The MRFA and Vietnam-Indochina Tours Announce
Grand Prize
Free 10-day Ground Tour of Saigon and the Mekong Delta
Cost: $5.00 a raffle ticket. Tickets can be purchased by making your check or money order out to the MRFA and send to MRFA Raffle 1857 CO Rd A14, Decorah, IA 52101-7448, if you order your ticket or tickets prior to the reunion. You will receive your raffle ticket per mail per your request. If you do not attend the reunion and you are the winner, you will be notified by phone or e-mail, etc. Tickets will be sold at the reunion as well. Information will also be published in the Summer Issue of the River Currents. More Raffles to be held at the reunion 50/50 and more.
Grand Prize
drawing:
September 5, 2009
at
the (Delta DMZ Dance?)
The below rules will be and must be followed:
You have to be a MRFA member to
participate and you cannot give the ticket to someone else. The winner has to
use the ticket. This offer is only for members of the MRFA.
Ground Tour
Includes:
Tours
of:
Saigon – Cu Chi – My Tho
– Dong Tam – VC Island – Tan An – Ben Luc - Can
Tho -
Vung
Tau
10 nights three-star hotel accommodations
All breakfasts
All airport transfers
Private air-conditioned ground transportation
Private guide and private tours
All admissions
All boat transportation
In lieu of the Mekong Delta tour, $1,000 towards the cost of a ground tour to I
and II Corps can be substituted.
Saigon and IV
tour can be customized. Contact
Trang Frobenius
Vietnam-Indochina Tours at
info@indochinatouors.com for details.
Valid for travel: Departing Los Angeles 2 November 2009.
Non-transferable, non-redeemable for cash.
Winner may reschedule tour from March 2010 through
15 October
2010 with payment of any additional airline ticket costs.
Ground tour operated by
Vietnam-Indochina
Tours,
providing tours to Vietnam for 15 years.
For further information contact:
Vietnam-Indochina Tours
info@indochinatours.com
Tel: 360-570-2096
Olympia, WA
Vietnam
Saigon – Cc Chi – My Tho
– Dong Tam – VC Island – Tan An – Ben Luc - Can
Tho -
Vung
Tau
This is a private tour.
Price includes:
Single occupancy hotel accommodations as indicated on the
itinerary;all breakfasts; all airport transfers; private air-conditioned
ground transportation; all boat, ferry, and train transportation as noted;
admissions to all noted attractions; daily English-speaking guides, except where
noted; and accommodations for guides and drivers. Costs do not include: visa
costs, airport departure taxes, meals other than breakfast, and items of a
personal nature. Tour does not include transpacific airline flights.
Valid for travel between 1 September and
30 November
2009 or 1 March and 30 November 2010.
[Itinerary: VN-MRFA]
Day 1:
Arrive at
Tan Son
Nhut
Airport. Clear customs and immigration, meet guide and driver, and transfer to
your hotel. Free balance of the day.
Day 2:
Meet guide and driver and transfer to your hotel. Balance of the day Saigon
City tour including the fantastically ornate Hotel de Ville serves as Saigon’s
city hall, the turn-of-the-century Opera House, Dong
Khoi Street shopping area of the French
colonial period and of today, Notre Dame Cathedral (1880) and the spectacular
turn-of-the-century Colonial French Post Office, the historic Continental, Rex
and Majestic Hotels, view Reunification Palace from the outside, the Saigon
Riverfront and Dragon House, Binh
Tay Market and the
Thien
Hau Pagoda (Cantonese
pagoda) in Cho Lon and
the Sri Mariamman
(Hindu) Temple and the Saigon Central Mosque. Return to your hotel for a free
evening.
Day 3:
8:00 a.m.
prompt morning departure for the Cu Chi Tunnels, 30 km from Saigon city center.
Tour the tunnels and Ben
Duoc
Temple dedicated to the nearly 50,000 NLF soldiers who died there. Continue on
to the Cao Dai Holy See
nearby the Cambodian border. Attend the “high-noon” service in the Great
Temple. The religion fuses Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism,
native animistic beliefs into an amalgam of color and splendor.
Day 4:
8:00 a.m.
departure for the northern gateway to the Mekong Delta, the city of My
Tho.
Proceed south through the lush rice fields of Long
An Province to My
Tho, stopping at Tan An and Ben Luc for
visits. Continue onto to My
Tho and tour the city followed by a
visit to Dong Tam. Return to Saigon for a free evening.
Day 5:
8:00 a.m.
departure for My
Tho and Thoi
San Island. Upon arrival in My
Tho transfer to the My
Tho Docks to board your
boat to Thoi San Island
in the middle of the Song My Tho
River, the northernmost distributary
river of Mekong’s five major
distributary rivers. Tour the island, its hamlets, and tropical
fruit orchards on foot. Return to My
Tho via boat and meet your vehicle and
driver. Cross the newly completed My
Thuan
Bridge, the first bridge to cross any of the Mekong’s major
distributary rivers and continue onto the
Bassac
River. Cross the Bassac
on a 100-ton ferry and enter Can Tho.
Transfer to your hotel and check-in your hotel.
Free evening.
Day 6:
7:30 a.m.
prompt departure via your personal
rivercraft to the
Cai Rang Floating Market, a cacophony
of chaos with hundreds of boats buying and selling everything from bananas and
coconuts to freshly slaughtered pork and sugar cane. Return to Can
Tho
via boat. Balance of the day Can Tho
tour including the Ninh
Kieu Wharf the busiest
commercial wharf in the Mekong Delta, the Can
Tho Market on
Hai
Ba
Trung Street, the Cantonese Congregation Pagoda on the riverfront,
and the Munirangsyaram
Pagoda, followed by a 1-hour Xe
Loi motorized
cycle ride in Can
Tho and the surrounding area accompanied by
your guide on a separate Xe
Loi.
Day 7:
Free morning until
10:00 a.m.
Check out and return to Saigon via vehicle stopping at places of interest
enroute. Arrive Saigon
and check in your hotel. Free balance
of the day.
Day 8:
8:00 a.m.
departure from the Saigon docks via high speed hydrofoil through the Saigon
River to the seaside town of
Vung
Tau. Disembark and meet
your driver and proceed on an all day tour of
Vung
Tau including:
Downtown Vung
Tau:
Vung
Tau’s colorful harbor
with its fishing fleet at Bai
Truoc (Front Beach), the
“Chinese” Cathedral, the Central Market, and the Bach
Dinh Villa that was built at the end of the
19th century for the Former French Governor, General Paul
Doumer.
Nui
Nho:
Nui
Nho, or Small Mountain, is at the southern
tip of the Vung
Tau Peninsula and is its
tip is noted by a statue aptly called “Giant Jesus,” which at 28 m
high towers over the mountain; a journey up the steps for a spectacular
vantage point over the South China Sea; Hon
Ba Temple rests on a small island off
Nui
Nho in the South China Sea and can be reached
only by foot at low tide. Return to Saigon on the 4:00 p.m. hydrofoil. Arrive
Saigon, transfer to your hotel for a free evening.
Day 9:
Free day for shopping.
Day 10:
Free day until check out and transfer to the
Tan Son
Nhut
Airport to connect with your returning flight home.
Bon Voyage!
Hotel Accommodations:
Saigon Kimdo Hotel
*** in the heart of Saigon *** Can
Tho Golf Can Tho
Hotel ***
Entrance fees, miscellaneous tour costs, etc.
Cu Chi Admission, Cu Chi Tunnels
My Tho Sampan ride
Can Tho
Xe
Loi cycle ride
Can Tho Private
Rivercraft
My Tho My
Thuan
Bridge
Saigon-V. Tau Hydrofoil
ticket
Vung
Tau Bach
Dinh Villa
V. Tau-Saigon Hydrofoil
ticket