Overview

Get lost in the hubbub of Cai Be Floating Market, where vendors and buyers meet on the Mekong River every day to do business in the emerging sunlight. Local rowing boats stocked to the brim with attractive produce descend on Cai Be at about 3 am every morning, setting up shop for a day of frantic activity, creating a wonderful scene with unlimited photo opportunities.

Almost 300 years of history in Cai Be Floating Market remains unchanged and the Cai Be – Tan Phong Island Full Day tour, offered by Incredible Asia Journeys, will show you the wonders of this ancient market from the comfort of a private boat.

This day trip from Ho Chi Minh City also shows you the natural and architectural wonders of a small part of the Mekong Delta. Cai Be lies in Tien Giang Province, a region packed with fruit orchards that constitute the most productive fruit-producing province in Vietnam. We will meander around these orchards, marveling at the sight of exotic fruits in their growing stages. A local host family will provide us with lunch as well as an insight into traditional Mekong Delta life.

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Places you’ll see

Ho Chi Minh City

Highlights

Taking in the scenes of the daily Mekong market hustle on its famous river
Walking around fruit orchards and learning of the interesting fruit that grows in such tropical climates
Chatting with a local family to hear about their four generations of life in the Mekong Delta
Taking a final boat cruise around the islands as the sun descends in the sky

Itinerary

Activities: Seeing the frenetic way of life from a boat at Cai Be floating market before enjoying lunch with a local family. Afterwards, we climb into another boat and watch the sun descend in the sky.

After pick-up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City at around 08.00 am, we will drive south into the Mekong Delta, where your Cai Be – Tan Phong Island Full Day tour will begin. A private boat will meet us at the pier of Cai Be and take us out onto the open water.

We will get our first sights of the mountains of produce piled high by vendors. We cruise past coconut groves and fish farms as we explore the busy waterway, heading ashore to find small workshops that make some of the speciality foods of the Mekong, including coconut candy and rice popcorn.

We will stroll through a local village with its beautiful and exotic fruit orchards. Mr Kiet and his family will welcome us into their stunning house, lived-in for four generations and feature some of the Mandarin architecture available to see around this region.

We will have a delicious home-cooked meal before strolling through some of the splendid fruit orchards with their longan, rambutan and coconut trees.

After waving goodbye to the family, we head to Tan Phong Island. Here we can take a local rowboat around the islands’ attractive backwaters and on the river. The sun descends to the horizon as we make the trip back to Ho Chi Minh City, where the Cai Be – Tan Phong Island Full Day tour will finish. Thank you for joining us on this day tour from Ho Chi Minh City, we sincerely hope to see you again soon!

Meals: Lunch