Phnom Penh to Mekong Delta 3 days

Tour Program

Summary itinerary

Day 1: Phnom Penh – Chau Doc (Meal: dinner)

At 11.30am, pick you up at hotel in Phnom Penh and transfer to Sisowath tourist dock for boarding the express boat down to Mekong Delta and enter Viet Nam via Vinh Xuong border.

Arrive at Chau Doc around 17.00.

Meeting your tour guide and driver on arrival

Welcome dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight in Chau Doc

Day 2: Chau Doc – floating villages – Tra Su Cajuput Forest – Can Tho (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

After breakfast, take a nice boat trip through the floating village  to pay a visit to a fish farm to see how the Mekong Delta people raise fish in their floating houses. Visit the Cham minority with their traditional weaving village, followed by a local Islamic Mosque.

Then transfer to Tra Su cajuput forest, which is renowned for not only its almost-untouched natural beauty but also its sanctuary of flora and fauna. Take a boat trip into the forest, you will immediately feel like you are harmonizing with nature because of all of the impressive pictures of cajuputs, the fragrance of the flowers and the music-like noise of birds, insects and animals making people relaxed and comfortable. From the observation post, you can overlook the forest with an area of nearly 900 ha, home of many birds and animals, including some rare ones.

After that, proceed to Can Tho city. On the way, visit Binh Thuy ancient house.

Arrive to Can Tho around 16.00. Leisure in the evening for exploring Tay Do night market, Ninh Kieu wharf or taste these delicious local dishes. Overnight at hotel in Can Tho.

Optional:

Arrive to Can Tho city. Transfer to a village in Cai Rang district by motorize boat, you will meet a friendly local farmer’s house where you will stay the night at their house. In the late afternoon, wandering around the village to see orchard garden or chatting with local people to experience the rural lifestyle of the Mekong Delta resident.

Having dinner with family and enjoy some of kind traditional local cuisines. Overnight at farmer’s house.

Day 3: Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh city (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

After breakfast, take a leisurely waking to Ninh Kieu wharf. Tourist will have chance to see morning streets market with many products homemade such as fruits, vegetables, cake… are sold on the way to the wharf.

Cruising in the river to the busy Cai Rang floating market, one of the biggest floating market in Southern Vietnam. Visitors will be surprised to explore “the method of the business” in the floating market areas. It is really impressed.

After exploring the floating market, visitors will visit the place to see how they make rice vermicelli noodle and the orchard garden. Wandering in the village and try your best to cross the bamboo bridge which is built only one bamboo tree.

Cruise back Ninh Kieu wharf.

Transfer by road to Ho Chi Minh city

Arrive to Ho Chi Minh city around 17.00.

Tour price includes:

• Private air conditioned transport for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program
• Speed boat ticket: Phnom Penh – Chau Doc
• Mineral water on car (1 bottle/ person/ day)
• English speaking tour guide for sightseeing
• Private boat trips in the Mekong Delta
• Private sampan in Tra Su forest
• Meals as per indicated in the tour program
• All entrance fees
• Nice and clean hotel base on two people share a room
• Clean and safe accommodation for homestay arrangement

Tour price excludes:

• Vietnamese entry visa
• Travel insurance
• Single supplement
• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program
• Personal expenses.

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