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Vietnam Cycle Tour

Vietnam Cycling Tour

Departing:  19 June 2022
Nights: 8
Highlights: Tour from Ho Chi Minh City exploring the beautiful cities and landscapes of Vietnam including cycling tours and a boat cruise to the floating markets.

Includes: 
8 Nights 4* accommodation, meals and activities as per itinerary 
Entrance fees & boat trips
All transfers
Internal domestic flights
Regional English speaking guide
Bicyles & helmets from day 3 to day 6
Vespa tour: vehicle & helmet

Excludes: International Flights, Visas and Travel Insurance, Drinks, Tips and Gratuities

Price From: USD 1 475/ EUR 1 259/ ZAR 21 370 (Per Person Sharing)
USD 1 890 / EUR 1 621 / ZAR 27 565 (Single Room)

Your Itinerary

ho-chi-minh city

DAY 1: HO CHI MINH city - ARRIVAL

Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and get your transfer to the TTC Muong Thanh, where you will spend the next 2 nights. 

The rest of the day is open for you to spend at your leisure.

Check in to your hotel at 14.00.

Accommodation: TTC Muong Thanh

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City

This morning you will visit the amazing Cu Chi Tunnels where Vietnamese guerrillas built a labyrinth of narrow tunnels as hideouts during the war. Return to Ho Chi Minh City after having lunch.

Once you have returned to Ho Chi Minh City, the afternoon’s activity is a half-day driving city tour. A few of the highlights include the photo stops at the Reunification Palace, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Central Post Office. Visit a local market in Chinatown and either the Thien Hau Temple or the Quan Am Pagoda,

Accommodation: TTC Muong Thanh
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Includes: Cu Chi Tunnels Tour & City Tour
Cu Chi Tunnel
Vietnam Cycle

Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City – Ben Tre

After breakfast, check-out of your hotel and be transferred to Tan An, then set out cycling to My Tho, which is a 25km ride along country roads. Once you reach My Tho, board a private boat (with bicycles) and cruise to an island for lunch.

After finishing lunch, visit a workshop which produces local coconut candies, before cycling through the rural landscape. Stop at a local garden to have refreshments and enjoy delicious local fruits. The last stretch of the cycle will take you to your hotel in Ben Tre.

(Total cycling distance for the day is approximately 45km)

Accommodation: Mekong Riverside Boutique
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Day 4: Ben Tre – Can Tho

After breakfast, cycle to the Ham Luong Bridge (6km) and continue riding for the next 20 km, until you reach Cai Mon, via Ba Vat. This leisurely cycle tour offers an opportunity to explore the countryside biking trails, as well as to visit the quaint church in Cai Mon.

Get your transfer to Vinh Long for lunch before continuing cycling or catching a ride to Can Tho (24km). Arrive at Can Tho City and check in to the TTC Premium Can Tho hotel, where you will spend the next 2 nights.

(Total cycling distance for the day is approximately 50km).

Accommodation: TTC Premium Can Tho
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Cai tho
Cai Rang Floating Market

Day 5: Can Tho

Take a morning boat cruise to visit the Cai Rang Floating Market. The market is filled with small boats darting through the water to sell their goods.

Disembark and cycle to Cai Son area (approximately 10km) before continuing to a beautiful orchard to enjoy lunch. In the afternoon, enjoy a bicycle ride along quiet riverside lanes, getting a taste of life in rural Can Tho; passing through villages and fruit gardens, and cycle over bridges (approximately 15km). Be transfered to Can Tho City.

(Total cycling distance for the day is approximately 25km)

Accommodation: TTC Premium Can Tho
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch 

Day 6: Can Tho – Tra Su - Chau Doc

Take a morning drive towards Phong Dien to begin your bicycle ride through the rice basket Thoi lai - Co do (30km). 

After lunch in Long Xuyen, be transferred to visit the unique and attractive Tra Su Cajeput Forest which is home to many trees and bird species.

Drive to Chau Doc for your overnight stay.

(Total cycling distance for the day is approximately 30km).

Accommodation: Victoria Chau Doc
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Tra Su Cajuput forest
Chau Doc

Day 7: Chau Doc – Ho Chi Minh City

Enjoy the morning at your leisure in Chau Doc. 

After lunch drive back to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) where you will check-in to the TTC Muong Thanh for your last 2 nights in Vietnam.

Accommodation:  TTC Muong Thanh
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Day 8: Ho Chi Minh

In the morning, you will be picked up at your hotel and be transferred to the wholesale Flower Market and then start your foodie tour by tasting one of the most famous Vietnamese snacks – “Banh Mi”; try the local seafood noodle soup, taste some fresh fried banana spring rolls. Choose your desert from various kinds of “Che” - Vietnamese sweet soup – cooked using dry fruits, beans, jelly, coconut milk, nuts. Walk through the flower shops and relax by the local café for a popular Vietnamese sweet condensed milk coffee. Transfer back to your hotel and the rest of your afternoon is free.

In the evening, you will be picked up from your hotel for your Vespa night trip. You’ll begin by mingling in the crowds of locals going home after work, taking in the scenery of complex traffic while riding through different districts of old Saigon. Stop at some restaurants where you try Vietnamese delicacies like seafood and crepes. Enjoy the diversity between the local Cafés with Vietnamese music, and popular bars with some classic oldies, jazz, or rock. After being absorbed by the music, return to your hotel for your last night in Vietnam.

Accommodation: TTC Muong Thanh
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Includes: Saigon foodie tour (3hrs) – Vespa Saigon after dark tour (4hrs)
Vespa Saigon after dark
Ho Chi Minh City

Day 9: Ho Chi Minh – Departure

Have breakfast at the hotel and check out by 12.00pm.

A guide will transfer you to Tan Son Nhat airport for your departure flight.

Meals: Breakfast 

LGBTQ in Vietnam

While same-sex relations are not known to have ever been criminalised in Vietnam history, legal rights are still not recognised for LGBTQ individuals and social acceptance remains negligible. In recent years the Vietnamese government has made significant pledges to recognize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, tangible progress, however, has lagged behind the promises. 

That being said, Vietnam is a relatively hassle-free destination for LGBTQ travellers, foreigners are typically exempt from any social stigma and will find Vietnam an extremely hospitable and welcoming destination. 

Viet Pride marches take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and there is a low-key gay scene found in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. In general, all public displays of affection, of any sexual orientation, are much rarer in Vietnam. Vietnamese are naturally quite private and reserved, and visitors are advised to follow suit, respectfully.

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