Mekong Delta 3 days 2 nights

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Ho Chi Minh City - Chau Doc - Vinh Long– Can Tho

Duration: 3 days/2 nights
Start: Upon request
Depart from: Ho Chi Minh City

Itinerary

Cruise along one of the world's mightiest rivers - the Mekong and enjoy a tapestry of sights and sounds, and enjoy a landscape of rice fields, sugar cane, forest and local life.

Day 1: Sai Gon - My Tho - Ben Tre - Chau Doc (Lunch, Dinner)

Morning pick up at hotel. Transfer to My Tho. Take the motorised boat throught the Bao dinh natural canal, view the stilthouses and the fruit platation along the canalsides. Visit the My Tho wholesale fruit market. Proceed to the Toirtoise island. Lunch served in the heart of the orchard. Enjoy the nice boat ride throught the Tan Tach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruise under the shadow of the water coconut trees. Visit the family bussiness where you can eperience the agricultural lifestyle. Trekking through the the fruit paltation in Thoi Son island, enjoy the rowing boat ride on the creeks before returing to My Tho by rowing boat. Proceed to Chau Doc. Check in on arrival. Overnight in our proposed hotel.

Day 2: Chau Doc - Long Xuyen - Can Tho (Beakfast, Lunch)

Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Sam mountain for a birds eye view over the paddy fields towards Cambodia, then visit the Caved pagoda. Take the morning boat trip to visit the floating fish farm and the floating village, the Cham weaving village. Depart for Can Tho via Long Xuyen, visit the insense stick village, the crocodile farm.

Check in on arrival. Free at leisure in the evening to see the Mekong river.
Overnight in your proposed hotel.

Day 3: Phong Dien and Cai Rang floating market – Sai Gon (Beakfast, Lunch)

Breakfast at hotel then take a boat trip to visit the bustling wholesale Cai Rang & Phong Dien floating markets where the farmers exchange their products. Keep cruising through the small canals system- Mighty Mekong River on sampan, roam into the villages to see how the local making the rice paper mill and the rice noodles in their traditional ways. Experience monkey bridge in the Delta. Break time for lunch. Drive back Sai Gon. Stop for visit & rest at the bonsai garden in My Tho. Trip will be finished at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

Trip includes:

• Private A/C car
• English speaking tour guide (other languages speaking tour guide request will be charged more)
• Boat
• Entrance fee
• Hotel accomodation in twin sharing room
• Meals

Trip excludes:

• Other meals not mentioned, personal cost.