Tour code:  MEKONG – ETHNIC PEOPLE – FLOATING MARKET  (03 days/ 02 nights)
HCMC – BEN TRE – TRA VINH – CAN THO

Description:You will experience special aspects of Mekong delta by new routes, discover specifics of each area where tour mentioned : people in country have just based on coconut in their life; Khmer ethnic people with ancient pagoda and live floating market. Those are hightlights unfogetable in journey.

ITINERARY:

Day 1: L

Pick up at hotel in HCMC. Depart for Ben Tre ( 86km from HCMC). Boating to  brickwork to see workers make bricks in handy traditional method. Visite one of coconut processing workshops located along canal run by farmer. Go on natural scissors canals where they look more narrow spreading out to rural villages. Stop at a family who making sleepmats and enjoying fruits and tea, chatting with local people by the way.

Riding on motocart or bike on shady road, pass by green rice fields and vegetable plains. Have lunch in local restaurant..Have a look vast coconut jungle and Mekong river.Stop at candy workshop to taste a litle bit sweet. Stop at Cho Thom – a biggest coconut market in delta. Witness several large handy workshops spreading 3km along riverside, processing products from cococonut.( nut, fiber, oil…).Conquer mighty Mekong river (4km wide) by Co chien suspension bridge.Overnight at hotel in Tra Vinh.

Day 2: B,L

Breakfast.Visit Cave pagoda, find out of sculptures from pagoda workshop run by Mon   

Visit Khmer museum, Ang Pagoda. Have lunch.

Continue  to Can Tho by get over biggest suspension brigde. Overnight in Can Tho .

Day3:  B,L

Breakfast. Depart for Cai Rang floating market where locals go to buy and sell a variety of fruits vegetables from boats of all sizes and which is the most original ones and bustling places of the region. Sellers tie their goods to a tall pole so that buyers can see from a distance what they are selling.Seat on local trading boat, witness boasting activities in market, find out local life in stilt house along river. Lunch in Restaurant.(option) Go back Ho Chi Minh city. Tour end.

Option: Transfer to Can Tho airport and Fly to Phu Quoc island about 1PM

PRICE

Includes :

• A/c private car/van .
• Private boat trip .
• English speaking guide
• All entrance fees
• Meals as indicated in the program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)
• Hotel accommodation

Excludes :

• Other meals not mentioned in the program
• Personal fees