Welcome to Ha Noi, Vietnam's capital city and political center. Meet your guide and driver with a private car, take you to your hotel in the Old Quarter of Ha Noi. Take a rest and be ready for a leisure walk in the afternoon; visit Ha Noi's highlights; the Opera House, Old Quarter, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple. In the evening, join us for a special welcoming dinner at one of the famous in town.

The floating markets had been seen in many places in the Mekong Delta early 19 century during the Nguyen Dynasty, and before 1975 farmers were unable to travel without sampan due to the vast natural network of the Mekong River. So the waterway had become the main transport for hundred years with the business alongside the rivers.

After breakfast, you board a boat at Ninh Kieu Pier to Cai Rang to see its market in action. In the morning, the market is full of hundreds of boats packed with fruits, vegetables,  and food: mainly farm products and specialties of Cai Rang urban District and neighbouring rural Districts. Fruits and vegetables are seasonal, depending on the time of year. Many tiny sampans sell breakfast, and some selling coffee, soft drinks even lottery tickets.

Then the boat leaves the floating market behind and cruises on canals and small rivers through the countryside of Phong Dien. This is an opportunity to experience local life on waterways and enjoy the beautiful backwaters of the rural areas. Stop at some local business making rice noodles and local snacks. Then return to the hotel to shower and check out for 3.5 hours drives to Saigon. Tour End! Cycling Tour Mekong Delta

After breakfast, check out for today's travel to Can Tho. Just a short drive from hotel to Bassac River, and you have a floating village tour of the river. The floating fish raft village in Chau Doc is a lively tourist spot. You will experience local living at both floating and catfish farms. On your boat ride, you can see children go to & back from school by boats, and sampans carry food for fish every day, small grocery boats with long-tailed noise engines. Visit one of the catfish farms and learn how locals make many from growing fish.

Then the boat takes you to Cham village. Therefore, the original Chams are the likely heirs of Austronesian navigators from South Asia, whose main activities are commerce, transport, and piracy. Without forming an accurate leaving traces in written sources, they invested in the ports at the start of important trade routes linking India, China and Indonesian islands. In the 2nd century, they founded the kingdom of Champa, which Vietnam gradually absorbed.

Afterwards, you return your car and depart to Can Tho. Stop at the crocodile farms, visit the farm, have lunch in town, and keep on travelling to Binh Thuy for a short visit of the ancient house with colonial exterior architecture blended oriental interior designed. It was a landlord house and built-in 1870. Now the six generations of the Duong family living in. Finally, take a rest on vehicle transfer to Can Tho.

Ha Tien is a small border town with an international border gate of about 8 km and an hour fast boat to Phu Quoc island. A million tourists are travelling across the township from Vietnam to Cambodia and the opposite way. 

Board a speed boat at Bai Vong Harbour, with tickets on hand (arranged by Vietnam Backroads Travel). The fast boat takes about an hour and 15 minutes to Ha Tien. Welcome to Ha Tien. Meet your guide and driver at the Speed boat harbour at 9: 30 am. Refreshment after the boat ride with Vietnamese coffee and fresh fruits before 1.5 hours drive along the Cambodia border to Ba Chuc village. Ba Chuc Massacre, Tri Ton, An Giang was the lousy result from the Red Khmer Revolutionary Army, and it was a sudden attack. There was more than three thousand farmers death. The attack was one of the events that prompted the Vietnamese Army to help the Official Cambodian Government defeat them all.

Take a walk with your guide to Memorial and a little museum, and study more about the Vietnam Army against Khmer Ruge and China after it began in 1978. Have lunch at a local restaurant before your journey continues to Tra Su forest. Travel on back roads, pass charming Khmer villages, rice paddy fields with many stop colourful Khmer temples and regional markets. Arrives at Tra Su forest, enjoy motorboat ride and sampan paddle to admire wildlife in the area. Then, you go to Chau Doc, check-in at the hotel and dine in town.

Today is your return home. After breakfast, spend the rest shopping on Dong Khoi St, Ben Thanh Market, and relaxing until a pick up for transfer to the International Airport to fly home. Tour End! Mekong Delta Adventures

Ben Tre is 90 km south of Saigon, located by Ham Luong River- Mekong Delta. It is famous for coconut trees as the vast plantation. Since the coconut trunks, shells, and leaves had been used to make fibres, handicraft products, and coconut mats, family businesses also grew up. Begin the day trip with a 2 hours private vehicle drives south of Saigon to Ben Tre. The province is famous for its coconut trees as it looks like the plantations.

After an hour and half drives south of Ho Chi Minh, you arrive in Ben Tre around 10:00 a, and then you take a boat trip along the lively river bank before crossing the Cai to visit the village, stop at a coconut processing workshop. You can see locals making plenty of valuable products and experience daily life. Next, you will have a short tour through the village by Italian 3 wheel vintage Lambro. This three wheels passengers vehicle will remind you and locals about Saigon City from 1960 to 1975. However, the War ended and the Italian 3 wheels cars still using until late 1990. The vintage Lambro continues taking you to another family workshop producing coconut mats.

After the experience of making it with the family, take a walk to lush orchards, taste some tropical fruit before you enjoy a leisurely small sampan rowed on a natural creek through green water palms alongside. At the next stop, you get back on the boat and continue cruising. You will have a special lunch at your local home and continues to boat ride back to the dock.  Say goodbye to the boatman for travel by car to Mr Sau Khanh. His hobby is collecting antiques; Altar vases made of bronze and ceramic, antique clocks, lights, and sculptures from different countries. His home now looks like a gallery/ showroom to display what he collected from 1980. Afterwards, keep on driving to My Tho and stop at Vinh Trang pagoda before returning to Saigon in the late afternoon.