Mekong Delta Full Day Tour from Ho Chi Min
- 10 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Trade the traffic of Ho Chi Minh City for the slow, green waterways of the Mekong Delta on this full-day escape to My Tho and Ben Tre. After hotel pickup, you'll drive south through rice fields and orchards to My Tho, where a motorised boat takes you out onto the wide brown Mekong. You'll pass floating houses, fish farms and the four islands named after mythical creatures — Unicorn, Dragon, Phoenix and Tortoise — before landing on Unicorn Island. You'll watch coconut candy being pulled and cut by hand and taste it warm; sit in a garden over seasonal tropical fruit while a group of local musicians performs traditional southern folk songs; sip honey tea at a bee farm; and then climb into a wooden sampan, rowed by hand along a narrow canal beneath overhanging water-coconut palms. Lunch is a local set menu at a riverside restaurant, typically featuring the delta's famous elephant-ear fish with rice paper and fresh herbs. Your English-speaking guide stays with you all day.
Inclusions
What's included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in central Ho Chi Minh City
- Entrance fee
- Tastings (coconut candy, seasonal fruit, honey tea)
- Licensed English-speaking guide
- Local set lunch on the islet
- 2 bottled water/pax/day (500ml/bottle)
- Parking Fees
- Motorboat cruise and hand-rowed sampan ride
What's not
- Tipping for guide/ driver/ sampan driver
- Personal expenses
- Food & Drinks not included in the itinerary
Itinerary
Trade the traffic of Ho Chi Minh City for the slow, green waterways of the Mekong Delta on this full-day escape to My Tho and Ben Tre. After hotel pickup, you'll drive south through rice fields and orchards to My Tho, where a motorised boat takes you out onto the wide brown Mekong. You'll pass floating houses and the four islands named after mythical creatures — Unicorn, Dragon, Phoenix and Tortoise — before landing on Unicorn Island. You'll watch coconut candy being pulled and cut by hand and taste it warm; sit in a garden over seasonal tropical fruit while a group of local musicians performs traditional southern folk songs; sip honey tea at a bee farm; and then climb into a wooden sampan, rowed by hand along a narrow canal beneath overhanging water-coconut palms. Lunch is a local set menu at a riverside restaurant, typically featuring the delta's famous elephant-ear fish with rice paper and fresh herbs. Your English-speaking guide stays with you all day
Ben Tre: visit a family workshop and walk through a delta village after lunch — 1 hour
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- In front of Cong Doan Hotel, our tour guide with company uniform in white T-shirt with the logo of our Business name waiting there.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 12 travellers
- Operated by
- TOP ASIAN TRAVEL
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Ho Chi Minh City
- Its from-price is 56% below the median of the 518 day trips we list in Ho Chi Minh City.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, still widely called Saigon, is Vietnam's buzzing commercial hub of French colonial landmarks, war history and superb street food.
District 1 holds the main sights within walking distance: the red-brick Notre-Dame Cathedral, the elegant Central Post Office with its vaulted hall, the colonial Opera House and the ornate City Hall. The Independence Palace preserves its rooms as they were at the end of the war, and the War Remnants Museum tells the story of the conflict with sobering directness.
Top-ranked sights in Ho Chi Minh City: Cu Chi Tunnels, Saigon Opera House (Opéra de Saïgon), Saigon Central Post Office.
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