2027 VFTA-24: HO CHI MINH CITY – CU CHI TUNNELS – SIEM REAP OVERLAND

ABF at hotel.
Leave Ho Chi Minh City for Cu Chi tunnels.
On your way, you will pass by paddy fields. Here you will have the opportunity to meet villagers and witness how rice paper is made. Explore the amazing labyrinth of tunnels used by the guerrillas during the war. 
Lunch will be served at a local restaurant. 
Transfer back to Ho Chi Minh City and proceed for a half day city tour. Visit the War museum, Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, General Post Office, Ben Thanh market and other shopping center if time permits. 
Enjoy dinner at one of the best local restaurants. 
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

Breakfast at hotel. You will visit the West Gate of Angkor Thom – undiscovered by mass of tourists.

• The ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century),

• See the South Gate, Bayon Temple – unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara,

• Baphuon temple lying just to the north of Bayon a pyramidal representation of mythical Mont Meru,

• We step to see our old palace Phimeankas temple in huge complex that was used for our king in the past time,

• Then Elephant terrace  platform for king and officers to view shows and people meeting,

• Preah Palilay older than Angkor Thom, deeply in the forest and on path back You see monks sprinkle water to people .

• Ta Prohm “Tomb Raider” fame. Ta Prohm has been abandoned to the elements, a reminder that while empires rise and fall, the riotous power of nature marches on, oblivious to the dramas of human history.

We continue to the famous temple: Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is a World Heritage Site since 1992, famous for its beauty and splendor. Angkor Wat features the longest continuous bas-relief in the world, which runs along the outer gallery walls and narrates stories from Hindu mythology

O/N at hotel in Siem Reap.