Mekong Delta Trip: Ben Tre & Can Tho ( 2 days 1 nights)

8: 00 am: Our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. You leave Saigon to My Tho city, about 75km, 1h30 by freeway, this is the first freeway in the South of Vietnam. An unforgettable way of seeing the Mekong Delta is driving along the provincial Roads down on the Southern Region of Vietnam through the Paddy rice fields, orchards and small hamlets. 

On arrival in My Tho city, you’ll take a local motor boat, cross the Mekong River (the biggest River in Asia, through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, its length about 4.800km long). You enjoy fresh coconut juice on the boat. Your first visit at Unicorn island where you taste the natural pure honey bee, bee pollen and Royal jelly bee. Your second visit by boat is in Ben Tre where you can see how the local people make coconut candy. This is a special product in the Ben Tre province. Walking on the village, then you take the local vehicles (Tuk Tuk or or the Horse Carriage) about 1,5km around the village. Upon arrival at the Garden, you can eat the tropical fruits such as pine-apple, water melon, longan, royal bananas. You listen to traditional folk music, called “Cai Luong”. Next, you take a sampan, rowing boat by hand, about 2km, you can discover the rural daily life of local people inside the water coconut tree jungle. You have lunch at Mien Tay Riverside restaurant with the special food such as the “Elephant Ear fish:,..ect. Back to harbor . Pick up and transfer for Can Tho city, about 2 hours. Check in at your hotel. Take a look at Can Tho Night market. Night in Can Tho city.

Early in the morning, the tour guide meets you at your hotel. You are transferred by boat to visit the Cai Rang floating market (about 50 minutes from your hotel) where you can see the products hung on the bole of the boat. The local people just only sell and buy the tropical fruits at a cheap price. Next, you visit a factory where people make rice noodles. Say goodbye to Can Tho city. Drive back to Sai Gon. Drop you off at your hotel in Sai Gon. End of services.