MEKONG MOTORBIKE TOUR FOR HIDDEN BEAUTY
Overview
The highlight of this motorbike tour besides the passion of riding perhaps the experience with locals when we stay overnight at their places and enjoy the hospitality with the families. Prepare the dinner together and share the life experience with people whose lives are as simple as the old time will bring us so many thoughts about lives, people and culture which in the busy daily life we might have missed.
Tour Route Map
* Mekong Delta Motorcycle Tour to Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Can Tho – BRIEF ITINERARY:
Day 1: Saigon – Long An – Motorbike Tour to My Tho & Ben Tre
Day 2: Ben Tre Motorbike Tour to Vinh Long – Boat Trip to Can Tho
Day 3: Can Tho – Cai Rang back to Saigon by Motorbike
Day 1 – Mekong Delta Motorcycle Tour to Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Can Tho : Saigon Motorcycle Tour Long An – My Tho to Ben Tre
Morning, our guide with motorbikes will pick you up at your hotel in Saigon and depart to Can Duoc, belongs to Long An Province on dirty off-roads. This town is known as the land of jasmine rice, sticky rice in the country. Take a short ride westward to visit Ancient Rach Cat Fortress, one of greatest fortress in Vietnam built in 1903 by French.
Then ride eastward to visit an ancient house with 100 columns. Here we will enjoy tea and fruits offered by the owner of the ancient house. Continue riding to Cho Gao (or Rice Market), passing through quaint villages and dragon fruit farms.
Arrive in My Tho – the heart of the Mekong Delta, stop by the bank of Tien Giang River. Have lunch then take a boat trip on Mekong River to Ben Tre. En-route visit some local families, taste honey-bee and enjoy fruits then visit some workshops producing coconut candy. Overnight at local house in Ben Tre.
Activities: 6.5 hours of riding, 02 hours of boat trips
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 2 – Mekong Delta Motorcycle Tour to Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Can Tho : Ben Tre Motorbike Tour to Mo Cay – Cho Lach – Vinh Long to Can Tho
After a simple breakfast with host, then check out and say goodbye to the host then we head to Mo Cay, here we take a very rural route to Cho Lach via the local ferry. Stop a while to take picture then turn on the river-side road with very scenic view to reach Dinh Khao Ferry.
While on this ferry which is the connection of Ben Tre Province and Vinh Long Province, we have chance to see many boats standing by on the river for fish-netting and some small boats bartering with each other.
Disembark onto other side of Tien River, we arrive Vinh Long for lunch break and relax. Then continue hitting the road to Can Tho.
Arrival Can Tho city, we continue riding 10kms to Cai Son canal for home stay. Check in then take a slow ride along the path of fruit orchards and sometimes you may also hear the birds singing, cocks warbling at sunset. Pay visits at one orchard, small woodwork shop, tree garden laden with fruits, rice fields…
On the village roads, we may catch many interesting scene of children bathing in the river, ladies rowing boat to bring fruits home after harvest. This time is a chance to enjoy the full of plainness, quietness of the southern countryside and hospitality of the Mekong delta locals. When night gradually comes, ride back to the local house for dinner. Or you can turn back to homestay earlier to cook dinner together with the host. Free cultural exchanging in the evening.
At 8:00 PM, we have a night cruise to observe the fire-flies flying or hiding in the bushes of cork-trees like few natural lighting strings for decorating a Christmas tree. 9.30PM is the time for us to disembark and back to local house. Overnight in Can Tho.
Activities: 05 hours of riding, 1.5 hours of boat trips
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3 – Mekong Delta Motorcycle Tour to Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Can Tho: Can Tho Motorcycle Tour Passing Cai Rang back to Saigon
6.30 AM, wake up early for simple breakfast with Vietnamese milky coffee. Take a boat trip to Cai Rang floating market, one of the busiest fruit market in Southeast Asia. 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.
Back to homestay for checking out. Then we will ride back to Can Tho city for a short visit at Can Tho central market and Binh Thuy ancient house whose design is a combination of Vietnam and France with interesting involved stories but also a garden with various flowers and fruits, including a wide range of orchids and a record cactus.
Heading back to Saigon by 1A highway on your “steel horses” with stops for rest. Lunch en route. Arrive your hotel in Saigon in late afternoon or evening.
Activities: 05 hours of riding, 02 hours of boat trips
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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* INCLUDE
Motorbike(s) (Honda or Yamaha)
Helmet(s)
Gasoline on tour
English or French speaking guide
Accommodation as indicated in the itinerary (based on twin or/and triple shared)
Homestay permission
Meals as indicated in the itinerary
Entrance fees
* EXCLUDE
Travel insurance
Visa
Air-ticket
Tips
Personal expenses
