Quận 1 Trip Overview
This tour is the best idea for first time travelers to Ho Chi Minh city, you have the best visit to the most famous site of the city.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 days
Starts: Quận 1, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
This tour is the best idea for first time travelers to Ho Chi Minh city, you have the best visit to the most famous site of the city.
Itinerary
Day 1: Saigon Arrival
Stop At: War Remnants Museum, 28 Vo Van Tan Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City Arrival
Meet your tour guide at Ho Chi Minh City airport for a private transfer to the hotel.
SAIGON AFTER DARK ON VESPA SCOOTER
Experience the nightlife of Saigon the way locals do, all from the back of a vintage Vespa scooter. Your first stop is at Café zoom to “watch the world goes by” (quoted by The Lonely Planet) and enjoy a cocktail and appetizers (inclusive) before adventuring into favourite local eating spots. The tour will start with a ride to part Chinatown and then heading to District 4 through busy streets and alleys to see the night life of locals and enjoy street sea-food and cold drinks, places that foreigners would hardly venture to. Leave district 4 for district 3 through downtown District 1 to a famous Banh Xeo shop to enjoy the specialty of Saigon, and southern food with the locals. Then continue to a hidden
Vietnamese-style coffee shop to have a taste of Vietnamese music. Afterward venture to a lively bar to enjoy drinks along with live music.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Your hotel
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh city Tour
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Squares, Nguyen Hue Walking Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 70000 Vietnam
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh Ciy Tour
Formerly known as Saigon, today’s Ho Chi Minh City is the bustling and vibrating economic centre of the South. Over the past few centuries, Saigon was called the “Pearl of the Far East” and was an important trading centre for Chinese, Japanese and Western merchants who travelled along the Saigon River.
Your sightseeing tour includes interesting sites in the District 5 known as the “China Town” like the Museum of Vietnamese traditional medicine (FITO), the only museum of its kind in Vietnam. The FITO has more than 3,000 items including traditional tools and medicine books as well as miniatures of typical northern and southern medicine houses on display and Thien Hau pagoda, one of the oldest pagodas of the Chinese community in the area. Continue to visit other city landmark in the District 1 including the Notre Dame Cathedral inaugurated in 1880 became the spiritual and cultural crucible of the French presence in the Orient as was the Post office designed by Gustav Eiffel and resembling a grand railway station. And wrap up your city tour with visit the Reunification Palace which is renowned for its symbolic role in the fall of Saigon in 1975
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Your hotel
Day 3: Cu Chi Tunnels Tour and Vietnam Countryside Experience
Stop At: Cu Chi Tunnels, Phu Hiep TL15 Phu Hiep, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam
This is another variation of our popular Cu Chi tour, combining the legendary historical site with visiting surrounding cultural attractions.
This full-day Cu Chi Tunnels tour is perfect for those interested in Vietnam’s wartime past, but also want to experience traditional life of Vietnam countryside, which few tourists get to see. Over the course of an hour, our speedboat will whisk you from central Saigon to Cu Chi, past tranquil countryside pastures that offer a glimpse into life along the river. You will then explore the historic Cu Chi Tunnels site, before enjoying a traditional Vietnamese lunch prepared by our chef. Then, depending on your choice, either a minivan or Jeep will pick you up and take you on a journey through the scenic Vietnam countryside. You will visit an authentic cricket farm, and organic herb farm and a local country house, where traditional rice paper is made by hand as it has unchanged for centuries.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Your hotel
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City – Departure
Pass By: Saigon Square Shopping Mall, 81 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Ben Nghe, Quan 1 Ben Thanh Market, Ho Chi Minh City 70000 Vietnam
At leisure until airport transfer for your flight to the next destination.
Choice of tour extensions to the Mekong Delta with accommodation on traditional motorized sampan or to Cambodia or other beautiful beach destinations of Nha Trang or Mui Ne or Phu Quoc are available.
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
