14 Days Southern Vietnam And Insider Cambodia

Breakfast in hotel.

8.00am : Pick up in hotel

In the morning, start a sightseeing tour to the Reunification Palace, which was the former residence of the President of South Vietnam until end of the war in April 1975, and some French colonial structures including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Central Post Office. Tour of Chinatown and Thien Hau & Quan Am pagodas. Continue visiting War Remnants Museum We end the city tour with Ben Thanh market where anything and everything is for sale.  Finish your Ho Chi Minh city tours. Lunch in local restaurant

Then visit Cu Chi Tunnels - 70 km from Ho Chi Minh city. Visit The tunnel of Cu Chi – a former underground military base with the unbelievable 200-km long underground complex,. Optional: shooting at the shooting range with CKC or AK gun.

Back to hotel – stay in hotel in Saigon

Have breakfast and check out hotel

8.30: Pick up at your hotel in HCMC. Depart for My Tho .Take a boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses and the fruit plantation along the river bank. Proceed to Tortoise island and have lunch in the orchard. Enjoy a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruising under the shadow of the water coconut trees. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle. Enjoy a rowing boat ride along the creeks. After taking a delightful walking through the fruit plantation, village. Proceed to Can Tho.

Free to explore the city on your own in the afternoon. You can also visit a village, meet the local people, have dinner with them and enjoy their music. Overnight  in Hotel in CAN THOMekong delta – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho-  stay in hotel in Mekong 

Breakfast at your hotel. 7.00am be picked up and transferred to a speed boat station for the final part of the journey to Phnom Penh. Arrive at Sisowath tourist dock in Phnom Penh at around 2pm.Then get picked up from habor to the hotel

Stay overnight in hotel in Phnom penh.

Accompanied by our local English-speaking local guide, tour the city to discover its ancient and recent past.

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

Continue to the national museum. Located in a fabulous old building, the Museum is filled with art and artifacts dating back to the pre-Angkorian era.

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.

Then drive to Choeung Ek - the Killing Fields, where the brutal executions of more than 17,000 men, women and children took place. The large mass grave pits have all but gone, however the stupa filled with skulls is a chilling memorial.

Back to hotel for leisure late afternoon time and overnight in hotel in Phnom Penh

Have breakfast in hotel, Then we will depart to Kampong Cham, soak in the scenery of rural Cambodia, drive through cashew nut plantations, rice fields, and traditional villages. Tour the town center before continuing to Wat Nokor.

Have lunch in local restaurant.

Afternoon, your lesiure in the sleepy riverside town of Kratie. Enjoy a spectacular Mekong sunset. Overnight in hotel Kratie.

You will be picked up by your guide and local Remok (tuk-tuk) or motorbike from the hotel in Kratie and travel on the old national route 7 along the river bank towards Kampi. One of the many deep pools where the rare river dolphins gather to feed. Along the way, we journey pass through a village that produces delicious snacks, famous sticky rice packed in bamboo (Krolan) and pickle raw fish in banana leaf (Nhem). Thma Kreae village is particularly famous for Krolan. This tasty snack is famous all over Cambodia and locals would never leave Kratie Province without buying a stock for relatives and friends back home. A must to try at least once.

Having arrived at Kampi, we board a local boat and cruise out into the mighty Mekong for a chance encounter with these gentle mammals. Viewing is guaranteed. Tour boats will take you closer to these shy and sensitive mammals. If you listen carefully you might hear the dolphin breath through the blowhole on the top of its head. After enjoying an hour or more of dolphin viewing, we travel back to Kratie.

What to bring: Small backpack, mosquito repellent, sun cream, and hat    

Depart for Kampong Thom, see the countryside scenery and the local life during the transfer. Visit take 1000 steps climbing up to Phnom Santuk Mountain, enjoy spectacular vistas from the top. Continue by road to Kampong Thom. Afternoon, your leisure time in Kampong Thom.

Overnight in Kampong Thom.

After breakfast, we travel southeast out of Siem Reap to one of the largest and least-visited villages on the Tonle Sap Lake, Kompong Khleang, about 55km from Siem Reap. It’s a population of 10,000 all make a living from the fishing industry. We explore the canals (wet season) or streets (dry season) of this incredible town. In the wet season, the houses appear to be floating, as water laps at the verandas, but in the dry season towering stilts are revealed, the houses almost like wooden skyscrapers. You can hire a boat and cruise into the open water of the great lake to see a small floating village and learn some more about this incredible natural flood barrier.

After a lunch break in a local restaurant, we explore the lost temple of Beng Mealea, the titanic of temples, a slumbering giant lost for centuries in the forests of Cambodia. It is the most accessible of Angkor’s lost temples, a mirror image of Angkor Wat, but utterly consumed by the voracious appetite of nature. Constructed by Suryavarman II in the 12th century, the builder of Angkor Wat, the forest has run riot here and it is hard to get a sense of the monument’s shape amid the daunting ruins. Return to your hotel in Siem Reap. stay overnight in  Hotel in Siem Reap