Saigon
& The South

Arrival · District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Arrive Saigon · The Reverie · Welcome Dinner at Anan Saigon

Touch down at Tan Son Nhat International, where your Mosaico private transfer is waiting — twenty minutes through the city's pulse to The Reverie Saigon, opposite the Saigon Opera House on Nguyen Hue boulevard. Settle in to a Reverie Suite — custom Visionnaire furniture, hand-cut Italian marble, Murano-glass chandeliers — then descend to the lobby for a brief turn through the Times Square Building before walking ten minutes to dinner. The Welcome Dinner is at Anan Saigon — Vietnam's first Michelin-starred restaurant by chef Peter Cuong Franklin, where banh mi and pho appear in their most refined possible expressions, paired with the city's most celebrated cocktail programme upstairs at the Nhau Nhau bar.

Saigon · Colonial Heart & Cholon

Historic Walking Tour & Cholon Cyclo Afternoon

A full day with a private historian guide. Morning walk through the colonial quarter — Notre Dame Cathedral (her two square towers anchoring the city since 1880), the Saigon Central Post Office (designed by Gustave Eiffel's firm, still operating as Vietnam's most beautiful post office), Reunification Palace (the moment the war ended, preserved exactly as April 30, 1975), and the War Remnants Museum. Lunch at a celebrated bistro on Pasteur Street.

Afternoon, a private cyclo tour through Cholon — the city's centuries-old Chinatown, the largest in Vietnam. Thien Hau Pagoda's incense coils descend from the ceiling like upside-down forests; the Binh Tay Market hums with herbal medicine, dried seafood and Cantonese cooking. A quiet sunset cocktail at the Saigon Saigon Rooftop Bar — the same balcony from which war correspondents filed copy in 1975, today the most atmospheric rooftop in District 1.

Round One · Saigon by Night

Twin Doves Golf · Saigon Vespa Food Tour

A morning round at Twin Doves Golf Club — Ronald Fream's design forty-five minutes northeast of the city, four-time host of the Faldo Series Vietnam, and arguably the most playable championship-grade course in the south. The routing winds through three lakes and matures pine; the conditioning is the best in the region. Lunch at the clubhouse, then return to the Reverie for the afternoon — a private session at the spa, perhaps the rooftop pool overlooking the Saigon River.

Evening, the Saigon Vespa food tour — the iconic Saigon experience, in its private-luxury version. Two riders, two Vespas, six stops curated by your guide: a hidden alleyway com tam, a riverside seafood shack, a fourth-floor banh xeo specialist, a thirty-year-old dessert house, a craft cocktail bar in a 1930s villa, and a final pho ga stop at midnight. The city, at its loudest and best.

Mekong Delta · Cai Be

Mekong Luxury Day · Mandarin's House Lunch

An early start for the two-hour drive south to Cai Be — the most authentic of the Mekong Delta towns, far enough from Saigon to escape the day-tripper crowds. Your private wooden sampan with onboard chef and host glides through the floating market, then turns up a narrow channel between water coconut palms to the artisan villages: a family rice-paper workshop, a coconut candy producer, a bonsai grower's private gardens. Lunch at the Ut Trinh Homestay — an ancestral 19th-century mandarin's wooden house, perfectly preserved, where six generations of the same family have served visitors a long Mekong-style lunch under the rosewood beams. Afternoon return to Saigon and a quiet evening at the hotel.

Cu Chi · Cao Dai · Saigon Tea Master

Cu Chi Tunnels, Cao Dai Noon Prayer & Private Tea Ceremony

A pre-dawn departure for Cu Chi — the underground tunnel network from which the Viet Cong waged the war, today preserved as one of Vietnam's most extraordinary historical sites. With your private historian guide and an early arrival, you tour without the crowds; descent into the tunnels is optional but worth doing once. Continue ninety minutes northwest to Tay Ninh and the Cao Dai Holy See — the cathedral of the syncretic Vietnamese religion combining Buddhism, Catholicism, Taoism and Confucianism into a single stunning theological mosaic, with the eye of God painted on every column. The noon prayer at Cao Dai is one of the great visual spectacles of Asia: hundreds of white-robed worshippers in formation, the chanting, the architecture itself a riot of pastel arches and dragon-wrapped pillars.

Late afternoon return to Saigon for a private tea ceremony with a respected tea master in his District 3 residence — a guided tasting of high-mountain Vietnamese teas, the lineage of each garden, and the meditative rituals that frame Vietnamese tea culture. A quiet final dinner at La Maison 1888's Saigon counterpart or a return to the Reverie's terrace.

Round Two · Transfer to the Coast

Vietnam Golf & Country Club · Drive to Ho Tram

A morning round at Vietnam Golf & Country Club — the East Course, Lee Trevino's 1994 design, the historic anchor of southern Vietnam golf. Twin lakes, mature tropical landscaping, and a routing that has hosted the Vietnam Open more times than any other course in the country. Lunch at the clubhouse, then your private transfer continues southeast through the rubber plantations and along the new coastal expressway to the InterContinental Grand Ho Tram — opened 2023 on a private kilometre of South China Sea beach. Evening at the resort: the cliffside infinity pool, sunset on the beach, dinner at the Italian restaurant overlooking the surf.

Round Three · The Bluffs Ho Tram

The Bluffs — Greg Norman · World Top 100 · Farewell Dinner

The headline round. The Bluffs Ho Tram is Greg Norman's links masterpiece — opened 2014 on the dunes directly above the South China Sea, ranked among the World's Top 100 Courses, and ranked Vietnam's #1 by Golf Digest, GolfWeek and Top 100 Golf Courses simultaneously. The setting is improbable: ten of the eighteen holes play directly along the cliff edge above the sea, the back nine climbs into hundred-foot dunes that recall Pebble Beach more than tropical Asia, and the conditioning is to USGA championship spec. There is genuinely nothing else like it on the Asian coast.

A long lunch at the clubhouse with views back across the eighteenth, then return to the InterContinental for the afternoon. The Grand Farewell Dinner is at the resort's signature Vietnamese restaurant — a tasting menu of southern coastal cuisine, paired with Vietnamese teas and a final cocktail on the beachside terrace as the stars come out over the South China Sea.

Departure · Return to Saigon

Leisure Morning & Onward Travel

A leisurely final morning. Late breakfast at the InterContinental, time on the beach or a final session at the spa. Private transfer back to Tan Son Nhat International (around two and a half hours via the coastal expressway) for your onward flight. Mosaico's concierge is at your side until check-in.