EXPLORE THE MEKONG DELTA
Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
Destination: Ben Tre – Chau Doc – Can Tho
Mekong delta 3 days tour is a special one in the Southern of Viet Nam. Floating market to enjoy purchasing activities on boats in Cai Be, Vinh Long, Cai Rang in early morning is a unique cultural character just only in southern Viet Nam and Mekong Delta. Cruising on boat along the river is the ideal way for you to learn more about daily life of local people and handicraft villages along the Mekong River. For those who wish to enjoy Mekong Delta by another way, cycling tour 3 days combines cycling on roads to discover traditional villages with rice paddies, fruits gardens, sugar canes, and islands attractively
Itinerary in brief:
- Day 1: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre – Chau Doc (L D)
- Day 2: Chau Doc – Long Xuyen – Can Tho (B L D)
- Day 3: Visit Phong Dien – Cai Rang Floating market – Ho Chi Minh (B L)
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre – Chau Doc (LD)
Am: In the morning, our guide and driver welcome you leave Ho Chi Minh for My Tho province. Today you will have a time to experience of rowing boat through channels in Mekong Delta for Firstly you will take a boat trip through the Bao Dinh natural canal with traditional stilt houses and fruit garden houses. My Tho is also known as a prosperous town of 170,000 inhabitants in the Mekong delta. It is famous for its extensive orchards and immense rice fields. You will have chance to visit My Tho wholesale fruit market by purchasing activity of variety tropical fruits. Then you will proceed to Tortoise Island to taste lunch in the heart of the orchard.
Pm: We continue enjoying a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruising under the shadows of the water coconut trees. Visit a family business, which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle. After trekking through the fruit plantations on Thoi Son Island, enjoy a rowing boat ride along the creeks before returning to My Tho by motor boat. Next we will proceed to Chau Doc by car where we have an overnight. Check in on arrival. You will go on visiting the Sam Mountain and the caved pagoda. It is a chance to enjoy the sunset over the Vietnamese – Cambodian Frontier. Have dinner at restaurant. Overnight in hotel.
Inclusion: Transport, English guide, entrance fees, local boat, lunch, dinner, hotel
Day 2: Chau Doc – Long Xuyen – Can Tho (BLD)
Am: Have breakfast at hotel. Today you will get up early to make a boat trip to visit the floating fish farm. You will have chance to listen to a plenty of sounds as well as see colors and smells of morning activities of local people here. One of the specialties of Mekong delta is floating fish farm on river. Most family has house floating on river and raise fishes for earning their life. Then we will go on discovering the ethnic Cham weaving village. After that, you depart for Can Tho. On the way pass through Long Xuyen and visit the Bang Lang bird sanctuary, the incense stick village and the crocodile farm. Have lunch in restaurant.
Pm: Along the way from Long Xuyen to Can Tho you will have chance to see more the colorful of fruit garden in Mekong delta provinces. On arrival Can Tho, check in hotel. Have dinner cruise on Bassac River – or Lower Mekong River. Overnight in hotel.
Inclusion: Transport, English guide, entrance fees, local boat, breakfast, lunch, dinner, hotel
Day 3: Visit Phong Dien – Cai Rang Floating market – Back to Ho Chi Minh (BL)
Am: After having breakfast, in this morning we will start for a boat trip to Phong Dien floating markets and get your own feeling to take part in or see purchase activity in the floating market with a plenty of local fruits and other goods, which has special character of local people in the delta. Keep cruising through the small channels system, stopping off to visit a rice noodle-making village. An experience to go over the ”Monkey Bridge” – a special covering building over channels throughout the Mekong Delta. Then you will visit the second floating market Cai Rang. You will have lunch at restaurant.
Pm: Then the driver will transfer you to leave Can Tho and return Ho Chi Minh city. Along the way via Vinh Long you can stop to visit local snake market where you can see local people buy and sell variety of snakes and learn more people here. You are back Ho Chi Minh city at around 6.00 pm. Drop you off hotel in Ho Chi Minh. Tour ends at your hotel.
Inclusion: Transport, English guide, entrance fee, local boat, breakfast, lunch
Price: USD$/person
| Size of group | 1 person | 2 persons | 4 persons | 6 persons | 8 persons | Single Supplement |
| Hotel 2 stars | 462 | 258 | 196 | 160 | 142 | 30 |
| Hotel 3 stars | 522 | 288 | 226 | 190 | 172 | 56 |
| Hotel 5 stars | 747 | 404 | 342 | 306 | 288 | 151 |
Included: All mentioned in itinerary details
Excluded: Travel insurance, drinks, items of a personal nature, tips and gratitude
What to bring: Passport with a valid visa, sun hat, sunglasses, sun cream, insect repellent, good shoes, camera with lots of films.
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