PRT-CRL - Mekong Unique Tour

Itinerary

Day 1: DAY 1: SAIGON – VUNG LIEM

Stop At: Vinh Long Night Market, Alley 2 Nguyen Hue, Vinh Long Vietnam
Transfer to Trung Nghia – Vung Liem within 3 hour drive via Bentre and 4 hours through Vinh Long province by your own way. Upon arrival, you will meet our representative and walk to the lodge along countryside path. After just a short walk you will be treated to a welcome drink. Check in and have lunch at lodge’s restaurant

After a chance to rest, you select bicycles for a cycling tour in the afternoon on quiet village roads passing by a duck farm, green rice paddies, sedge field and small villages. Along the way, you visit one of the dragon fruit plantations and taste it directly at the garden. This is a relaxing time with plenty of chances to capture the picturesque Asian sun set scenes. Enjoy the beautiful sunset before reaching to home of Mr. Cong where you watch how he makes pop rice, shows you the blend of traditional and modern agricultural method that sustains the local village. He will reveal the secret of making ‘rice pop’. This unique and nutritious foodstuff will become a gift for locals or children in this idyllic village. Your guide explains how the animals are raised and shows you the way they collect ‘biogas’ to make free and sustainable cooking food. Return to the lodge on your bicycles.

After shower and refresh, you start to walk to neighbor home and enjoy a “poon” lights while traditional musical performance by war veteran artist. Then, experience of traditional torches made of dried coconut leaves to get back restaurant for dinner

You are the chef! A traditional cooking the Vietnamese pancake made. A great learning experience that means you can take a little of Vietnam home with you. Dinner is served at lodge’s restaurant.

Accommodation
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at beautiful local Lodge

Day 2: VUNG LIEM – SAIGON

Stop At: Vinh Long Night Market, Alley 2 Nguyen Hue, Vinh Long Vietnam
After breakfast, loaded boats are already heading to local market and transporting goods such as coconuts from one factory to the other, crossing local ferry to visit local primary school and beautiful Cao Dai temple. We also had a chance to see these factories. Situated alongside the river, these are small coconut-processing operations. Once the coconut has been shelled, the coconut fibers are removed from the husk to make rope, which in turn is used to weave rugs. You can watch the whole manufacturing process in a short period of time. Most of the work is done by hand at the low cost. The buyers are mostly foreign companies and mainly to Korea.

Get on boat and ride back to the Lodge for rest and check out, if time permitted, take some activities as to harvest some water coconut leaves and weave them up by you. These leaves are a key building material in the Mekong Delta as they are used to build the walls and roof of the houses. The local people will show you not only how they use these leaves but also how to make the ‘poon’ sticks that illuminated by the first night. And fishing activity if interested

Check out then back to HCMC, on the way we stop at local restaurant for lunch.

Tour end at hotel in HCMC.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.