Veteran's Path 9D/ 8N9 Days/ 8 Nights from $2455 per personTOUR ITINERARYDay 1: SaigonArrival airport transfer to your hotel. Orientation City Tour - see what’s old and what’s new in the bustling streets of Ho Chi Minh City. Day 2: Long HaiDrive to the Long Tan battlefield. Visit the former Task Force Base Nui Dat, and surrounds including the Long Tan Holy Cross, Long Phuoc Tunnel, Horse-Shoes Hill, Gia Quy mountain. Return to Saigon in the afternoon. (B,L) Day 3: Mekong Delta/HueToday Cruise the Delta’s canals by small boat, stopping at tropical fruit orchards, bonsai gardens, craft villages and the former base of the 9th US Division and Riverine Units. After lunch in the Delta return to Saigon to board your evening flight to Hue. (B,L) Day 4: DMZVisit Khe Sanh marine base, the Rock Pile, Camp Carol, Dakrong Bridge and other historic sites. (B,L) Day 5: Hue/Danang/Hoi AnVisit the Imperial Citadel, site of fierce street fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive and Thien Pagoda and tombs of the former Emperors before driving to Danang. From Camp Eagle, follow the coastal highway across Hai Van Pass to Marble Mountains to explore the cave shrines, once a hideout for VC soldiers. Relax on the white sand of China Beach. Overnight in Hoi An. (B,L) Days 6-7: PleikuFly from Danang to Pleiku. Follow Highway 14 to Ham Rong Pass and Camp Enari, the former headquarters of the 4th Infantry Division. Here visit Dak To, the site of heavy fighting between NVA units and the 4th and swap stories with ethnic Banar people in their remote highland village. Also visit Camp Halloway. (B,L) Day 8: Cu ChiFly from Pleiku to Saigon to crawl through the Cu Chi tunnels, an ingenious VC tunnel network. Also get a glimpse of rural life today in a quiet hamlet where villagers make rice paper. Stop at Tropic Lightning, HQ of the 25th Infantry Division. (B,L) Day 9: SaigonRelax until your departure transfer. (B) |
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