Mekong Biking
8 Days | 7 Nights
Tour Code : VIETNAM-BK8D
Depart at : Saigon
Rate from :
$600
Finish at : Saigon
Tour Highlights : Saigon city - Co Co village - Vinh Long - Sa Dec - Chau Doc - Can tho - My Tho
Holiday Indochina would like to introduce a special package and strongly believe that no one or company in Vietnam can set up this kind of unique program. We do set up 02 homestay but different style in different villages. The 2nd homestay is very basic but truly meaning of Mekong delta people life style.
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TOUR BRIEFING:
Day 01: Saigon Arrival
Day 02: Saigon city Tour
Day 03: Saigon - Co Co Village - Vinh Long Home stay
Day 02: Saigon city Tour
Day 03: Saigon - Co Co Village - Vinh Long Home stay
Day 04: Vinh Long - Sa Dec - Chau Doc
Day 05: Chau Doc - Bang Lang - Truong Long Village home stay
Day 06: Can Tho - Phong Dien - Cai Rang
Day 07: Can Tho - My Tho - Go Cong - Saigon
Day 08: Saigon departure
Day 06: Can Tho - Phong Dien - Cai Rang
Day 07: Can Tho - My Tho - Go Cong - Saigon
Day 08: Saigon departure
HOLIDAY INDOCHINA special touches:
1. Train travel experience to the most scenic parts of Vietnam
2. Reach to well-known Cu chi tunnel by river express – new experience on classic route
2. Reach to well-known Cu chi tunnel by river express – new experience on classic route
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam’s commercial heart and largest city. Transfer to your hotel followed by a tour briefing, welcome drinks and your first taste of Vietnamese cuisine for dinner. Overnight in Saigon
Day 02: Saigon city tour (B/L)
An informative full day tour to witness and learn about the past, present and future of this amazing city. Visit Cho Lon, Ho Chi Minh’s Chinatown. Like Chinatowns in other cities, it remains one of the oldest and most mysterious parts of the city and within its streets is the famous Cho Lon market. The highlight for many is the History Museum. This building houses a collection of artefacts detailing over 2000 years of Vietnamese history and helps put present day Ho Chi Minh into historical perspective. Visit the Thien Hau Pagoda, War Remnant’s Museum, Reunification Palace and enjoy photostops at the Notre Dame Catherdral and Central Post Office. Also visit a traditional lacquerware workshop. The remainder of the day is free to relax.
Overnight in Saigon
Day 03: Saigon - Co Co Village - Vinh Long home stay (B/L/D) - Biking in: approx. 2hours
Pick up at your hotel and depart for Co co where you start your biking tour from Coco to Hoa Loc that you will observe the rural local daily life coverd orchards and having chance to meet local people who rarely see any foreigners in this area. Then take a boat to cross the river delta and weave through the small canals of Binh Hoa Phuoc island to discover the lush scenery and people working on the farm. Visit CaiBe Floating market then enjoy your lunch with local delicacy with fresh water fish of "elephant ear-fish". Boat ride to Vinh Long. Visit Vinh Long local market where you have chance to see all kind of farm-products of mekong delta such as: many kind offresh vegetables, Abundunt tropical fruits, Pigs, ducks and chickens market, especially snakes, rats, frogs, snails.... be back to island for homestay.
Day 04: Vinh Long - Sadec - Chau Doc (B/L/D)
Breakfast will be served with local peaceful atmosphere. Boat ride to Vinh long dock. Car transfer to Sadec with the stop to visit the Huynh Thuy Le ancient house where is famous for the best novel of Margaret Duras “the Lover”
Drive to Chaudoc. Check-in hotel. Afternoon take a boat trip to visit a massive floating village where thousands of locals live on their floating house and earn their living on breeding Basa and many other kinds of fresh-water fish. Stop by Cham minority village. Drive to Sam mountain’s top to view the spectacular sunset right at Vietnam and Cambodia border. Visit Tay An pagoda and Chua Xu temple.
Overnight in Chau Doc
Day 05: Chau Doc - Bang Lang - Truong Long - Home stay (B/L/D)
Drive to visit Bang Lang Storks Garden and Binh Thuy Shrine. Drive to Truong Long Village (15km) for your homestay. Check in the host’s house before discovering local remote villages on foot. Dinner will be served with homely cooked dishes.
Overnight in Truong Long village
Day 06: Can Tho - Phong Dien - Cai Rang - Can Tho (B/L/D) - Biking in: approx 3.5hours
6:00am - an interesting, pleasant day awaiting today! After a healthy breakfast at your homestay, jump straight into an arrow-boat and enjoy an early boat cruise (4 hours) to visit the stunning floating markets of Phong Dien and Cai Rang. Phong Dien is smaller in scale and is more of a retailed one while Cai Rang is bigger and is more of a wholesaled one. And what you need to do is to sit back and relax on the boat, have some sips of local coffee and watch the world of trading activities going on and on from boats to boats. If you are fruit lovers, go for the freshest ones here at these markets. In between the two markets, we will get off our boat for some short bike-rides along the remote villages’ paths. Hop back on our car after cruising through Cai Rang floating market and head to Can Tho. Check in hotel. Free time on your own. Overnight in Can Tho
Day 07: Can Tho - My Tho - Go Cong - saigon (B/L/D) - Biking in: approx 2.5hours
Drive to My Tho. Take on a bigger wooden boat and cruise crossing the mighty Upper Mekong River before boarding a wooden sampan and cruise through a green, lush, picturesque and Amazon-like creeks of Tan Thach. Heading to Gocong by road.with some more breaks en route to visit an incense workshop, a local village where the people have produced some of the finest pieces of furniture in the South, and a legumes nursery which surely is an eye-opener for any one! Short bike ride crossing paddy fields and through remote villages dotted with coconut palm trees then continue the trip back Saigon with the backroad via My Loi ferry on Vam Co river. On arrival in Saigon. Check in hotel.
Day 08: Saigon - Departure (B)
You will be transferred to the airport for your onward flight.
End of our Unique Mekong Delta Biking tour
Flexibility: The sample itinerary below, can be easily modified to suit all your personal interests, budget as well as wishes including departure date, duration, accommodation used & how long you spend in each destination. OR you can be free to cut and pick any part of the holiday which is best fit to your interests.
Gratuities: Tips are often the main source of income for those working in the travel industry. Tipping in bars and restaurants is now customary and highly recommended if you find satisfactory with services received. Tip is personal matter between you and services suppliers. Holiday Indochina makes no interfere or set no rule for tips and gratuities
Gratuities: Tips are often the main source of income for those working in the travel industry. Tipping in bars and restaurants is now customary and highly recommended if you find satisfactory with services received. Tip is personal matter between you and services suppliers. Holiday Indochina makes no interfere or set no rule for tips and gratuities
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