Mekong Biking Exploration

As one of the world’s largest rivers and Vietnam’s agricultural heart, the Mekong River and its vast delta provide endless opportunities to experience sights, sounds and smells that will stay with you long after you have left the region. This lovely cycling tour takes you to a variety of Mekong Delta highlights. You can marvel at the variety of bird life in nature reserves, encounter Khmer monks in incense-filled pagodas, cruise through tangled mangrove swamps, and join one of the most lively floating markets in the region.

• Cycle with the locals through the watery world of the Mekong Delta
• Visit farms and workshops, chat with local people and taste their locally made products
• Spend time cruising gently through one of the river’s huge floating markets

• Sun & rain gear  (brimmed hat recommended)    
• Insect repellence
• Good shoes/sandals for cycling
• Original passport(s)

Meals: lunch | Accommodation: hotel in Can Tho

8:00 AM – Shake hands with your guide with pick up at your hotel and transfer by car for a 1-hour drive to Long An province. Start biking on single-track trails through rice fields, vegetable farms, and sugar cane plantations. Stop at a local farmhouse to enjoy tropical fruits in the countryside.  Then continue biking through orchards and palm tree-covered lanes.

Transfer to the pier and take a boat to Ben Tre province, where rowboats will bring you into the maze of canals and small branches of the Mekong.  Get off the boat to pause for honeyed tea at Quoi An’s bee farm and to check out workshops where a range of coconut products are skilfully handcrafted.  We then cycle through a different series of back roads in the afternoon before the car transfer to Can Tho where you spend the night in a comfy hotel.

Meals: breakfast, lunch | Accommodation: Not included

Have breakfast and check out of the hotel for an early boat cruise to the biggest floating market in the delta. Our boat will make its way slowly through the colorful commercial mayhem for fantastic photo opportunities amidst the huge variety of agricultural bounty on sale here. Farmers’ boats big and small trade seasonal fruits and an array of other goods in a chorus of sights and smells.

Disembark for a short bike ride into villages around Phong Dien where we’ll visit the ancient house in Binh Thuy village and enjoy delicious lunch before the drive back to Saigon. The tour ends with great images saved in your memory and the camera’s memory card.