5:30 am Our professional tour guide will pick you up at your hotel in downtown. You then transport to the pier get on the boat. Life jacket on and get ready for a wonderful journey ahead!
Cai Rang - the biggest Floating market of Mekong Delta
On the way to the floating market, our tour guide will introduce some interesting information about Can Tho from its origin till today. A great chance for you to question about our daily life as well as the Mekong Delta people.
Enjoy the juicy and yummy pineapple in the floating market
6:20 am Arrival Cai Rang Floating Market. Experiencing the crowded floating market in the morning and listen to the legendary of a big crocodile will surely surprise you! We believe that this is the right time for having a hot bowl of rice noodle soup served right on the boat as breakfast with a cup of Vietnamese coffee, yummy isn’t it?. This will energize you before a long day being an insider. Not over yet, a pineapple boat is waiting for you to come in and enjoy the juicy and yummy pineapple as dessert.
Learn to make the handmade rice noodle
7:00 am Let’s pay a visit the Rice Noodle Factory where you will learn to make the handmade rice noodle that you has had recently and you will get to know more about one of the famous dishes in the Southwest. After the Rice Noodle Factory, we will pick you up from the Rice Noodle Factory to pay a visit the very next itineraries
Dragon Fruit Farm: Hand-picking the fruit and try it right away, experience the fresh, yummy dragon fruits.
Explore the dragon fruit garden along the river tour
You will experience the charm and beauty of Mekong Delta by sailing along small, green and shady waterways
Small, green and shady waterways
All of the above will truly be memorable memories of your journey. End of station 01.
Receive your bicycle and start a cycling trip from the village
9:30 am After crossing the river by local ferry to the unknown village for tourist,
Receive your bicycle at the rest stop, from the village away from the urban life of the downtown. There will be a place where you are able to attend some interesting activities to truly become an insider and become a ‘master’ in making handicrafts, and knives as well as a professional chef and a mud fisher. And the bicycle which is your main transportation in the village near the ferry station.
10:00 am your first visit will be to the Blacksmith Workshop where you experience the way, local workers, use bomb shells to make agricultural tools and make some handicraft toys from coconut leaf. And yes, your challenge will be making your own toy so be prepared.
11:00 am right after the Blacksmith Workshop you will be cycling around the village from the bumpy to the smoothest road and experience the daily life of local people in the village here and along with their ecosystem of small canals.
Blacksmith Workshop where you experience how the locals bomb shells to make agricultural tools
11:30 am You then stop at a house of a local farmer where you will have a cooking class to make the most traditional cakes of the Southwest such as banh khot, banana cake and jackfruit leave cake, etc. Each cake will have their own stories and our tour guide will be here to explain the meaning of the cakes.
Cooking class to make the most traditional cakes of the Southwest
Hungry after a long ride? Lunch is already prepared with local cuisine at 12:00 noon Bonne petite! After lunch, take a short rest and then you will change your clothes to ‘ao ba ba’- a common dress of farmers in the Mekong Delta and experience the very next activity: mud fishing.
Ready to using all of your energy to catch the fishes
1:30 pm ready for being a Can Tho insider and the Mekong Delta will know how to catch fish by their barehand or with a bamboo tool for catching fish from the pond. Now, it’s time for your turn. This is like the most challenging of the journey today so now is the time to make effort, using all of your energy.
Enjoy how to catch fish by their barehand
2:00 pm End of the mud fishing activity. You will take a shower while the fish that you caught will be grilled so that you can enjoy it afterward.
2:30 pm Move back to the ferry station, our motorbike/minivan will pick you up and transfer to the downtown. On the way back, you will slowly look at the Floating Market with beautiful scenery or simply gossip with your tour guide. And if the time is allowed, we then stop by the rest stop
3:00 pm Arrival downtown. Saying farewell with our tour guide for a wonderful journey to be an insider. Saying “hen gap lai” (see you again!) and stay in mind with an unforgettable memory.