HCM – BEN TRE – TRA VINH 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT

PGT -MK2S  MEKONG DELTA ESCAPADE 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT
BẾN TRE – TRÀ VINH

DEPARTURE: Wednesday, Sartuday
GROUP SIZE: 2 - 12 pax
PICK-UP: 07:00 – 07:15 (the time of pick-up depends on the customer’s hotel/ accommodation’s exact position).
RETURN: 18:00 – 18:30
ROUTE: HCMC – Ben Tre – Tra Vinh – HCMC

HIGHTLIGHT:

• Understand more about the rural lifestyle and hospitality
• Connect with local people and see traditional ways of life
• Visit family businesses using coir, or coconut to create amazing art.
• Visit Con Chim island, meet the local villagers to experience the local daily life.
• Visit many pagodas and get to know more about the culture of Khmer.
• Visit coconut nectar company from coconut flowers is a sustainable and safe sweetener for health.

ITINERARY:

Day 1: HCMC – Ben Tre – Tra Vinh (L/D)

Pick you up at your hotel and depart for Ben Tre. After arriving at Phong Nẫm bridge, board the boat & cruise along Chẹt Sậy River. The cool breeze from the river and lush tropical islands along its banks immediately excite you to explore all the great things ahead.

Arrive and visit various local workplaces to find many wonderful examples of how local people use ageless techniques to create their crafts, dried coconut, handy coconut husk brooms, and many family businesses using coir, or coconut fiber, to create amazing art.

Drive around the village roads by “Xe Lôi”, the local vehicle, a motorized rickshaw.

Perfect your day with a delicious and filling lunch at a local host house.

Break time, treating yourself to a relaxing time to relish the beautiful countryside. time relaxing while being rowed in a small boat slowly through the natural canals to get a sense of how truly beautiful this area is.

Proceed to Tra Vinh province. Visit “Con Chim” community tourism site is built according to the naturally favorable rule, based on cultural values of the community and operates in the direction of slow tourism. Time for cycling around the Con Chim island, meet the local villagers to experience the local daily life, have dinner at local restaurant. Embark on the boat and return to the dock. Check in hotel.

Day 2: Tra Vinh – HCMC (B/L)

Have a breakfast, then visit the mat weaving village with nearly 100 years of development, Tra Vinh's mat industry has developed from production and self consumption into a well-known quality product. Visit and learn about Khmer culture: Angkorajaborey Pagoda, also called Ang Pagoda, the Tra Vinh Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture, and Ba Om Pond. It is one of the types in the system of 141 pagodas of the Khmer in Tra Vinh province, and Ba Om Pond is a unique and famous landscape in Tra Vinh Province. The pond is rectangular, 300 m wide, and 500 m long. The pond's surface is clear and blue, covered by lotus flowers and water lilies. A hundred-year-old ancient oily tree whose roots rise from the ground creates strange shapes that attract tourists here, and visit the Tra Vinh Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture

After that visit the coconut nectar company, a traditional job for local people collecting coconut blossoms from coconut flowers.

Have lunch at a local restaurant and return to Ho Chi Minh City.

***Please note: Drop off time is subject to traffic, weather...so the finished time could be later than expecting.

• Inclusiosn: AC van/minibus pick up, transfer (just for centrally located hotel in District 1), & sightseeing as per program, English speaking guide, local boat trip, local interaction, lunch (L), breakfast (B), dinner (D) bike, entrance fees, accommodation based on twin or double share basic with 2-star standard hotel
• Exclusions: Drinks and meals where not mentioned in the tour price, travel insurance, personal expenses & tips, other services not mentioned in the tour price, Tax

NOTE:

• Pick up and transfer just for the centrally located hotel/accommodation in Dist 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
• We are not responsible for your lateness.
• Infant rates apply provided they do not occupy a seat and the tour inclusions. Please advise the supplier if you have from 1 infant at time of booking.