Can Tho Floating Market & Tra Su Forest Tour 1 Day

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Can Tho, Tra Su, Chau Doc, Can Tho

05:00 AM, our English speaking tour guide and car will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the Ninh Kieu pier for embarking the authentic small boat (sampan).

Can Tho floating market and the sunrise (sometimes) sampan ride

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Arrive at Cai Rang floating market – a must see in Can Tho, Mekong Delta. Your guide will explain and tell you why "early market" "why floating market here" and "why floating market is getting smaller after every 365 days" "why we should see it in real life, real smell before it disappears" and more. The experience includes the best noodle soup on the river tour. Even our guide will take care of your vegetarian breakfast as well. Find a reason to interact with the river life and enjoy the fresh seasonal tropical fruits at the floating market as well.

The Mekong's fish and farmer market (no-touristy)

Visit the Mekong's fish and farmer market (no-touristy) lets you see the Delta's true heartbeat. It's where locals trade fresh fish, fruits, and produce in a lively, authentic setting untouched by mass tourism. You'll witness real daily life, colorful scenes, and the spirit of community that sustains the Mekong.

Around 7:30 AM, get in the car in Can Tho and depart for Tra Su forest.

07:30 AM, finish the morning floating market & Mekong fish and farmer market and local life and Mekong river culture. The car will pick you up in the Can Tho’s countryside and keep going to the Tra Su forest.

Tra Su Melaleuca Forest

Arrive at Tra Su Melaleuca Forest. You will have a motor boat in the forest, go and spot as many birds as you can with your now trained eyes and the directions of the guide. Pay attention to the sounds of the forest to grasp a better idea of this mesmerizing place, declared one of one of the area’s most peaceful spots in Southern Vietnam. After getting to the 25-meter observation tower to enjoy the fascinating view over the mountain in the area, the expanses of cajeput forest and the white dots of flying storks. Your tour will slow down by taking the hand-rowing sampan for a close-up birdwatching and enjoy the most beautiful flooded forest in Vietnam as well as SE-Asia. Take an amazing bamboo walking bridge in the forest in Vietnam which gives you much time to feel the beauty of nature.

The local authentic lunch is included on tour

About 3 hours in the forest included the authentic lunch in the restaurant in the forest.

One of the best paddy rice fields in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

On the way, you will see hundreds of hectares of green and yellow rice fields and the tour guide will stop at one of the best rice fields to visit to learn all about the Mekong Delta Rice Fields (rice fields are seasonals in the dry & wet season).

Of course, on this trip, you also can taste the sugar palm fruit juice at the sugar palm fields which may bring you some scenic pictures of the countryside views of Mekong region near the border of Vietnam in Chau Doc Tinh Bien.

An ancient Khmer pagoda

Surrounded by the small minority Khmer village, The Khmer ancient pagoda, 300-hundred-year-old, has a very tranquil setting and is one of the oldest ancient Khmer-style pagodas in Mekong Delta. Walking around the pagoda, you will feel the relaxation, airy but no less ancient thanks to the pleasant complex of peaceful compound with elaborate stupas and ornate painting of spiritual scenes with the Buddha on the outside of the main building.

Around 02:30 PM, head back to Can Tho city. Arrive Can Tho around 5:30pm. Or free drop off in Chau Doc around 3:30pm.

This tour offers a free drop off at a hotel in Chau Doc city for your next day to Cambodia by speed boat. We can provide you a transfer service from Tra Su forest to Ha Tien or Rach Gia for Phu Quoc island. Please contact us if you would like to book this extra transfer.

The tour is included pick-up & drop-off you in Can Tho city center. and Free drop off in Chau Doc city center. If you stay in local countryside homestays, please contact us to update the meeting point in Can Tho downtown or the subcharge and the availability.

For daily tours: - Any cancellation before 6 days of departutre date will be free of charge. - Any cancellation before 5 days of departutre date will be charged 30% selling price. - Any cancellation before 4 - 2 days of departutre date will be charged 75% selling price. - Any cancellation within 48 hours or no-show: non-refundable. For others tour: You are deemed to have read and accepted our Terms & Conditions, and are accepting the terms of these conditions on behalf of all persons in the party.