Cycling Ho Chi Minh - Cao Lanh - Phu Quoc islands

A pleasure boat ride passes many stilt-house along the river bank to Cai Rang floating market. This is a chance you capture the daily activities of locals along the river bank. You also have an opportunity to watch the most significant and busiest floating market as it is a real one. Then, your guide will choose the best route for a morning ride to Sadec. On your way, you could enjoy your own pace and experience the way to make rice powder at a family workshop. Passing and waving locals working farmlands by footpaths through lush green rice fields, sweet potato plantations.

Your bike guide will tell how a complicated network of small artificial canals brings water to farms in the area. On arrival in the old Sadec town at noontime, visit Huynh Thuy Le's ancient house, which is well-known with the movie "The Lover" from getting published. Your lunch will be served at the home before you continue cycling through many villages of flower, bonsai, ornamental plants, and brick factories to Cao Lanh city in the late afternoon.

Start the day ride after a 20-minute transfer, explore the vibrant countryside landscape, bike through mango orchards, passing small markets along the Mekong Rivers and rice husking mills. There will be a stop at a small cafe by the river, which only opens in a few hours in the morning. Then, we carry on our adventure to the ferry boat, which locals use as a routine shuttle boat going to the mainland every day. After reaching Gieng Islet, you can be amazed at how people live here during the yearly flooded season, on stilt houses because of the wetland. We'll resume biking to the Monastery built 120 years ago by the French. The first Monastery was constructed in Indochina in 1874. We have time to explore the area and admire one of the most beautiful churches on the island. We then get on a support vehicle and transfer to Cho Moi for lunch.

In the afternoon, we'll experience local life along country back roads, cycle from verdant rice fields to Ba Sac River, passing fish farms and stilt houses before we take a ferry crossing Ba Sac River. Stop at the local market, enjoy Vietnamese coffee seasonal fruits, and continue cycling through lush vegetable fields. Then, ride to Muslim villages and stilt houses and enjoy views of floating houses by the Ba Sac River until we reach the outskirts of Chau Doc. Transfer to Sam Mountain and check in at Victoria Nui Sam Lodge.

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, 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. If time permitted! The ride will continue as we follow the quiet back roads along the border with Cambodia to Ha Tien.

Ha Tien is a small border town, but it is the international gateway between Vietnam and Cambodia. Its market is also tiny, but you could find interesting things here. The town is not far from Phu Quoc Island. The speedboat ride takes an hour and 15 minutes. A morning call wakes you up for breakfast, and then check out the hotel for the modern Super Dong speed boat to Bai Vong dock, Phu Quoc Island. The morning Super Dong speed boat will leave at 9:30 am, and it takes about an hour and 15 minutes to get to Bai Vong dock. The afternoon is 1:00 pm, so you could make your choice before our sales team makes this booking. It would be best if you were on the boat 30 minutes before the boat trip starting. You should contact the hotel you booked on Phu Quoc to have you picked up at Bai Vong dock. Tour End!

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