Luxury Group Tour Mekong Delta Cai Rang Floating Market

Cai Rang floating market means not knowing the land of Tay Do – an old name of Can Tho”. Cai Rang floating market, one of the famous floating markets of the Southwest, specializes in selling fruits and agricultural products of the whole region. Every early morning, hundred boats gather together where their owners start to sell agri – products. To be recognized easily, they hang out product samples on a long bamboo (called Cay Beo) in front of the boats, so that they do not need to cry their wares as in mainland market.

Luxury Group Tour Mekong Delta Cai Rang Floating Market 2days 1night

Tour information
Daily Departure: 08:30 A.M – end 04:00 P.M
Tour length: 2 days 1 night.
Group: 10 – 12Pax.
Start from: Your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
Tour route: Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho – Cai Rang floating market – Ho Chi Minh.
Day 1: HCMC – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho (L/D)

• 07:45 – 8:30 am: Tour guide will pick you up at your hotel and start the journey to My Tho – Ben Tre.
• 10:30 am: Visiting Vinh Trang Pagoda, the biggest pagoda in the West. It has the most special architecture of Mekong Delta, combining between Viet – Khmer culture and original Western Europe architecture. You will contemplate Rạch Miễu Bridge, the biggest river of West and connecting.  My Tho province with Ben Tre province.
• 11:30 am: Having lunch with set menu and local dishes
• 12:30pm: Get on the cruise and begin for travelling on the river. The cruise will go along Tiền River and pass Fishing Village where people catch the fishes inside the floating houses.
• 13:00pm: Arriving in Thai Son Island (Cù Lao Thới Sơn) for visiting Coconut Candy Factory (the most famous thing in Ben Tre province), tour guide will show you how to make the candy as well as how it tastes.
• 13:20 pm: Visiting the next local farmer’s house to enjoy fruits and traditional music “ Đờn Ca Tài Tử” – A specific characteristic of Southern culture. Relaxing your mind by rowing boat on small, peaceful canal to get into the bee farm where we enjoy the honey tea and take photo with python and finger banana – the typical things of Mekong Delta.
• 14:00 pm: We get back bus and keep going to Can Tho city. You check in hotel, free your time to relax pool and explore Can Tho city at night. You can choice night market and food street at the Hau river. Overnight in Can Tho.

Day 2: Can Tho – Cai Rang – Floating Market – Ho Chi Minh (Breakfast  /Lunch)

• 06:00-6:30am Pick you up your hotel and start your boat trip on Hau river to Cai Rang Floating market – A biggest floating market beginning from sunrise to late morning but it is busiest from 7:00 to 10 am.
• The shops and stalls at the market are local boats of different sizes. The main items sold are farm products and specialties of Cai Rang Town and neighboring areas. Wholesale is the main form of trading in this market.
• What you need to do here is to sit back on your boat, enjoy the morning coffee served by the local coffee boat and watch the whole world of trading going on from boats to boats. As your boat edges through the market, you will be surely driven back to the yester-centuries by the sound of bargaining, rowing, motoring mixed with the sound made from the coffee boats, meat boats, grocery boats, ice boats… your breakfast today as local style with a bowl of noodle soup.
• Saying goodbye Cai Rang floating market, your boat will speed up through green and beautiful channels of the Mekong River stretching along rural villages and arrive a fruit orchard where you can enjoy some kind of tropical fruit and understand more the real life of local people.
• 08.50am: Having free buffet breakfast at the hotel then you have free time relax Pool or free shopping.
• 11h30am: Checking out hotel and heading to Ho Chi Minh city. Arriving to Ho Chi Minh city around 16.00 PM.