MEKONG DELTA WITH MEKONG EYES CRUISE - 4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS

Please note: Mekong Eyes cruise only depart from Cai Be on even dates of each month

08:00-08:30. The cruise shuttle bus will pick you up from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City (also known as Saigon) to start your visit to Cai Be. Travel along some scenic countryside roads. This area is commonly known as the “rice bowl” of Vietnam, famous for its vast rice fields, orchards, coconut trees, and numerous waterways. 

11:30. You board your comfortable river cruiser in Cai Be. After a refreshing welcome drink, we show you our on-board facilities and your cozy cabin. 

As lunch is served, the boat starts cruising. Sit back and watch the fantastic scenery and the daily life of the Mekong Delta people. 

In the afternoon you can disembark for a guided leisurely stroll through a village and the surrounding fruit orchards or rice fields. Meet the friendly locals and taste the local produce and fruits. 

Get back on board and enjoy a drink at the bar or relax on deck as the sun sets over the magnificent water landscape of the Mekong river. The cruise boat will anchor for the night. 

Enjoy a delicious dinner. Rest of the day at your leisure.

Overnight on board.

You wake up well rested to the sound of the river and get ready for another exciting day of sightseeing in the Mekong Delta. 

06.30. The cruise vessel sets off for a sunrise cruise. Watch the locals go about their daily work drying exotic fruits and building ships on the wooden yards while enjoying an early breakfast.

08.00. Check out the cabin and we will board a sampan boat to Cai Rang floating market, the region’s busiest and most lively markets. Marvel at the sheer abundance of exotic fruits, vegetables and skillfully handcrafted regional products. We will pull up to the boats for talking and bargaining with the merchants. 

11.00. After the excursion to the market, it is time to say goodbye to the crew.

Disembark and meet your private guide and driver and head off to visit Binh Thuy ancient house, a rare and perfect example of French-Chinese-Vietnam style houses of the Mekong Delta. It is special thanks not only to its exquisite design inside and out and the stories the house holds but also its garden has an abundance of different varieties of flowers, plants and fruit, including a wide range of orchids and a gigantic cactus. One more special thing is that the house attracts numerous local and foreign visitors, and it has been used as a film set. It is a popular location for film directors such as J.J Annaud who used the setting for his famous French movie L’Amant (“The Lover”). 

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Arrive Can Tho. Check-in to your hotel. 

Rest of the day and evening at your leisure.

Overnight in Can Tho.
 

08:00. Check-out of your hotel and leave Can Tho for Chau Doc, a town in An Giang Province, bordering Cambodia.

Arrive Chau Doc.

Transfer to the pier for a short ferry across the Hau River to visit Chau Giang village, the largest Cham community in An Giang Province. The village still retains many unique cultural features in both material and spiritual life. They include traditional brocade weaving, stilt-house living customs, and the Cham Muslim community still go to mosque and observe their daily prayers.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

In the afternoon, visit Sam Mountain. On the way, stop at The Lady Temple and Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb. The former was built in 1820 in a solemn and ancient architectural style. The latter was a mandarin in the Nguyen Dynasty and a pioneer in this area who reclaimed and developed the land in Chau Doc; he established living settlements as well as the digging of the Thoai Ha and Vinh Te channels.

Continue hiking up the mountain. The views from the top are spectacular (weather depending) and you can easily look out over Cambodia. 

Back down the mountain and return to your hotel. 

Rest of the day at leisure. 

Overnight in Chau Doc.
 

Breakfast at the hotel. 

09.00. Check-out of your hotel, travel by private vehicle to Saigon. Lunch on the way at a local restaurant.

Arrive Saigon, drop off at your hotel. End of the services.

**Please note: You can travel by speedboat from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh if your next destination is Cambodia. The departure time is around 07:00-07:30 and the journey takes 05 hours from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh. 
 

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