Introduction
This Mekong Delta Tour 4 days will lead you on the bike to discover the eastern part of the Mekong Delta Region.
- Take this holiday as the top of photographic tours of Indochina with bicycle in the countryside.
- Have the greatest fun activities with locals at work in their farms.
- Road-less traveled destinations are chosen by most of travelers as you want to enjoy the holiday in style.
- Based on the experts this bicycle tour is the best way to explore the destinations up close, at single object, clear eyes contact, art & antique corners.
Program outlined:
- Day 1: Saigon – Long An – MyTho – BenTre – TraVinh.
- Day 2: TraVinh – TieuCan – TraOn – CanTho.
- Day 3: CanTho Foating Market – VinhLong – SaDec.
- Day 4: Sa Dec – Cao Lanh – Xeo Quyt – Cai Be – Saigon.
What are included ?
- Comfortable A/C van carries your bicycle and luggage.
- Support truck carries all bikes (for group of more than 5 cyclists).
- Cannondale/Trek Mtb with 27.5” of wheels & hydraulic brake.
- Helmets, water cage, tools kit.
- All entrance fees, boat rides & ferries in program.
- Meals as: B= 3 Breakfasts, L= 4 Lunches, D= 3 Dinners.
- Daily cold mineral water, soft drinks, coffee & even beers.
- Daily snacks, fresh fruits, cool tissue.
- Accommodation: 3 nights, double & twin share rooms.
- Experienced/proffesional English speaking cycling guide(s).
- Pick-up/drop-off from at your hotel.
What are excluded ?
- Personal travel insurance.
- Single accommodation (see supplement).
- Other personal expenses.
- Drinks are not included with any meal.
- Any Visa & (inter)national flight.
Itinerary
1st day | Saigon Tan An – My Tho – Ben Tre – Tra Vinh.
No longer 1,5 hours transfer to Tan An, where we start biking on the paved road to explore the world of fruit orchards. Dragon fruit is the most popular fruit that local farmers grow to improve their income. We bike 25km on this stage with some stops to experience the flavour of fresh fruits, villages with fun kids (you might see them on the way back home from school). Lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant.
In the afternoon, we drive about 1 hour relax in the comfortable van to Ben Tre’s most beautiful village with very easy paths and more than 70% coconut trees in the local farms: we pedal under the shady coconuts, small & narrow lane, many stops for enjoying a fresh coconut water/ fruits, pass many family workshops making coconut chopsticks and any kind of fibers. Take a ferry to cross the Mighty Mekong River with a very short transfer to the center of Tra Vinh Remote Town for overnight.
- Flexible cycling distance: 35 ~ 70km.
- Type of roads: Flat Easy, moderate & paved roads.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
2nd day | Tra Vinh – Tieu Can – Tra On – Can Tho city.
We should get up early in the morning to enjoy the sunrise at 6am. On the nice weather and clear sky you will have this great moment on the Mekong Riverside. Your breakfast will be started at 7:30 with simple foods as bread, jam, milk, fruit and coffee or tea. Time to relax and ready for this biggest cycling of 3 days tour. Leaving the guesthouse and say goodbye to the hostess, from there we stun a hundred orchards of this island, we ride past people’s fruit yards of pomelo, guava, durian, rambutan and stop to chat with farmers. You may also visit a khmer pagoda.
We cycle further to the secrete khmer villages, learn more about their life influenced greatly by the Khmer big culture and many stops for photography in front of the art thatched houses, water coconut leaves. This is a really good experience with colourful temples and flowers along the way to Tieu Can. Then, we transfer and have lunch in Tra Met with siesta.
The afternoon ride is also a fantastic route under a thousand of pomelos & 3 ferries, endless rice-fields on Luc Si Thanh & My Hoa. We drive to Can Tho for another night-stay.
- Flexible cycling distance: 35 ~ 75km.
- Type of roads: Flat Easy, moderate & paved roads.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
3rd Day: Can Tho – Vinh Long – Sa Dec.
There are two most interesting sites that we must see because one has funs and other is related to French Indochina. The first site is busy floating market in Can Tho and we are going there by boat. The second site is an ancient house of Huynh Thuy Le. Who was in love with Marguerite Duras then their story became a movie. After we visiting the floating market of Cai Rang, a short drive takes us to Can Tho bridge to start biking. From Binh Minh to Sadec town, we bike on countryside back roads, through sweet potatoes, family workshop making rice powder, brick factories and pedaling along canals busy with many boats moving up and down. Our delicious lunch is served at Huynh Thuy Le house and we have a rest before we ride to Cao Lanh city. We bike through village of flower in countryside of Sadec, then we keep our afternoon cycling through many small village through mango gardens, rivers and we have a van/bus transfer to Cao Lanh city.
- Flexible cycling distance: 30 ~ 65km.
- Type of roads: Flat Easy, moderate & paved roads.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
4th Day: Sa Dec – Cao Lanh – Xeo Quyt base – Cai Be – Saigon.
Cao Lanh is a new town after Vietnam War. Foreigners are rarely being seen in this town because it is not really a nice place for bus tours. But bike routes are so unique. The place we start biking is about 30 minutes transfer by vehicle from Cao Lanh city. The quiet rural back road by small rivers gives you a fantastic ride with beautiful scenery along the way to Xeo Quyt, former base of Viet Cong. A local guide will lead you the way to see some shelters and a sampan rowing boat taking you into forest. If time permitted, our last ride is about 25 km on single track, through rice fields, irrigation networks, fruit orchards. We end up cycling at high road and have lunch before two hours and half returning to HCM & say goodbye with Vietnam By Bike team around 17h.
- Fexible cycling distance: 25+km.
- Type of roads: Easy & concrete paths.
- Meals: Breakfast & Lunch.