Non-Touristy Mekong With Biking 1 Day

Meeting Point

Ben Tre

Ben Tre province looks like a green island resurfaces between all sides of Mekong River Delta. Being far away 85km in the West from Hồ Chí Minh, it’s well-known as a "Coconut Kingdom" with the peaceful scenery of native flora and fauna, and also the first revolution place in Mekong Delta where Vietnam War began with the famous quote “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it” from the U.S army. - 8:00 am, our private car and English tour-guide will pick you up right at your place. - After around 2-hour driving from Saigon, we will take leisurely cruise on the Tien river to see 4 islets which are represented as four mythical animals in Southeast Asia: Dragon, Kirin, Tortoise, Phoenix and then visit Kirin islet for the main activities. Let’s try the freshly barked handmade coconut candy, visit honey bee farm to try some specialty products, walk through the orchard gardens to taste some seasonal tropical fruits and listen to the folk music which is an indispensable spiritual cultural activity in locals’ life at Kirin islet. - Furthermore, we can relax on the rowing boat going through a mangrove palm canal, and continue to take the electric car to see the authentic local life. Coming back to the main land and drive directly to Ben Tre province which is called as a coconut kingdom in Vietnam. Over there, we can easily find out how useful of a “tree of heaven” affecting in locals’ life. Specially on the Mekong Delta 1 day with biking tour, we will take our own bikes for riding through the very truly countryside where car is nearly impossible to get through with small complex terrain. After about 7 – 10 km biking, we are going to pass the countryside local market, tropical fruit gardens, get across the bridge with vast mangrove palm scenery from both sides, visit a countryside market and take some funny talks with friendly locals over there. Following that, we will come to coconut garden to harvest the fruit by ourselves and then have a typical “home grow, homemade” lunch just the same as locals’. - Back to Saigon, The Mekong Delta 1 day with biking tour is finished at around 6 pm.