Mekong Delta Tour
Hi Ngoc! How are you?
Thanks for your e-mail, I wish that all members of Amo Travel are fine. As we talked on the phone, I want to inform you that we was very happy with the Mekong Delta Tour which you had made for us. Our guide was very nice and fitting in with each our demand because we traveled with 2 children. We was very satisfied. Bravo!
Certainly, we will remind you if we return to travel in Asia in the future and we will your agency with my friends. They had heard the wonderful things that we’ve seen in Vietnam! ; -))
A warm greeting from Italy and see you soon.
Group: Ms.Elena di Natale
Travel date: 14/8/2016 – 16/8/2016
Travel style: Classic and local life
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Saigon – Ben Tre – Cai Be (-/L/-)
Breakfast at hotel. 08.00. After breakfast, transfer to Mekong Delta – considered the “rice paddle of Vietnam”. Come to My Tho town to visit Temple of Caodaism, a religion founded in Vietnam in 1925 that combines Confucianism, Taosimo and Buddhism.
Cross the Rach Mieu Bridge, the longest in South Vietnam. Arrive in Ben Tre where you board for an excursion on the Ben Tre River – one of the main tributaries of the Mekong River.
During the journey you have the opportunity to admire the lively local activities, the fishing along the river, the functionality of the irrigation channels … Stop in a furnace of Mr. Tu Lo to observe traditional brickwork in molds and baking. Visit, along the canal, of one of the many coconuts processing workshops. Stop by a family for tea and fruit in place. With a taxi ride (Xe Loi) or a bike ride we go through local nature: groves, fields of green rice paddies and verdure cultures, a real approach to local farming life. Lunch at the local restaurant.
After lunch, you will continue cycling to Mr.Sau Khanh – a famous antique collector in Ben Tre. You are invited to visit his house with hundred antique pieces from Vietnam as well as another Asian country, the wall in the housed is fully decorated with his family photos and you could also visit the backyard garden and finally he could show you how to climb up the tree to collect coconuts. The last activity, you could take a sampan ride along canal, before boat back to Ham Luông pier.
Transfer to Can Tho. Free dinner and overnight at hotel in Can Tho.
Day 2: Cai Be – Cai Be floating market – Can Tho (-/L/-)
Breakfast at hotel. Depart your hotel to Cai Be Floating Market, upon arrival, you are welcomed by local tour-guide and embark your private boat to discover the beauty of Cai Be floating market with local people being selling, buying, exchanging goods from their boats. Then continue trip to visit local cottages where you could learn how local peoples make Coconut Candy and products made from Coconut Trees, Pop-corm, Pop Rice, distilling local banana rice wine, visit orchard garden and discover the daily activities of the local people.
Lunch is at your own and enjoys Vietnamese traditional music.
Continue your boat ride along the Mekong River to Vinh Long – a center of tropical fruit, farewell to local tour-guide, pick-up by driver then transfer to Cho Lach. Arrive at Jardine du Mekong where you could relax and visit village, fruit garden and contact local people, go fishing, collect vegetable to prepare for cook before join the Cooking Class to make “rice pancake” and dinner with home hosted family.
Transfer to Can Tho and overnight at your hotel in Can Tho.
Giorno 3: Can Tho – Cai Rang floating market – Saigon (-/-/-)
Breakfast at hotel. 06.30. Checking out of your hotel in the morning, you start boarding out to visit Cai Rang floating market by an motorized boat. This is definitely the time for you to capture every single moments of life with the views of colorful boats laden with fruits and vegetables. There will be an stopover at a Bun Tau noodle factory and a rice husking mill. There, you can even try passing one of many fragile monkey bridges along the canals.
You will leave Can Tho and start moving back to Saigon (around 3.5 hour driving).