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7:30 AM Pick you up at our office at : 177 De Tham, District 1, or at your hotel in District 1 before heading to My Tho city .
Enjoy the scenery and green rice paddies during the one and a half hour by air-conditioned bus. Along the way, we will visit Vinh Trang pagoda, the biggest pagoda in the Mekong delta.
Continue to My Tho, where we take a boat trip along the Mekong River, where you can see fish cages and floating houses on the river (viewing from the motorboat).
Afterward, being on a small hand-rowing boat (the main mean of transportation in My Tho & Ben Tre) and slowly cruising through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Lives from both sides of the creek can be observed escaping the hustle and bustle of the town. We disembark at a coconut island in Ben Tre heading to learn coconut candies making process from a workshop Check out the coconut candy shop and learn how to make candy, and see handicrafts made from the coconuts, Sample of candies can be tasted and enjoy a walk around the village.
Continuing the journey on the river until reaching Cồn Thới Sơn (Unicorn Island), from here taking a Motor car to reach a performance site where Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca TàiTử - A folk art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) can be heard and seasonal tropical fruit can be tasted (included).
Take your time snapping photos and enjoy the natural scenery before we head to the local restaurant., Before heading to lunch, passing through bee-keeping farm and enjoying honey tea, a typical Mekong house can be viewed here. Then, it is lunch time after a short walk.
12:30 PM Enjoy your lunch is set with special Vietnamese food outside under the shade of the trees.
After lunch, enjoy your time relaxing, walking around the village, or perhaps going for a short bike ride
around the village on the Island, then travel by ferry and bus to Can Tho, the heart of Mekong Delta.
18:30 PM will will transfer to the Cruise to have dinner, enjoy night life in Can Tho City then come back to hotel stay overnight or free time at night in Can Tho !
DAY 02: CAN THO - CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET - HCM ( B, L )
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 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 the group said goodbye to Can Tho city and returned to Saigon.
5:30 p.m. Arrive in Saigon, end of
***Please note: Drop off time is subject to traffic, weather...so the finished time could be later than expecting.
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