The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) welcomed 300 overseas tourists and crew sailing aboard the cruise liner Princess Daphne, which docked at Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh City on Jan. 15.

This is the first second time the Portuguese luxury cruise liner has visited Vietnam .

The visitors, mostly from Australia , will explore popular tourism destinations in HCM City and the Mekong delta city of My Tho , including Ben Thanh market and Cu Chi tunnel.

Princess Dahne is scheduled to leave Vietnam on Jan. 16 and come back the country on Feb. 9 to make five-day a tour of Nha Trang, Ha Long and Da Nang .

In January, Saigontourist received 2,200 arrivals traveling on the cruise liner Costa Classica for a tour of HCM City-Da Nang-Ha Long from Jan. 22-26./.