Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho 1 Day (morning): start at 5:00am (return back to Saigon around 5:00pm)
05:00 am, VN Bike Tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. We will have a light
breakfast on private car. On the way to Mekong Delta, you can also spread out of sight watching endless green or yellow paddy rice field on both sides of street. Otherwise, taking a nap during the time of transferring is a good thing to do to get more energy back and enjoy the whole tour as well.
After about 3-hour driving from Saigon through the express highway, we reach Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City.
Then, we take a private boat to visit Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the most famous and biggest floating markets in the Mekong Delta. From the early morning, a countless number of boats and sampans will gather here, making the whole area livelier and stunning than ever. While the large boats are full of farm products and specialities, such as vegetables, grapefruit, coconut, banana, watermelon, dragon fruit and rambutan, small ones mainly focus on selling foods, coffee, light snacks, Vietnamese noodles, soft drinks, etc. for breakfast. It would be regretful if you could not drop by and purchase something here.
After that, our tour guide takes you to some traditional workshops. You have great time learning how locals make “Hu Tieu”. The talented chef – Gordon Ramsay, once exclaimed that the bowl of noodles he ate at Cai Rang Floating Market has one of the best broths he has ever tasted.
11:00 am, leaving Can Tho City, we head to Cai Be Province
Then we will visit honeybee farm and taste delicious honey tea with lemon that is really good for health. Moreover, is to enjoy a lot of tropical fruits featuring the typical characteristic of Mekong Delta. Local people also have a python farm for those who are looking for adventure can touch pythons and take photos with them.
Visit coconut sweets workshop to know how to make delicious sweets by
hand.
You can enjoy the melody of “Don Ca Tai Tu”, a genre of traditional folk music which is an indispensable spiritual cultural activity in Mekong Delta people’s lives and officially recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Furthermore, we can relax on the rowing boat going through a mangrove palm canal and continue to ride by tuktuk (electric car) through the villages the way locals did in the 19th century.
Coming back to Saigon ends around 5:00 pm
The very first impression the tour makes on everyone is the extremely lively and crowded trading atmosphere of Cai Rang Floating Market. After that, we’ll head to Cai Be for joining a local cooking class, biking around peaceful village paths, enjoying the melody of South Vietnam folk music, and then relaxing on a rowing sampan through a mangrove palm canal to feel the real Mekong atmosphere.
