Mekong Delta 1 day – My Tho & Ben Tre
Program
- 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 view. The first stop is Vinh Trang pagoda, a Buddhist temple near My Tho in the Mekong delta. One of the best- known temples in the region with the front designed in a style that mixes European and Asian architecture.
- Leave Vinh Trang continue the trip on the air-conditionael bus to My Tho. Check on the landcape of coconut trees, board the motoboat at a pier and cruise on the Mekong river. Feel relax to enjoin the cool air and take look the 4 islands : 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.
- After all, rest for a while before going back to Saigon time about 17:00 pm.
Do you want more days to discover Mekong Delta? Check our 2 days and 3 days tour.
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