Explore everyday life on the Mekong Delta during this picturesque visit to Can Tho city, and a boat ride on the lower branch of Mekong River. Visit the famous Cai Rang floating market where hundreds of boats trade daily, and stop by a local boat for breakfast "Bun". Biking through the lush countryside and villages of Ba Lang, stop by the local farmer's house for fruit tasting and tea talk. Lunch at a local restaurant with a selected Mekong set menu with special dishes.
12 hours, from US$265pp
Operated in Small Group
Private tour available on request
JOURNEY
Overview
Overview
Explore everyday life on the Mekong Delta during this picturesque visit to Can Tho city, and a boat ride on the lower branch of Mekong River. Visit the famous Cai Rang floating market where hundreds of boats trade daily, and stop by a local boat for breakfast “Bun”. Biking through the lush countryside and villages of Ba Lang, stop by the local farmer’s house for fruit tasting and tea talk. Lunch at a local restaurant with a selected Mekong set menu with special dishes.
JOURNEY
Highlights
- Leave the city behind and cruise through the fertile Mekong Delta.
- See the traditional methods of making rice paper at the floating house
- Enjoy an up-close view of Cai Rang floating market only accessible by boat.
- Savor a traditional breakfast at one of the breakfast boats at the floating market
- Visit the famous Cai Rang floating market
- Bike the lush greeneries, visit the local family for fruits and snacks
- Lunch at a nice local Mekong restaurant with special dishes
Highlights
- Leave the city behind and cruise through the fertile Mekong Delta.
- See the traditional methods of making rice paper at the floating house
- Enjoy an up-close view of Cai Rang floating market only accessible by boat.
- Savor a traditional breakfast at one of the breakfast boats at the floating market
- Visit the famous Cai Rang floating market
- Bike the lush greeneries, visit the local family for fruits and snacks
- Lunch at a nice local Mekong restaurant with special dishes
JOURNEY
Itinerary
Explore everyday life on the Mekong Delta during this picturesque visit to Can Tho, and a boat ride on the Mekong River. Depart your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City for the 2.5-hour drive to Can Tho. Along the way, you will pass through miles of flat rice fields, small villages, and highways bustling with bicycles and oxcarts riding to and from the market. You will have numerous photo opportunities to capture life in the country, including rice threshing and milling, vegetables drying on the flat, hot roadside, and children caring for their water buffalo. Passing the 2 famous bridges that Australians built – My Thuan Bridge and Japanese – Can Tho Bridge before reaching the capital city of the Mekong Delta region.
Upon arrival at Can Tho, located in the heart of the Mekong Delta, board your private charter boat, you will see the century-old floating market, where people living along the canals exchange goods from their boats and display their wares on long bamboo poles protruding from the ship. Along the way cruising to Cai Rang, is a French-built church that provides a scenic background for more photo opportunities.
Next, you will continue exploring the highlight of the day on two wheels: a chance to discover the day-to-day life of the friendly locals living along the Mekong River. Your biking guide will take you through a maze of canals, past many boats, and on to one of the many islands in the Delta to visit the traditional homes of fruit farmers and fishermen.
You will stroll in a mandarin orchard, and visit an ancient teakwood house located within the orchard. You will be treated warmly by locals offering tea and garden fruits, then see where they make coconut candies and rice paper (subject to the day and weather). After 7 km or 12 km of biking, you will take the private transfer back to town, have lunch, and rejoin your air-conditioned vehicle for the 2.5-hour return drive to the hotel.
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Itinerary
Explore everyday life on the Mekong Delta during this picturesque visit to Can Tho, and a boat ride on the Mekong River. Depart your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City for the 2.5-hour drive to Can Tho. Along the way, you will pass through miles of flat rice fields, small villages, and highways bustling with bicycles and oxcarts riding to and from the market. You will have numerous photo opportunities to capture life in the country, including rice threshing and milling, vegetables drying on the flat, hot roadside, and children caring for their water buffalo. Passing the 2 famous bridges that Australians built – My Thuan Bridge and Japanese – Can Tho Bridge before reaching the capital city of the Mekong Delta region.
Upon arrival at Can Tho, located in the heart of the Mekong Delta, board your private charter boat, you will see the century-old floating market, where people living along the canals exchange goods from their boats and display their wares on long bamboo poles protruding from the ship. Along the way cruising to Cai Rang, is a French-built church that provides a scenic background for more photo opportunities.
Next, you will continue exploring the highlight of the day on two wheels: a chance to discover the day-to-day life of the friendly locals living along the Mekong River. Your biking guide will take you through a maze of canals, past many boats, and on to one of the many islands in the Delta to visit the traditional homes of fruit farmers and fishermen.
You will stroll in a mandarin orchard, and visit an ancient teakwood house located within the orchard. You will be treated warmly by locals offering tea and garden fruits, then see where they make coconut candies and rice paper (subject to the day and weather). After 7 km or 12 km of biking, you will take the private transfer back to town, have lunch, and rejoin your air-conditioned vehicle for the 2.5-hour return drive to the hotel.
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Dates & Prices
INCLUSIONS
* Pick up and drop off from the hotel, applied for those hotels in districts 1 and 3
* Round-trip transfer by comfortable air-conditioned vehicle with cold mineral bottled water
* Experienced English-speaking tour guide escort throughout the tour
* Private charter boat for Mekong River cruise to visit the famous floating market
* Breakfast on boat “Bun” or “Hu tieu” with drinks
* Seasonal fruits and snacks during the biking trip of 7 km or 12 km
* A Vietnamese set lunch at a nice local restaurant with 1 unit of drink, a local beer, soft drink, or mineral water
EXCLUSIONS
* Personal shopping and other expenses on liqueur, cigarette, food, drinks not metioned in inclusions
* Gratuities for your driver and tourguide
As this suggested itinerary can be personalized to your specific requirements, it is also available for online booking, just click “Book Now” button. Depending on your preferred dates and group size arrangements, final pricing will vary from low-season to peak-season travel.
Dates & Prices
INCLUSIONS
* Pick up and drop off from the hotel, applied for those hotels in districts 1 and 3
* Round-trip transfer by comfortable air-conditioned vehicle with cold mineral bottled water
* Experienced English-speaking tour guide escort throughout the tour
* Private charter boat for Mekong River cruise to visit the famous floating market
* Breakfast on boat “Bun” or “Hu tieu” with drinks
* Seasonal fruits and snacks during the biking trip of 7 km or 12 km
* A Vietnamese set lunch at a nice local restaurant with 1 unit of drink, a local beer, soft drink, or mineral water
EXCLUSIONS
* Personal shopping and other expenses on liqueur, cigarette, food, drinks not metioned in inclusions
* Gratuities for your driver and tourguide
As this suggested itinerary can be personalized to your specific requirements, it is also available for online booking, just click “Book Now” button. Depending on your preferred dates and group size arrangements, final pricing will vary from low-season to peak-season travel.
