Mekong Delta Tour 1 Day From Ho Chi Minh City

Option 1: Saigon - Cai Be - Vinh Long
Depart at 7:30AM from your hotel to Cai Be by air-conditioned car. Upon embarkation on boat, visit the colorful Cai Be Floating Market, cruise among local sampans coming from all provinces of the delta full of fruit and vegetables. Cruising further, your sampan will bring you to some local home-made factories to discover traditional rice pop corn, coconut candy, rice paper. Continue cruising to visit an ancient house, the typical of Southern architecture.
Pass through Upper River to Vinh Long, visit Orchid Garden and have lunch there. After lunch, a local sampan takes you to smaller canal and nursery garden to taste tropical fruit with local family.
Our car is available to take you back to Saigon. End tour.
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Option 2: Saigon - My Tho
Pick up at the hotel at 8:00. Take 2 hour drive to Tien Giang Province (around 75km western of Saigon).
Upon arrival, take a private boat on the upper part of the Mekong River to visit a fish market and enjoy the view of Dragon Island, Phoenix Island, Unicorn Island and Turtle Island. Then land to the island to discover the real life of people in Mekong Delta by walking on local paths, visit Coconut candy making family. Continue to a bee farm by horse cart and taste some special product from the garden. The rural sampan will take you into the small canal to enjoy the view of Water coconut tree, the typical of Mekong Delta. A big boat takes you back to the Dragon Island for lunch at a local family. After lunch, back to the city, continue to visit Vinh Trang Pagoda before coming back to Saigon.
You will be dropped off at your hotel at around 17.30. Free time at leisure.
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