BOAT – Coconut Country

When you arrive at Ben Tre pier, let’s take a boat trip along the Ben Tre River. On this trip, you can see the lushness of the mangrove trees and the locals going about their daily lives – transferring coconuts and rice husks, setting fish traps, etc.).

Plus, you can learn more about some of the traditional crafts by visiting the brickwork and witnessing artisans create bricks using a traditional handy method. Visit one of the local coconut processing workshops along the canal to sample some fresh coconuts and see how people here peel, grate, and grind the coconuts. Continue heading to another interesting destination – the coconut candy workshop, a place where they make the sweetest, with the “Southern-est” flavored coconut candies. Right there, you can relax a little in the cool green space with folk music, enjoy fruits, and sip some honey lemon tea, we believe that you’ll be excited.

Then we hop on the boat, slowly moving, admiring the beauty that nature has to present here (through zig-zag canals until we reach a small village in the countryside).

When reaching the village, you can take a short walk to get a taste of village life by chatting with local people. Also, you can see how straw mats are woven by a handloom at a mat-weaving house. The interesting part is that you can give it a try to weave a mat yourself.

Then, let’s hop on a tuk-tuk or bike and pass by green rice fields and vegetable plains on the shady road to enjoy the fullest tranquility of the village. Your next destination is a local restaurant (Optional) with a delicious lunch featuring such regional specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp.

After a good lunch, you’ll take a sampan boat to see the “gem” of this tour – the silent water palms canal. You shall be amazed at how Mother Nature could create such wonderful, peaceful scenery with the water palms wildly grown and creating the opening dome leading directly to the big river. The boat will pick you up at the big river to go back to the pier.
Tour end.