Cycling Saigon - Ha Tien - Phu Quoc islands 4D/3N

Today's ride will divide into two parts; 25 km in the morning through Phong Dien's countryside after the boat trip to the floating market. The afternoon will be 25 km in rural villages in Chau Doc.

After an early breakfast at the hotel, we enjoy a boat trip to the famous Cai Rang floating market. Then we will get on the bike and try to experience daily lives and peaceful countryside along a lovely small canal and taste some milk apple fruits in Phong Dien.

After tasty lunch, 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 canals of irrigation systems, enjoy the Sam mountain's views, see farmers harvest rice crops before we get to the hotel in town by our vehicle transfer. 

After a hearty breakfast, a quick transfer takes you to a rural hamlet near Sam Mountain, and then you cycle to Tra Su Forest, also a bird sanctuary. The routes take you through palm trees, Khmer villages, and colorful Buddhist pagodas, then across the rice paddies and lotus fields, making the ride more delightful. Enjoy the motorboat ride through Tra Su Forest and 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 with various birds' homes. The motorboats can scare birds because of their noisy engines. We will see many baby birds in the nests if we are there in the bird's breeding season. 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. After lunch, you will have a short visit to the memorial of locals before 1. a transfer to the rural market by the Cambodia border, where the afternoon's ride on paths along the border to Ha Tien.

Ha Tien is a Provincial city in Kien Giang province, Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Its area is 10,049 ha, and the population as of 2019 is 81,576. The town borders Cambodia to the west. It is a lovely place to be in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region. After your breakfast at the hotel, a well-arranged transfer by Vietnam Backroads takes you to the boat station of Supdong. Boarding at 9:30 is for a speed boat about 1 hour and 15 minutes to Bai Vong dock.

Daily boat to Phu Quoc schedule has 3. One is in the morning at 8:00 & 9:30, and the afternoon boat leaves at 1:30. You can select which one suits you best. End of service! Vietnam Backroads team, with its emptied van, will be back in Saigon.

Note: If you have booked the hotels/resorts on your own, arranged! Please get in touch with them to have you picked up at Bai Vong dock. Another option is to get a taxi to the hotel on your way. It does not include the trip.