5 Days The Best Mekong Delta Cycling Tours
Tour Overview
The Best Mekong Cycling Tours the mighty Mekong River tumbles down through China’s Yunnan province, squeezes between Thailand and Laos, then slides through Cambodia before reaching Vietnam. Here, in...
Code of Tour: TAD0000028077
Length of Travel: 5 Day
Destinations of Tour:
Departure City: Ho Chi Minh City
Price of Tour: Request
Type of Tour: Private
Features of Tour: Cycling
The Best Mekong Cycling Tours the mighty Mekong River tumbles down through China’s Yunnan province, squeezes between Thailand and Laos, then slides through Cambodia before reaching Vietnam. Here, in a flat, comma-shaped delta protruding from the south of the country, the river fragments and spreads out into innumerable tributaries and rivulets, all meandering slowly seawards. It’s in and around the delta’s myriad waterways that you’ll find some of Vietnam’s most iconic images: shimmering emerald paddy fields, endless horizons punctuated by coconut trees, cone-hatted farmers hauling fruit and sugar cane from the ground, and markets run from colourfully painted boats
TOUR ITINERARY
Day 1: Sai Gon – Tra Vinh (L/D) (25 – 45 km)
8:00 AM pick up from your hotel and after 2 hours drive on old highway 1A to the starting point. Right here, all bikes are ready for your cycling adventure in Mekong Delta. Off-roads cycling with well-trained bike guides from mekongbikingtours will give you more time to understand the local inhabitants of gardening villages. All unique routes in the afternoon enable you to take time to ride on narrow paths with kids finished from school. Your guide is also telling you about the education system in Mekong Delta’s countryside. Stay your first night in the town of Tra Vinh.
Day 2: Tra Vinh – Tieu Can – Cau Ke – Can Tho (B/L/D) (50 – 80 km)
On the morning of your cycle ride bike on footpaths through ride fields. Many narrow paths are just enough for bicycles and mopeds crossing rice paddy fields linking villages to villages from Tra Vinh to Cau Ke via Tieu Can. These routes allow you to ride past traditional villages of Khmer, most people here still keep their traditional way of living style. Thatch houses are still popular used and associated with Khmer communities in Vietnam. Stopping at some colorful Khmer Buddhist temples, right here our bike guides will tell you the big difference between the two branches of Buddhism. One is Mahayana and the other is called Theravada. Continue your bike adventure in the afternoon by exploring tropical fruit orchards and mingle with the crowd on bikes on islands of grapefruit, longan, and orange. The afternoon cycling allows you to share space with locals on the small ferry through bendy natural creeks to the outskirts of Can Tho city. A 30 minutes transfer will take you to the hotel for beers for beer!
Day 3: Can Tho – Chau Doc (B/L/D) (50 – 90 Km)
After you observe farmers selling and exchanging farm products from boat to boat at the lively floating market of Cai Rang, we will carry on our adventure trip by bicycling to Chau Doc. The morning cycling adventure is to explore the undiscovered countryside, and pedal pass bucolic settlements of networks of an irrigation canal. After lunch, we cycle past bucolic settlements and vibrant green rice paddies on wonderfully quiet tracks to the stork garden. Enjoy an hour and a half driving on the A/C van to Chau Doc Dist via Long Xuyen city.
Day 4: Chau Doc – Cao Lanh (B/L/D) (50 – 70 km)
Your bike adventure of today is to explore a low-level plain as Dong Thap where a house on stilts is mostly seen in Cao Lanh. Have an hour boat to see fish farms which are also the floating villages along Bassac River. Experience cycling through small rural communities of Muslim. Stopping at Monastery and sharing the country road with local scooters to work and kids biking to school. Travel on the bike through peaceful, seemingly undiscovered rural villages among houses built on stilts with local materials. Stay a night in the none tourist city of Cao Lanh.
Day 5: Cao Lanh – Xeo Quyt base – Ho Chi Minh City (B/L) (35 km)
After half an hour transfer by vehicle to rural Dist for beginning the ride, we start cycling on quiet back roads to Xeo Quyt base. You will have a sampan boat rowed into natural creeks past some houses, and bunkers of Viet Cong before you return for the last ride, and end up your ride at the high road. Lunch is on the way driving back to Ho Chi Minh city. End The Tour
