2-Day Trip from Mekong Delta to Phnom Penh - The City of the Brahma's Faces
Highlights
Can Tho, Chau Doc, Phnom Penh
boating, cultural, sightseeing
Group Tour
2 Days
Easy
English, Vietnamese
Description
Take a short trip to Southern Vietnam and witness its culture, lifestyle, local region, and people from up close. See the best highlights of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, such as the Cai Rang floating market, and Tra Su Conservation, a beautiful scenery that you wouldn't have seen till now. Ride the express boat through the waterway to Cambodia to reach Phnom Penh and return to Chau Doc.
Itinerary
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HCMC - Can Tho - Chau Doc (B,L)
4 am: Depart from your hotel and take about 3 hours drive to Can Tho city with your Vietnam tour guide.
7 am: Arrive at Ninh Kieu pier, start your boat trip on Hau River to Cai Rang Floating Market, the biggest floating market beginning from sunrise to late morning, but it is busiest from 8 to 10 am. The shops and stalls at the market are local boats of different sizes, and the main items sold are farm products and specialities of Cai Rang Town and neighbouring areas. Wholesale is the main form of trading in this market.
As your boat edges through the market, you will be driven back to the yester-centuries by the sound of bargaining, rowing, and motoring mixed with the sound made from the coffee boats, meat boats, grocery boats, and iceboats. Your breakfast today is local style with a bowl of noodle soup.
Say goodbye to Cai Rang floating market, speed up through green and beautiful channels of the Mekong River stretching along with the rural villages and arrive at a fruit orchard, where you can enjoy some tropical fruit and understand more about the real-life of local people.
10 am: Take a boat cruise back to town, and there, a car will take you to visit Binh Thuy ancient house.
Drive to Long Xuyen (60km) with breaks enroute for a short visit to a local Cao Dai Temple.
Continue to Tra Su Conservation. Embark in an arrow boat to unveil the breathtaking scenery and the wildlife habitats of this sensational and unique conservation. It is a thousand-hectare mangroves forest surrounded by paddy fields! Enjoy a short stroll around the conservation on your own and climb up the observation deck for a spectacular view of the conservation and with thousands of storks and birds nesting here.
Drive to Chau Doc and check in a 3-star hotel.
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Chau Doc to Phnom Penh by Express Boat (B)
Have an early breakfast at the hotel and then, you will be picked up by the staff of Hang Chau Boat Company and transferred to the pier.
Then, take a speed boat to Phnom Penh via Vinh Xuong checkpoint. The boat departs at 7:30 am and you will arrive in Phnom Penh at around 12:30 pm.
Service ends at Chau Doc pier by 7:30 am.
What's Included
What's Excluded
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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