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Getting away from a hustling and bustling city to start 3 Days Mekong Delta Tour is a perfect choice on weekends. Govietnamvisa.com has provided a Mekong Delta tour travelling to My Tho, Can Tho, Chau Doc from Ho Chi Minh City. You visit Unicorn Island, bee farm, Cai Rang floating market, the village of Cham and enjoy tropical fruits, folk music and local specialities. It is a memorable trip to explore Mekong Delta.

Highlights:

• Island tour

• Tropical fruits garden + bee farm + coconut candy workshop and small cannal.

• Vinh Trang Pagoda

• The biggest Cai Rang floating market

• Truc Lam Phuong Nam Buddhist Meditation Monastery

• Motor boat.

• Long Xuyen - Crocodile Farm

• Tra Su forest

• Tay An Pagoda

• Ba Chua Xu Temple

• Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb

DAY 1: SAI GON - MY THO - BEN TRE - CAN THO

• 08.00am, Mekong Delta Tour From SaiGon 3 Days (My Tho - Can Tho - Chau Doc) - travel by bus/car to My Tho.

• 9:30am - 10.00am, 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.

• Things get small and personal now. We are divided into many groups (if you take group tour) and get on small row boats. During this 15 minutes trip, you’ll witness all kind 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 the 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 sweat smell 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.

• Now let's have a lunch the restaurant.

• 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 enjoyments. You can enjoy the fruits for free while checking out the folk music that is typical to only the people in Southern Vietnam.

• You will return to My Tho by motorized boat and then visit Vinh Trang pagoda. Visiting Vinh Trang Pagoda, which is known as "the largest pagoda in Tien Giang", you will be able to see firsthand a unique spiritual architecture that perfectly combines both Western and Eastern styles. After this, our coach takes you to Can Tho.

• Check-in hotel and stay overnight in Can Tho.

Included: Coach or private transport, boat trips, entrance fees, English speaking guide in tour, lunch, dinner (standard tour without 01 dinner), 01 Aquafina water bottle and accommodation in Can Tho.

Excluded: Breakfast, drinks, travel insurance, tips and personal expenses.

DAY 2: CAN THO - CAI RANG FLOATING MARKET - TRA SU FOREST - CHAU DOC

• After breakfast, around 7:15 am, we board a boat and travel to Cai Rang floating market.

• After that, we continue on our riverine route for 5-7 minutes and then on foot for about 5 minutes to reach a noodle and a rice paper factories.

• Next place to visit today, Truc Lam Phuong Nam Buddhist Meditation Monastery: It is the place for people who want to know about Zen and it is one of the most beautiful temple in Vietnam. With a large area, 2 lakes, specific structure and loads of statues. It makes you feel relaxed!

• The time now should be around 12 noon. Time for lunch! Let's go back to Can Tho for that.

• After this, our coach takes you to Chau Doc. On the way, we will stop at Long Xuyen to visit Crocodile farm (If time permits). And we will continue to Tra Su Forest. You seat on long boat with a motor which allows you through water covered in green lilies. A bit surreal as it almost likes land, enjoy precious moments living in harmony with nature as well as the wholesome atmosphere. You will be flabbergasted by small houses on stilts with rudimentary bamboo ceilings that are firmly tightened to cajuput trees, making an unusual existence in the quiet ambience of the forest.

• You stand on a 23.5m high watch tower in the midst of the forest; enjoy a panorama of the vast greenery spotted with the white of storks below and surrounding countryside.

• You have a BBQ buffet dinner in Chau Doc.

• We stay overnight in Chau Doc.

Included: Coach or private transport, boat trips, entrance fees, English speaking guide in tour, breakfast, lunch, dinner (standard tour without 01 dinner), 01 Aquafina water bottle and accommodation in Chau Doc.

Excluded: Drinks, travel insurance, tips and personal expenses.

DAY 3: CHAU DOC - SAI GON

7.00am - 7.30am: Visiting the and after breakfast, our guide will take you to travel 3 places: Tay An Pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb, Ba Chua Xu Temple.

• Tay An Pagoda was constructed in 1847 at the base of Sam Mountain in An Giang. Then it was restored extensively in 1958. It is beautifully decorated with many elements from the Cham, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian cultures. The interior and main gate follows Vietnamese design, having figures of 2 dragons and lions fighting for chrysanthemums, pearls, lotus blossoms and apricots trees on the roofline romp.

• Ba Chua Xu Temple, also known as the Holy Mother of the Realm is a solemn and ancient architecture built in 1820. The layout of the temple looks like the writing of the Chinese characters with the shape of a blooming lotus and 4 blue tiles roofs. According to An Giang Records Book, in 2009, this temple was recognized as the oldest sandstone statue in Vietnam. Legend tells that the Holy Mother helped the villagers to fight back the Siam Army in the past while blessing good weather and rich harvesting seasons to them. Thus, worshippers often come here a lot to touch her statue and ask for her blessing and protection.

• Thoai Ngoc Hau (1761-1829), a mandarin serving Nguyen Dynasty, was the pioneer to exploit this Chau Doc’s virgin soil, establish living settlements as well as dig Thoai Ha and Vinh Te channels. After his death, local people built a tomb to commemorate his dedication of developing agriculture in the 1930s. He was buried with his 2 wives together with a temple in his honor. Thoai Ngoc Hau tomb was designed by a harmonious architecture. There are many thick stone walls around the tomb. In the middle of it, there are temples and tombs for worshipping. Besides, numerous tombs of officials who had supported Thoai Ngoc Hau in the past were also constructed.  

• Back Saigon around 6-7pm

Included: Coach or private transport, boat trips, entrance fees, English speaking guide in tour, breakfast, lunch and 01 Aquafina water bottle.

Excluded: Dinner, drinks, travel insurance, tips and personal expenses.

 Included:

• Coach, boat trips in Mekong delta have enough lifejacket for everyone.

• English speaking tour guide.

• 03 lunches, 02 dinners and 02 breakfasts.

• Accommodation (Please see details at "Hotel" Part).

• Entrance fees.

• 03 Aquafina water bottles/03 days.

 Excluded:

• Tips.

• Drinks.

• Travel insurance.

• Personal expenses.

• Drop-off fee: (Price per person)

 Additional Information

• Please provide name of hotel and hotel address in Dist 1, HCMC, Vietnam where we can be free pick-up.

• Please bring your passport for check-in hotel in Can Tho and Ca Mau (Mekong Delta).

• Please send us a list of female/male travelers with Birthday and Full name for Passenger List and Domestic Travel Insurance.

• Special requests (diet or vegetarian, …) should be noticed before your departure date.

 Meeting point

• If your hotel's location is on these streets such as De Tham St, Bui Vien St, Pham Ngu Lao St, Le Lai St, Le Thanh Ton St with over 100th number, Bui Thi Xuan St,Pham Hong Thai St, Thu Khoa Huan St, Nguyen An Ninh St, Cong Quynh St, Ly Tu Trong St…Dist 1, HCMC, Vietnam, we will free pick-up from your hotel at 7:10am - 7:20am (please provide your hotel address, room number and the name of hotel where you will stay at).