Cycling Chau Doc border to Ho Chi Minh

Dong Thap is particularly famous for its natural scenery, with several bird grounds. The most noteworthy is the breeding ground of red-headed cranes, which are very rare in the world. The best way to meet locals on back roads and explore people's lives on the lowest Mekong Delta land is bicycle riding. After your breakfast, we check out and start biking after a 10-minute drive by vehicle. Your guide leads a nice bike path through villages along rivers, canals; through mango orchards, passing many family workshops producing rice powder and rice husking mills. There are some opportunities to discover the natural rural countryside and locals living along country back roads. Stop for lunch at the house of Mr. Huynh Thuy Le in Sadec town, the central character in Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel, 'L'Amant'. It considers a highlight Site in the city of Sadec. After lunch, we leave Sadec for Can Tho city. We cycle on paths through scenic countryside, tiny villages, stop at rice powder mills and past sweet potato fields, and ride across a network of natural creeks before we get on a private vehicle for a transfer to Can Tho city.

The highlights that must be visiting today are the real floating market of Cai Rang and Bat pagoda in the afternoon. After your breakfast at the hotel, we do check out. Upload your luggage on a vehicle and enjoy a boat riding to the vibrant floating market of Cai Rang, which is about 6km from the city center of Can Tho.  After watching this floating market by boat, we will transfer by vehicle about 40 minutes to Phung Hiep' countryside, where today's ride begins. We will wander through the lush green villages and lakes through irrigation systems by bicycle. This cycling allows us to move further to the community of Khmer. Ride past sees grocery boats yelling for advertising, small wooden boats taking rice from villages to towns, kids playing in the school compound at school break. Most Khmer here lives mainly on farming and free-range duck raising. The bike routes in the morning are shady and open air in the afternoon. Open-air concrete paths lead you through the fantastic countryside to ride at your own pace and take time to capture photos. We end up today’ ride at the famous Khmer pagoda. Go to the hotel by vehicle for check-in.

Tra Vinh is the town you stay in tonight. It is not far from Soc Trang city but crossing the Mekong River by two ferry boats taking so long. Your guide arranges the best way to save your time for cycling. After a 30 minute transfer by vehicle to the outskirt of Soc Trang town. In the morning, we ride through the Island of Dung- (Cu Lao Dung). Enjoy a ferry ride with locals to Dung Island where we meet friendly people at their homes. Ride through sugar cane farms, betel nut gardens, banana plantations, fish farms, and shrimp farms along the river. After we explore this Island by bike, we will have another big ferry take us to Cau Quan Dist, the rural Dist of Tra Vinh. After we enjoy big lunch in Cau Quan, We carry on our adventure cycling on country back roads to Tra Vinh via Tieu Can. You‘ll have an opportunity to have a photo taken with farmers. See lifestyles of Khmer, Chinese, and Vietnam. We continue our adventure cycling on an easy, beautiful track, deeply into some of the most beautiful villages. Most income of people here is from farming and chicken, ducks, fish rising. If time permitted, your guide will figure out and the ride may continue but should get on van/bus before dark
 

You will have a half-day ride in the morning and a transfer to Ho Chi Minh in the late afternoon. After a 30-minute shuttle to Mekong River, where our last ride through Ben Tre. You’ll have a pleasure to ride on shady rural back roads through coconut, passing many local workshops to produce coconut jelly and fiber. There are some stops at local home-made so that you could see how to make local products! And you also can make chit-chat with friendly people. Without your guide’s translation! You could think of ways to make it more pleasant or funny by using body language. Your biking adventure will end up at high way in Mo Cai District before your lunch is served in My Tho city before you take a nap on van/bus to HCM. Tour End!