2-Day Mekong Delta Cycling and Boating Tour to Phú Quốc

• Enjoy a pick-up from your hotel in Saigon and then drive for about 2 hours to Ben Tre.

• On arrival at Hung Vuong Pier, board a boat and cruise along the Ham Luong River, a branch of the Mekong. Stop at various local workplaces to get a picture of how the local economy works, including:

  • A brick kiln, where bricks are still painstakingly made by hand.

  • A coconut processing workshop, where you can sample fresh coconut and see how every part of this versatile nut is turned into food and other products.

  • A mat weaving house, where straw mats are woven using a handloom - you can even have a go at weaving yourself.

• Hop onto a bicycle for a fun 15 km ride through quiet and beautiful country lanes, passing gardens of coconuts, casaba melon, cucumber, and colocynth along the roadside, until you reach Mr Khanh's local house, where you can contemplate an antique pottery collection.

• Get back on your bike and cycle to visit rice fields with your Vietnamese tour guide.

• Stop at a riverside restaurant for a delicious and filling lunch featuring local specialities such as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp, washed down with cold drinks or beers.

• After lunch, board a rowing boat for a relaxing trip along narrow canals.

• Head back to Hung Vuong Pier via Ham Luong.

• Catch the Co Chien ferry to Can Tho and check into your hotel for the night.

• Set out on a very early boat trip at 5 am to visit the unique and stunning floating markets of Phong Dien and Cai Rang. Sit back on your boat, enjoy the morning coffee served by the local coffee boat, and watch the whole world of trading going on from boat to boat. As the boat edges through the market, you will be taken back to centuries past by the sounds of bargaining, rowing, and motoring, mixed with the calls from the coffee boat, meat boat, grocery boat, and ice boats.

• Leaving Phong Dien floating market, your boat will speed through many channels of the Mekong River stretching alongside rural villages before arriving at Cai Rang floating market, 3 km from Can Tho. It is much bigger and a wholesale market with many more large motorised boats. This completes an exceptional picture of around a million floating traders in this region, who have happily lived a floating life and earned their living on some 50,000 km of waterways in the Mekong Delta.

• Stop at a local fruit orchard, where you can enjoy tropical fruit and understand more about local life.

• Return to your hotel to check out, then head to Rach Gia to catch the Super Dong Express boat at 1 pm to Phú Quốc Island.

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