Mekong Delta Cycling Tour – 4 Interesting Days To Discover
The Mekong Delta has beautiful landscapes that attract visitors who have visited it once and will remember it forever. This bike tour in Mekong Delta is the best option for anyone who wants to explore the Mekong Delta’s landscapes, people, and cultural experience.
Golden sunset on the Mekong River, Vietnam
With a 4-day Mekong Delta cycling tour, you’ll still enjoy the best trip to the West of the river.
Mekong Delta Cycling Tour
Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – Cai Be – Mekong Ecolodge cycle tour (30 – 55 km)
After having breakfast in your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, the biking in Mekong Delta will depart from Ho Chi Minh City and go to Cailay. You will spend one hour on the highway, leaving Sai Gon.
During this time, you can have brief sightseeing around Sai Gon. Reaching Cai Be, you will start cycling through tropical fruit gardens and enjoy delicious fruits. We’ll also observe the production of rice paper, popcorn, popped rice, and coconut candy.
The floating markets in Cai Be are also well-known for letting visitors experience local cuisine and culture. You can stop cycling and transfer your bike tour to one of our boats that will take you through the floating market and several historic towns.
This cycling in Mekong Delta gives you a chance to discover the local culture. Then, we’ll go to the homestay, eat lunch on the island, and have a well-deserved drink at a riverfront café.
Cai Be Floating Market Mekong Delta in Vietnam
Day 2: Cai Be – Cho Lach – Mo Cay – Tra Vinh bike tour (55 – 78km)
You will start your new day with a short boat trip to Vinh Long, which is one of the famous fruit towns in the Mekong Delta. The train runs along the floating market. You can watch how people trade on the river is unique and strange! You can drop in for a drink of coconuts and a cup of coffee on the river (at your own expense) to feel the difference!
Then, you will have lunch at Cho Lach market and move to Tan Trung dist. Your bike tours will start again from Tra Vinh province. This cycle tour will pass through the peaceful roads of local villages, admired by beautiful coconut trees along the countryside.
The biking tour will stop by visiting Khmer temples and checking in at the Cuu Long Hotel later. The day’s last stop is Tra Vinh province, where you will enjoy your dinner.
Tourist couple riding bicycle in the Mekong Delta region, Ben Tre, South Vietnam. Woman and man having fun cycling on trail among green tropical woodland and coconut palm trees.
Day 3: Tra Vinh – Tieu Can – Tra On – Binh Minh – Can Tho cycle trip (45 – 80 km)
The car will take you to visit the cultural and historical site of Ao Ba Om, one of the cultural points of the Tra Vinh people because of the unique scenery here from the oil trees forming the scenery through the ancient roots and hills.
After that, visitors visit the Khmer villages and museum next to Ba Om Pond to explore Khmer culture. Local people are friendly and open-minded. Continue the cycling tour to Can Tho through Can Tho Bridge – The longest cable-stayed bridge in Southeast Asia.
This cycle tour will also stop by farmlands or some local hamlets where you will have your lunch here. You will rest until the afternoon. Your cycle trip will continue heading to Can Tho province.
Life in the Mekong delta, Can Tho, Vietnam.
Day 4: Can Tho – Cai Rang Floating Market – Ho Chi Minh City (30 – 35 km)
The car takes us to Ninh Kieu wharf to board a motorboat to visit one of the largest floating markets in the Mekong Delta – Cai Rang. This market is one of the most memorable experiences of the Mekong Delta bike tour among Vietnam cycling tours.
This wholesale market specializes in buying and selling goods on the river, especially vegetables, tubers, fruits, and vegetables. These fruits are decorated on numerous boats. You can also join the busy air of the market by shopping and eating food.
There are a lot of delicious foods such as Hu Tieu, Bun Rieu, and many more unique foods that you only find with good taste in this market.
Then, you get on a horse-drawn carriage to take you along the village road of Quoi Son commune for visitors to see the orchards and the idyllic life of the coconut people. Use a rowing boat to weave in the small canal to explore two rows of natural water coconuts and enjoy the fresh atmosphere of the garden.
Mekong Delta, Ben Tre, Vietnam
Conclusion
We will take a short biking tour to Vinh Long, where you will have lunch at a local restaurant. After that, we will go back to Ho Chi Minh city. You can rest and relax after checking in at your hotel. Our bike tour in Mekong Delta is accomplished.
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