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Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - My Tho - Ben Tre - Can Tho

8:00 AM Pick up at your hotel in HCMC. Depart for My Tho. Take a boat ride along the river, view the stilt houses and the fruit plantation along the river bank.

Proceed to Tortoise island and have lunch in the orchard.

Enjoy a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre, cruising under the shadow of the water coconut trees. Visit a family business which epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle. Enjoy a rowing boat ride along the creeks.

After taking a delightful walking through the fruit plantation, village, proceed to Can Tho. Dinner on guest’s account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Can Tho. (Family homestay can be arranged on request.)

Option 1: Stay in a hotel in Can Tho

Check into your hotel on arrival at Can Tho. Free to explore the city on your own in the afternoon. You can also visit a village, meet the local people, have dinner with them and enjoy their music. Overnight at your chosen hotel in Cantho.

Option 2: Homestay (D)

Transfer by motor boat to a small village in Cai Rang district. Check into your riverside cottage. In the afternoon, go cycling or trekking around the village to experience the rural lifestyle of the Mekong Delta people.

Join a family as they prepare dinner, then share the meal with them. Enjoy an evening of traditional folk music with your neighbors. Overnight in your riverside cottage.

Day 2: Cai Rang Floating Market - Ho Chi Minh City

Take a very early morning boat trip (5:30am usually recommended) to visit the Cai Rang floating market which is wholesale market of fruit and vegetable at its busiest time of the day.

Keep cruising through the small channels system and visit a rice noodle making village. Experience the “Monkey Bridge” in the Delta.

Head towards Phong Dien for the smaller, quieter floating market (optional).

Have lunch and return to Ho Chi Minh City.

INCLUDED

• A/c private car/van or pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program.

• Private boat trip in the Mekong delta.

• English or French-speaking guide

• All entrance fees

• Meals as indicated in the program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)

• Hotel accommodation based on two people sharing a twin or double room

EXCLUDED

• Vietnamese entry visa

• Travel insurance

• Other meals not mentioned in the program

• Personal expenses