Mekong Delta Homestay Cycling Tours

A Glance of Homestay

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Homestay is a type of accommodation, home of local people and stay with them during your travelling. It is a good idea for tourist who love exploring local life with their culture. Instead of staying at the hotel or resort, you will stay right at the local people home to get closer and real looking at the host’s life and culture. You are considered as a member of their family and participate in daily activities such as eating and chatting with them. You are also required to know “customary of that family” and respect some rules and privacies of members.

Mekong Delta Homestay Cycling Tours are more popular all over the world and supported by communities and governments because the indigenous families are not only an enjoyable experience, but also provide the opportunities for you to make friends with native people.

The friendship can be sustained even though the trip had finished because of both in one which means host and guest together. Although it does not generally bring a big benefit for local family. But program of homestay helps to promote the image of people and Vietnam country with the most intimately and honestly. Especially for the families have children in the school age and want to improve their intelligence, this is the best and most effective way to practice those foreign languages, communication abilities, knowledge of different country’s culture.

Detail of homestay

1. Way of life at the homestay

If you are looking for homestay in your holiday, you will certainly not feel that much comfortable like resort or hotel. But you will have the practical experience, real local life and impressive to you in people’s activities as respect their differences, care of their religion, local taste, hospitality.

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Rule of cooking with the clay stove.

2. Homestay Location

Homestay is usually located in a quiet region with a beautiful scenery and close to locals. In Vietnam, homestay is growing very fast and not build as a traditional homestay any more. It means you will not care that much of local rules and their daily activities and they now are mainly run the accommodation’s services. But you are still enjoyed the how nice of those places.

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Mekong Delta Homestay Cycling Tours of Vietnam By Bike Tours.

3. Local Flavour Of Foods

Each region in Vietnam has their own flavours as sweeter in the south, more spicy in the center and warm food in the north Vietnam in which base on the geography of each region, you will get use to experience with those one.

When host of the homestay ask you about the local food and ingredient, you should be clear about them. If not, you will have any mistake because of misunderstanding such as: can you have the sea-foods ? if you can not, please tell them you can not have the water foods. But they sometimes serve the river foods for you such as fish, snail, shrimp.. because those are the river foods from the fresh water. The other thing is vegetarian, they just have vegetables, herbs, soya-sauce.. and no egg & milk (also called vegan). An important one is can not say “I CAN EAT EVERYTHING”, you will get any troubles immediately because they love the insects and special meats include spider, snake, cricket, gecko, etc..

Hospitality of owner is they use rice wine as WELCOME DRINK, this is a happy water you can not un-accept that make you have a good friendship with them or not.

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Fantasy dishes in Mekong Delta.

4. Dos The Activities Around Mekong Delta Home-stays

Some home-stays in Mekong Delta seem like a resort or even like a paradise. Those will not compare with the facilities in the accommodation but your general feelings about its values. Of course, when you pay more money you will have more services in the resort, But our mean that if you stay in 5 stars resort in Singapore and Vietnam, it may not let understand more local culture or your knowledge is same same. So, homestay will not only provides you a beautiful place, you will also cook with locals, cycle surrounds a village to meet and chat with their real activities, relax on hammock with vietnamese coffee, fruit-juice or local beer while reading book. Kayak, sampan or bike will be free of charge and supplied right homestay. One thing is one of the most importances to let a million travel and stay at people home in Mekong is very cheap, it normally costs about 20 to 45 USD/night with including breakfast, dinner, bike, room, a short cooking lesson, even the traditional music show.

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Meet locals at homestay’s village.

5. Homestay Facilities In Mekong Delta

When you travel close to people’s homestay and you want to stay there, you contact directly to them, they will arrange their team ormotorbike taxi transfer you to their village and you just pay for that little charge. You also take the private boat if their home on the island, your charge is usually sponsored by the host.

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It is usually located on the riverside where you can enjoy the boat trip to the fishing village, floating market, kayaking or taking a sampan forwatching sunset or sunrise. Some of them lie on the mountainside with a great panorama of Mekong River, huge rice paddies. And in the middle of forest with very clean and fresh-air as well as quiet.

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Rowing Kayak at homestay on mekong river.

Room at the homestay is very basic with mosquito net, fan (mostly no A/C), hammock, (mostly) free wifi, electricity, shared bath-rooms & minibar, soap & shampoo. You have to pack these such as Sun-scream, insect repellent, clothes, wide rim hat, camera..