Vung Tau Day Trip Escape From Ho Chi Minh City

Vung Tau preserves the feel of a harmonious community of religions, mountains, beaches and architecture, both old and new. It is now a favourite weekend beach escape destination for family vacations from Ho Chi Minh City.Vung Tau was known as Cap Saint-Jacques under French occupation and is just 125 km southeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Once, this seaside resort was a popular beach destination for French and American servicemen, thanks to its sandy beaches and transparent warm blue water all the year round.

At 07:30, you will be picked up from the hotel in HCMC and driven to Vung Tau, traveling by immense rubber and cashew nut plantations, as well as scenic rice fields.

On the way to Vung Tau, you will visit the Large House (Nha Lon) and its temples at Long Son Island. Large House is a place to celebrate festivals, with a school, a market, a Ghe Sam preserving house, and Ong Tran's graveyard. 

Arriving in Vung Tau, the capital of Ba Ria Vung Tau Province, you will visit the White House Palace (a summer residence of the last emperor Bao Dai), offering a wonderful view of thebeach and the city.  You will visit Niet Ban Tinh Xa, Nirvana Meditation Retreat and Thich Ca Phat Dai, a Buddhist shrine. You will also visit a French-built light house and the giant Jesus Christ image as optional choices. 

You will have lunch at Lan Rung restaurant then have swim at the Bai Sau Beach. At 4 pm you will drive back to Saigon where you arrive at around 6 pm.