Cycling to Ca Mau Mekong- Explore Vietnam's South Pole

Just a quick transfer out of the town after leisurely breakfast. Then you will venture on open paths into Khmer hamlets, learn more about Theravada Buddhism, visit the beautiful Pagodas and encounter the Khmer monks. Afterwards, you will wander through the authentic countryside villages of Vietnamese and Khmer. Tra Vinh countryside offers a stunning rustic landscape for natural and bicycle lovers. The paths are small, enough for bicycles and mopeds across the endless rice paddies.

Enjoy tasty lunch in Cau Ke town, then the afternoon's cycle takes you on along quiet back roads, through fruit orchards, cross water channels on small bridges, and ferry boats, passing numerous Khmer temples and tittle towns to Tra On. From here, you take a ferry to the island with a short ride through the island and take one more ferry to Can Tho.

After early breakfast, we board on the motorized boat on Can Tho river to the Cai Rang floating market. It's a truly unique floating market in the early morning, with different sizes of vessels steering around. The bigger boats anchor when small sampans move and try to find a good deal on business. Every boat advertises what to sell by hanging its product on a long bamboo pole—wholesale boats from neighbouring provinces and the sampans from local rural villages. Tiny sampans sell steamed rice, noodle soup, coffee and even lottery tickets. Disembark from your boat, pick up the bike for a morning ride to Binh Thuy. Explore the backwaters of Phong Dien, pass local schools, some little land markets by the waterways, visit the oldest ancient house in Binh Thuy.

It is one of the wealthy landlord's houses in the 19th-century in the Mekong Delta. Built in 1870 with a blend of Asian and colonial architecture. The exterior was French style, but the interior was a traditional Vietnamese house. The house was set in the movie of "The Lover" in 1992 based on Marguerite Duras's novel, who loves Huynh Thuy Le between 1928 to 1932 in Sadec township. Lunch en route before a 2-hour vehicle transfer takes us to Chau Phu District, a rural area near Chau Doc. It's the perfect time to continue the afternoon ride around 2:30 pm when the weather is cooler. Ride on tracks along agricultural canals, enjoy the Sam mountain views, see farmers harvest rice crops. Finally, you will transfer on wining road to Sam mountain, check-in at the Sam Mountain Resort.

After a hearty breakfast, a quick transfer takes you to a rural hamlet near Sam Mountain, and then you cycle to Tra Su Forest, which is also a bird sanctuary. The routes take you through palm trees, Khmer villages, and colourful Buddhist pagodas, then across the rice paddies and lotus fields make the ride more delightful. Enjoy the motorboat ride through Tra Su Forest, learn about the wildlife in the wetlands, variety of birds, including storks, egrets, cormorants, peafowl and water cocks. We will have sampan rowed through an area that the homes of various birds. The motorboats can scare birds because of noisy engines. We will see many baby birds in the nests if we are there in the bird's breeding season.

Then we continue cycling on gentle hilly country back roads to Ba Chuc village, and your guide will tell you what happened in the town in 1978. Then you will have a short visit to the memorial of locals if time permitted! The ride will continue; we follow the quiet back roads along the Cambodia border to Ha Tien.

We'll transfer you out of Ha Tien town and start riding Kien Luong, setting the stage for a morning ride of cycling adventures. This journey takes you away from bustling cities, across the verdant rice fields, and along farming canals. Ride across rustic villages and visit local farms and small factories building boats. We'll take smooth routes from Kien Luong and enjoy scenic scenery at Mo So Caves. The limestone hill is full of caves, with many areas open to the public. Lunch en route to Hon Chong. The coastal road to Hon Chong offers natural beauty and cultural richness, with plenty of opportunities for exploring and discovering limestone Karsts and pagodas, idyllic hamlets, and Khmer villages.

Venture through remote hamlets and meet farmers at seafood farms, surrounded by the intricate ecosystems of mangrove forests. The cycling terrain varies throughout the day. The ride concludes in a quaint small town, where a vehicle will transfer you to Rach Gia. This comfortable ride allows you to relax and reflect on the day's adventures, leaving you with lasting memories of Vietnam's countryside and coast. We'll transfer to Rach Gia in the late afternoon.
 

A quick vehicle drives you to Rach Soi, and then you will benefit from the stunning scenery of the wetland along the coast. Ride past many colour full fishing boats and ships, family fisheries, enjoy some ferry crossing rivers, meet friendly locals along with lively villages. You will stop off at Tac Cau, enjoy coffee, fresh fruit, then wander around the small market by river fork, look over the river, admire hundred of wooden fishing boats with endless photos. Following your ride will venture into the rustic countryside, fish and shrimp farms, and paddy fields. You will see buffalos working in rural, local harvest agricultural crop and animal farming along the way to U Minh Thuong.

Have lunch at a local restaurant. Following lunch, you will rest 1.5 hours on vehicle transfer to Thoi Binh, and then you follow small tracks to U Minh Ha forest, explore the forest by bike, then by boat. A long-tailed engine- composite boat ride through greenery forest, waterlily, enjoy seeing storks, kingfisher, and birds listening to birds singing and experience the forest's wildlife. If time permitted, you want the last ride along waterways, through the small jungle to urban Dist, then back on vehicle for a short transfer city centre of Ca Mau.

After leisurely breakfast, your guide and driver take you to Ca Mau airport to board a domestic flight to Ho Chi Minh to catch your international flight home. Vietnam Airlines daily scheduled flights are in the morning and the afternoon.

Please, inform us of your international flight so that our tour operator will book the internal flight to connect your international flight at a suitable time.

Note: On this tour, you will end your trip at Tan Son Nhat, and domestic flights are included. The trip starts in Saigon/ Ho Chi Minh and ends at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh as the itinerary's planned, but the WEBSITE'S finish location on TRIP FINDER  is CA MAU. We want you to find your trip by destination, location, and route easier.