Day 1: SAI GON – SA DEC – AN BINH – CAN THO (L, D)
A charming Island in the Mekong Delta
7:00 am, are you ready to find out why the Mekong Delta is an amazing place to visit?
Our minivan and professional tour guide will pick you up at your hotel to explore this piece of heaven!
What a wonderful day to get rid of the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City and get back to nature. Only located 3 hours away from Ho Chi Minh City, there is a piece of heaven you can’t miss to visit.
10:00 am, Visit Sa Dec Flower Village/Xeo Quyt Forest
Sa Dec Flower village
Later on, we depart for Dong Thap Province on country roads. Perfect moment to catch up on pictures of the busy morning life of our beautiful Mekong Delta with stretching rice fields, vegetable gardens, poultry, and other daily life scenes.
Option 1: The driver then brings you to Sa Dec Flower village where you will deeply understand how important flowers are in this region.
Option 2: Or you can choose to explore the famous beautiful Xeo Quyt forest. Visiting this area, you have a chance to experience exciting moments on the sampan boat weaving into wild narrow canals hidden under layers of green and yellow climbing plants. Let’s imagine how wonderful it is to explore the river tunnels with a system of bomb shelters, and fighting tunnels restored on the basis of ancient traces along with the remaining kitchen, meeting rooms, and bomb holes over there
12:00 Explore a charming Island near Vinh Long City.
Around noon, we will another city named Vinh Long, at a local pier, you will be welcomed by our friendly boat driver and his lovely boat, destination: An Binh Island. You will enjoy a typical lunch on this beautiful island.
At 1:00 pm, you will visit a traditional coconut candy workshop and rice popcorn workshop where they are holding traditional family techniques to produce their goods and trade them on local markets.
Of course, you will also have to opportunity to taste those products right at the production lines along with a Vietnamese coffee or tea! Yummy!
4:00 pm, Depart for Can Tho.
Arrive at your 5 Stars hotel around 4:00 pm, check in and take a short rest before discovering Can Tho City’s Nightlife!
5:30 pm, get ready for the city tour!
5:30 pm, Get ready and we will pick you up at the hotel, begin a city tour on a lovely electric car with amazing local typical street food offered at food stalls and local restaurants in Can Tho town. Visit famous sights of the city such as Old Market, Ong Pagoda, Ninh Kieu Quay, and Food Street. Relax yourself at a local café-music house, where you can enjoy the local drinks and local musical band performance. What a great way to learn quickly and deeper into local culture and traditions through eating and drinking. Come back to your hotel at around 8:30 pm to take a good rest.
Day 2: CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET AND ROWING SUP (B, L, D)
Visit the largest Cai Rang floating market in Vietnam
After breakfast at hotel, we pick you up at 5:30 am then transport to pier, board boat and visit the largest Cai Rang floating market in Vietnam, get to know how people here do trading on river cleverly.
6:00 am time to discover river life with authentic Cai Rang floating market
Arrive at the pier, you will then get on boat to visit Cai Rang floating market, the biggest floating market in Vietnam. What a fantastic experience to explore how the local people are living on their boats as they considered their second home for cooking, sleeping and trading on the river. You are able to catch up many incredible images of their trading times to local vendors. Sometimes you can see the rosters and puppy dogs on their boats as much similar as people who live on land.
Enjoy Vietnamese coffee at the market; climbing up to a fruit boat for enjoying fresh pineapple, so nice!
Visit a local rice noodle factory to learn how Mekong people make noodles by hands in traditional way.
8:30 am: Explore Mekong Delta's Charm
Sail along small, green, and shady waterways
Sail along small, green, and shady waterways, immersing yourself in the enchanting charm and beauty of the Mekong Delta.
9:00 am: Dragon Fruit Garden Exploration
Wander through a local dragon fruit garden and uncover the fascinating cultivation process of this super fruit. From planting to harvesting, relish the opportunity to taste fresh fruit and capture stunning photographs.
A local dragon fruit garden
9:30 am: Return Downtown
Back on the boat, set course for downtown Can Tho, ensuring you soak in the picturesque surroundings on your journey.
10:00 am: Visit the Plant Nursery Village
Explore the vegetable nursery
Explore the vegetable nursery, where skilled locals use ingenious techniques to nurture and trade diverse baby plants. Immerse yourself in the simplicity of their cultivation methods and delve into the rich history of this charming village.
Back to the downtown for enjoy your beautiful lunch at the local Restaurant. Back to the hotel for the short rest
Join the rowing SUP in the Mekong River
2:00 pm Join the rowing SUP/Kayaking trip in magnificent jungle tributaries on the Mekong River and enjoy a relaxing moment paddling under the shade of coconut trees along the riverbank.
Stay overnight in this 5-star hotel,
Enjoy your fabulous dishes from the Mekong Delta, then, get a well-earned rest with all the comfort of a quality hotel, and get ready for the next day
Day 3: CYCLING/MOTORBIKE TOUR – SAI GON (B, L)
The authentic Phong Dien floating market
7:30 am our professional guide and tour assistance will pick you up at your hotel in the downtown by motorbike and be ready for the wonderful trip.
If you have an international driving license, you can feel free to ride the motorbike by yourself, but we would suggest you to let one of our guides be your driver, so you could enjoy all the beautiful scenes around you.
Experience the amazing Vietnamese traffic from the inside, our guide will take you to narrow country roads. Take a deep breath, and enjoy this natural and peaceful environment.
At first you will stop by some of the ancient local attractions in the downtown as Munir Ansay pagoda, Can Tho old market, and after 30 minutes riding motorbike you then getting into narrow roads in the countryside with beautiful landscape green trees cover along the sides until up head, several stops to catch up the images Melong Delta daily life and a great stop at a historical place known by local named special giant Ficus tree (Viet Cong soldiers use to hide there during the war, for training and secret meetings).
Immerse into the Khmer culture at Munir Ansay pagoda
Get onto narrow roads in the countryside with beautiful landscapes green trees
You then get into narrow roads in the countryside with beautiful landscapes and green trees covering the sides until up head, several stops to catch up the images of Mekong Delta daily life, and a great stop at the countryside road.
8:30 am time for the blacksmith workshop
The locals make knives in the traditional way at the blacksmith workshop
You then get into narrow roads in the countryside with beautiful landscapes and green trees covering the sides until up head, several stops to catch up the images of Mekong Delta daily life, and a great stop at the countryside road to enjoy local coffee
Embark on a captivating journey through Can Tho's traditional workshop village, where the ancient crafts of knife-making and vermicelli are homemade. Immerse yourself in the process of making knives traditionally at the blacksmith workshop, witnessing the transformation of raw steel to knives.
Step into the local vermicelli workshop
Then, step into the local vermicelli workshop, where the art of noodle-making unfolds before your eyes. Beyond mere observation, this experience invites you to engage with skilled artisans, learning the intricacies of these time-honored trades. Join us on a cultural odyssey where history, craftsmanship, and tradition converge to create lasting memories.
Enjoy the famous hammock-shaped fine rice vermicelli
10:30 am, time to go back downtown and finish your Can Tho Unique Short River Tour and Motorbike trip!
Finish your wonderful Motorbike trip!
It’s already time to go back to the Hotel and finish your wonderful trip around 10:30 - 11:00 am with lots of unforgettable memories!
Check-out, car transfer back to HCMC
4:00 pm, our minivan will drop you off in Ho Chi Minh City.
Your minivan takes you back to Saigon. Along the way, we visit one of the famous pagodas in Mekong Delta, then stop at a local restaurant to have lunch. You probably arrive back to Sai Gon at around 4:00 pm depending on traffic conditions.