Highlights of Ho Chi Minh city and Mekong Delta 9 days

INTRODUCTION 

Numerous highlights of Ho Chi Minh city and Mekong Delta will  surprise you at the first arrival to indochina countries:

• One of the top delicious foods in the world.
• Commercial city of Saigon is one of the most exciting ones for investment.
• The first country was opened the Indochina war under french colonist and occupation american, but it was used to be a pearl of far east Asia.
• Mekong Delta is one of the longest and most beautiful one in the world, we explore the rivers and canals system which made so many unforgettable trips of tourists in the whole world.

Highlights of Trip

• Beautiful biking paths on rice field, orchards of longan, rambutan, guava, jackfruit, durian, ect.. feeling lost in the middle of the jungle but villagers will be waving us wherever.
• History of Mekong Delta, legendary of hero Nguyen Trung Truc and the unsound customs of L’amant story under the love between Huynh Thuy Le and Maguerite Duras.
• Observe the charm of religions of Theravada, Mahayana Buddhism, Muslim and local beliefs.
• Landscape will be changed in each day with each beautiful highlight of boats, ferries, handicraft villages and bustling market on the river.

Summary of Trip

Price Of Join-in Group Tour (Unit: USD)

Which services are included ?

• A/C Transportation.
• Trek/Giant Mountain Bike with helmet, water cage, tools kit.
• All entrance fees and sight-seeing tickets.
• Meals mentioned as B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner.
• Cold mineral water, energy drink, snack, fruit, wet tissue on day tours.
• Accommodation of 9 nights with sharing double/twin room at hotel or homestay.
• Experienced english speaking cycling guide.
• Pick-up at the airport or your hotel.
• Government taxes & service charge.

Which services are excluded ?

• Travel Insurance.
• Personal expenses such as laundry, phone..
• Flight & Visa to Vietnam and Cambodia international border.
• Drinks at the restaurants on day tour.

What to bring with you ?

This is a cycling tour for all kind of travelers, from amateur to professional cyclist. Vietnam By Bike team will tailor your ability exactly. And it will be served all year round, but you should read any request what you can bring with you:

Pack these if you are pro-cyclist.

• Necessary: Insect repellent, normal shoes, passport, tiny backpack, sunglasses.
• Unnecessary: Wide brim hat, camera, flip shoes, cyclist clothes, gloves, pro-pedal.

Important Note

• A/C Transportation bases on the group size, group is lower than 6 without support van, but more than 6 will be used minivan or truck to carry bikes in separately with cyclists.
• We always upgrade the new version of bike, so even though bike will not fit on your 100%. If you have some requests, please help our best before you enjoy this amazing cycling trip.
• Let us know if you can not have the religional foods, elergy foods, vegetarian foods because vietnamese foods are one of your great experiences.
• Homestay is always located in wild area, but it’s mostly beautiful scenery surroundings and has the sharing bath room, out-linked window, mosquito net, wind fan, etc..

RELATED CYCLING TOURS IN MEKONG DELTA

• Cycling from Saigon to Cu Chi Tunnels 01 day.
• Cycling from Saigon to MyTho 01 day.
• Cycling from Saigon to CaiBe 01 day.
• Cycling from Saigon to CanTho 02 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to BenTre and to VinhLong 02 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to BenTre and TraVinh to CanTho 03 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to CaiBe and SaDec to CanTho 03 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to MyTho, BenTre, TraVinh, CanTho, ChauDoc 04 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to MyTho, CaiBe, CanTho, ChauDoc, HaTien 04 days. This cycling tour for one who want to travel to Phu Quoc Island.
• Cycling from Saigon to TanAn, MyTho, VinhLong, CanTho, ChauDoc, SaDec, Saigon 05 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to VinhLong, TraVinh, CanTho, RachGia, ChauDoc, SaDec, Saigon 06 days.
• Cycling from Saigon to MyTho, BenTre, TraVinh, SocTrang, RachGia, HaTien, ChauDoc, LongXuyen, SaDec, VinhLong, CanTho 07 days.

Important Note:

• This is only one of sample cycling tours in Mekong Delta, Vietnam By Bike will proud to be your expert and support your best holiday.
• The cycling tours will make your satisfy in Mekong Delta – Vietnam, it bases on your practical requests we’ll build your private cycling tour or joint in group cycling tour.

ITINERARY

In the vary of cycling trip 9 days to explore these highlights of Ho Chi Minh city and Mekong Delta, we would like to tailor your sample cycling tour below. It will not fit on your plan probably, you can leave your message to us which help your perfect holiday:

1st day: Saigon Arrival.

Cycling team of “Vietnam By Bike” will be greeting you at the exit gate of Saigon Airport and head to check-in hotel. Leisure relaxing and free exploring at first impression Vietnam.

2nd day: Saigon City (B/L/D).

Attract the highlights of Saigon by van, we have an early depart to War Remnant Museum where you can cover the whole modern war of american during 30 years. In the other hand, This city still exists the mumerous contructions were built by french colonist since 1858, why we stun into Notre Dame Cathedral, Central Post Office. Contemplating an antique beauty of Opera House and Saigon City Hall.

After lunch, we transfer to China Town with a quick look after chinese business skills and their religious beliefs at Lady Temple (built 1744). Afterward, we stop over our bike’s house to fit your bike, it is one of the most important steps to make your satisfied cycling trip. Back to hotel until the welcome dinner with us.

3rd day: Cycling from Saigon to Cu Chi Tunnels (B/L/D).

Drive out of Saigon, we ride to north-west for Cu Chi Tunnels. We deliver the first cycle day introduction about Vietnam and a good chance to fine-tune the bikes. The tunnels were a Vietcong base, used by vietnamese guerrillas as living quarters and escape routes and a network consist of 3 levels with 250km length. Although it was originally very narrow, some parts have been accommodated tourists but necessary to crawl on hands and knees. Jam in traffic by van to return to Saigon for dinner.

4th day: Cycling from Saigon to My Tho (B/L/D).

Beginning of cycling day is the vegetable farms in Can Giuoc, after driving 1 hour from Saigon and cycle along the creeks, cross the history Vam Co river to visit the Monument of Nguyen Trung Truc hero. Touring into rice paddies and break for local lunch.

Follow the coffee siesta, we tailor your dirt roads in the middle of dragon fruit land, where we might taste the fresh one from our kindness farmers. We end at Vinh Trang pagoda (built 1849) – a mixture style of Eupropean and Asian architecture. Check in the homestay on Unicorn Island.

5th day: Cycling from My Tho to Tra Vinh (B/L/D).

This day’s ride, we escort you to the south-east of Mekong Delta. We spend your short hostest time with vietnamese family and jump on your steel horse toward to the wharf for a boat trip on Mekong River: cruise to the phoenix island to visit flower farm/orchard and honey bee-house where you try any bee products as bee-honey, bee-pollen, royal jelly and honey wine with banana. Boating down to workshop in order to learn how to make coconut candy with some samples tasted. Explore the distillery by sampan then cycle on the track paths in the huge of coconut region, with boarding on many ferries, picturesque hamlets. Reach Tra Vinh in late afternoon for a night stay.

6th day: Cycling from Tra Vinh to Can Tho (B/L/D).

A lovely khmer town of Tra Vinh, We start the bike ride from the hotel through this quiet town to the Lotus Pond of Ba Om – the most popular destination that is organised the festivals of Khmer culture, take a promenade to Theraverda budhist Pagoda nearby. From there, we escape this downtown to the various rice fields pretty concret narrow way to Tra Met and Tra On. After a good time for lunch and break, pedal on My Hoa Pomelo Island and head upstream of the second biggest river of Mekong to Can Tho for a night stop.

7th day: Cycling from Can Tho to Chau Doc (B/L/D).

Take an early boat trip to Cai Rang floating market, more cruise into the natural creeks and finish it at the biking point. Pleasure your excited lesson with chocolate maker at cacao farm Muoi Cuong and monkey bridge, speed your bike up on easy roads with shade by lush of Milky Apple and Sapodilla trees and also some poor trails will be shored your hands abit. Lunch at Blue Sky Crocodile Land and take a rush transfer to Sam Mountain for a panorama sunset at 5pm (you may ride a 10km more before sun goes down). Check in around 6:30pm and dinner with vietnamese dishes.

8th day: Cycling from Chau Doc to Sa Dec (B/L/D).

We have a busy morning at the featured market of Chau Doc, the specialty is fish-sauce which showed stinky smell and very lively colourful life. After there, we will board a boat to the floating village on the Mighty Mekong River and pause at floating house to look beneath their farm for Basa Catfish, Tilapias, Snapper and Carp fish in the model farm’s levels. We carry on boat to Cham village, where a small minority group are living on the narrow island Chau Giang, they run the handy product business as weaving towel, scap, muslim hat, sarong. Afterward, we return on bike ride to the Tra Sư reserved forest. There, you are again enjoyed a long tail boat to the middle of park and change into a composite sampan for bird watching sanctuary with lunch at local family near Cambodia border.

In the afternoon, we take ferry and cycle onto an impressive paths which observe the sleeping mat making village Dinh Yen, boat building village Ba Rai and orange orchards. Hotel’s check-in in early evening in Sa Dec.

9th day: Cycling from Sa Dec to Saigon (B/L/D).

Enjoy your leisure breakfast and do a promenade past Sa Dec market to Ancient House Huynh Thuy Le – about the marvelous passionate love story with Magurite Duras. We bike on our favourite island An Binh – an farmland of Rambutan, longan and a large of guava with knowing as a beauty for homestay – here is also our lunch.

Ferry boards us on mainland and build 2 hours more at the pop-rice workshop, jackfruit and durian orchards before we transfer back to Saigon around 4:30pm to prepare for the farewell dinner with us to end the service.

GALLERY

Look after our practical pictures about this cycling tour. You will understand with the bike, you will enjoy how much highlights in Mekong Delta with local guide of Vietnam By Bike. This is an sample cycling trip for hobby cyclists because it takes your long-time in a small region of Vietnam. If your holiday is shorter than this, LET’S TALK ONLINE to our experts for your suitable one.