Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights, ton of memorable moments in this authentic area with an impressive hospitality from our locals.
This Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights will take you to the coconut kingdom (Ben Tre), the rice kingdom & also the largest city in Mekong Delta (Can Tho), biggest local floating market - Cai Rang market, fermented fish sauce kingdom (Chau Doc), Tra Su cajeput forest.
On the Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights, we ensure that you will be amazed by lots of local activities such as visiting a honey bee farm, a coconut candy workshop, exploring an agricultural life and how locals trading goods on Cai Rang floating market , try the real taste of local cuisine etc …
Let VN Bike Tour bring you many unforgetable moments in this authentic area with an impressive hospitality from our locals only on the Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights tour.
ITINERARY:
Day 1: Saigon – My Tho – Can Tho (L)
- 8:00 am, VN Bike Tour guide will pick up at your place for Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights. After around 2 hours driving from Saigon, you will reach My Tho city where is known for the gorgeous beauty of Vietnamese women, the lush orchard gardens stretching far as the eye, and the melody of “Đờn ca tài tử" – a kind of traditional folk music is also officially regconized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- Firstly, you will take leisurely cruise on the Tien river to visit 4 islets which are represented as four mythical animals in Southeast Asia: Dragon, Kirin, Tortoise, Phoenix. At Kirin islet, you will try the freshly barked handmade coconut candy, visit honey bee farm to try some specialty products, then walk through the orchard garden to taste some seasonal tropical fruits and listen to the folk music which is an indispensible spiritual cultural activity in locals’ life.
- Furthermore, you can relax on the rowing boat going through a mangrove palm canal, and continue to ride by horse-drawn carriage through the village as the way locals did in the 19th century.
- And then to reach the beautiful riverside restaurant for having lunch with specialties of Mekong Delta's cuisine.
- Finally, you will cruise back to the mainland, go straight to Can Tho city - not only known as a rice kingdom but also as the biggest city in Mekong, it's also fun to explore that night city after having dinner at the hotel.
Day 2: Cai Rang floating market (Can Tho) – Tra Su cajeput forest (Chau Doc) (B / L)
- You have 2 options meeting up with the guide at 5 am or 7 am.
- If you choose 5am, then you can have a breakfast after coming back to your hotel from the floating market. If you choose 7am, you should have breakfast before meeting the guide.
- For the clearly information, even though Cai Rang Floating Market is open all day but the perfect time to catch real lively scenery is around 6 am. And the most colorful time is absolutely during the time of 1 or 3 weeks before the Lunar New Year.
- It takes about 30’ for cruising along Hau river from Ninh Kieu wharf, you surely have freedom to try any tropical fruits, drinks or even hot rice noodle soup which is called “hu tieu” as your light breakfast, just as the way “Master Chef “ Gordon Ramsay was recommended.
- After that, you will visit the chewy noodle workshop to learn more about other kind of Vietnamese noodles. To know is to admire locals’ creation while they can make many versions of food from rice. Especially, you never get a second chance try unique noodles pizza somewhere else but only in this town.
- Then to visit the noodle workshop, continue to have a relaxing walk in the huge ecological orchard garden to try fresh fruits out there.
- Next, check out and go straight to An Giang province – is known as a fermented fish kingdom and also the small minority of Cham people. Over there, you can relax at the nice atmosphere crocodile farm, maybe try some specialty crocodile dishes.
- Later, you don’t need to wait more for an absolutely unforgettable boating time at Tra Su cajeput forest with diversity of flora and fauna, it is already famous as a home place of 70 kinds of birds. This forest is a perfect spot for people who are truly a nature lover or researcher.
- Check-in a hotel in Chau Doc town, after dinner time, our tour guide will show you the best spiritual place in the South of Vietnam, at the foot of Sam mountain which is surrounded with many interesting and myths around it.
Day 3: Chau Doc – Phnom Penh (Cambodia) or Phu Quoc Island or Saigon (B / L )
- At 6 am, after having breakfast, you will visit a big local fish farm and a traditional handicraft workshop at a Cham village.
- Finally, Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights provide 3 options for you to choose:
Travel to Cambodia: Finish the tour after sending you off at speed boat gate transfer to Phnom Penh.
Travel to Phu Quoc island (Kien Giang province): Finish the tour after sending you off Ha Tien wharf to the island. The tour guide will send you off at speed boat gate transfer to Phnom Penh.
Come back to Saigon (it takes 6 hours on road): During the way back, you will have a lunch time at local restaurant before arriving to Saigon.
Finish Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights tour. VN Bike Tour hope to see you again!