Departure time: 9.00am at hotel in HCM
Transportation: boat, car
Duration: 2 days
Highlight attractions:
Day 1: Son islet
- Explore local cuisine by making local cakes
- Enjoy watching jumping fish
- Tropical fruit orchards (seasonal)- picking fruits
- Lunch at local house
- The unique floating fish farm on Mekong River
- Check in your stay
Day 2: Can Tho - HCM
- Cai Rang Floating market
- Local noodle house
- Small canals
- Cacao plantation
- Lunch
- Back to HCM
Day 1: At 9.00am: we pick you up at your hotel in HCM and then take you to Can Tho
At 1.00pm: Our tour guide will pick you up and start going to Son island
- At 1.30pm: Arrive the Son islet on Mekong river and enjoy these activities below:
- Visiting Tropical fruit orchards (seasonal), where you can pick fruits directly and try eating them right at the garden because it is organic.
- Visiting a Mekong Delta traditional house, learn with us how a Mekong Delta traditional house is arranged, which traditional jobs used to cohesion with locals in the past via local stories.
- Making local cakes guided by local chefs - Making Banh Khot, pop rice or Vietnamese wafer.
- Having lunch at a local house and relaxing on the hammocks.
- Walking around the authentic island, visiting many fish ponds which are made by local people.
- Having a chance to visit a floating fish farm on the Mekong river and enjoy watching the sunset on the Mekong river.
Around 5.30 pm, you will be back to your hotel.
Day 2: Cai Rang floating market boat trip and HCM
- At 5.30am: Our boat where you will start your tour. It takes around 30 minutes to arrive at the Cai Rang floating market. On the way, you will have a chance to watch the sunrise on the Mekong River.
- At 6.15am: You will arrive at Cai Rang floating market. Our boat driver will drive the boat slowly around the floating market so that you can enjoy observing how local people trade products on their boats and enjoy the bustling atmosphere.
- 7.00am: You will experience sitting on boats and having breakfast on the floating market which is a must-do when you visit the floating market.
- 7.45am: You will keep boating over to a local noodle house where you make your own rice paper and noodles guided by local people.
- 8.15am: Heading to authentic small canals – one of ten prettiest canals in the world. It takes more than an hour on the canals. Our boat driver will stop driving, but paddling slowly so that you can immerse yourself in nature.
- 9.45am: Get to know about Cocoa trees and how to make chocolates by hand
- 11.30am: Go back to the boat and then head to the city center
- Have lunch at a local restaurant and head to HCM
- Arrive around 3pm
INCLUDED
- Breakfast (day 2), lunch (day 1) and cakes trial
- Pick up and drop of by private transport at hotel in HCM
- English speaking tour guide
- Making cakes (Banh khot, pop rice or Vietnamese wafer)
- Entrance fees
- Fruits and drinks
- 1 night accommodation at Con Khuong resort (1 room ) or homestay Bamboo Eco Village
- TAX
EXCLUDED
- Gifts and alcoholic drinks.