5 Days The Best Mekong Cycling Tours

5 Days The Best Mekong Cycling Tours
Tour Itinerary

The Best Mekong Cycling Tours the mighty Mekong River tumbles down through China’s Yunnan province, squeezes between Thailand and Laos, then slides through Cambodia before reaching Vietnam. Here, in a flat, comma-shaped delta protruding from the south of the country, the river fragments and spreads out into innumerable tributaries and rivulets, all meandering slowly seawards. It’s in and around the delta’s myriad waterways that you’ll find some of Vietnam’s most iconic images: shimmering emerald paddy fields, endless horizons punctuated by coconut trees, cone-hatted farmers hauling fruit and sugar cane from the ground, and markets run from colourfully painted boats

Day 1: Sai Gon - Tra Vinh (L/D) (25 - 45 km)
8:00 AM pick up from you hotel and after 2 hours driving on old high way 1A to starting point. Right here, all bikes are ready for your cycling adventure in Mekong Delta. Off-roads cycling with well-trained bike guides from mekongbikingtours will give you more time to understand local inhabitants of gardening villages. All unique routes in the afternoon enables you to take time to ride on narrow paths with kids finished from schools. Your guides is also telling you about education system in Mekong Delta's countryside. Stay your first night in town of Tra Vinh.

Day 2: Tra Vinh – Tieu Can - Cau Ke - Can Tho (B/L/D) (50 - 80 km)
In the morning of your cycle ride is to bike on foot paths through ride fields.  Many narrow paths just enough for bicycles and mopeds crossing rice paddy fields which linking villages to villages from Tra Vinh to Cau Ke via Tieu Can. These routes allow you to ride pass traditional villages of Khmer, most of people here still keep their own traditional way of living style. Thatch houses are still popular used and associated within Khmer communities in Vietnam. Stopping at some colorful Khmer Buddhist temples, right here our bike guides will tell you the big difference between two branches of Buddhism. One is Mahayana and other is called Theravada. Continue your bike adventure in the afternoon with exploring tropical fruit orchards and mingle with crowd on bike on islands of grapefruit, longan and orange. The afternoon' cycling gives you an opportunity to share space with locals on small ferry through bendy natural creeks to outskirts of Can Tho city. A 30 minutes transfer will take you to hotel for beers for beer!

Day 3: Can Tho - Chau Doc (B/L/D) (50 - 90 Km)
After you observing farmers selling and exchanging farm products from boat to boat at lively floating market of Cai Rang, we will carry on our adventure trip with bicycling to Chau Doc. The morning cycling adventure is to explore undiscovered countryside, pedal past bucolic settlements of networks of irrigation canal. After lunch, we cycle past bucolic settlements and vibrant green rice paddies on wonderfully quiet tracks to stork garden. Enjoy an hour and half driving on A/C van to Chau Doc Dist via Long Xuyen city.

Day 4: Chau Doc – Cao Lanh (B/L/D) (50 - 70 km)
Your bike adventure of today is to explore a low-level plain as Dong Thap where house on stilts mostly seen on all the way to Cao Lanh. Have an hour boat to see fish farms which is also the floating villages along Basac River. Experience a cycling through small rural communities of Muslim. Stopping at Monastery and sharing the country road with local scooters to work and kids biking to school. Travel on bike through peaceful, seemingly undiscovered rural villages among houses which built on stilts with local materials. Stay a night in none tourist city of Cao Lanh.

Day 5: Cao Lanh – Xeo Quyt base - Ho Chi Minh City (B/L) (35 km)
After half an hour transfer by vehicle to rural Dist for beginning the ride, we start cycling on quite back roads to Xeo Quyt base. You will have sampan boat rowed into natural creeks pass some houses, bunkers of Viet Cong before you return for the last ride and end up your ride at high road. Lunch is on the way driving back to Ho Chi Minh city . End The Tour

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