DAY 1: SAI GON – MY THO – BEN TRE – CAN THO (Lunch)
- 8h-8h30 in the morning: Pick up at your hotel ( in center) going to Ben Tre province. On the way heading to Ben Tre, the sceneries are slowly switch from the busy city to peaceful sceneries. The first stop is Vinh Trang pagoda, a Buddhist temple near My Tho in the Mekong delta region of Sounthern Vietnam, one of the best- known temples in the region with the front of the temple is designed in a style that mixes European and Asian architecture.
- Leave Vinh Trang continue the trip on the air-conditionaed bus to My Tho, the landscape of coconut trees, board the moto boat at a pier and cruise on the Mekong river, feel relax to enjoin the cool air and take look the 4 islans : Dragon, Phoenix, Unicon and Turtle island. Reaching the first stop after the motoboat trip, it’s the Bee Farm in which you have chance to see how the locals collect honey. With others taste honey tea and some tropical fruits depend on season ( included). The next, we invite you to listen Vietnam traditional music, the songs written base on their daily life.
- The trip is continuing, you go under the shades of trees, get on rowling boat – the almost locals’s main transportation going among villages on river, pass through natural creeks. When you feel enough for the serenity, we will take you to a village where you can smell the flavor of coconut candies being made mamy miles away To satisfied your cutiosity, the locals will introduce then show you the proceed of making candies from coconut since collecting ingredients to finishing with samples come out. Besides, it’s interesting making rice papers showed up as well while the curiosity is still lasting.
- Take horse-car going around the villege to restaurant for lunch. Afterward, relax and enjoin the laze in a hammock.
- Back on the water, continue by bus to Can Tho.. Here, will be 2 options for accomodation:
- Stay in guess house/hotel ( included, the hotel level coule be changed as personal requested )
- Stay in homestay: Cooking and having dinner with locals ( dinner included as option)
Feel free relax and discover the “capital of the South West of Vietnam” at night
DAY 2 : CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET – SAI GON (Breakfast)
- 07:00-07:30 am – Pick up at your hotel /homestay going to Cai Rang floating market, it is said that “not being in Cai Rang floating market means not knowing the land of Tay Do – an old name of Can Tho”, one of the famous floating markets of the Southwest, specializes in selling fruits and agricultural products of the whole region.
Every early morning, hundred boats gather together where their owners start to sell agri – products. To be recognized easily, they hang out product samples on a long bamboo (called Cay Beo) in front of the boats, so that they do not need to cry their wares as in mainland market. You will have chance to enjoin the cool air on the river, melt yourself in the air of local’s trading .
- When you feel enough for the bustling, we will take you to a village where locals make rice noodle . To satisfied your cutiosity, the locals will introduce then show you the proceed of making it from collecting ingredients to finishing with samples come out.
- After all, rest for a while before going back to Saigon time about 17:00 pm.
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