Overview

Enjoy your time at the Mekong delta in 2 days. Join some activities at the countryside with the local people. On the first day, you will explore the local island where you can meet a lot of friendly people. And the trip also includes the largest floating market in the Mekong is Cai Rang.

Highlights

Cycling around the island in Cai Thia, visiting the local house and see how they make their traditional product.

Lunch on the Mekong river.

Sampan ride through the small canal – the small boat without engine.

Visit the traditional village.

Cai Rang floating market – the biggest one in the Mekong delta.

Itinerary

Day 1:

We depart from the hotel at 8am and drive about 125km to get to the local boat station in the Mekong delta – Cai Thia. Check in to the boat and head to the island where you will cycling about 6km around the countryside and visit 2 local houses. You will have a good time to talk to them, understand how they make the rice paper and the cake from wheat and condense milk.

You will enjoy lunch on the boat while it moves on the Mekong river, spend almost 2hours relax and watch the local life both side. Then you will take a sampan ride in the small canal, it is very quite and peaceful.

The last stop is at the traditional village where you can see how the local people making pop rice, pop noodle, rice wine and coconut candy.

Back to the car and drive 1 hours to Can Tho city – the biggest city in the Mekong delta.

Stay over night.

You have free time here to explore the city at night and get some local food along the river.

Day 2:

We start around 7:30am by boat to visit the Cai Rang floating market – the biggest floating market left in the Mekong delta. It takes 30 minutes to get there by boat and you can watch the local activities in the morning on the river.

Cai Rang floating market is a natural one and very colorful and busy. You will see people trading good, passing products. Then we will stop at one pineapple boat to let you try fresh pineapple and take some fantastic photos. This is a good opportunity for you too to understand how people live on the boat.

After that, we also visit another local fish market to see how busy it is in the morning.

Last stop in Can Tho is a fruit garden where you can have a little rest, walking around and trying some tropical fruit.

You will go back to the Can Tho city for lunch at the local restaurant.

Tour finish here and we will drive back to Saigon about 3.5 hours.

Price in US Dollars

1 person $380

2 people $227 per person

3 people $219 per person

4 people $199 per person

5-8 people $179 per person

9+ people $160 per person

Price above is valid until the 31/12/2019

Included 

Air – conditioned vehicle with an experienced driver

Lunch at the local restaurant

Hotel in Can Tho, 3*

A nice English – speaking tour guide

All entrance fees

Free mineral water, 2 bottles/day/pax

Excluded

Hotel in Saigon

Insurance

Beverages, guide gratuities and personal expenses

Surcharge in peak season (Christmas & New Year)