Bike the Mekong to Phu Quoc 5D/4 N

A pleasure boat ride takes you past many stilt houses along the riverbank on the way to Cai Rang Floating Market. This is a great opportunity to capture the daily activities of locals living along the river. You will also have the chance to witness one of the most significant and busiest floating markets, as it remains authentically active.

Afterward, your guide will select the best route for a morning ride to Sa Dec. Along the way, you can travel at your own pace and visit a family workshop to learn how rice powder is made. As you cycle along footpaths through lush green rice fields and sweet potato plantations, you will pass and greet locals working in the farmlands. Your bike guide will explain how a complex network of small, man-made canals brings water to farms in the area.

Upon arriving in the old town of Sa Dec around noon, you will visit Huynh Thuy Le’s ancient house, which became well known after its connection to the film The Lover. Lunch will be served at a local home before you continue cycling through villages famous for flowers, bonsai, ornamental plants, and brick factories, eventually reaching Cao Lanh City in the late afternoon.

Start the day with a 20-minute transfer, then begin your ride through the vibrant countryside. Cycle past mango orchards, small local markets along the Mekong River, and rice husking mills. Stop at a small riverside café that opens only for a few hours in the morning.

Continue to the ferry, which locals use daily to travel to the mainland. After reaching Gieng Islet, you’ll see how people live during the yearly flood season, with homes built on stilts in the wetlands. Resume cycling to a monastery built by the French over 120 years ago. The first monastery here was constructed in Indochina in 1874. Take time to explore the area and admire one of the most beautiful churches on the island. Then transfer by support vehicle to Cho Moi for lunch.

In the afternoon, experience local life along quiet back roads. Cycle through green rice fields to the Ba Sac River, passing fish farms and stilt houses before crossing the river by ferry. Stop at a local market to enjoy Vietnamese coffee and seasonal fruits, then continue riding through lush vegetable fields. Ride through Muslim villages and along stilt houses, enjoying views of floating homes on the Ba Sac River as you approach Chau Doc. Finally, transfer to Chau Doc, and check in the hotel.

The most exciting feature of Tra Su is that tourists travel by motor-boat or dinghies as they weave through the forest. Passengers will enjoy enormous emerald-green duckweed that blankets the water’s surface, as well as flocks of white storks that perch on cajuput together with many kinds of birds, animals, and fish. Sometimes, the boatman stops the boat and shows tourists some of the enormous beehives that rest on the top of the trees. Enjoy a morning ride on trails to Tra Su nature reserve forest, and it is also a bird sanctuary.

In the breeding season, birds stay home all day long to look after their eggs and baby birds. Your adventure biking travels along the Cambodia border, passing lotus fields, rice paddy. After we arrive at the forest, enjoy 2 hours boat trip, including sampan boat rowing this forest. You will experience boat rowing, trekking into cajuput trees, wetlands that attract many birds, including storks, egrets, cormorants, peafowl, and water cocks. 

We carry our last day ride on gentle pave roads, through palm trees to Ba Chuc village with lunch en-route. Your guide will tell you what happened in the town in 1978. Pay a visit to the memorial, see many photos taken by correspondent journalists as these photos are the war evidence. The rest of today is a shuttle transfer along Cambodia borfer to Ha Tien.

Ha Tien is a small border town, but it is an international gateway between Vietnam and Cambodia. Its market is also small, but you can find many interesting things there. The town is not far from Phu Quoc Island. The speedboat ride takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

In the morning, you will wake up early for breakfast and then check out of your hotel. You will take the modern Super Dong speedboat to Bai Vong Dock on Phu Quoc Island. The morning boat leaves at 9:30 AM and takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to arrive.

There is also an afternoon departure at 1:00 PM, so you can choose the time that suits you before our sales team makes the booking. Please arrive at least 30 minutes before departure.

You should contact your hotel in Phu Quoc in advance to arrange a pick-up at Bai Vong Dock. Tour ends.

Note: If you booked your hotel or resort by yourself, please contact them to arrange a pick-up at Bai Vong Dock. Alternatively, you can take a taxi to your hotel. This transfer is not included in the trip.