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Cai Rang Floating Market Day Trip
4.8
32 Ratings
Can Tho
Discover Cai Rang Floating Market and Can Tho’s rural charm in a day. Join KIM TRAN Travel for an unforgettable Mekong Delta adventure.
Discover Cai Rang Floating Market and Can Tho’s rural charm in a day. Join KIM TRAN Travel for an unforgettable Mekong Delta adventure.
Duration:
14 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Cai Rang Floating Market - 4 am: Departure from your hotel and take about 3 hours drive to Can Tho city.
7 am: Arrival Ninh Kieu pier, start your boat trip on Hau river to Cai Rang Floating market - A biggest floating market beginning from sunrise to late morning but it is busiest from 8 to 10 am. The shops and stalls at the market are local boats…
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Cai Rang Floating Market - 4 am: Departure from your hotel and take about 3 hours drive to Can Tho city.
7 am: Arrival Ninh Kieu pier, start your boat trip on Hau river to Cai Rang Floating market - A biggest floating market beginning from sunrise to late morning but it is busiest from 8 to 10 am. The shops and stalls at the market are local boats of different sizes. The main items sold are farm products and specialties of Cai Rang Town and neighboring areas. Wholesale is the main form of trading in this market. What you need to do here is to sit back on your boat, enjoy the morning coffee served by the local coffee boat and watch the whole world of trading going on from boats to boats. As your boat edges through the market, you will be surely driven back to the yester-centuries by the sound of bargaining, rowing, motoring mixed with the sound made from the coffee boats, meat boats, grocery boats, ice boats… your breakfast today as local style with a bowl of noodle soup. Saying goodbye Cai Rang floating market, the boat take you to visit a fruit orchard where you can enjoy some kind of tropical fruit and understand more the real life of local people. Then your boat will speed up through green and beautiful channels of the Mekong River stretching along rural villages to Phong Dien district where your car is ready to drive you to Ben Tre -
Ben Tre Province - 1 pm: Arrive Ben Tre where you will have another boat trip on Ham Luong river and through natural canals to a local restaurant for your lunch. After lunch, take a rowing boat along the canals - relax and enjoy the quiet space and freshness of Vietnam village. Before cruise back to the town where your car is ready and take you back to Saigon we will have some short visit local facilities such as a brick-kiln where bricks are still painstakingly made by hand; a coconut processing workshop where you can witness the skillfully and quickly of the way of peeling coconut-shell by local worker. And you will know the uses of each different part in a coconut .
Tour end at your hotel in Saigon about 6 pm
What's Included
- Boat trip
- Use of bicycle
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Breakfast
- Professional English speaking guide
- Boat trip
- Use of bicycle
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Breakfast
- Professional English speaking guide
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Carbonated beverages
- Gratuities
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Carbonated beverages
Additional Information
Can Tho is known as the capital city of the Mekong Delta. It is famous for its floating market, rice paper and noodle-making villages, and scenic rural canals. Previously, you would need to spend at least 2 days and 1 night to experience the unique attractions of Can Tho, such as the floating market, fruit orchards, and rural canals. However, today you…
Can Tho is known as the capital city of the Mekong Delta. It is famous for its floating market, rice paper and noodle-making villages, and scenic rural canals. Previously, you would need to spend at least 2 days and 1 night to experience the unique attractions of Can Tho, such as the floating market, fruit orchards, and rural canals. However, today you can see even more in just one day by joining a special day trip with KIM TRAN Travel. Don’t worry about your limited time—come with us for a perfectly tailored program.
- Minimum of 4 people required. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
- After check in your hotel in HCM city. Please check the hotel address to make sure the address you have provided us is correct. If there is any change please notify us by sending a message with the new address.
Location
Cai Rang Floating Market
46 Hai Ba Trung, Near Cai Rang Bridge
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(32 Ratings)
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396cathiem
Mar 7, 2020
Mekong day trip - What a fantastic day! Nut , our guide was very informative and fun. At 77yrs young he had many wonderful stories and knowledge that kept us intrigued throughout the day. The day is long and action packed and a highlight our trip so far. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend.
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Arun_e
Feb 27, 2020
A magical day on the delta - We had a fantastic day with Mr Le (Nick). He was super informative and friendly and we saw so many interesting things including a pagoda in the delta that was built and used by the Khymer people- it was breathtaking!
We couldn't have asked for a more packed, more wonderful day!
What made it was the people. When I stupidly dropped my phone into the delta, Mr Le organised for a local man to dive in an find it- he did and it was completely unharmed! I cant believe they did that, it was unbelievably kind!
Would absolutely reccomend this tour to anyone!
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464merlot
Feb 24, 2020
fully packed great day! - A very long day, but we fit in so many adventures. Our guide, Mr. Le, was funny, knowledgeable and energetic and made the trip great. His life experience (he is 76!) added to his understanding of Saigon and the delta over the years, and provided extra insights. From the morning at the floating market in Cai Rang, to the fruit orchard, the gorgeous Khmer pagoda, and then on to the family coconut business, it was all amazing. Three boat rides in one day, lots of interactions with locals, and water and air conditioning at every van interval. We would definitely choose this tour again, especially if he is our guide. I would add that this might not be the right tour for anyone not comfortable in small boats.
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Rachel
Feb 22, 2020
Such a great day! - We just got back from our full day tour of Mekong Delta, wow what a day! We had a great time. "Nick" is so kind, informative and FUNNY! We will remember that smile for a long time!! Everything during the tour ran very smoothly, lunch was great and of course the Mekong Delta amazing! Thank you so much for a great day.
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Costablancaboy
Jan 23, 2020
Worth It - Nick was an excellent host and guide, very passionate about his country. We read that the other floating markets were much quieter and we wanted a more real experience. This was it at Cai Rang. Had to get up very early but we could not find anyone else who offered this tour so I recommend this. You need to go early so you see the floating market at it's best. There was plenty more to do and see on the very full-day tour. Recommended.
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Vintage
Jan 10, 2020
Mekong Version, John Hughes P.T & A.- Minivan, Boats (small and large wooden, hand and motor powered) and Bikes too - Action packed, eye opening, masterfully crafted edutainment experience.
Our experience started from our timely pick up at 4am from District 1 hotel in HCMC. Although an early start, we enjoyed the drive across the water influenced landscape into the wilds. Our driver was skilled at navigating the teeming swarms of motorbikes, buses and even a cart being pulled by bicycle. Be prepared to understand how the economy swarms in Vietnam based on the traffic. At times, one feels concerned for the passengers all around but our driver made us feel safe and comfortable to doze off with his skills.
Our guide, Uncle, Le Duy Nhurt, was passionate, warm and caring. He spent hours explaining not only landscapes, cultural, political both prewar and post war, but even the random questions related to names of plants. To have such a seasoned, well studied and factoid driven tour was a pure joy and one couldn't help to feel we indeed saw the real Mekong Delta! Uncle was able to explain the history, religion, details of a profound number of nuanced concepts in a manner that suggest pure love of one's country. I could write many words about the actual sites visited (they take you on the less traveled roads) but those are in the description of the tour, instead, I say without hesitation, buy this tour, support the small local tour guides (only three people and felt customized) such as these. Keep it local, keep it small and get it done in one day!!
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Jthomasmorowitz
Jan 6, 2020
Comprehensive, well organized tour - It’s a long day at around 15 hrs - but you get to cram 2 days worth of tour into one. The itinerary has a lot of elements and moving parts and each was coordinated to perfection. Our guide was great, and I felt a personal touch on everything as we did our best to beat the crowds most places.
Great experience and fully recommend it.
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Lesliesturgeonbay_wi
Dec 7, 2019
So much to see and do! - Nick was amazing! Very knowledgeable with great insight as we traveled from one site to another. Would definitely recommend having Nick as your guide!
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Adrianr564
Dec 6, 2019
Cai Rang and Ben Tre 1d tour fm HCMC - Many thanks for a wonderful time to:
Kim Tran Travel and
LE DUY NHUT / Guide
TRAN VAN QUANG / Driver.
Some reviews cited poor road conditions to Can Tho so I had some reservation leaving at 4am. Driver was great and arrived on time. Other than a bumpy ride the 3 1/4hr drive to/from was fine and we arrived without incident. If your looking for a 1 day tour with small group (there were 2 of us), and a packed day of adventure then I would highly recommend this tour. We toured a local market on land, had breakfast on the river, toured the Cai Rang floating market in Can Tho, went for a boat ride up the river to visit a fruit farm, drove to Ben Tre thru beautiful countryside, river boat cruise through the forest, bicycle ride through the countryside, wonderful lunch in a forest restaurant surrounded by palm trees, saw carpet weaving, visited a small coconut factory and brick factory and went on another extended boat ride on the river before returning to HCM City. Nick was a great host who was very passionate about his job. Thx
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Graham_m
Feb 25, 2020
Day on the Delta - I had travelled previously to this region however my travelling companion had not seen the Delta so this trip appeared to offer a great one day overview of the region for a first time visitor. The advertised pick up time was 0400 however the guide arrived at 0335 - was already in the lobby and the guide kept asking about the second guest. He did turn up at 0345 at which time we departed still early. Our guide Nuc was best described as over bearing - he had a very loud voice when delivering the information to the pair of us who were the only guests and we were very pleased when he said he would remain quiet until our first scheduled stop at 0600. This was the case and we were allowed off the bus for a toilet break but were advised not to shop as breakfast would be provided at the Floating Market, some time away. after much tooing and froing, I insisted that I would buy us each a Bahn Mi for breakfast given that at this point nothing had been offered in the way of sustenance by Nuc. Back on the bus and down to Can Tho for a visit to the land market - both Chris and I had already seen many markets in Vietnam as we were participating in a group cycling tour from north to south - I did point out after a little time that this was indeed my third trip to Vietnam and felt that the delivery of the information was rather like addressing school children. I needed another toilet break so I told Nuc that was where I was headed and did so. When I came out of the toilet, Nuc was paying however I told him I already had so there was no need. This led to a bitter confrontation which carried on for some time with me suggesting that perhaps I should get a cab back to Saigon - he made both of us very uncomfortable. Whilst eventually he moved on, we felt that this was going to be a very long and uncomfortable day so we concocted an excuse to get back early to shorten the very long day. There were some highlights on the trip but the guide made it all very difficult. We had paid very good money for the trip and were very disappointed with this outcome.
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