Mekong Delta: My Tho and Ben Tre Coconut Island

Discover coconut kingdom of Mekong Delta (My Tho and Ben Tre) from Saigon. We can avoid the tourist crowds with a visit to more authentic places as follows: the rice paddy fields, fruit gardens and some local traditional industries. My Tho City is just 70km from South of Saigon. My Tho and Ben Tre are connected by Rach Mieu bridge. There are many short boat-trips to various islands, Ben Tre and floating markets in the surrounding areas. It also has overnight long boats to Can Tho, Chau Doc and Phnompenh. . . This popular destination is famous for coconut factories, water coconut canals, bee farms, riding horse-carts and getting experience on hand rowing boats… As the regional capital, My Tho is the main market which receives all the produce from everywhere across the region as well as fish and seafood from My Tho's large ocean going fishing fleet.

8:00Am I will pick you up at your hotel for a really smooth drive on Saigon - Trung Luong freeway to Mekong delta. - Discover coconut kingdom of Mekong Delta. We can avoid the tourist crowds with a visit to more authentic places as follows: the rice paddy fields, fruit gardens and some local traditional industries. The boat will cruise along the Tien river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local work places to give you a picture of how the local economy works, a coconut processing workshop, where you can sample fresh coconut and see how every single part of this versatile nut is turned into food and taste some local products the we will walking on the local road with beautiful country sight and travel the narrow rural road by horse cart - Then we take a boat ride through Tan Thach natural canal in Ben Tre. We will continue to stop at bee farm with another island to enjoy honey tea, local products, and enjoy the traditional music - After that we will enjoy lunch at local restaurant.