Cruise on Saigon River

▸ Saigon river cruise to Cu Chi tunnels – with lunch (Trip code 1601a)
▸ Saigon river cruise to My Tho with lunch (Trip code 1601b)
▸ Saigon River cruise – Sunset City Tour (Trip code 1601c)
▸ Saigon River cruise to Phu Chau Temple & Binh Quoi village (Trip code 1601d)
▸ Saigon river cruise to Cu Chi tunnels & Cao Dai temple (Trip code 1601e)
▸ Saigon river cruise to Cai Be Floating Market (Trip code 1601f)
▸ Can Gio Mangrove forest (Trip code 1601g)

Cruise on Saigon River, visit Cu Chi tunnels and explore the Lillte Mekong (Trip code 1601a)

Group size: 2-8 people
Start time:   7.00am
Finish time: 4.30 pm

In the morning: Saigon – Tan Cang pier – Cu Chi tunnels
Les Rives guide will meet you at the lobby of your hotel and after a short ride by comfortable minivan you will find yourself at Tan Cang Pier, where the adventure begins.

7:30am: You will board a modern and spacious speedboat and depart to the Cu Chi tunnels. When on board, enjoy a light breakfast of a Vietnamese sandwich Banh Mi with coffee or tea, while learning about a traditional way of life of the locals on the river and its banks, you will arrive to the Cu Chi Tunnels before the larger bus groups.

9:00am: Explore the Cu Chi site, which includes weapon and booby trap exhibitions, navigating authentic Viet Cong tunnel, visiting different underground bunkers (kitchens, meeting rooms, ammunitions etc.), a firing range and much more. Try the local cassava root that sustained Viet Cong fighters for years.

Enjoy a delicious traditional Vietnamese lunch by the river, consisting of authentic fried spring rolls, chicken and beef dishes and soup round 11.00am.

11.30am: Depart Cu Chi and return to Ho Chi Minh City.

In the afternoon: Tan Cang pier – bike/or motobike to Little Mekong Delta
Arrive to the city pier about 1.00pm, and enjoy a welcome drink while being instructed about the coming itinerary before exploring the Little Mekong Delta area.

1:30 pm: Choose either bicycle or a motorbike to ride 4 kilometers through the countryside, about 30 minutes ride

Together with a local farmer, visit the fields and an altar to the lost souls, it takes in one hour

After a walk, you will visit the farmer’s house to have some rest and enjoy a fresh coconut.

3:30 pm: You will ride 3 more kilometers in the countryside and your motorbike driver will bring you back to the hotel

4:30 pm: Drop off at the hotel.

Please note that due to the individual nature of the tours, times are approximate and can vary slightly.

Included:

A/C car transfer, pick-up/drop-off at your hotel in Saigon city center
Boat ride on the Saigon river, gas, captain, crew, hostess
Local English-speaking tour guide
2 bottles of water
Snack, season fruit on boat
Lunch at local restaurant
Entrance ticket to Cu Chi tunnels & Mekong

Excluded:

Other food/drink that not mentioned in the program, gratuities for guide, boatman, driver…
Personal expenses, travel insurance, bullets shoot in the Cu Chi tunnels

Cruise on Saigon River, visit Cu Chi tunnels and Tay Ninh/Cao Dai temple (Trip code 1601a1)

Group size: 2-8 people
Start time:   7.00am
Finish time: 4.30 pm

Itinerary: Saigon – Cu Chitunnel – Cao Dai temple (with lunch)
You will visit in one day two most popular places of interest near Ho Chi Minh City: a historical site of Cu Chi Tunnels and a unique Cao Dai Temple that represents the world’s youngest and perhaps the most mysterious religion. Travel comfortably to observe the life on Saigon River and its banks, while enjoying a light breakfast. Visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a small sample of the immense network of tunnels during the US-Vietnam conflict.
Your guide will lead you through the historic Cu Chi Tunnels, dug by resourceful guerrilla fighters to provide communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters during numerous conflicts.
Get on the minivan and head to Tay Ninh Province to visit the famous Cao Dai Holy See Temple, which is a fusion of Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and a few other religions. Learn about the unique religion and the temple organization, and watch the noon mass.
After having a traditional lunch, you will be brought by van back to the hotel.

Early in the morning, your Les River guide will meet you at your hotel’s lobby and bring you by car in 15 minutes to your boat at Tan Cang pier.
Get on the boat, within 15 minutes, the banks of the river change from city sprawl to lush jungle. A light breakfast of sandwiches or pastries, fresh tropical fruits and Vietnamese iced coffee (Ca phe sua da) is served, as your guide explains rural traditions and aspects of riverbank life.
8:50 am: You will arrive at the Cu Chi Tunnels site before the majority of larger bus tours arrive. Watch a brief introductory ‘propaganda’ video to the Cu Chi area.
Explore the Cu Chi site within 2 hours from 9.00 am, which includes weapon and booby trap exhibitions, navigating authentic Viet Cong tunnel, visiting different underground bunkers (kitchens, meeting rooms, ammunitions etc.), a firing range and much more. Try the local cassava root that sustained Viet Cong fighters for years.
11:00 am: Depart for Cao Dai Holy See Temple, a mixture of a few different religions, located in Tay Ninh province.
Walk around the temple in one hour to see its marvelous and mysterious architecture and watch the noon mass.
1:15 pm: You will have lunch at a local restaurant for a delicious Vietnamese cuisine.
After 1.5 hour for lunch time, we depart for Ho Chi Minh City
4:30 pm: Arrive back to Saigon to be dropped off at your place of stay.

Please note that due to the individual nature of the tours, times are approximate and can vary slightly.
Dress code: Proper wear is strongly recommended when visiting Cao Dai Temple and pagodas.

Included:

A/C car transfer, pick-up/drop-off at your hotel in Saigon city center
Car transfer to Cao Dai temple
Boat ride on the Saigon river, gas, captain, crew, hostess
Local English-speaking tour guide
2 bottles of water
Snack, season fruit on boat
Lunch at local restaurant
Entrance ticket fee

Excluded:

Other food/drink that not mentioned in the program, gratuities for guide, boatman, driver…
Personal expenses, travel insurance

Cruise on Saigon River to explore One Day Mekong Delta, authentic experience (Trip code 1601b)

Group size: 2-8 people
Start time:   8.10am
Finish time: 4.00 pm

Itinerary: HCMC – Saigon River pier – Mekong Delta (with lunch) 

Enjoy a scenic river boat trip to discover the tangled maze of rivers and vast paddies found in the Mekong Delta on our culture-centric tours. Departing by boat from Ho Chi Minh City ( also known as Saigon), you will explore areas of the Mekong Delta that few other tourists get to experience.

You’ll experience the old-world river life of the Mekong Delta, and enjoy a lesser-seen glimpse into rural Vietnam as it trundles along a slow tempo, as it has done for centuries. Visiting a Cao Dai temple/Buddhist pagoda, river market and so much more. Bursting with charming local color and scenic views.

Travel by modern speedboat and enjoy countless photo opportunities of the idyllic scenery and local people as you cruise past buffaloes plowing fields, fruit orchards and rice paddies during our Mekong Delta tour. Our tour provides close-up looks at small-village life along the river particularly during your time spent at a local family’s homestead, where you’ll be invited to enjoy fresh coconuts and fiery Mekong Delta whisky.

You will have a traditional Mekong Delta lunch including fried elephant ear fish, a delicious specialty of the region, at a local house!

Les Rives guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel and bring you by car in 15 minutes to your boat at our pier.

The boat departs and you slip away from downtown Saigon via narrow canals, and enter the verdant green tributaries of the Mekong Delta, during 15 minutes driving, a light breakfast is served on board. Enjoy a brief stop at the ornate, overwater Tuong Van Pagoda, while your guide explains the importance Buddhism to many people of the Delta.

9:30am – Visit a bustling, colorful riverside market full of local curiosities, tropical fruits and all manner of fish and shellfish. Great photo opportunities! It takes 1 hour

After that, you reach the idyllic watery expanses of the Delta itself, known as the Delta of Nine Dragons for the 9 tributaries that splinter from the main Mekong River.

10:45am – Turn off the delta into small, winding canals of the Thu Thua area, shaded by a canopy of foliage as you drift along lazily.

Depending on the route, you will visit a traditional riverside house with huge Burmese pythons as pets, a quaint Mekong village and surrounding rice paddies, and then a traditional farmhouse where you’ll sample coconuts and Mekong whisky.

Or you will visit a local merchant and try a range of Mekong produce, and whisky and wine. You’ll walk along the banks of the river to a traditional rural Vietnamese house where 3 generations live, before exploring a charming village where you can try fresh coconuts from the tree. This variation provides fascinating insight into life in the Mekong Delta region.

Please note: Our tours are flexible. Your guide may combine parts from both routes.

Enjoy a traditional Mekong Delta lunch at a local house about 12:30 pm, after lunch time, you will visit an orphanage run by Buddhist monks.

01:30pm – Visit a colorful Cao Dai temple in 1 hour

then back to the speedboat and depart for Ho Chi Minh City.

04:00pm – Arrive back in Saigon, the car will transfer you to your hotel.

Ends of trip!

Please note that due to the individual nature of the tours, times are approximate and can vary slightly.

Included:

A/C car transfer, pick-up/drop-off at your hotel in Saigon city center
Boat ride on the Saigon river, gas, captain, crew, hostess
Local English-speaking tour guide
2 bottles of water
Snack, season fruit on boat
Lunch at local restaurant
Entrance ticket fee, sampan boat, bike/motorbike fee

Excluded:

Other food/drink that not mentioned in the program, gratuities for guide, boatman, driver…
Personal expenses, travel insurance, bullets shoot in the Cu Chi tunnels

Cruise on Saigon River to explore Two Days Mekong Delta, authentic experience (Trip code 1601c)

Group size: 2-8 people
Start time:   8.00am
Finish time: 5.00 pm

Two Day Mekong Delta Tour let you go deeper into the palm jungle of the Mekong to see more of the traditional rural life of this fascinating area. Visit local farms and houses to learn how people live along the river. Stop at Cao Dai Temple and Buddhist pagoda to see the diversity of religions in Vietnam. Visit Cai Be floating market to see how locals run their trading business on the river; take a rowboat trip along small canals of the Delta surrounded by thousands of coconut palms. Take an exciting trip by “xe loi”, a traditional transport popular in small villages.

Itinerary: 

Day 1: HCMC – Saigon River pier – Mekong Delta (Lunch, Dinner) 
Les River meets you in the lobby of your hotel and drive 15 minutes you by car to the Saigon river/Tan Cang pier
The boat departs and you slip away from downtown Saigon via narrow canals, and enter the verdant green tributaries of the Mekong Delta, during 45 minutes on the river, a light breakfast is served on board.
9:00am: Visit Can Giuoc riverside market full of local curiosities, tropical fruits and all manner of fish and shellfish. Great photo opportunities! It takes 1 hour visit. Next, a brief stop at the pagoda, while your guide explains the importance of Buddhism to many people of the Delta.
10:30am: Reach the idyllic watery expanses of the Delta itself, known as the Delta of Nine Dragons for the 9 tributaries that splinter from the main Mekong River.
Depending on the route, you will visit a traditional riverside house with huge Burmese pythons as pets, a quaint Mekong village and surrounding rice paddies, and then a traditional farmhouse where you’ll sample coconuts and Mekong whisky.
Or you will visit a local merchant and try a range of Mekong produce, and whisky and wine. You’ll walk along the banks of the river to a traditional rural Vietnamese house where 3 generations live, before exploring a charming village where you can try fresh coconuts from the tree. This variation provides fascinating insight into life in the Mekong Delta region.
Please note: Our tours are flexible. Your guide may combine parts from both routes.
Enjoy a traditional Mekong Delta lunch at the local restaurant at 12:30pm
We continue the visit at 2.00pm to see a fish farm, know how the fish is raised in the Mekong Delta.
2:30pm: Arrive to the boutique hotel The Island Lodge. Relax by the river, chill at the pool or take a bike ride on the peaceful alleys of the Unicorn Island full of shady fruit trees.
In the evening have a delicious dinner specially cooked for you by a French chef.

Day 2: Mekong Delta (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) 
Have breakfast at the hotel at 7:30am, and depart The Island Lodge to continue exploring the Delta.
We visit Cai Be floating market to see how locals run their trading business on the river, about 1 hour
9:30am: Enjoy a rowboat trip along small canals of the Delta surrounded by thousands of coconut palms.
After one hour, we next visit a brick atelier to see how locals still use traditional technologies to make bricks.
12:00am: Stop at a riverside restaurant to have a delicious Vietnamese lunch.
We have 1.5 hour for lunch & rest, then we take a ride on “xe loi”, a traditional transport used on the villages of the Mekong Delta. Visit rice noodle, roof and nail nippers workshops.
3:30pm: Return to the speedboat and depart for Ho Chi Minh City.
You will back to Saigon about 5.30 and transfer by car in 15 minutes to your hotel in the city center.
Please note that due to the individual nature of the tours, times are approximate and can vary slightly.

Included:

A/C car transfer, pick-up/drop-off at your hotel in Saigon city center
Boat ride on the Saigon river, gas, captain, crew, hostess
One night accommodation on at the Mekong Riverside, standard room, 2 people per a double/twin room
Local English-speaking tour guide
2 bottles of water
Snack, season fruit on boat
Lunch at local restaurant
Entrance ticket fee, sampan boat, bike/motorbike fee

Excluded:

Other food/drink that not mentioned in the program, gratuities for guide, boatman, driver…
Personal expenses, travel insurance, bullets shoot in the Cu Chi tunnels

Cruise on Saigon River – Sunset City Tour (Trip code 1601d)

Explore the waterways in and around Saigon and see the true life of this amazingly diverse and rapidly changing city. You will leave an urban metropolis and just minutes away visit the scenic lush jungle canals with locals living a simple life in surroundings that resemble the Mekong Delta. You will return to Saigon just after sunset to see the city‘s skyline and bridges lit up at night.

Group size: 2-8 people
Start time:   4.00pm
Finish time: 6.15pm

Itinerary:

4.00 pm: Pick-up at the hotel in HCM city center, transfer to Tan Cang pier by Saigon River Express comfortable car, after 15 minutes transfer, you arrive the pier, check-in the Saigon River boat, enjoy a light snack

Noticing the most modern, professional and biggest container terminal operator in Vietnam-Saigon Newport
Taking a look at some of the most important functional bridges in HCMC as you are cruising along the historical river: Thu Thiem bridge, Saigon bridge (the main gateways to areas in bustling HCMC)…

6:00 pm: The boat back to Saigon river/Tan Can pier

The car will transfer you back to your hotel

Service ends!

Included:

A/C car transfer, pick-up/drop-off at your hotel in Saigon city center
Boat ride on the Saigon river, gas, captain, crew, hostess
Snack, season fruit on boat
Local English-speaking guide

Excluded:

Other food/drink that not mentioned in the program, gratuities for guide, boatman, driver…
Personal expenses, travel insurance

Price valid till 31.12.2023

Price in USD per person, joint group Saigon River boat tour, tour in festival/public holidays with an added fee, subject to the availability

If you are also interested in our Mekong Delta group tours, please send us an email for the availability