DAY 1: HO CHI MINH CITY – ARRIVAL
Arrival in Ho Chi Minh City, you are greeted by our guide and driver at the airport for our transfer to the hotel. Enjoy Welcome Dinner at a nice local restaurant.
DAY 2: HO CHI MINH CITY – CAI BE – CAN THO
The colorful floating market, vast emerald rice fields and lush back waterways; these are the things that make Cai Be such a desired destination.
This morning, leave bustling Ho Chi Minh for the 2 hour drive to the delta town of Cai Be. On arrival board your boat for cruise in the Delta’s waterways. Start your journey by passing by Cai Be’s floating market, once a busy place to trade fruits and vegetables and nowadays a more quiet market. Then, continue to a cottage factory where ‘pop-rice’, rice paper and coconut candies are made. Return to the boat for the cruise to Dong Hoa Hiep Island; along the way admire the scenery and the daily life of the local villagers. Lunch will be local Mekong style serving specialties of the area.
Following your cruise drive to Can Tho where you will spend the night.
The rest of the day and evening is at leisure. Dinner at local restaurant
Overnight in Can Tho.
DAY 3: CAN THO – HO CHI MINH
Wake up early for a boat cruise to the colorful Cai Rang floating market which bustles with wholesalers on big boats. Here, during the early morning market hours, larger sized boats anchor and create lanes that smaller boats weave in and out of. The main items sold here are fruit and vegetables and every boat has a long upright pole at its bow from which samples of the goods for sale are hung. The waterway becomes a maze of hundreds of boats packed with mango, bananas, papaya, pineapple, and even floating pho vendors. Lunch at local restaurant
Transfer back HCM city & dinner at local restaurant
DAY 4: HO CHI MINH - DEPARTURE
Enjoy your breakfast at hotel, free at leisure until departure flight