INSIGHTS OF MEKONG DELTA FULL DAY TOUR

8:00 Lua Viet Tours Car and Guide will pick you up from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and transfer to My Tho boat station (about 9:30 AM).

• Enjoy a cruise on the mighty Mekong River. You will arrive at My Tho boat station, where you will board a motorboat at a pier and continue your journey on the river. You will see floating houses with fish farms underneath them, as well as four islands: Dragon Island, Thoi Son Island (also known as Unicorn Island), Phoenix Island, and Turtle Islet. You will have a panoramic view of these sights from the motorboat.
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• Stop at Unicorn Island to visit crocodile farm, honey farm and enjoy honey tea – very good for health. You will also visit coconut candy village, experience making coconut candy by hand.
• Ride a horse cart or take a short walk to explore the village. Experience the Mekong countryside with the horse cart like a landlord in the old days. Arrive at another village, a performance site where you can listen to Vietnamese traditional music (Đàn Ca Tài Tử – a folk art form from Southern Vietnam that was recognized by UNESCO in 2013 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) and taste seasonal tropical fruits and honey tea (included).

Visit Phoenix Island – an island named after the four supernatural creatures: Dragon, Unicorn, Tortoise, Phoenix. 

12:00 Lunch at Phoenix Island. After lunch and short rest:

• Visit the Coconut Religion Historical Sites in Ben Tre with a construction built over 50 years with a total area of about 1,500m2. Admire the unique architectural works remaining of the monument that are preserved almost intact: Nine Dragon Yard, Nine-storey Tower, Earth Globe, Apollo Spaceship, North-South Road, Eight Trigrams Platform, Three Gates, Nine Peaks.
• Visit the Coconut Museum – where collects and recreates the life of the people of Coconut Land. Many images of life as well as musical instruments, utensils made from coconut trees are displayed here. The most special thing is that the museum is made entirely from coconut trees.

15:30 Disembark at My Tho boat station where our car waits for you there and picks you up and transfers straight to HCMC city. 

Stop at Vinh Trang pagoda in My Tho which was built in 1849. It is the greatest pagoda of Tien Giang Province and was recognized as a national historical and cultural relic in 1984.

Back to Ho Chi Minh City.

17:30 End the tour at your hotel.