Cu Chi tunnels tour 1 day

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Cao Dai Temple & Cu Chi tunnels tour 1 day as follows 

• At 8.15am -  Drive west to Tay Ninh, the centre of Caodaism. O­n arrival we attend the fantastic mid-day temple service when the followers fill the hall wearing colored robes, a symbol of the curious combination of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.


• O­n the way back, stop to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Vietcong during the American war.


• Drive back to HCMC around 6.00pm.


• End of Cao Dai Temple & Cu Chi tunnels full day tour.

Joining tour: US$19/person

Includes:

• A/c bus for transfer & sightseeing as per program.


• English speaking tour guide


• All entrance fee


• Mineral water on bus (1 bottle/ pax)


• Lunch

Excludes:

• Travel insurance


• Hotel pick up & drop off


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program.

Note:

• Private tour is available on request. We highly recommend you do private tour for more privacy as well as more convenience.

Cu Chi tunnels half day tour by express boat

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Cu Chi tunnels half day tour by express boat as follows 

• At 8.00am, Start by BlueRiver Yacht in the morning from Bach Dang Pier (No.10B Ton Duc Thang Street, Ben Nghe Ward, Dist.1, HCM.C), you will go on a scenic 40 minutes boat trip to LAI THIEU. Our English tour guide will introduce to you the beauty of nature and Vietnamese lifestyle along the river bank in your journey.


• The boat will continues 40 minutes to Cu Chi. After two hours visiting The Cu Chi Tunnels you get the boat back to Saigon with another stop at Ben Dinh floating restaurant for your traditional Vietnamese lunch.


• Tourists are brought back to the Bach Dang Pier around 13.00.


• The trip is finished.

Tour price includes:

• Hotel pick up and drop off  at your hotel locate in District 1


• Boat trip


• English speaking guide


• All entrance fees


• Sampan at local areas


• Lunch


• Mineral water on boat

Tour price excludes

• Travel insurance


• Other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expenses


• Tip is at customer’s discretion.

Ho Chi Minh city cooking class tour

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Ho Chi Minh city cooking class tour as follows

Every day, we have to eat. If you take great pleasure in cuisine, you have had lots of amazing Vietnamese foods. When you want to do something new, that’s where we are. We don’t try to serve you the best meal of your life at Cyclo Resto. But day by day, we try the best to bring full feeling of cuisine. Coming to us and self-cook with chef’s direction is the best way to get real experience.

• At 9.00 am: Meeting your chef at your hotel (locates in District 1). Transfer to a local market. Here you will have the opportunity to interact with the local sellers and learn about the ingredients to be used in the cooking lesson later. So make sure your camera is handy.


• 10.00: Continue to Cyclo resto cooking center. Welcome drink for a rest


• 10.15: Working together with the chef. Learn the traditional ways of preparing  and cooking Vietnamese food. The chef shows you how to cook.

• After the lesson, enjoy your self-prepared lunch.


• End of Ho Chi Minh city cooking class tour.

Include:

• Air conditioner car for pick up at your hotel and transfer as per program


• Chef guide for the cooking lesson


• Ingredients for dishes

Exclude:

• Travel insurance


• Hotel  drop off service


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program.

Note:

• The cooking class taken 3 hours.


• Morning from 9.00am to 11.00am


• Afternoon from 15.00 to 18.00

Ho Chi Minh City Cyclo Tour

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Ho Chi Minh City Cyclo Tour as follows

The Ho Chi Minh City excursion will take travelers around the biggest city of Vietnam, from downtown city center to Chinatown. You will discover its history and culture with visits at the War Remnant Museum or History Museum and Thien Hau Temple. You will learn about the past as well as get a glimpse of the daily life of stall and street vendors at the Binh Tay Market in the Chinatown and learn the French colonial building of Notre Dame Cathedral, the Municipal Post Office.

Option 1: Saigon central cyclo trip

• We will pick you up at your hotel within hotels in district 1or district 3.


• Visit History Museum, City Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral for photos, Dong Khoi street (first street in Saigon), Old Market (first market in Saigon), Opera House. We continue to Giac Lam pagoda (Vietnamese style), Jade pagoda (Chinese style).


• Return to hotels, and end of  Ho Chi Minh City excursion.

Option 2:  Cyclo trip outside Saigon center

•  We will pick you up at  your hotel within hotels in district 1or district 3. Cyclo takes you to China Town to Thien Hau temple and Binh Tay Market. On the way you understand more about daily life of Saigonese. Along small street, we continue to Tan Thanh Market (only selling part of motorbike). It is the best way to see real activities of local people.


• Return to hotels


• End of  your Ho Chi Minh Cyclo Tour.

Include:

• Cyclo or rickshaw driven for two hours (day time or evening)


• Mineral water (1 bottle/pax)


• Hotel pick up & drop off (District 1 & District 3)

Exclude:

• Travel insurance


• Entrance fee


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program.

Can Gio Mangrove Forest and Monkey Island full day tour

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Mangrove Forest and Monkey Island full day tour as follows

Can Gio is a low palm-fringed island sitting at the mouth of the Saigon River, some 25km southeast of Ho Chi Minh City. The mangroves forest in Can Gio possesses a high biodiversity with more than 200 species of fauna and 52 species of flora. The effects of the recent wars on these ecosystems have been devastating and large efforts have been made by local people to rehabilitate the mangroves.Today, it has become one of the most extensive sites of rehabilitated mangroves in the world. The island, which is at the intersection between the Saigon River and the sea, was created by silt washing downstream. It’s hard-packed mud rather than sandy beach, so attracts few visitors and the area remains entirely undeveloped.

• Depart at 8.00 am – Return around 17.30 to 18.00


• At 8.00am, depart for Can Gio, 60 km southeast of the center of Ho Chi Minh city.


• Visiting heaps of the long- tailed monkeys have a funny moment in “ Monkey United”

• Visit a crocodile farm and other wild animals in a mangrove forest


• Speed jungle boat, the climax of tour, takes you to the Vietnamese base in the war


• Lunch at the Phuong Nam resort restaurant


• Free time for swimming in the pool and relaxing


• Then we will continue to Can Gio Island seafood market before we head back Ho Chi Minh city


• End of  Mangrove Forest and Monkey Island full day tour

Joining tour: US$29/person 

Include:

• A/c bus for transfer as per program


• English speaking tour guide


• Entrance fee


• Return ferry ticket


• Speed boat


• Lunch

Exclude:

• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expenses.

Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh city tour 2 days

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh city tour 2 days as follows 

• Even you are staying in Nha Trang, Da Lat or Phan Thiet or any place in Vietnam and in Cambodia, you can easy do a short trip for visiting Ho Chi Minh city

• Get started: Meeting at bus station. Catching the sleeping bus to Ho Chi Minh city. Overnight on air conditioner sleeping bus.

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city – Cu Chi tunnels (L)

• Arrival to the bus station around 6.00am, meeting your Russian speaking tour guide. Transfer to a nice restaurant for having breakfast. After short rest, proceed to Cu Chi tunnels an underground network of tunnels constructed by Vietnamese fighters during the struggle for independence. The tunnels contained hospitals, accommodation, etc. and were used as a military base for the Viet Cong during the American war.


• Return to Ho Chi Minh for having buffet lunch. Then we will visit the Independence Palace – the residence of the president of South Vietnam until the end of the war in April 1975, and some beautiful French colonial structures including the Notre Dame Catheral and the Old Central Post Office, the City hall.


• We end the trip at Ben Thanh market where anything and everything is for sales.


• Enjoy water puppet show in the late afternoon.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city – Mekong Delta (My Tho - Ben Tre) – Nha Trang (B/L/_)

• Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00 am, Leave Ho Chi Minh city, enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields. On arrival at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, view stilt houses, fruit plantations and fishing villages along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise islet, have lunch in the orchard garden.


• Then a boat ride to An Khanh – a less touristy attraction in Ben Tre, enjoy cruising on a hand-rowed sampan under the shade of water coconut trees along natural canals. Then enjoy seasonal fruit & honey tea to the sound of "Southern Vietnamese folk music", performed by the locals. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste delicious coconut candy & observe the pastoral life as you roam through the fruit plantations and villages.


• Return Ho Chi Minh. Leisure in the afternoon until Transfer to the bus station for getting the night bus to Nha Trang.


• Overnight on air conditioner sleeping bus.


• End of  Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh city tour 2 days

Include:

• A/c private car/van/bus for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program


• Bus ticket: Nha Trang – Sai Gon – Nha Trang


• Mineral water on car (2 bottles/ pax/day)


• Private boat trip in the Mekong delta


• Russian or English speaking guide


• All entrance fees, fruits, honey tea


• Water puppet show tickets


• Meals as indicated in the program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)


• Hotel accommodation based on two people sharing a twin or double room (two stars hotel)

Exclude:

• Single supplement


• Personal expenses


• Tip is at customer’s discretion

Ho Chi Minh city and Phnom Penh city 2 days tour by road

Saigon Tours in Vietnam sincerely introduce you the Ho Chi Minh city and Phnom Penh city 2 days tour by road as follows

Day 1 : Ho Chi Minh – Phnom Penh

• At 7.00 am, boarding on the Mekong Express bus to Phnom Penh via Moc Bai border. After check in the hotel and having a short rest. At 14.00, start your city tour by take a look into the country’s tragic recent history with a tour of Tuol Sleng Prison (S-21) and the Killing Fields at Choeng Ek, sobering reminders of the evils of the Khmer Rouge regime.


• Although not a joyful tour, visiting these monuments unlocks keys to understanding the development of this still developing country.


• Trying your bargain at Russian market.


• Transfer back to your hotel at 17.00pm


• Meals on guest’s account.


• Overnight at a hotel in Phnom Penh

Day 2: Phnom Penh- Ho Chi Minh (Breakfast)

• At 8.00 am, meeting our tour guide and driver at your  hotel.


• Begin your tour at Cambodia’s Royal Palace, which stands majestically in the city centre just off the riverfront area. Several buildings are open to visitors including the ‘Silver Pagoda’ whose floor is lined with solid silver tiles.


• At the north end of the city is the hilltop pagoda of Wat Phnom, for which the capital was named. Climb the stairs to the top of the hill for fabulous views of the city below.


• Return your hotel at 11.30am.


• Free until 13.00pm, boarding on the  bus back to Ho Chi Minh city.


• The trip ends on arrival in Ho Chi Minh around 19.00.


• End of   Ho Chi Minh city and Phnom Penh city 2 days tour by road

Include:

• Bus ticket: Ho Chi Minh – Phnom Penh – Ho Chi Minh


• Daily breakfast at hotel


• Bus transfer for sightseeing as per program


• English speaking tour guide


• All entrance fees


• Two stars accommodation based on two people share a double/ twin room

Exclude:

• Travel insurance


• Single supplement


• Bus station pick up & drop off


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expenses.

Note:

• The tour price is applied for joining tour