07:30am: from your hotel in Saigon, enjoy a pleasant drive on the secondary road 50 (not the Highway 1!!) to Can Giuoc (30km) and pay a short visit to a beautiful and colorful local Cao Dai Temple – a combination of most of major religions on earth
• Another short drive (15km) will take us to Can Duoc market – a stunning rural market on its informal setting and friendly market goers
Have a short ride on My Loi ferry to cross Vam Co river and then drive to Go Cong then Tan Hoa (25km) with some more breaks en route to visit a couple of local families’ legumes nursery and witness an unbelievable form of labor-intensive which has not changed over three generations! Seed by seed, they can make a farm of few hundred thousand of chili sprouts…
• Upon arriving in Tan Hoa, you will enjoy through some remote villages dotted with coconut palm trees stretching along the paddy fields
• Drive to Tan Thanh beach (5km, muddy beach, not for swimming) for a beautiful seafood lunch at a beach front restaurant
• Drive from Tan Thanh to My Tho pier (45km). Enjoy a fantastic cruise on the Upper Mekong, lined with many floating fish farms, to Ben Tre then being transferred to small sampan to wind through a green, lush, picturesque and Amazon-like creek of Tan Thach..
• Drive through Rach Mieu suspension-bridge for a breath-taking view of the Upper Mekong and its islets. Follow the highway 1 and the freeway to get back to Saigon (75km)
Service ends at your hotel at around 17:30pm
The guides were the highlight in the trip, and this is saying something! This trip has been so well thought and perfectly adjusted to accomodate our holiday together with group. It was some sort...
