Mekong Delta – 3 days – My Tho/Ben Tre/Can Tho/Chau Doc/ Cambodia

DAY 1: SAI GON – MY THO – BEN TRE – CAN THO (Lunch)

• 08:00–08:30 am – 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 lanscape 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 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 –  CHAU DOC (Breakfast)

• 6:00 AM having breakfast, then motor boat for sightseeing the Cai Rang Floating Market which is the biggest and most colorful floating market in the Mekong Delta’s region.

  In the very early morning, the river has become a busy commercial site where hundreds of boats packed with fruits, vegetables, plants and foods…line along the river and are ready for trading. Sellers will hang samples of what they are selling on the top of a long pole on their boats so that buyers can see from a distance what sellers are selling.

  After the Cai Rang market, Next, you will roam through the village, see a rice noodles making shop

  and special house.

  Next come to the Purple House and My Khanh tourist village where our group can visit the fruit garden, My Khanh flower garden….

  12:00 You have lunch at My Khanh KDL restaurant. After lunch rest! Then the group visited and learned about Truc Lam Phuong Nam Zen Monastery, built according to the cultural architecture of the Ly – Tran dynasties.

  13:30: Then said goodbye to Can Tho city, the bus take we go to Chau Doc. Over night Chau Doc.

DAY 3 : CHAU DOC – CAMBODIA (Breakfast)

• 6h00: Have breakfast at hotel.

  6h30: Car takes you to Vinh Xuong border gate to complete Cambodian entry procedures.

  7h00: Boat departs for Phnom Penh around 1 p.m., ends tour