Day 1: HoChiMinh City - CaiBe Floating Market - Delta Home-Stay
Drive from Saigon to CaiBe, stopping en route at an elaborate CaoDai Temple. From CaiBe, take a boat trip along the mighty Mekong River and its tributaries to view the daily lives of people who work and play on the waterways of the Mekong Delta. The trip includes a visit to the unique "floating" market at CaiBe, and to a family-run business producing rice paper - a key ingredient in VietNamese cuisine. Lunch is on an island mid-river, in a local house set amongst fruit orchards and bonsai trees, and then followed by a performance of traditional VietNamese music. After lunch, continue on to VinhLong. (Seasonally, on the way to the Mekong Delta, we can enjoy the peaceful scenes of farmers seeding, ploughing, and harvesting the rice crop.) We spend the night in a typical VietNamese local house.
OVERNIGHT AT LOCAL HOUSE IN VINHLONG (Lunch, Dinner)
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Day 2: VinhLong - CanTho
In the morning, visit craft industries in VinhLong to see local residents make tofu, floor tiles, bricks, and rice farming. Drive to CanTho and spend the afternoon at a fruit market and visiting the Bang Lang bird sanctuary. OVERNIGHT IN CANTHO
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Day 3: CanTho - HoChiMinh City
Take a morning boat ride from the NinhKieu dock in CanTho to visit the teeming floating markets at CaiRang. Cruise through small canals and stop at a fruit orchard to taste some of the succulent fruits of the Mekong Delta. Return drive to HoChiMinh City.
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*An alternate trip is a visit to the PhungHiep floating market and to a snake market
