PKHCM05 – Ho Chi Minh and Cambodia 6D5N

Arrival Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh, you will be picked up by our driver, taking you to hotel in center. 

Check in hotel then free time.

Please choose 1 of these options

Option 1: Foody tour by motorbike

5pm our guide and motorbike will com to your hotel to pick up for Saigon Sightseeing&Food By Night (from 5pm – 9pm)

On this tour, you have a lot of chances to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine. And visiting the most popular tourist attractions in Saigon.

–Saigon China Town is a colorful mix of old and new features, with lots of traditional shops, markets, and local food stalls.

–Thich Quang Duc Monument – A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

–Saigon Central Post Office, Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, Ho Chi Minh City Hall – French Colonial Architectures which are known as one of the most charming features of this city.

–Nguyen Hue Walking Street – located in District 1. It is currently a famous pedestrian street in the city.

–Saigon River Side – Sitting on the banks of a romantic river, chatting and enjoying unique drinks, Saigon at night will be in your sight.

You will enjoy three Vietnamese cuisines:

+Vietnamese Pancake – known as Banh Xeo, a crispy, stuffed rice pancake.

+Fresh Spring Roll – consisting of pork, prawn, vegetables, bún, and other ingredients.

+Beef Spice Noodle Soup -thick round rice noodles, topped with rare steak, brisket, and meatballs.

Finish our time, we get on the motorbike and drive back to your hotel.

Option 2: Night life tour

The tour starts at 17:45 our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, by 18:15 you will be arriving at the traditional puppet theater to enjoy a traditional puppetry show featuring Vietnamese farmers’ lives. Puppet masters will stand behind the stage smoothly controlling all the puppets on the ends of poles beneath the stage, giving you a new cultural experience different from normal South East Asian activities. The show will end at 19:15 then you will head to the cruise for a great dinner in the middle of a river, enjoy the colorful view of Sai Gon riverside by night. After your dinner we will transport you back to your hotel around 21:30

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city

7:45am Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel and our guide will give you full lecture about the Viet Nam war, Cu Chi tunnels war, Agent Orange on the way to the first stop at Agent Orange center where you will see how they make the lacquerwares. 

Our driver will drive you more than 45 minutes to reach the Ben Duoc original tunnels where there are less tourists. This is a special warzone kept by the government showing a part of the Vietnam war. 

You will have a small lecture about the clever techniques used by Viet Cong soldiers during this particular period. You will spend more time to explore the underground well, secret entrance, bamboo traps, underground hospital, meeting room, commander in chief room, kitchen. You will decide to explore/ go inside the tunnels 15-30-50 meters). After the experience, you will understand how resilient Vietnamese people are. It is an excellent journey to see the popular tunnels that played a major role in the history of Vietnam. 

Then you will taste VC food tapioca, visit uniform bunker, Ho Chi Minh sandals made form car tires, weapon bunker and trap bunker.

You will have a chance to shoot real guns AK47, M16 but it costs 600.000 vnd (for min 10 bullets). You can pay by cash or with credit cards.

After having lunch at a local restaurant, the tour will proceed to the second destination on 2 – hour drive. The second destination will be My Tho. From here, you will be taking a boat trip through the river, passing through floating fish rafts, houses along many other great views.

After arriving at Thai Son island, there will be upcoming activities waiting for you:

Visiting a honey farm, you will get to learn about the process of producing honey and how to collect royal jelly, you will also get to have a taste of wonderful honey tea on the spot.

Tourist trams or tuk tuk will then transport you to next stop where you can enjoy fresh tropical fruits and Don Ca Tai Tu – a traditional form of western Vietnamese singing art perform by the villagers.

Then walking deep into the village, passing through fruit gardens and you will reach the rowing boats. After travelling on the rowing boats, big motorboats will be waiting for you, continuing your journey to the coconut candy factory.

Finally, you will get back to the van and go back to Ho Chi Minh city, ending an exciting and memorable trip at around 7pm

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh

6:30 am, will be picked up at your hotel in center of Ho Chi Minh city to bus station

7:00 bus leaves for Phnompenh capital, Cambodia tour

14:00 arrival Phnompenh, will be picked by our guide and tuk tuk (or car/minivan) for city tour in 4 hours.

Heading to Toul Sleng was simply a high school building in central Phnom Penh. But during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia, from 1975 to 1979, it became an infamous interrogation prison known as S-21. Today, the building remains as a genocide museum, telling the tragic story of the thousands of innocent Cambodians who were tortured or killed on its grounds.

Walking through the narrow corridors and former classrooms of the buildings will give you an insight into Cambodia’s turbulent past. Hear the stories of some of the victims and see the interrogation devices used to inflict suffering on the local population. Hundreds of the haunting, black and white photos of prisoners are now on display in the museum.

While this may be a somber experience, it is an excellent way to gain a new understanding of this important chapter in Cambodian history. From Toul Sleng, drive 10 miles (17 km) from Phnom Penh to visit Cheung Ek, the site of a mass grave and a field made famous by the movie The Killing Fields.

Today, a large memorial commemorates the thousands of victims who died in these fields under the reign of the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot. This journey into Cambodia’s past will provide you with a background on the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge regime.

After visiting this and hearing story of the Cambodian people, you will know how to appreciate life at home.

Tour ends, drop off at your hotel.

Free time in the evening

Overnight in Phnom Penh

Breakfast at hotel.

8:45 taking bus to Siem Reap

15:00-16:00 Arrival Siem Reap, will be picked by tuk tuk to your hotel.

18:00 Pick up for evening street food tour in 2 hours

It’s true that Cambodian cuisine shares common dishes with its neighboring countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, China, even India, and is influenced by the remnants of French colonial days.  Khmers, however, had found creative ways to put in a dash of their style and flavor, making these otherwise familiar dishes into something uniquely Cambodian.

Get ready to have a taste of Siem Reap’s street food, by hopping into a remork-moto, commonly known as tuk tuk, as we pick you up from your hotel.  We’ll go beyond tourist zones for the most enjoyable local street food adventure.  Your knowledgeable food tour guide will lead you to explore Siem Reap’s streets to sample local snacks, such as yellow bean cake or Khmer rice cake.  We’ll check out the tropical fruits in season and let you have a taste of unique fruits such as dragon fruit, lychee, tiny but sweet pineapples, longan, rambutan and mangosteen (depends on season).  Either you hate it or you love it, we dare you to sample the king of tropical fruits – durian (during season). 

We’ll take you where the locals meet, eat and hang-out – in a picnic area where endless stalls are set-up in the early evening.  Walk through the length of the street and explore various stalls selling fruits, snacks and cooked food, clothes, homewares, kitchen wares and everything in between.  Eat snacks the Cambodian way and if you’re up for an adventure, try out a variety of exotic snacks such as fried tarantulas, crunchy crickets, frogs, fried scorpions and duck eggs.  Bring out the foodie in you by picking from a variety of dishes such as skewered barbecue meat and fish, Khmer fried chicken, green mango with chili and salt, savory jackfruit and sweet mangosteen.

Tour ends, drop off at your hotel.

Overnight in Siem Reap

Breakfast at hotel.

Please ready from 7:30AM till pickup before 8:30AM, travel to the Angkor Archaeological Park in the comfort of an air-conditioned minivan. Once you’ve purchased your entrance tickets (not included), set out on a guided tour of the ancient temples. 

Start by marveling at the much-photographed temple of Angkor Wat and hear the fascinating history of the Khmer Empire as you follow your guide around the impressively preserved ruins. Continue to the walled temple complex of Angkor Thom, pass through the grand South Gate, and visit architectural highlights including Bayon Temple, the Elephant Terrace, and the Terrace of Leper King. After breaking for lunch (own expense), admire the overgrown ruins of Ta Phrom and discover why it’s nicknamed the “Jungle Temple.”

Your tour ends with drop-off back at your hotel.

Overnight in Siem Reap

Breakfast at hotel.

Free time until airport transfer to next destitantion