DEPARTURE: Wednesday, Sartuday
GROUP SIZE: 2 - 12 pax
PICK-UP: 07:00 – 07:15 (the time of pick-up depends on the customer’s hotel/ accommodation’s exact position).
RETURN: 18:00 – 18:30
ROUTE: HCMC – Ben Tre – Tra Vinh – HCMC
HIGHLIGHT:
Pick you up at your hotel and depart for Ben Tre. After arriving at Phong Nẫm Bridge, board the boat & cruise along the Chẹt Sậy River. The cool breeze from the river and lush tropical islands along its banks immediately excite you to explore all the great things ahead.
Arrive and visit various local workplaces to find many wonderful examples of how local people use ageless techniques to create their crafts, dried coconut, handy coconut husk brooms, and many family businesses using coir, or coconut fiber, to create amazing art. Drive around the village roads by “Xe Lôi”, the local vehicle, a motorized rickshaw.
Perfect your day with a delicious and filling lunch at a local host house.
Break time, treating yourself to a relaxing time to relish the beautiful countryside.
time relaxing while rowing in a small boat slowly through the natural canals to get a sense of how truly beautiful this area is.
Proceed to Tra Vinh province. Visit “Con Chim” community tourism site is built according to the naturally favorable rule, based on the cultural values of the community, and operates in the direction of slow tourism. Time for cycling around Con Chim island and meeting the local villagers to experience the local daily life.
Embark on the boat and return to the dock. Check-in to the hotel and relax
After breakfast, arrive and visit the mat weaving village with nearly 100 years of development, Tra Vinh's mat industry has developed from production and self-consumption into a well-known quality product. Visit and learn about Kmer culture: Angkorajaborey Pagoda, also called Ang Pagoda, the Tra Vinh Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture, and Ba Om Pond. It is one of the types in the system of 141 pagodas of the Khmer in Tra Vinh province, and Ba Om Pond is a unique and famous landscape in Tra Vinh Province. The pond is rectangular, 300 m wide, and 500 m long. The pond's surface is clear and blue, covered by lotus flowers and water lilies. A hundred-year-old ancient oily tree whose roots rise from the ground creates strange shapes that attract tourists here, and visit the Tra Vinh Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture
After that visited the coconut nectar company, a traditional job for local people collecting coconut blossoms from coconut flowers.
Have lunch at a local restaurant and return to Ho Chi Minh City.
Inclusion:
AC van/minibus pick up, transfer (just for a centrally located hotel in Dist 1), & sightseeing as per program, English-speaking guide
Local boat trip,
Local interaction,
Lunch (L), breakfast (B), dinner (D)
Bike, entrance fees, accommodation based on twin or double share basic with 2-star standard hotel
Exclusions:
Drinks and meals were not mentioned in the tour price, travel insurance, personal expenses & tips, other services not mentioned in the tour price, Tax
NOTE:
Pick up and transfer just for the centrally located hotel/accommodation in Dist 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
We are not responsible for your lateness.
Infant rates apply provided they do not occupy a seat and the tour inclusions. Please advise the supplier if you have from 1 infant at time of booking.
