MEKONG DELTA TOUR 6 DAYS

Day 1: Enjoy a beautiful Saigon by van, explore an old quarter of Saigon and any museum to know about the history of Vietnam War.

Day 2: Cycle to the legendary of Vietnamese who had lived underground for more than 20 years and pedal off-roads in Cu Chi district to MyTho in Mekong Delta.

Day 3: Discovering BenTre under the canopy coconut land with any stop courses for learning how people run their life with many coconut products. And so much great views on the rice-paddy fields with some special eyes contact from locals. 

Day 4: Boating on the biggest floating Market on Can Tho River & through many villages, great fun along the single tracks & foot paths.

Day 5: Visit an impressive Tra Su forest on 2 type of motorized boat & sampan in the reserved area & pedal in the khmer & cham ethnic groups. And huge land of Mango after many crossing ferries.

Day 6: After morning sight-seeing in french town which still have more and more colonist homes & spectacular battle of Vietnamese soldiers with US army during 1960 – 1975.

Program:

• Day 1: Saigon city tour.
• Day 2: Saigon – Cu Chi Tunnels – MyTho.
• Day 3: MyTho – BenTre – Tra Vinh – CanTho.
• Day 4: CanTho – LongXuyen – ChauDoc.
• Day 5: ChauDoc – TraSu forest – ChoMoi – SaDec.
• Day 6: SaDec – CaoLanh – XeoQuyt – CaiBe – Saigon.

What are included ?

• Comfortable A/C van carries your bicycle and luggage.
• Support truck carries all bikes (for the group more than 5 cyclists).
• 2017 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.

Itenerary

Day 1 | Saigon City Tour.
Without Cycling this first day, It is nicer to explore the biggest and busiest city in Vietnam by our comfortable A/C van. We visit the top highlights in Ho Chi Minh city such as: Reunification Palace, War Remnant Museum, Opera House, City Hall, Notre Dam Cathedral, Central Post Office, Lacquer Ware Art Workshop, Ben Thanh Market combine with the promenade in the Old Quarter of Saigon. Aferwards, you meet the whole team of Vietnam By Bike® to fix your bicycle before we run your cycling holiday out. Welcome dinner & free in the evening.

• No Cycling.
• Meals: Breakfast, Buffet Lunch, Dinner.
• Accommodation as hotel list.

Note: You can skip this day if you want to the Saigon city by your own way, and only want to join in group 5 days. Please mention it at info@vietnambybike.com

Day 2 | Cycling Cu Chi Tunnels to MyTho.
In the morning, we leave for Ben Nay hamlet where is a secret point on the Saigon Riverside for beginning our cycling day. We firstly cycle through the local market, stunning on many farms/farmers (dusk, chicken, rice, pepper, corn farms) and take a rural ferry cross Saigon River. Riding upstream Saigon river to touch the Memorial Site of the US war. Enjoy some delicious foods before visiting Cu Chi tunnels.

In the afternoon, we take a shortcut to My Tho & wrap our for another beautiful cycling paths to the homestay Mai in Ben Tre. Your dinner will be served by hostess.

• Flexible cycling distance: 35 ~ 60km.
• Type of roads: paved, off-the-beaten-track, paved.
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 3 | Cycling My Tho – Tra Vinh – Vinh Long – Can Tho.
In the morning of your cycle ride is biking on foot paths through rice-fields. Many off-roads are just enough for 2 bikes and mopeds as a system of country foot paths giving you wonder time crossing rice paddies which are linking villages to villages from Tra Vinh to Tieu Can. These routes allow you cycling pass traditional villages of Khmer, most of people here still keep their own traditional way of life. Thatch houses are still popular used and associated within Khmer communities you only see them in this Mekong Delta Bike Tour 6 days. On the way of biking, we will stop at some colorful Khmer Buddhist temples so you can see monks spraying and studying in their class at temple. Right there, our bike guides will tell you the big difference between two branches of Buddhism (Mahayana & Theravada).

In the afternoon ride, we advent on the orchard’s paths with many type of local fruits such as: longan, rambutan, sapodilla, pomelo,.. and spending your great time on the top most beautiful paths under the orchards, cross a few tiny ferries with the flowers along the whole way to get close to Can Tho. By the short drive to check-in in Can Tho hotel around 5h30 pm.

• Flexible cycling distance: 35 ~ 75 km.
• Road type: Easy, moderate, paved.
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 4 | Can Tho – Long Xuyen – Chau Doc.

After you observing farmers exchanging farm products from boat to boat at lively floating market of Cai Rang, we will carry on our cycling adventure with a long day bicycling to Chau Doc. Today’ morning is to explore undiscovered countryside, pedal past bucolic settlements of networks of irrigation canal, we ride to Thai Lai then to Co Do. After lunch, we cycle past bucolic settlements and vibrant green rice paddies on wonderfully quiet track to Long Xuyen city. Enjoy an hour and half driving on A/C van to Chau Doc town.

• Flexible distance: 35 ~ 80 km.
• Type of roads: Easy, paved & moderate.
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 5 | Chau Doc – Tra Su – Cho Moi – Sa Dec.
In your morning’ bike adventure is to explore a low-land in Dong Thap Muoi. The areas have yearly flooded in the wet season. Houses on stilts have seen in this land for a long time but most are not solid houses and built with local materials. First, we will have a 30 minutes motor boat ride to see fish farms, floating village. Second, we bike through Muslim villages, vegetable farms, rice paddy fields and passing many rice husking mills, brick factories. At last, a pleasure time for us to cycle tiny villages on islands, experience locals on Monastery and sharing the country road with local scooters going back from work, and kids ride bicycle home from school. Especially, the ride will take you through peaceful, seemingly undiscovered rural villages by river. Stay a night in none tourist city of Cao Lanh.

• Flexible cycling distance: 35 ~ 75 km.
• Type of roads: Easy & moderate.
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 6 | Sa Dec – Cao Lanh – Xeo Quyt – Cai Be – Saigon.
Enjoy another beautiful day in the old town Sa Dec where is used to be a famous story of Maguerite Duras and Huynh Thuy Le by visiting the L’amant House, and a little walk in the riverside market Sa Dec name. Then, we pedal along the Sa Dec river to through many colourful flower farms to Cao Lanh and transfer to Xeo Quyt for lunch and take a sight-seeing the historic Xeo Quyt.

If time permit, on the way back to Saigon. Our expert cycling guide will show you another stage bike ride from Cai Be to Cai Lay, here is the land of the jack-fruits and beautiful concrete paths before we head to Saigon in the early evening. Fare Well Dinner to be ended our service of Group Vietnam Bike Tour 6 days.

• Flexible cycling distance: 25 ~ 45km.
• Type of roads: paved, easy/flat & moderate.
• Meals: Breakfast & Lunch.

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