Itinerary 3 days/2nites
CRL 3A: (Afternoon arrival)
DAY 1: SAIGON – VUNG LIEM – TRUNG NGHIA (D)
Breakfast at hotel, The Mekong Delta, popularly known as the “rice bowl” of Vietnam, is famous for its vast rice fields, innumerous waterways and beautiful landscape. This morning start your tour to the heart of the Mekong Delta with the transfer to Trung Nghia, Vung Liem (approx. 180 km) by your own transportation/guide.
After you have done your trip at Caibe – Vinh Long or Ben Tre, you continue to drive to Trung Nghia village.
Upon arrival meet local leads to the lodge through the countryside road. Walking along the village path for a few minutes you will reach to the Lodge. Welcome drink and check in. Rest for a while, walk around the host’s garden and fish’s feeding. Then, help to cut water coconut leaves, which are used to build the walls and roof of the houses. You watch, learn and practice to complete the product. Start to do fishing activities on the river by local ways.
Back to the Lodge, take a shower before cooking class and try all the food you made. Dinner is served. Chatting with farmers and war veteran is also a highlight after dinner. Poon is introduced and sticks burned for traditional music performance.
After dinner, you walk around village with the coconut leave torch in hand.
Accommodation at Coco Riverside Lodge
Meals included: Lunch, Dinner
DAY 2: PHU AN - TRUNG NGHIA (B/L/D)
Breakfast at the lodge.
You start to row a boat through canal and visit pop rice factory. Here you know how local makes living by raising pigs, cows and use their waste to generate green energy to create biogas for free cooking. It is the home of Mr. Cong (Duc as a nick name). He shows you the traditional way to make pop rice or corn while his wife completes the product of which we bring them to school for kids in the next morning. Visit blind man’s house and see him make a living by weaving coconut fabric and poon stick.
Watch a local guy climb up the coconut tree to pick one up for making coconut jam (sweet) and you have a change to learn making it as a traditional gift of Vietnamese New Year’s day. Lunch is served at your private home.
In the afternoon, select bicycles to discover the countryside through on the quiet village roads passing fruit gardens, dragon fruits, coconut trees and continue to cycle through rice fields and sedge field before get back to the Lodge. Done the bicycle tour around sunset time, this is the time you watch the beautiful scenery of sunset through the vast rice paddy field.
Dinner is served at lodge by the river view.
Accommodation at Coco Riverside Lodge
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 3: PHU AN – TRUNG NGHIA – DEPARTURE (B)
Breakfast at the lodge. Visit Cao Dai before check out, take a rowing boat to visit school and walk to Chua Xu temple in where locals and visitors from other provinces come to pray. End tour and drive to Saigon or your next destination.
End of services
Meals included: Breakfast
Time schedule
DAY 1:
15:30: Upon arrival. Welcome and check in
15:45: visit garden and fish pond
16:15: cut and weave water coconut leaves
17:00: fishing with locals
18:30: Cooking class and dinner
20:30: Walk around with coco leave torch in hand
20:45 – 22:00: chatting and traditional music performance
Overnight at Lodge
DAY 2:
07:30: breakfast
08:45: take sampan ride to visit pop rice factory, coconut fabric and poon sticks
10:45: learn to make coconut jam (sweet)
12:30: Lunch is served
13:30: relax by the river view (2 hours or depends)
15:30: cycling tour (2 hours or less/more)
17:45: back to the Lodge and take a shower
18:30: dinner at local home
Overnight at Lodge
DAY 3:
08:00: breakfast
09:00: visit Cao Dai temple
09:45: check out and take a rowing boat to visit school
10:20: visit primary school
11:15: visit Chua Xu temple
12:00: end tour and drive to your next destination
INCLUSIVE OF:
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Private home with air-conditioning room
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Wifi free
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Bikes with water and towel during biking tour
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Rowing boat with life jackets, conical hats
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Cooking class
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Chatting with locals
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Fishing activities
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Lunch/ dinner/breakfast mentioned in the itinerary
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Pop rice service
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Traditional music
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School visit (except summer holiday)
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Entrance fee
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Room and food for your guide/driver from Saigon
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Coco Riverside Lodge staff as a local guide
EXCLUSIVE OF:
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Car and guide from/to Ho Chi Minh
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Drink during meals
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Travel insurance
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Personal expenses
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Government tax (VAT)
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Tips for locals