Mekong & Angkor Highlights

AM: 7:30 AM – Pick up at your hotel and drive about 50 km to the Cu Chi Tunnels, one of Vietnam’s most famous historical sites from the National Liberation War. Explore the tunnels, including kitchens, storage rooms, medic chambers, and command posts. Visitors can enter sections ranging from 15 m to 100 m, depending on comfort. End the visit with cassava (khoai mì), a staple food of the Vietcong. Return to Saigon for lunch.
PM: Visit Notre-Dame Cathedral, built by the French between 1877–1883, and the nearby Central Post Office designed by Gustave Eiffel. Continue to the Reunification Palace, a historic site marking the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. End the day at the War Remnants Museum, featuring exhibits on the Vietnam War, including American weapons. Return to your hotel in Saigon for the night.

8:00 AM – Pick up at your hotel and depart for Ben Tre Province.
Enjoy a boat ride along the Ben Tre River, a tributary of the Mekong, passing through mangrove trees and lively waterways. Observe daily life with fishing boats, coconut cargo boats, and local markets. Visit Nhon Thanh village to explore handmade workshops and traditional brick-making.
Cruise along Cai Son Canal through coconut groves, visit a coconut processing workshop, and see the stages from husk removal to peeling. Stop at a coconut candy workshop to watch candy-making by hand, taste some sweets and fresh fruits, and enjoy local music. Continue by boat and take a short walk to a farmer’s house where sleepmats are made.
Hop on a tuk-tuk through the coconut groves, stop for lunch at a local restaurant, then relax on a rowing boat through shaded canals. Return by boat to Chet Say Pier.
Pick up and transfer to Can Tho. Overnight at your hotel in Can Tho.

An early start for a boat trip to Cai Rang floating markets, one of the most lively and colorful markets in Southeast Asia. After the market we cruise back to town. Breakfast in the hotel and visit the center market of Can Tho. Transfer to Chau Doc.
On arrival, you start your trip visiting Chua Xu temple. Vietnamese people consider Chua Xu Lady to look like the Goddess of Mercy, she plays an important role in our society. Back to Chau Doc Town, you take the boat to visit the floating Houses where the fish are raised in the suspended metal Nets. The fish flourish in their natural river habitat. You continue to visit Cham village, Cham means Muslim people. With the traditional loom, Muslims people can weave the tissues and towels.
Check in at the hotel. Night in Chau Doc. Overnight in Chau Doc.

Breakfast in a hotel and aboard a speed boat at 7 am to Phnom Penh. We would reach Phnom Penh International Port (Sisowath Street) around 12.30.
Meet and greet our guide and transfer to a hotel in Phnom Penh. Check-in and remaining of the day is free.
Overnight in Phnom Penh

Breakfast at the hotel
08:30 am, our guide & driver will meet and bring you to visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (from S21 prison). This prison was a secondary school and was used as a prison by Pol Pot's security forces, and became the largest detention and torture center under the Khmer Rouge regime. Followed by one of Phnom Penh’s most iconic landmarks, the Royal Palace, a complex of buildings that serves as the royal residence of the King of Cambodia. continue to The National Museum, one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer cultural material, including sculpture, ceramics, pottery, bronzes, and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian, and post-Angkorian periods, as well as more recent works, such as a beautiful wooden royal barge.
This afternoon, visit Phsar Thmey (Central Market), a large market constructed in 1937 in the shape of a dome with four arms branching out into vast hallways with countless stalls of goods. The four wings of this gigantic yellow dome are teeming with stalls that sell goods ranging from gold and silver, antique coins, money exchange, books, flowers, food, fabrics, shoes, souvenirs, seafood, and countless other products. Continue to visit Wat Phnom, “Mountain Pagoda,” a Buddhist temple that symbolizes the name of Phnom Penh, located on a hill. According to legend, the first pagoda on this site was erected in 1372 to house four statues of Buddha deposited here by the waters of the Mekong River and discovered by Lady Penh. Wat Phnom is the most popular place for local people to come to play in healthy spots or pray for their good luck as well as admire the sunset. Transfer back to your hotel.
Night in Phnom Penh

Breakfast at the hotel
08:15 am Our driver will drop you off at the bus station for you to take a shuttle bus to Siem Reap (314 KM / 6 hrs drive). Upon arrival, meet our driver, and you’ll be transferred to check in at the hotel.
The remainder of the day is free to explore on your own.
Night in Siem Reap

Breakfast at hotel
08:30 am, meet our guide & driver at the hotel’s lobby and head out to visit Ta Prohm, one of the area’s most beautiful temples, which has been left relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the way most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them. It was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Then head to see the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire, Angkor Thom, the Great Angkor City, established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII. We also visit the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King & Baphoun temple before continuing to visit Angkor Wat, the most popular tourist attraction in Cambodia-it is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Angkor Wat, also known as the “City of Temples” a temple complex in Cambodia and one of the largest religious monuments in the world, on a site measuring 162.6 hectares. Originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century. Seeing the architectural masterpiece of Angkor Wat. We stroll around this massive monument, exploring the many galleries with columns, libraries, pavilions, courtyards, and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple. Back to hotel
Night in Siem Reap

Breakfast at hotel
Depending on the departure flight, our driver will pick you up 3 – 3.50 hrs in advance to transfer you to Siem Reap Angkor Int Airport (SAI) for your flight home or next destination. End of Services!