Depart at 7:00 am by a transfer of 1.5 hours to Kien Luong's rural Dist. The day's cycle in the countryside, and we ride on back roads, less traffic along the coast to Hon Chong. The Hon Chong is a beautiful tourism complex with local beaches, stunning rock pinnacles, limestone karsts, and caves with colorful hidden pagodas in the mountain. Local pilgrims visit the beautiful pagoda hidden in the mountain. 

It's a nice place to explore the beautiful site and its surroundings, visit the pagoda, then undulate the jungle, a mountain along the coast, and cross the idyllic farmlands and mountain jungles until we reach the verdant countryside. We bike into small hamlets along the coastal route, passing little fishing villages, stilt houses, and Khmer villages. Along the coastal paths, you will be the first-hand to witness and experience the life of locals living in little seaside towns—lunch en route. We can venture through remote hamlets and meet the friendliest farmers at the country's seafood farms and mangrove forests.

The routes are small, mixed of concrete, some tracks, and small asphalt roads in the middle distance but rolling hills at the beginning and some undulating in the last part. There is so much time for you to enjoy a coffee break and wander into tiny small markets, the homes of locals along the bay of Cay Duong. Enjoy endless photos taken at your own time, end up today's ride in a small town, and relax your legs on vehicle transfer to Rach Gia.

After a hearty breakfast, a quick transfer takes you to a rural hamlet near Sam Mountain, and then you cycle to Tra Su Forest, also a bird sanctuary. The routes take you through palm trees, Khmer villages, and colorful Buddhist pagodas, then across the rice paddies and lotus fields, making the ride more delightful. Enjoy the motorboat ride through Tra Su Forest; learn about the wildlife in the wetlands variety of birds, including storks, egrets, cormorants, peafowl, and water cocks. We will have sampan rowed through an area home of various birds. The motorboats can scare birds because of their noisy engines. We will see many baby birds in the nests if we are there in the bird's breeding season.

Then we continue cycling on gentle hilly country back roads to Ba Chuc village, and your guide will tell you what happened in the town in 1978. Then you will have a short visit to the memorial of locals if time permits! The ride will continue; we follow the quiet back roads along the Cambodian border to Ha Tien.

After breakfast, we board the motorized boat on the Can Tho River to the Cai Rang floating market. It's a genuinely unique floating market in the early morning, with different sizes of vessels steering around. The bigger boats anchor when small sampans move and try to find a good deal on business. Every boat advertises what to sell by hanging its product on a long bamboo pole—wholesale from neighboring provinces and the sampans from local rural villages. Tiny sampans sell steamed rice, noodle soup, coffee, and even lottery tickets. Disembark from your boat, and pick up the bike for a morning ride to Binh Thuy. Explore the backwaters of Phong Dien, pass local schools and some little land markets by the waterways, and visit the oldest ancient house in Binh Thuy.

It is one of the wealthy landlord's houses in the 19th century in the Mekong Delta—Built-in 1870 with a blend of Asian and colonial architecture. The exterior was French, but the interior was a traditional Vietnamese house. The house was set in the movie of "The Lover" in 1992 based on Marguerite Duras's novel who loves Huynh Thuy Le between 1928 to 1932 in Sadec township. Lunch en route before a 2-hour vehicle transfer takes us to Chau Phu District, a rural area near Chau Doc. It's the perfect time to continue the afternoon ride around 2:30 pm when the weather is cooler. Ride on tracks along agricultural canals, enjoy the Sam mountain views, and see farmers harvest rice crops. Finally, you will transfer on a winding road to Sam Mountain and check-in at the Sam Mountain Resort.

Tra Vinh and Soc Trang have pleasant country cycling routes. There is a significant population of Khmer people living here as their homeland. Today, you can explore not only their daily lives of them but also learn ancient history and culture. We start our cycling adventure after 10 minutes transfer from the hotel. All are smooth concrete paths through rural villages that allow you to discover and experience the lifestyles and daily activities of both Khmer and Chinese. A quick transfer you out of the town after a leisurely breakfast. Then you will venture on open paths into Khmer hamlets, learn about Theravada Buddhism, visit the beautiful Pagodas, and encounter the Khmer monks. Afterward, you will wander through the authentic Vietnamese and Khmer countryside villages. Tra Vinh countryside offers a stunning rustic landscape for natural and bicycle lovers. The paths are small, enough for bicycles and mopeds across the endless rice paddies.

Enjoy tasty lunch in Cau Ke town, then the afternoon's cycle takes you along quiet back roads, through fruit orchards, across water channels on small bridges, and ferry boats, passing numerous Khmer temples and little towns to Tra On. From here, you take a ferry to the island with a short ride through the island and take one more ferry to Can Tho.

Depart from Saigon downtown, and you will transfer out of Ho Chi Minh and cycle through the gateway of the Mekong Delta. We'll bike on mostly flat paths, passing fertile soil farmlands of rice paddies and vast vegetation to Tien Giang before we break for lunch in town.

Your last ride will begin at the riverside of the Mekong River after a short drive from your hotels. You will have the pleasure of riding through the coconut farming lands of Ben Tre and seeing such happy people with their daily lives on their ground. Your lunch will be served in My Tho city before driving to HCMC. Mekong Cycling Holidays

The highlight of today's cycling is to ride intensely into removed villages, where foreigners are rarely seen. We will have two ferries crossing at noontime before we cycle through rice paddy to Tra Vinh City.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will have a boat ride to the Cai Rang floating market before an hour's transfer to Phung Hiep for today's ride. We will continue to bike through farming villages, lakes, and to hamlets of Khmer people. We will end up of today cycling at Bat Pagoda. Have a short transfer to the hotel.

In the morning, you can ride through villages of flowers, magnificent trees, ornamental flower beds, and fragrant flowers in the garden attract butterflies and bees. Stop for lunch at the house of Mr. Huynh Thuy Le in Sadec town, the central character in Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel, 'L'Amant'. It considers a highlighted Site in the village of Sadec. After lunch, we leave Sadec for Can Tho City. We cycle on paths through scenic countryside, tiny villages with many rice powder mills, and past rice fields.