Vietnam – Cambodia

Assemble at Trivandrum international airport, later proceed to Vietnam via singapore, upon your arrival in Ho Chi Minh city transfer to town for lunch at local restaurant before have half day Ho Chi Minh city tour include the visit Reunification Palace, the former palace of President Thieu and his predecessors. Today this building is a museum and venue for official receptions.  Inside you can visit the private rooms of the president, the “War Room” from where the South Vietnamese forces were controlled, and, most poignantly, the room where the North Vietnamese army finally took control in 1975. Nearby is the Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral, built between 1877 and 1883 and one of the city’s major landmarks. Neo – Romanesque in form, Notre Dame is the major seat of the Catholic religion in modern Vietnam. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh city

Morning, after breakfast, travel by road to the Mekong Delta, the world’s largest delta and Vietnam’s largest rice bowl. On arrival in My Tho City, capital of Tien Giang Province, board a motorboat and navigate through intricate canals while observing the local daily life up close as well as the landscape of waterways and lush islands. Land on Thoi Son Island to listen to the Southern traditional music performed by native artists. Continue the tour with a Paddle boat to cruise more canals before visiting households with traditional occupations of home- based coconut candy and rice-wine making. Switch back to a motorboat to go to a bee farm to enjoy fresh honey tea and fresh fruits. Lunch at local house before transfer back Ho Chi Minh. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.

Morning after breakfast, transfer to Cu Chi tunnel visit the famous Cu Chi, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence. The tunnels, over 250km in length and up to three levels deep in places, played a huge part in the Viet Cong’s victory over the Americans, allowing them to control a large rural area surrounding Ho Chi Minh City.

Lunch at local restaurant & transfer to Moc Bai border. Walk cross the border Bavet, transfer to Phnom Penh. Arrival Phnom Penh, dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Phnom Penh.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will transfer for first sightseeing to Royal Palace & Sliver Pagoda is the pagoda which in the Royal Palace campus, where have thousands of silver tiles on the floor of pagoda and have the biggest golden Buddha statue. Silver Pagoda is in the Royal Palace Compound made of 5000 silver tiles. Move to Wat Phnom a 15th century stupa. Wat Phnom, a small hill crowned by an active wat (pagoda) marks the legend of Phnom Penh City.

Afternoon, start your visit to Toul Sleng Genocide Museum formed Tuol Svay Prey High School, it become the prison during Pol Pot Regime (1975-1979), The school was used as a torture chamber and it was believed that 16,000 people died there. Then continue to Choeung Ek – Killing Field: now become the peaceful stretch of countryside where over 10,000 people were executed. The remains of some of them are stored in a memorial to remind people of the atrocities the Khmer Rouge inflicted on other Khmers.

In the evening, stop at Independent Monument & newly built bronze statue of Late king father Norodom Sihanouk, it is built to memorizing the first anniversary of his death. Overnight in Phnom Penh.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will transfer to Siem Reap where you spend around 06 hours on the road. In this occasion you will stop by at Prasat Sambo Prey Kuk Temple, was once the capital of Chenla known as Isanapura, and was a religious center dedicated to the worship of Shiva. Second stop at Skun town to see Tarantula and break. On arrival at Siem reap, directly go to Tonlesap Great Lake, take boat visit to Floating village, See the way people living on floating house, floating school, restaurant, church etc. Overnight in Siem Reap.

After breakfast at the hotel, we spend a full day discovering the famous Angkor Complex. We enter the South Gate of Angkor Thom Temple and marvel at the wonders of the eerie Bayon, the terrace of Elephants and the terrace of the Leper King.

Afterwards, we continue and visit Ta Prohm temple, shrouded in the jungle and left untouched since it was found by French explorers in the 1850s.

In the afternoon we visit the Angkor Wat Temple. This architectural master piece was built in the 12th century, took 30 years to complete and represents the Khmer civilization at its grandest. Covering 81 hectares, it is one of the largest religious monuments ever built. Overnight in Siem Reap.

Have breakfast at hotel, transfer to airport for departure flight back home