Mekong Delta Countryside Discovery

The Khmer hamlets in rural Districts are so beautiful, tiny thatched houses amongst coconut trees. The bike routes are link hamlets to hamlets on small concrete, a network of agriculture canals with plenty of water for farming. You will immerse yourself into the Khmer cultures, meet the Khmer monks at the temples, see women on conical hats working on farms. Taste fresh fruits and local snacks at a small market before our lunch in the small town of Cau Ke. There is a transfer after lunch to the next town for the rest of the days' ride.

Then leisurely afternoon bicycle ride on a small track along the Mekong River. Pedal on paths along the Mekong River,  weaving kids swimming on the river. The elderly are washing their clothes by the river. Taste some fresh grapefruit at local orchards, and carry on the ride to Binh Minh. A short transfer to Can Tho city to check in the hotel. 

After your breakfast, we took a 30-minute boat trip to visit Can Tho's floating market. This is a large wholesale floating market with many boats advertise their produce by hanging it from poles high above the boat. Each boat has one type or more products on offer, pineapple, watermelons, sweet potatoes, and many kinds of farm products. Locals with smaller boats come to the wholesaler boats to bargain, buy the products, and then sell them back on land markets. Another sampan boat is steering around to sell noodle soup, coffee, bread, and lottery tickets.

Following the floating market, we visit the lively An Binh land market where local women buy things to prepare all meals for their families. Disembark your boat. Pick up the bikes, cycle on narrow paths through the backwaters of Phong Dien, and continue under the shady trails along the river and dense farmlands to Thoi Lai. Have tasty lunch at a local restaurant, take a nap on hammocks to get more energy for the afternoon.

The lush rice paddy fields and authentic hamlets offer different sceneries with country farms of fish, ducks, frog farms, ell farms. There are many for you to see along the rural villages. Ride across the vibrant rustic of Co Do Dist, enjoy cycling small wooden bridges through incredible agricultural canals. Break for coffee, snacks, and fresh fruits and continue to explore the last picturesque rural Lo Te-T-Junction, weaving "hello" kids finish from schools on pushbikes. Take a rest on transfer to Long Xuyen City.

Long Xuyen is the second largest in Mekong Delta after Can Tho. It is known as the smuggling city, and it has a long border to Cambodia and main transport waterways. Smugglers are the real racers, and they love speeding when they see the police. Cambodia imports plenty of secondhand electronic households goods and many others. Cambodians have also produced a lot of cigarettes. Smuggling is often happening when polices are not on the road.

After your breakfast, we continue our journey with a 20-minute drive to a rural village, and we explore the fertile land abandoned before 1975. All agricultural canals were built in 1980, which has led Vietnam to become the second country exporting rice after Thailand. The small roads are well-developed, and the network of rural roads is perfect and easy for us to navigate, mostly alongside canals and rivers. Ride past many bricks factories, rice husking mills, and ride deeper into hamlets, study growing rice and the work of agriculture, irrigation system. The local living we see today is more characteristic than the places you have seen in the previous days.

Lunch en route before a transfer to rual village near Nui Cam, we cycle to explore the life of Khmer near the border. Afterwards, we undulate the small road line-palm trees before crossing the rice paddy fields to Tra Su Natural Reserve. Take a sampan boat trip, take you through the forest, and take smaller canoes into small streams into condensed tree areas. Learn about hundreds of plants and animals in the region. You will transfer on winding roads to Sam Mountain. Check in the Victoria Sam Lodge, enjoy the sunset by the pool, and have dinner at the resort.

Chau Doc border town is small, and it is so important with two international border gates. The gateways to Cambodia are both waterways or overland. Most tourists love travelling by boat on the Mekong River.

There is no cycling at all today. Enjoy the sunrise, taste tea, coffee, breakfast, look over the Cambodian border, admire the vast lush rice paddies from the mountain.  Check out at 8:30 am, enjoy an hour and boat ride to explore the daily life of people living at floating villages on the Basac River. Visit a catfish farm, experience the everyday life of Cham Muslims in the villages. Disembark your boat, take a rest on vehicle  for 4 hours  driving to Saigon with lunch en route. Tour End!