Main Info
This Mekong Tour will takes you to the lower part of the Mekong running through Vietnam then escape to Phnom Penh by boat.
| Departure place | We pick you up from your hotel |
| Departure Time | Scheduled time |
| Tour code | VRT – MEKONG 04 |
| Tour duration | 03 days |
| Tour type | private |
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TOUR COST per Person (in US $)
All inclusive in Twin or Double Room / Meal (Daily Breakfast and Lunch)
| 2 pax | 4 pax | 6 pax | 8 pax | 10 pax | Single Supplemental | |
| Budget | 510 | 480 | 410 | 380 | 350 | 75 |
| Superior | 650 | 600 | 570 | 530 | 490 | 125 |
| Deluxe | 780 | 730 | 690 | 650 | 600 | 330 |
Children Policy:
Child under 2 years old : No additional charge
Child from 2 to less than 5 years old: Charge 50%
Child from 5 to less than 10 years old: Charge 75%
Child from 10 years old and up: Adult’s rate
Note:
• All rates are in USD and per person
• The rate may be changed without prior notice if there is a market fluctuation relating petrol, food and goods or ticket price
• Surcharge will be added on Public Holiday and Peak Season
Itinerary
7.00 am: we will pick you up from your hotel.
After a short drive along the provincial roads on the Southern region of Vietnam through paddy rice-fields, pine-apple plantation, orchard and small hamlets we will get to My Tho.
My Tho is the capital city and municipality of the Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. It has a population of approximately 160,000.
As the regional capital, My Tho is the main market dealing in all the produce from the region as well as fish & seafood from My Tho's large ocean going fishing fleet. The very large & exuberant market is one of South Vietnam's biggest sources for dried fish & other dried seafood products such as Kho Muc - dried squid. At nighttime the market is dedicated to the dealing & sorting of Mekong river fish -particularly catfish for HCMC's wholesale markets. Produce especially fruit & vegetable is delivered by boat directly to the market
We will start our trip to discover the Mekong Delta by taking a boat across the river to visit some islands of Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Turtle. A chance for you to view floating fish farms, fleet of fishing boats, stilt houses and boat building factory. We will have lunch on board before getting off the boat to visit coconut candy maker’s, have a walk through fruit gardens, then take a horse-drawn cart along the country road to visit a local house, where you will experience the way of bee-keeping. You will enjoy the local fruits from the garden, drinking green tea with honey while listening to the typical Vietnamese music. Then we will take the rowing through canals, coconut palm gardens to our boat. We will go back to the habour where the bus awaits to bring us to Can Tho
In the morning: A sampan boat brings us to through the Phong Dien and Cai Rang floating markets where hundreds of boats are packed with mango, bananas, papaya and pineapple… for selling, buying and exchanging. Later on we float through the contributory channels of the Lower Mekong and visit a rice noodle factory.
In the afternoon: After lunch, we head to Chau Doc, a small town near the Cambodian border.
In the morning we climb the 234 meters high Nui Sam Hill. Many pagodas and temples line this pilgrims' trek to the top. Fromup here we look over the wide rice fields up to the Cambodian border. In the afternoon, a sampan boat takes us to the fish farms in the floating houses, a main specialty of Chau Doc. We watch the fishermen at work. Then we take a boat to Con Tien Island. On a walking tour we visit the Cham people, one of the minorities in the Mekong Delta and who are renowned for their weaving art even outside Vietnam.
After breakfast you take the Blue Cruise to Escape to Phnom Penh. You will get their aruond 13.00 pm
