The day will begin with pickup from your hotel and meet the guide. procced with a two-hour driving from Ho Chi Minh City to Mekong Delta. Upon arrival, you will take a boat cruise to visit Cai Be Floating Market. This market is a place where everybody gathers to buy and sell agricultural products. The market operates all day but it is only busy in the early morning. This market is different from the traditional ones because people buy and sell products on boats. Discovering this market, you can see business activities on rivers; understand the life of people in the South West region.
Floating on the water on your traditional wooden boat, you can enjoy relaxing moments. Watch locals aboard their small boats trading fresh goods and local commodities stop over at a local house where you can see how they make coconut candy, rice-paper, rice-pop corn, and rice wine. Leave Cai Be for Tan Phong Islet where the maze of shady creeks will surely fascinate you, take a rowing boat in a small channel. You will have a chance to spend time and enjoy traditional music and tropical fruits. Have a traditional lunch at a local home, including the popular dish of ‘Elephant-Ear Fish’ before return to Ho Chi Minh City.
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