4 Days South of Vietnam
Mekong Delta: Often referred to as ‘the rice-bowl of Vietnam’, the Mekong Delta is an area rich in vibrantly colored vegetation and blanketed with rice-paddy fields. The area is punctuated in numerous places by its lifeblood, the mighty Mekong River that ebbs and flows through the region, making it a wonderful water world. This fertile area produces about half of the total of Vietnam’s agricultural output (in fact the delta produces more rice than Korea and Japan put together!), and is one of the best places to capture quaint images of conical-hat wearing farmers planting or harvesting rice. Other everyday scenes feature local children perched on the back of water buffalo or cycling between picturesque lanes flanked by towering coconut palms, fruit orchards and sugar-cane groves; and of course the colorful floating markets and villages that most characterize this watery region. Cu Chi Tunnels : Located about 70 km to the northwest of HCMC, Cu Chi tunnel is the miniature of the creative and transformed battle of Cu Chi people and soldiers in the fierce fight, lasting for 30 years against the aggressors for independence, freedom of the country. With its victory scale, Cu Chi tunnel went into the history of heroic struggle of the Vietnamese as a legend of the 20th century and became famous in the world. This is a unique and incomparable wonder with 250 km tunnel spreading like cobwebs underground, with the completion of works associated with the tunnels such as trenches, docks, fighting places, tunnels for eating, sleeping, meetings, activities, military, food storage, water wells, Hoang Cam stoves...
