Mekong Delta 2-Day Small Group Tour from Ho Chi Minh City

Itinerary

Day 1: SAIGON - BEN TRE - CAN THO

Stop At: Ben Tre, Ben Tre, Ben Tre Province, Mekong Delta
8am - Pick up at your hotel in Saigon then take about two hours drive to Ben Tre. On arrival at Hung Vuong pier - the boat will cruise along the Ham Luong river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces to give you a picture of how the local economy works, including a brick-kiln where bricks are still painstakingly made by hand; a coconut processing workshop where you can see how's skillfully and quickly of the peeling coconut-shell worker. And you will know about the different uses of each part in a coconut. Then walking around village and have a short stop at a local house where you can see people weaving mat by a hand loom – you can even have a go at weaving yourself !
You will then ride a bike or hop onto a motorized rickshaw for a 15 km fun ride through the quiet and beautiful country road to Mr Khanh’s house where you can contemplate a antiques pottery collection as well as feel the enthusiasm and hospitality of the people here. Then get back on your bike or your motorized rickshaw to continue your journey to a local restaurant for a delicious lunch with local specialties as elephant-ear fish, river-shrimp and some kind of iced soft-drink or beers. After lunch, it’s time to relaxing on a rowing boat along the natural canals return to big boat and cruise back to Hung Vuong Pier, take a way to Ham Luong, Co Chien ferry for Can Tho. Check in hotel

Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight a 3 stars hotel with double or twin sharing room

Day 2: PHONG DIEN & CAI RANG Floating Market - SAIGON

Stop At: Phong Dien Floating Market, Can Tho 92000 Vietnam
5:30am: roll out of your bed, hop on your car and drive to Phong Dien district (15km)
6:00am: hop on an arrow-boat and cruise to the unique and stunning floating markets of Phong Dien and Cai Rang. What you need to do is to sit back on your boat, enjoy the morning coffee served by the local coffee boat and watch the whole world of trading going on from boats to boats. Phong Dien is smaller in scale and is more of a retailed market with many rowing boats. As our boat edges through the market, you will be surely driven back to the yester-centuries by the sound of bargaining, rowing, motoring mixed with the sound made from the coffee boats, meat boats, grocery boats, ice boats….
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Cai Rang Floating Market, 46 Hai Ba Trung near Cai Rang Bridge, Can Tho 900000 Vietnam
Saying goodbye to Phong Dien floating market, our boat will speed up through green and beautiful channels of the Mekong River stretching along rural villages and arrive in Cai Rang floating market. Here, we enjoy breakfast as style of local people with a bowl of noodle soup which can ordered from local noodle soup boat. Cai Rang is much bigger and is more of wholesaled market with many more big and motored boats. And this will complete a special picture of around a million floating traders in this region who have been happily living the floating life and earning their living on some 50,000km of waterways in the Mekong Delta. Next stop will be a fruit orchard where you can enjoy some kind of tropical fruit and understand more the real life of local people.
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Cai Lay, Cai Lay, Tien Giang Province, Mekong Delta
Get back to your hotel, have a short rest, check out and head off for Saigon (170km) via the highway and the first freeway in Vietnam with breaks en route for a short visit to a local Cao Dai Temple at Cai Lay town - Service ends at your hotel in Saigon at around 16:00pm
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: No accommodation provided