• Amazing boat trips with motor boat & rowing boat
• Enjoy honey tea, tropical fruits, coconut candy
• Listening to Southern Vietnamese folk music
ITINERARY: HO CHI MINH – MY THO – BEN TRE (L)
Morning Savor your breakfast and start your trip to enjoy:
- 07:30 am: Tour guide picks up your Hotel. Enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields.
- 09:00 am Visit Mekong Restop, free time or drinking coffee – Excluded
- 10:00 am Visit Vinh Trang Pagoda.
- 10:30 am arrive in My Tho. Board a wooden motor boat (20 minutes) to Unicorn Island. On this boat along the river’s bank, you’ll be passing through natural creeks, interesting fisherman's port; stilt houses (half on land, half on water).
- From there, we’ll take you to a bee farm where you have a chance to taste a tasteful cup of authentic honey tea. After that we walk around quiet villages and watch the life of rural people in Mekong Delta.
- One of the boat’s stops during this trip is at a seasonable orchard that has many different types of tasty tropical fruits for your enjoyment. You can enjoy the fruits for free while checking out the folk music that is typical to only the people in Southern Vietnam
- Things get small and personal now. We are divided into many groups (if you take a group tour) and get on small row boats. During this 15 minute trip, you’ll witness all kinds of interesting transportation modes that local people use to move around, while enjoying the fresh air along the canal and beautiful water coconut tree scenery. Away from the city, that is it all about!
- When you feel it's enough for serenity, let's get back to the large motor boat for something different. You'll cruise a canal whose 2 long sides are orchards (seasonable orchards). After that, we cruise to a village where the sweet smell of coconut candies are in the air. To satisfy your curiosity, we'll get to a village that has many small shops that make coconut candy and handcrafted items from coconut trees of Mekong Delta. You might learn that those people can amazingly make dozens of useful products out of coconut trees. It is indeed inseparable from the villagers' life.
- Continue on a horse cart around the village, finish at local Restaurant
- Now let's have lunch at the restaurant. After relaxing or cycling around the village.
- 15:00 pm get on small row boats from the restaurant and meet a motorized boat.
- As your journey ends, you will return to My Tho by motorized boat and Meet the bus and return to HCM City