FAR AWAY FROM THE CITY - Visit Coconut Market and Peaceful Canal
OVERVIEW
Let’s pay a visit to another side of the Mekong Delta countryside.
On this tour, you can visit Thom Coconut Market, which is 25km from the center of Ben Tre city. Right in this place, you not only observe every aspect of local life but also learn more about how they make different things from coconuts.
Don’t hesitate to go on this tour with us!
- Duration
⏰ 5:30 hours
- Departure Time
🚌 Flexible
- Price Includes
✅ Private tour
✅ All entrance fees
✅ Vietnamese, English-speaking guide
✅ Fruits and coconut juice
✅ Transfer fees (motorboat, rowing boat, tuk-tuk)
- Price Excludes
❌ Lunch
❌ Personal fees
❌ Anything not mentioned above
❌ Tips (optional)
ITINERARY
Thom Market (South Mo Cay District, Ben Tre)
Car will pick you up to Mo Cay Nam, Ben Tre, visiting the Thom Market along the river. It is a traditional market in Mekong, trading local products such as aqua products, fish, fruits, clothes, cakes, etc. Walking here, you can sense the real local market life by hearing people advertising products and bargaining.
After that, continue walking along the river to enter Thom Coconut Market. This special kind of market is for boosting the trading of coconuts along the river. You can witness many processing coconut activities in the workshops, such as making oil, coir, fiber, husk, etc. There’s a whole unique picture and knowledge that you can observe and learn on this tour path.
Besides, you can call on a blacksmith oven workshop to understand more about Ben Tre coconut farming tools.
After about one and a half hours of exploring, hop in your vehicle and head to the Son Phu T-junction.
Get far away from a busy and dusty city; deeply discovering the countryside by hopping on a tuk-tuk through Thuan Dien’s tranquil coconut country. Now the peaceful atmosphere begins to cover and heal you with the clean air and cool breeze along the way.
Then, get on a rowing boat and float on the shady small canal. What’s better than sightseeing on the rowing boat while you can hear the trickling water and the sounds of birds singing?
Tourists will have extremely nice pictures of this scenery on the trip.
(Optional)
Let’s have lunch at the local restaurant by the river. Here, you can have a 4-5 dish meal with many local specialties.
Take a break in a nice area.
The boat continues taking you to the coconut candy workshop. Besides looking at how local candy is made by hand, you can taste some sweets.
Then, you can have some fruits, sip honey tea, and listen to our traditional folk music.
Buffalo Pier (Ben Tre)
Back to the meeting point, ends tour.
HIGHTLIGHT
Explore the whole different aspect of "tranquility" when visit Thom Market area. Still, you can relax on the boat at the end of the tour.
PHOTOS
TOUR PRICE
- Group 1 pax $150/pax
- Group2- 3 pax $100/pax
- Group 4-6 pax $75/pax
- Group 7-10 pax $60pax
- Group 11 pax or more $50/pax
Notice
We can pick you up at your hotel (located in Ho Chi Minh or Ben Tre) with a modest extra fee. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more information
LUNCH PRICE
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Price
$10/pax
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Notice
If you get allergic with any kinds of food or have special requirements, please let us know
PRICE
- Availability : Daily Tours
- Thom Market
- Buffalo Pier