7D6N South Vietnam Itinerary 🇻🇳

Itinerary is based on my trip in March 2023. Happy to share the details as well as some tips to help any of you who are planning your next Vietnam trip!

Trip Breakdown:

🏙 Ho Chi Minh City - 2 days

🏖 Mui Ne - 1.5 days

⛰ Da Lat - 2.5 days

🛵 Getting Around 🛵

Grab can be used in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat but is not available in Mui Ne. We mainly travelled around by Grab in HCMC and rented a motorcycle to ride around in Mui Ne and Da Lat (Motorcycle rental at VND150k per day).

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Ho Chi Minh City 🏙

🏨 Chill Suites - Room was so-so but very cheap accommodation

DAY 1️⃣

✈️ Flight to Ho Chi Minh City

📍 Hao Sy Phuong Alley

📍 Ben Thanh Market

DAY 2️⃣

📍 Tan Dinh Church

📍 Saigon City Sightseeing: Saigon Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral, People’s Committee Building

📍 War Remnants Museum

🎭 A O Production Bamboo Circus - One hour show only available on selected days at 6pm. Booked via Klook.

🍔 Cafe Apartments - Madam Quyen

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Mui Ne 🏖

🚉 Train from Ho Chi Minh City to Mui Ne 🚉

We took a train from HCMC to Phan Thiet station and then took a taxi to Mui Ne. There are both sleeper and seating berths (we opted for the sleeper) and total travel time is about 5 hours. Train tickets can be booked here and are only available 45 days prior to your travel date.

🏨 La Marina Hotel - Clean and cosy hotel at a very affordable price for budget travellers. Highly recommend!

DAY 3️⃣

📍 Fairy Stream

📍 Mui Ne Fishing Village

📍 White Sand Dune

📍 Red Sand Dune

You can book a jeep tour via Klook that covers all the attractions above. Get the tour without the White Dunes uphill. When you are there, the ATV operators will offer to drive you up the Sand Dunes in their ATV and also give you a spin for VND350k per person which is an absolute must try!

DAY 4️⃣

📍 Po Sah Inu Cham Temple

Spent the rest of the day on the bus to Da Lat

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Da Lat ⛰

Da Lat can be quite chilly in the night so do pack a sweater or outerwear to keep you warm.

🚌 Sleeper Bus from Mui Ne to Da Lat 🚌

The sleeper buses are very basic. If you are slightly taller or bigger in size it might be borderline uncomfortable. The whole journey took about 6 hours as the bus kept stopping along the way in Mui Ne to pick tourists up from different hotels. You will be able to get bus tickets at most hotels in Mui Ne, we got ours one day prior at our hotel for VND200k each.

🏨 Artis Hotel Da Lat - Amazing hotel! Ambience was good and the hotel was very clean. Will Recommend!

DAY 5️⃣

🍔 Still Cafe - Take a picture with Totoro and No face!

📍 Da Lat Old Railway Station

📍 Linh Phouc Temple - You can take an old school train from the railway station to Trai Mat and then walk to the temple. The train leaves at 9.30am daily contrary to the train timetables you can find online. The train staff told us that the other timings were subject to demand and availability.

📍 Clay Tunnel

📍 Da Lat Night Market

DAY 6️⃣

📍 Robin Hill Cable Car - Cheaper to get your tickets via Klook

📍 Truc Lam Monastery

🎢 Datanla Alpine Coaster/ Datanla Waterfall - Cheaper to get your tickets via Klook

📍 Lam Vien Square/ Xuan Huong Lake

📍 Strawberry Farm - This was an impromptu addition hence can’t remember the name of the farm that we went to but there were no more strawberries by the time we went to the farm in the afternoon ☹️

DAY 7️⃣

✈️ Flight back home

Ho Chi Minh City Mũi Né Dalat

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