Ho Chi Minh City Trip Overview
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho – Homestay (-/L/D)
Day 2: Homestay – Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh City (B/L/-)
Travel along the Mekong and the natural network of canals by motor boat and sampan under the shadows of water coconut trees. Taste seasonal fruits right from the orchard, meet friendly locals, and visit the region’s lively floating markets and enjoy local life !
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho – Homestay (-/L/D)
Day 2: Homestay – Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh City (B/L/-)
Travel along the Mekong and the natural network of canals by motor boat and sampan under the shadows of water coconut trees. Taste seasonal fruits right from the orchard, meet friendly locals, and visit the region’s lively floating markets and enjoy local life !
Itinerary
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City to My Tho Ben Tre and Can Tho Homestay
Stop At: My Tho, My Tho, Tien Giang Province, Mekong Delta
This morning, 8:30AM – your tour guide and private car will pick you up at your hotel and depart for My Tho City, the Capital of Tien Giang (Front River) province. Once here, you’ll take a boat ride over to Unicorn Island, one of the four lucky islands.
On this island you will see daily activities of the local people along tributaries of river and enjoy some typical produces of the Mekong Delta such as tropical candies, fresh fruits (depend on the season) and enjoy folk song.
Next, enjoy a ride on hand–rowing sampans that will take you along the small canals. You will enjoy a stop to try your hand at making coconut candy. Next, you will be taken in a horse-drawn carriage to the village’ s roads and taken to a local restaurant where you will enjoy a delicious lunch of local specialties like Tai Tuong fried fish, spring rolls, and fresh shrimp.
After lunch, enjoy a short walk on the village’s trail which will lead you past local houses, you will stop at one local house where you can taste fresh coconut milk at coconut garden with short coconut trees so you can pick yourself.
Head back along the trail and on the way back, visit Vinh Trang Pagoda. Then continue to Can Tho, the main town of the Mekong Delta. We are check in Homestay and have dinner. Free time for enjoy local life. Overnight at Homestay.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Free time for enjoy local life. Overnight at Homestay.
Day 2: Can Tho to Ho Chi Minh City
Stop At: Cai Rang Floating Market, 46 Hai Ba Trung Near Cai Rang Bridge, Can Tho 900000 Vietnam
After breakfast, Private Boat pick up at Homestay to visit Cai Rang floating market (a biggest floating market in Mekong Delta) then to visit “Ba Cong” garden, witness the rural life and the beautiful vegetation along the riverbanks. Back the land, Discover Binh Thuy Ancient house, the house is filled with features that represent rural areas in the Mekong Delta region during the 19th century. The French-style house was built in 1870 by the Duong family on an area of nearly 6,000 sq m. Its base is about one metre higher than the land surface. Binh Thuy ancient house has been captured in many films such as “The silt ways,” “The Bac Lieu mandarin’s son” and “The lover” of French director J. Annaud.
Drive back to Saigon. On the way, have lunch at a local restaurant. Arrival Ho Chi Minh about 16:30. Tour the end
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Binh Thuy Ancient House, 144 Bui Huu Nghia, Binh Thuy, Can Tho 92000 Vietnam
the house is filled with features that represent rural areas in the Mekong Delta region during the 19th century. The French-style house was built in 1870 by the Duong family on an area of nearly 6,000 sq m. Its base is about one metre higher than the land surface. Binh Thuy ancient house has been captured in many films such as “The silt ways,” “The Bac Lieu mandarin’s son” and “The lover” of French director J. Annaud.
Duration: 45 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.
