My Tho Tour From Can Tho 1 Day

08:00 AM, the car driver (no tour guide) will pick you up from your hotel in Can Tho City and transfer to My Tho boat station (about 11:00 AM) where your tour guide will greet and welcome you for embarking the boat.

The reststop on the way at the pagoda, the car driver will stop at Vinh Trang pagoda in My Tho which was built in 1849. It is the greatest pagoda of Tien Giang Province and was recognized as a national historical and cultural relic in 1984.

Arrive My Tho boat station (where you meet the tour guide), boarding the motorboat at a pier and cruising on the mighty Mekong River. Here, overlooking floating houses where fishes are farmed beneath the house around 4 islands of the Dragon island, Thoi Son island (Unicorn island), Phoenix island, Turtle islet (viewing from the motorboat).

Continuing the journey on the river until reaching the local hidden Tan Thach village (which is less touristy than Thoi Son island tourism a lot), you will get to know many things about coconut uses (coconut candy, wine, oil, mat, coco shell), the tour guide will explain about coco candy producing process at the local coconut workshop as well – very kid-friendly. Enjoying free samples of local specialties and discovering daily activities of local people.

Take a short walk to explore the village. Enjoy more Mekong countryside with the horse cart as a Landlord in the old days. Arrive another village - a performance site where Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca Tài Tử - A folk art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) can be heard and seasonal tropical fruits and honey tea can be tasted (included).

Afterward, being on a hand-rowing sampan (smalboat) in a small canal and slowly cruising through a small creek with beautiful overhanging coconut trees. Lives from both sides of the creek can be observed.

Around noon, have an authentic set menu lunch with an elephant ear fish.

Disembark at My Tho boat station where the car driver (no tour guide) waits for you there and picks you up and transfers straight to Can Tho city. Arrive Can Tho around 4-5pm.

If you need to drop off in other cities (HCMC, Vinh Long, Sa Dec, Cai Be, Chau Doc). Please contact us for a transfer service, or the surcharge and the availability.

The tour is included pick-up & drop-off you in Can Tho 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.

My Tho Tour From Can Tho 1 Day

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