Mekong delta tour 2 days 1 night from Ho Chi Minh City

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho (L )

Morning: We depart from Ho Chi Minh city to My Tho city for one and half hours by bus. A smooth one and half hour bus ride passing the green rice fields, leads you to the beautiful rural MYTHO city. The morning trip continues on the motorized boat on the Tien River to the Qui (Tortoise islet). On the way, you will view the fishing port, stilt houses, boat-buildingworkshops, the other Dragon, Phoenix and Unicorn Islet. The cruise will lead you through Bao Dinh canal to enter Ben Tre province, “the country of coconut”, to see a typical agricultural model call “Garden – Pond – Cage” then enjoy coconut candy mill and the relaxing honey tea. Then the amazing rowing boat trip on the small canal – fully covered by the shadow of the water coconut’s tree and cool breezes is something you cannot miss. Lunch will be served right in the heart of the orchard garden.

Afternoon: we will walk into the village, visit fruit garden, enjoy the tropical fruit while you are listening to the sound of “Southern Vietnamese folk music” performed by the islanders. Here we also can join the daily activities of the local people and enjoy the atmosphere of this beautiful natural countryside. Your expectations will be fulfilled by final boat trip back to MyTho on the Tan Thach natural canal. Then you will continue to Can Tho by A/C bus in two hours, arrived in Can Tho city – the heart of Mekong River. Check in at hotel.

Home stay: You will be transferred to the riverside by “the King Local transport” which is a wagon pulled by a motorbike or horse. Meet the boat on the canal side to proceed to the Phong Dien village. Enjoy your nice dinner with your “Sweet Vietnamese Family”. Overnight on wooden bed with straw mattress.

Day 2: Can Tho – Cai Rang – Ho Chi Minh city (B, L)

Morning: After breakfast, you first take the boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River. The boat trip later takes you to the Cai Rang floating market, which is the most original ones and bustling places of the region. Have you tried the Vietnamese vermicelli noodle? So, you will go and see how it is made.

Afternoon: you will trek along the village to get in touch with the local people. Here, you have a chance to experience how to pass a “Monkey bridge” which is built by only one bamboo. Leaving the village, you will go to visit Can Tho market, have lunch there. Then, our bus will transfer you back HCM City around 5.00pm. End tour. Say goodbye and hoping see you again.

Tour Gallery:

We offer many options of classic tours, cruising, biking, overnight. Go to mekong delta tours to find more tours

Top 5 hotels in Mekong delta 2016

Top 5 Hotels  in Mekong delta 2016 - See the best hotels in the Mekong delta as determined from ratings by travelers like you.

1. Victoria Can Tho Resort

The Victoria Can Tho Resort fronts the Hau River, it is the essence of the Delta. Just as the Delta captivated a young Marguerite Duras, the Victoria provides a backdrop for escapism for the contemporary visitor.

The Victoria Can Tho Resort features 92 rooms, including 8 luxurious suites, all designed with wood flooring, authentic Vietnamese decoration and balconies offering spectacular views of the river, pool or of the garden. Each room combines the elegance of traditional artefacts and the comfort of an international standard hotel.

Looking for new experience during the most joyous occasion of the year? Enjoy tranquility within the resort and join the Lunar New Year festivities just steps away on the adjacent riverside boardwalk.

2. West Hotel

At West Hotel, you will enjoy not only the best services, ranging from coffee-bar, swimming pool, massage, to restaurant but the natural beauty of Hau river. Besides, the hotel is an ideal place for conferences, meetings, events and parties with the venues’ capacity up to 150 persons, mordern sound – light system, and large space.

With the passion and determination of providing the highest quality services in Cantho City, West Hotel always attempt to satisfy your demands and expectations when arriving here.

3. Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa

An environmentally friendly boutique resort… located in the famous “floating market” town of Cai Be Vietnam, two hours south of Ho Chi Minh City. Positioned directly on the Mekong River, guests are able to view and experience the local life of the Mekong Delta while enjoying all the unique amenities the resort has to offer.

The 5 best Mekong delta hotels 2016 - Mekong delta tours - Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa

The property has a 7-hectare organic garden… that services the resort’s Mekong Medley Restaurant. Thus ensuring that only the freshest ingredients are offered to Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s guests during their visit. The menu offers an eclectic variety of customary Vietnamese and International Cuisine. Cooking Classes are available by Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s chef and you can always stroll through Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s garden to see the produce in its natural environment before it goes to Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s restaurant. Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa even have a fish farm where you have the opportunity to catch your own fish for your dinner that evening!

vThe 5 best Mekong delta hotels 2016 - Mekong delta tours - Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa-1

Day and night tours are offered… by boat, bicycle, or simply walking around the local town and market with Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s friendly staff who are native to the area. Therefore, they are very knowledgeable in assisting guests and providing detailed information about the Vietnamese customs and culture, making Mekong delta tours a one of a kind experience.

At the Mekong Riverside Resort & Spa… Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa is committed to staying as environmentally friendly as possible while simultaneously helping out the local community. From Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s windmill powered irrigation system that allocates water from the Mekong River to Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s garden, to solar powered walkway lights, Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa want to make the smallest ecological footprint as possible and only hire local staff. Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa is proud to say that Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa is pioneers in this “green movement in Vietnam and is always seeking new ways to minimize Mekong Riverside Boutique Resort & Spa’s impact on the environment.

4. Anh Dao Mekong Hotel

Designed for both business and leisure travel with well-positioned in Ninh Kieu Quay / City Center, Anh Dao Mekong Hotel is a new 3 star hotel that the ideal point of departure for your excursions in Can Tho. Only 1.1 km from the city center, the hotel’s strategic location ensures that guests can quickly and easily reach many local points of interest. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to Can Tho’s must-see destinations : Night Market, Ninh Kieu Quay to take a boat to visit the floating markets , local temples , Pagodas… Other Can Tho Dining options can be found nearby within 500 metres away.

The 5 best Mekong delta hotels 2016 - Mekong delta tours - Anh Dao Mekong Hotel

This Can Tho Hotel has 33 well-appointed rooms, all of which exude an atmosphere of total peace and harmony. On the 9th floor , there is a terrace coffee shop where you can enjoy your drink to see the the panorama view around the city and river in the sun-set time, or just find a romantic time with your friends in the cozy atmosphere.

The 5 best Mekong delta hotels 2016 - Mekong delta tours - Anh Dao Mekong Hotel-2

Friendly staff at Anh Dao Mekong Hotel can assist guests with 24 hours service, luggage storage, laundry service and meeting facilities. Sightseeing activities and travel arrangements can be made at the tour desk, while car rental and shuttle service are available at a surcharge. Free WiFi in every rooms as well as public area to bring the most convince for business travelers .No matter what our reasons are for visiting Can Tho, Anh Dao Mekong Hotel will make you fee instantly at home.

5. Iris Hotel Can Tho

In the Greek culture, “Iris” is defined as the glorious rainbow. Dating back to Greek mythology, people perceived the Iris flower as a message from the gods and goddesses to mankind on Earth. They also believed that every one of us represented a piece of heaven. Through its beautiful meaning, Iris has gained an undeniable attraction and admiration to many people. In fact, the European countries long time ago had symbolized Iris as faith, hope, wisdom, courage and admiration. Iris Hotel Can Tho step into the business as the next young and powerful generation of hospitality. With Iris Hotel Can Tho’s mission statement – “Your satisfaction is Iris Hotel Can Tho’s value”, Iris Hotel Can Tho believe that every customer deserves a uniquely wonderful experience. In compliance with our hotel’s name – Iris, Iris Hotel Can Tho want to create a paradise for our customers on behalf of their choise to come with Iris Hotel Can Tho.

Travel guide to the Mekong Delta and Islands

Travel guide to the Mekong Delta and Islands
This lush, tropical delta – totally dominated by and dependent on Southeast Asia’s mightiest river, the Mekong – makes a fascinating region to explore, best by boat and on one of numerous organised tours from HCMC. Relatively unspoilt, Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam’s largest, is a tropical getaway renowned for white-sand beaches, but its wild beauty is also a haven for nature-lovers.

Mekong Delta
Once a hostile swampland, the French drained this region, transforming it into lucrative plantations, paddy fields and mines. Most of the chemical herbicides sprayed during the Vietnam War fell over the Mekong Delta, denying the Viet Cong cover and in the process decimating agricultural lands and mangrove forests. Yet today, the Mekong Delta is Vietnam’s most productive agricultural area, producing nearly half of the nation’s annual food crop.

Nutrient-rich deposits carried by the Mekong River and its comprehensive network of waterways and nine tributaries (hence the local name, ‘River of Nine Dragons’) makes this region extraordinarily fertile for rice, bananas, coconuts, trop­ical fruit and sugar cane. It’s this very luscious, intensively cultivated landscape and rustic way of life that make this area so picturesque and appealing. Secluded waterways with overhanging foliage lined with stilt houses, mangrove swamps, paddy fields, fruit orchards and welcoming locals make up much of the scenario.

Independent travel can be frustrating – transport is basic, time-consuming and water-based – so for less hassle, inclusive tours are the best way to experience this area. Many tours incorporate visits by small boats to fruit orchards, cottage industries, Khmer temples, early-morning floating markets, or penetrate deep into a labyrinth of narrow waterways. Increasingly, some incorporate bicycle trips, home stays or one-way boat tours terminating in Phnom Penh (Cambodia).

Places to visit on the Mekong

My Tho y is the first stop out of HCMC; done to death by tourism over the years, westward hubs like Vinh Long, Ben Tre, Cai Be and Can Tho afford more authentic experiences, less rushed in multi-day tours. Further west, Chau Doc offers Khmer ethnic communities, floating fish farms and Sam Mountain, with sacred pagodas and sweeping views. Across the Cambodian border, Ca Mau National Park and Tram Chim National Park are important havens for water birds. The more remote west coast is far less touristy, with the sleepy fishing port of Ha Tien, plus Rach Gia, the launch pad for Phu Quoc Island, 62 nautical miles west.

Phu Quoc Island

Located in the Gulf of Thailand, a few kilometres from southern Cambodia, Vietnam’s largest island seems a world away. Despite being a natural tropical paradise, Phu Quoc’s tourism industry is still small, although there are several resorts already. It has a wild, ­frontier-like ambience, with basic infrastructure (roads are mainly dirt tracks). Offshore fishing, fermented fish sauce and pepper cultivation are the main activities; the island is around the size of Singapore (593 sq km/229 sq miles) and Duong Dong is the only settlement of any size. If you seek a more simplified, back-to-nature existence, this island is for you.

Formerly an island prison camp, today Phu Quoc’s main raison d’être is some of Vietnam’s most magnificent beaches – some of the whitest and most deserted. The main resort area runs down the southwest’s coconut palm tree-lined beach, but with many other beautiful beaches and coves, other more secluded boltholes are available. There is also superb scuba-diving and snorkelling, offering transparent turquoise waters with colourful reefs teeming with fish, many native to Vietnamese waters. Boat trips for diving, snorkelling and fishing are easily arranged.

The mountainous interiors are mostly forested, and much of this is protected as a national park, where hiking possibilities abound. And as Vietnam’s most western point, this is the only place you can watch the sun set all the way. (insightguides)

=> Along Mekong Delta – Phu Quoc island tour 6 days 5 nights

A boat trip on the Mekong - Travel - Vietnam-mekongdelta

Visitors to Ho Chi Minh City can choose from a wide range of boat trips into the Mekong delta, but one of the first to take tourists beyond the towns and well-known Cai Be floating market to smaller farms and settlements is Bassac, run by a French former oil exec and his Vietnamese wife.

The market town of Can Tho was all noise and shouts and busy people, but once the refurbished rice barge with its cosy en suite cabins cast off from a town pier, all was peaceful. My thoughts turned to Willie Wonka's factory as we cruised along a chocolate-coloured channel.

Disembarking on a small, equally Dairy Milk canal in rural Hao Thanh district, we took a short walk with guide Lan along raised paths to the house of a Mrs Cam. Tourists are still rare enough in these parts for our small group to draw excited "hellos" from groups of children even 100m away across the water. One farmer snapped a pic of my weird blonde head with his phone.

Everything growing so abundantly in this fertile land is used for something, Lan told us: leaves for salads and soups, water hyacinth leaves for household goods, banana stems for rope, and fruit, of course. Mrs Cam and family served us pineapples, mangoes and jackfruit, and tiny cups of tea at her waterside house and, with help from Lan, our little group of five Brits chatted and exchanged jokes with our hosts until it grew dark.

The people of the delta are known within Vietnam as happy-go-lucky types who live for the moment. Thanks to all that cocoa-y silt in the river, the land is super-fertile, and life is pretty laid-back. Lanterns and torches lit our way back to the landing stage, where we climbed into the small boat that would deliver us back to the Bassac.

I stared back up the bank to where the family were waving and smiling. Yes, we'd paid for the privilege of dipping into their lives for an hour or two, but I felt very pleased with the bargain, and our hosts gave a good impression of being happy with it, too. (theguardian)

=> Mekong Delta tour My Tho – Ben Tre – Can Tho – Chau Doc/PhnomPenh 3 days 2 nights

Mekong Delta River Tour Ho Chi Minh City Reviews

Most flights to Vietnam land in its chaotic business hub – Ho Chi Minh City aka Saigon. Now we can definitely forgive you for staring at postcards with picture-perfect Vietnamese panoramas of rice paddies while you are surrounded by Saigon’s nightmarish traffic. These postcards seem to be selling a bucolic haven, enveloped by mist, that’s nowhere to be found. The only ‘mist’ you’ll see here is a result of the fumes arising from thousands of motorbikes on Saigon’s busy roads. If you have over a week or two, it’s possible to experience idyllic Vietnam in all its glory at Halong Bay, Phu Quoc, or Mui Ne/Phan Thiet. If not, then a Day Trip to the Mekong Delta is the perfect way to get a taste of the gorgeous Vietnamese countryside.

A 2-hour drive through suburban Saigon leads to My Tho, an important market town and the gateway to the bustling floating markets of the Mekong Delta. The Mekong River, known as The Mighty Dragon or The River of the Nine Dragons in Vietnam, is the life-line of six countries in Asia (Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and China). It passes through temple cities, lush tropical forests, swamps, rice plantations and boasts of some of the richest and most fertile landscapes in the world.