Pick-up points: your hotel or our office at 158 Bui Vien St, Dist 1 HCMC
Inclusion:
- Transportation: car, bicycle, boat.
- Helmet.
- Accommodation: local house.
- 1 dinner, 1 breakfast in the home-stay.
- Budget hotel.
- English speaking guide.
- 2 small bottles of water / passenger / day.
- Entrance fees.
Exclusion:
- Other meals.
- Personal expenses.
- Insurance.
Rocking on Bike: 3 Days Cycling in Mekong Delta
We will cycle through many provinces like Tien Giang, Vinh Long and Dong Thap. Here we have a chance to explore a maze of small canals, rivers and arroyos interspersed with villages and local floating markets (only available at Innoviet). Enjoy a boat trip to a floating market and a trip on a row boat to a bird sanctuary for an experience unlike never before. You will also spend one night with the warm and open-hearted home stay family on a small island with lots of shady fruit farms.
Total cycling distance: 145 km.
Total cycling distance: up to 145 km.
Day 1: SAIGON - TIEN GIANG - VINH LONG (home stay)
7:00 am Start the trip by minivan to the Tien Giang province.
09:30 am Start cycling along certain paths to get insight pineapple plantation, manmade canals and rice fields where you will see farmers crop the land with their rice and pineapple. The cycling is mainly on off roads around 5km, which bring you authentic feeling and then we cycle in to the village under the shaded trees.
12:00 pm Travel by car to Vinh Long. Stop for lunch on the way.
13:30 pm Minivan picks us up from the restaurant and takes you to your home stay family. Afternoon we will cycle along small village with the rice field background and many fruit farm. Later then we will arrive to our home-stay, which is located on a small island. Here you will have time to get acquainted with the hosts and join in cooking with the host of family.
Sleep well!
Cycling distance: up to 55 km.
Day 2: VINH LONG - SADEC
6:30: Take a boat trip to visit a local floating market to see how the local people live and earn their living on boats. Come back to the home stay family and enjoy your breakfast.
8:00: Cycle around the village and find out more about the lives of the local people on the island. Then go back to National Highway 1 where your car will picks you up and take you to Sa Dec
13:00: Have lunch in local restaurant and have a short relax.
14:00: This afternoon we will ride our bike to see two craft villages: mat weaving and boat building which are long-standing tradition in the delta.
17: 00: Minivan will take us to Sa Dec, a lovely small town of the Delta.
Cycling distance: up to 45 km.
Day 3: SADEC - LONG AN - SAI GON
08:00: An early morning start to visit Huynh Thuy Le ancient house which famous for the novel and the movie: "L'amant" after that we will ride around the biggest nursery village of Mekong Delta and through mango islands to the mainland.
11: 30: Car brings us to My Tho
14:00: Car will pick us up at the restaurant and take us to Cho Gao. There we continue our cycling trip about 2 hours to Tan An town. Going throw extensive and strange-looking Dragon fruit farms will be a memorable experience. Then we will be picked up by car and come back to Saigon by 6:30 pm.
Cycling distance: up to 45km.
Participant guidelines
- Passports.
- Sun cream.
- Mosquito repellent.
- Hat.
- Toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, towel, soap, shampoo, etc).
- Shoes or sandals.
- A small back-pack.
N.B: You should be clothed and appropriately covered when sleeping overnight in the home stay.
Other disclosures
Code: INNO-MK3D (Cycling).
