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A Glimpse of VIETNAM

--- 4 Days / 3 Nights ---

HO CHI MINH City - CU CHI Tunnels - Mekong Delta / MY THO

Date	From	To	Itinerary
Day 1	ARRIVAL IN HO CHI MINH CITY (by plane, car, boat)	Arrival in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City. Special welcome all warmly with colourful garlands, cold water and wet handkerchiefs to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then selfintroduce with Indochina Incentive House's representative and tour guides the meeting point's Tan Son Nhat Airport. Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City, a young city with the age of more than 300 years, a center of culture, education, commerce and tourism of Vietnam, the biggest city of Vietnam mix with the West and the Orient, and once known as the "Pearl of Far East". Check-in (at noon) with welcome-drink and room-keys are being available. After check-in and a moment of rest, enjoy city tour with its highlights by pedicab – a typical transport with a very traditional style. First stop at Neo-Roman Notre Dame Cathedral - one of the most splendid and typical of the beautiful French-built churches in Ho Chi Minh city, next Municipal Post Office - Saigon's French-style main post office to admire and take photos of its nice architecture that is one of the HO CHI MINH City's symbolizing images. Later, drive pass by Ho Chi Minh City People Committee (also the old French City Hall before 1975), and Municipal Theatre built in 1899. Now transfer to downtown and visit to Ben Thanh Market in the heart of Saigon with how many things are available for your choice. Dinner : Right-after is the time of Cultural Show-Dinner as an intersting welcoming dinner. Take a private boat which to be rent exclusively for the group, 1 hour cruising to Binh Quoi tourist village, and enjoy a traditional show of wedding ceremony before having dinner buffet on the riverside restaurant with a very pleasant setting. The show will tell you the Southern Vietnamese traditional wedding with folk music and classic melodies, rites expressing Vietnamese humanity, a cup of reception herbal tea is good beginning to wake-up your mind for a night show. A wow factor as a glass of champagne in a nice place should be in the Marina of Saigon River, transfer to Marina on early half hours of a river cruising tour, welcoming lion-dragon dance in jolly noises & hollow drum-beat then enjoy a glass of champage during the nice views of Saigon River and surroundings.. Extra surcharge : TBA USD/Pax Drive back to your hotel and free. *Night tour (over 10 Paxs only) :* For the youth or young people in the mind, an exciting tour ( max 5 hours) on night is quite tailot-made, go into a dancing club and a local bar to enjoy the night-life. Extra surcharge: TBA USD/Pax (D)
Day 2	HO CHI MINHCITY - CU CHI TUNNELS (by plane, and A/C car 70km, boat).	After breakfast, take an excursion to Cu Chi Tunnels to have a look at a famous revolutionary vestige of Ho Chi Minh City and to explore the special structure of this area with a network of tunnels totaling over 200Km. Going down and crawling in the tunnels here visitors can get the unique experiences of guerrillas' living and fighting underground during the wars and perhaps visitors would understands the legendary victory of Viet Cong before the US army in April 1975. A lot of information, numbers together with the exhibits will be showed to you. Lunch: Ben Nay restaurant-a typical garden countryside restaurant in Cu Chi tunnels area, on set menu. Back to HO CHI MINH City and enjoy city tour with visit to the Reunification Palace – a symbol of Saigon old Government before 1975, (also called former President Palace) to learn the sorrowful historic of Vietnam from 1954-1975. Then visit and enjoy shopping at lacquerware / Silk weaving and handmade of gem, jewelleries Workshops where the skilful artisans will explain and show you the whole interesting and complicated process to produce a beautiful arts, lacquerware from wood, egg shell, oyster shell, lacquer, and sewing, embroidering the pictures and long-dress (Ao Dai)... you will see the handicraftmen working on the products and the collections of excellent lacquerwares and Ao Dai / longdress at these Workshops too. Dinner : in a good local restaurant on set menu. Before dinner, we will enjoy a merry team buiding game, there is a good incentive gilf only will be award to the lucky people who presentative for a bus and win a team-game on table before dinner! *Night tour (over 10 Paxs only) :* For the youth or young people in the mind, an exciting tour ( max 5 hours) on night is quite tailot-made, go into a dancing club and a local bar to enjoy the night-life. Extra surcharge: TBA USD/Pax (B, L, D)
Day 3	HO CHI MINH CITY - MEKONG RIVER TOUR / MY THO (by car 75 km, motor riverboat, rowingboat)	After breakfast, check-out for a fantastic excursion to Mekong Rivers, overland 70 kilometers to My Tho town - the "Gateway of Mekong River and its Delta" short stopover at Cao Dai Temple in Ben Luc town, a very specific religion of countrymen in Mekong Delta which combines Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and Confucianism, and native Vietnamese spiritualism. Mekong Delta - the rice granary of Vietnam and has vast areas of durian, mango, rambutan and other delicious tropical fruit trees. Arrival My Tho and transfer to the bank of Mekong River, take a motor riverboat which to be rent exclusively for the group then crossing the Upper River and cruising along Tan Long Peninsula, let’s enjoy this golden moment to relax the verdant luxuriant sceneries of the watery region, taste very fresh coconut milk, disembark and visit a island, stop-over a handicraft village that produces house-hold items from materials of coconut trees. Walking on the quite country roads, you will reach to local lush orchards, taste delicious fresh fruits, drink hot tea with honey during the traditional melodies and folk music surround you. From here you can observe the life of the Mekong River Delta, the main source of rice and many other agricultural products of Vietnam. Enjoy also a short tilbury carriage tour on the village road. Take boat trip along the canal network with a bit of adventure mood in Ben Tre Province to visit a bee farm and then a coconut candy workshop. Till now rivers and artificial canals are an important circulation system of the Mekong Delta. Lunch: A taste of delicate collation before lunch on the shady isle garden with the specialities fresh fruits on surroundings, drinks hot or iced tea cup with garden-honey during the jolly country-music and its songs …. It is a moment to fall in love to tranquil nature, exquisite countrysite of Mekong Rivers & Delta. Set menu lunch in a garden riverside restaurant with the specialties of the Mekong Delta and its Rivers, On the way drive back to Saigon, stopover to visit China Town, the really typical marketplace, a good indication of the importance the Chinese have traditionally played in Vietnam's economy. Witness the bustling Binh Tay Wholesales Market where the most busiest commercial center, proceeding to visit a Chinese Lady Temple of over 150 years, with the ledendary story of the ancient boat-men refugees, contain an impress collection of Chinaware and porcelain masterpieces. Dinner : as a memorable fare-well dinner, will be held on terrace of the Floating Restaurant with high-class foods, reception cooktail and welcoming thunderous music to warmly greet your people when embarking, a music band with particularly interesting fire-circus, favourite love songs then dancing together with the lovely and jolly western/oriental melodies. Enjoy cruising around Saigon River during dinner and Saigon-by-night sceneries. Back to hotel, let's imaging then amazing of incentive gift (just a suprising gilf to everybody : may be a small lacquerware box for contain family valuables) which placed somewhere in the room, enjoy your stay. (B, L, D)
Day 4	FLY BACK HOME via HO CHI MINH CITY (by car, plane)	After breakfast, take time to free at leisure for your independence activities until check out (at noon), transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for a flight back home. It’s timely, you have to say good-bye Saigon, good-bye Vietnam. You surely have plentiful memories of the Orient - my colourful countryland. We thank you very much for your choice of our company as your ground handler in Vietnam then may be Indochina countries on further, be sure all our people are your best friends always and beyond. May we will meet and honoured welcome you have other voyages to Indochina in the days coming, continuing to discover, to experience the endless imposing landscapes, then get the really restful moments in a diversified World and a this colourful Subregion of the Mekong River: VIETNAM – LAOS – CAMBODIA – THAILAND - MYANMAR ! GOOD-BYE & SEE YOU AGAIN ! (B)

Date

From

Itinerary

Day 1

ARRIVAL IN

HO CHI MINH

CITY

(by plane, car,

boat)

Arrival in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City.

Special welcome all warmly with colourful garlands, cold water and wet handkerchiefs to everybody, a moment of courtesy meeting then selfintroduce with Indochina Incentive House's representative and tour guides the meeting point's Tan Son Nhat Airport. Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City, a young city with the age of more than 300 years, a center of culture, education, commerce and tourism of Vietnam, the biggest city of Vietnam mix with the West and the Orient, and once known as the "Pearl of Far East".

Check-in (at noon) with welcome-drink and room-keys are being available.

After check-in and a moment of rest, enjoy city tour with its highlights by pedicab – a typical transport with a very traditional style. First stop at Neo-Roman Notre Dame Cathedral - one of the most splendid and typical of the beautiful French-built churches in Ho Chi Minh city, next Municipal Post Office - Saigon's French-style main post office to admire and take photos of its nice architecture that is one of the HO CHI MINH City's symbolizing images. Later, drive pass by Ho Chi Minh City People Committee (also the old French City Hall before 1975), and Municipal Theatre built in 1899. Now transfer to downtown and visit to Ben Thanh Market in the heart of Saigon with how many things are available for your choice.

Dinner : Right-after is the time of Cultural Show-Dinner as an intersting welcoming dinner. Take a private boat which to be rent exclusively for the group, 1 hour cruising to Binh Quoi tourist village, and enjoy a traditional show of wedding ceremony before having dinner buffet on the riverside restaurant with a very pleasant setting. The show will tell you the Southern Vietnamese traditional wedding with folk music and classic melodies, rites expressing Vietnamese humanity, a cup of reception herbal tea is good beginning to wake-up your mind for a night show.

A wow factor as a glass of champagne in a nice place should be in the Marina of Saigon River, transfer to Marina on early half hours of a river cruising tour, welcoming lion-dragon dance in jolly noises & hollow drum-beat then enjoy a glass of champage during the nice views of Saigon River and surroundings..

Extra surcharge : TBA USD/Pax

Drive back to your hotel and free.

Night tour (over 10 Paxs only) : For the youth or young people in the mind, an exciting tour ( max 5 hours) on night is quite tailot-made, go into a dancing club and a local bar to enjoy the night-life. Extra surcharge: TBA USD/Pax (D)

Day 2

HO CHI

MINHCITY

CU CHI

TUNNELS

(by plane, and

A/C car 70km,

boat).

After breakfast, take an excursion to Cu Chi Tunnels to have a look at a famous revolutionary vestige of Ho Chi Minh City and to explore the special structure of this area with a network of tunnels totaling over 200Km. Going down and crawling in the tunnels here visitors can get the unique experiences of guerrillas' living and fighting underground during the wars and perhaps visitors would understands the legendary victory of Viet Cong before the US army in April 1975. A lot of information, numbers together with the exhibits will be showed to you.

Lunch: Ben Nay restaurant-a typical garden countryside restaurant in Cu Chi tunnels area, on set menu.

Back to HO CHI MINH City and enjoy city tour with visit to the Reunification Palace – a symbol of Saigon old Government before 1975, (also called former President Palace) to learn the sorrowful historic of Vietnam from 1954-1975. Then visit and enjoy shopping at lacquerware / Silk weaving and handmade of gem, jewelleries Workshops where the skilful artisans will explain and show you the whole interesting and complicated process to produce a beautiful arts, lacquerware from wood, egg shell, oyster shell, lacquer, and sewing, embroidering the pictures and long-dress (Ao Dai)... you will see the handicraftmen working on the products and the collections of excellent lacquerwares and Ao Dai / longdress at these Workshops too.

Dinner : in a good local restaurant on set menu. Before dinner, we will enjoy a merry team buiding game, there is a good incentive gilf only will be award to the lucky people who presentative for a bus and win a team-game on table before dinner!

Day 3

HO CHI MINH

CITY

MEKONG RIVER

TOUR / MY THO

(by car 75 km,

motor riverboat,

rowingboat)

After breakfast, check-out for a fantastic excursion to Mekong Rivers, overland 70 kilometers to My Tho town - the "Gateway of Mekong River and its Delta" short stopover at Cao Dai Temple in Ben Luc town, a very specific religion of countrymen in Mekong Delta which combines Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and Confucianism, and native Vietnamese spiritualism. Mekong Delta - the rice granary of Vietnam and has vast areas of durian, mango, rambutan and other delicious tropical fruit trees.

Arrival My Tho and transfer to the bank of Mekong River, take a motor riverboat which to be rent exclusively for the group then crossing the Upper River and cruising along Tan Long Peninsula, let’s enjoy this golden moment to relax the verdant luxuriant sceneries of the watery region, taste very fresh coconut milk, disembark and visit a island, stop-over a handicraft village that produces house-hold items from materials of coconut trees. Walking on the quite country roads, you will reach to local lush orchards, taste delicious fresh fruits, drink hot tea with honey during the traditional melodies and folk music surround you. From here you can observe the life of the Mekong River Delta, the main source of rice and many other agricultural products of Vietnam. Enjoy also a short tilbury carriage tour on the village road. Take boat trip along the canal network with a bit of adventure mood in Ben Tre Province to visit a bee farm and then a coconut candy workshop. Till now rivers and artificial canals are an important circulation system of the Mekong Delta.

Lunch: A taste of delicate collation before lunch on the shady isle garden with the specialities fresh fruits on surroundings, drinks hot or iced tea cup with garden-honey during the jolly country-music and its songs …. It is a moment to fall in love to tranquil nature, exquisite countrysite of Mekong Rivers & Delta. Set menu lunch in a garden riverside restaurant with the specialties of the Mekong Delta and its Rivers,

On the way drive back to Saigon, stopover to visit China Town, the really typical marketplace, a good indication of the importance the Chinese have traditionally played in Vietnam's economy. Witness the bustling Binh Tay Wholesales Market where the most busiest commercial center, proceeding to visit a Chinese Lady Temple of over 150 years, with the ledendary story of the ancient boat-men refugees, contain an impress collection of Chinaware and porcelain masterpieces.

Dinner : as a memorable fare-well dinner, will be held on terrace of the Floating Restaurant with high-class foods, reception cooktail and welcoming thunderous music to warmly greet your people when embarking, a music band with particularly interesting fire-circus, favourite love songs then dancing together with the lovely and jolly western/oriental melodies. Enjoy cruising around Saigon River during dinner and Saigon-by-night sceneries.

Back to hotel, let's imaging then amazing of incentive gift (just a suprising gilf to everybody : may be a small lacquerware box for contain family valuables) which placed somewhere in the room, enjoy your stay. (B, L, D)

Day 4

FLY BACK

HOME via HO

CHI MINH

CITY

(by car, plane)

After breakfast, take time to free at leisure for your independence activities until check out (at noon), transfer to Tan Son Nhat airport for a flight back home.

It’s timely, you have to say good-bye Saigon, good-bye Vietnam. You surely have plentiful memories of the Orient - my colourful countryland. We thank you very much for your choice of our company as your ground handler in Vietnam then may be Indochina countries on further, be sure all our people are your best friends always and beyond. May we will meet and honoured welcome you have other voyages to Indochina in the days coming, continuing to discover, to experience the endless imposing landscapes, then get the really restful moments in a diversified World and a this colourful Subregion of the Mekong River: VIETNAM – LAOS – CAMBODIA – THAILAND - MYANMAR !

GOOD-BYE & SEE YOU AGAIN ! (B)

Tour rate:

HOTEL	Prices are nett in USD per paying paxs for groups of			S/S
HOTEL	15+1	20+1	25 or over +1	S/S
OSCAR 3*	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
PALACE 3*	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
SAIGON 3*	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
CHANCERY *	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

INCLUSIVE OF:	EXCLUSIVE OF:
Private transportation between areas by A/C deluxe vehicles, Rick-shaws, motor river-boats, wooden-junks as indicated in the itineraries. Accommodation based on TWN / DBL or SGL superior rooms with daily breakfasts. Sightseeings, excursions and entrance fees. Full board in the good local restaurants / inside hotels and drink package during meals as indicated. Cold drinking water and cold-handkerchiefs during tour. Outdoor/Indoor WOW activities, and traditional music shows, Pre-dinner cocktails and entertainments, special welcome as indicated. Incentive Gifts in the staying room and as indicated. Good English or French speaking guide during tour.	International flights and airport taxes. Visa arrangement fees. Insurances. Personal expense such as telephone calls, fax, laundry, other meals and drinks, and highlights, sightseeings or activities which are not indicated in the programs. Drink at meals. An extra fee for German / Italian /Spanish / Russian speaking guides. Excess baggage charges. Tips.
For group over 15 paying paxs : 0ne Tour-leader free of charge 100% in SGL ROOM.