Day 1: Ho Chi Minh city - ChauDoc.
Drive to CaiBe, boat trip visit floating market and cruise over mighty Mekong river to island, promenade around fruit orchards, boat to VinhLong. Coach trip to LongXuyen, explore the village making incense stick before heading onto ChauDoc for the first night.
Day 2: ChauDoc - CanTho.
Up early for a cruise through the amazing riverside market with all its bustling activity and smorgasbord of sounds, colours and smells. We also cruise through the floating village with tons and tons of fish farmed underneath hundreds of shelters. Discover the ethnic Cham village with its famous Mubarak Mosque and watch the locals go about their traditional weaving. After visiting the famous Lady Chua Xu Temple (1820) we walk up the sacred Sam Mountain with its panoramic view over the vast plains into Cambodia. After lunch we continue on to CanTho, with a stop at a bird sanctuary, for our second night.
Day 3: CanTho - Ho Chi Minh city.
An early start for a boat trip to Cai Rang floating markets, then we have a long distance cruise & walk on a quiet country road to take in the magnificent scenery and get close to the locals as they go about their daily routine. In the afternoon we head back to Saigon, lunch break en route. Back in Saigon around 17:00.
