Overview:
Cai Be Floating Market of Tien Giang Province is renowned as the busiest Floating Market in the South of Vietnam where there are hundreds of goods exchanges every day. Even though in the modern life nowadays, this Floating Market still has it own plalette that entice visitors.
Let's join the Cai Be Floating Market with us, we are sure to bring you the most authentic experience than ever!!
Highlights:
- Cai Be Floating Market
- Boat Trip
- Rowing Boat
- Biking
- Cooking Class
- Local Worskhops
- Lunch at Local Restaurant
- Tropical Fruits
Duration: 8.5 hours
Departure time: Flexible (highly recommend at 7AM or 8AM)
Itinerary:
- VN Bike tour guide will pick you up at departure time right at your place, about 2-hour driving from Saigon through the express highway to reach Cai Be Floating Market.
- Then you can visit the typical local wet market and take a boat to a floating market – the originally spontaneous market from local people due to their real demand but not for tourism which is opened by the government.
- After that, explore Tan Phong islet where is known as a green pearl land in the middle of Tien river for some traditional workshops, then learn how locals made coconut candy, crispy rice popcorn, rice paper and honey bee farm. Walk through orchard gardens to the beautiful lotus tea house for the real South West folk music.
- Next, relax on a rowing boat and go through the apple mangrove canal for the typical peaceful landscape of Mekong Delta, even know more about locals’ lifestyle when joking with very friendly rowers.
Especially, we have 2 options for you to explore the local life:
+ Biking and Cooking Class:
- For this option, you do not only have another view of cooking style in the South in particular and Vietnam in general but also learn how locals prepare traditional meal .
- Finally, you will never forget the precious moment when biking through car-free village roads with tropical fruits and bonsai gardens on the both side, as well as visiting some handicraft workshops on the biking road to feel more about the real Mekong atmosphere.
+ None biking & None-cooking class:
- After having lunch and relaxing at the restaurant, you will come back to Saigon and finish the Cai Be Floating Market 1 Day.