Our southern Vietnam culinary tour is including a cooking class course at Vietnam Cookery Center in Saigon. We make this exciting culinary tour in the southern Vietnam and bring you to discover the local culture while tasting the true flavors of Vietnam. Beside this southern Vietnam culinary tour you will also visit the bustling Saigon - the city so called “ Pearl of the East” and enjoy a cruising on the Mekong Delta River and an amazing Cu Chi tunnels
Day 1 : Arrive in Saigon
Welcome at Tan Son Nhat airport, transfer to hotel for check-in. Rest of the day is free at your leisure or you walk around for shopping. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 2: Saigon Cooking Class – City Tour ( B,L )
After breakfast at hotel, we join a cooking class to learn how to make Vietnamese cuisine. After lunch, you will take a half day tour of Saigon including Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office, Remnant War Museum, China Town and Thien Hau pagoda. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 3: Saigon – Cao Dai Temple – Cu Chi Tunnels ( B,L )
Depart to Cao Dai Temple to see the ornate temple of Caodaism and join the fantastic mid-day service when the followers fill the hall wearing colored robes, a symbol of the extra combination of the Confucianism, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism. After lunch, you will visit Cu Chi Tunnels and then return to Saigon for an overnight stay.
Day 4: Saigon – Mekong Delta ( B,L )
Today, we drive to the delta town of Ben Tre, the closest one from Saigon and one of the most highlighted Vietnam tours that impresses visitors. You will board a small boat to start touring a region known as Vietnam’s rice bowl. Your boat arrives at an artisan factory where workers process coconuts by separating their oil, flesh and husks to be used in products like matting and candy. Learn how it all works. Continue your cruise along the Mekong River. After lunch take in the river scenery as you return to Ben Tre and then back to Saigon in late afternoon. Overnight in Saigon.
Day 5: Saigon Departure ( B )
Free at leisure until transfer to airport for your flight home and trip ends here
