Paddling in small waterways - Mekong delta tours CaiBe

Mekong Delta Tour CaiBe

Mekong Delta Tour CaiBe
Though Cai Be is getting smaller every year as the trade is shifting more and more into modern central markets, the numerous small canals in Cai Be still attracts many day trippers from Saigon to this charming river-land mixed small town.
Tour code:  SBL5B

We depart at 8:00am and head south to the river town of Cai Be, a rural district of Tien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Arriving at around 10:30am, we board our motorized boat to journey through Cai Be. Here, we will experience how life functions on the delta, as we view the intricacies of commerce – how merchants purchase products from local farmers. During our cruise the town’s secluded canals, we will visit some workshops, see the locals making pop rice cakes, rice paper cakes, coconut candies and products from coconut trees.

Special thing of Mekong delta tour Cai Be will be the wooden sampan padlling down narrow natural waterways. Stopping at a local home to try seasonal fruits (such as longan, pineapple, watermelon, rambutan, papaya, jackfruit etc…). We continue walking through the village to get back to our boat which is waiting to bring us to another island for lunch served with many Vietnamese’s delicious dishes.
Time to relax and have a short walk to garden of longan and durian nearby. We get on board and cruise back to the quay around 2:00pm. Then we keep walking to AnThai village where people collect the manioc chips after full day drying in the sunshine.

Return to our car for a drive back to Saigon.  Tour ends around 6:00pm.

Tour price:

7,000,000 vnd (US$ 265)/ solo person

3,975,000 vnd (US$ 150)/ person (02 people)

3,445,000 vnd (US$ 130)/ person (03 people)

2,915,000 vnd (US$ 110)/ person (04-08 people)

 Services included:
– Boat trip, entrance fees.
– Lunch and seasonal fruits.
– Transport: A/c bus with cool drinking water. (Two 0.5L bottles per day per person)
– Experienced tour guide.

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Photos and Video clip of  Mekong delta tour Caibe and nearby area:

Mekong delta tours Cai Be
Rambutan transport from TanPhong island to Cai Be floating market
Mekong delta tours CaiBe - fruit transport to CaiBe floating market
Rambutan fruit transport to Caibe floating market
Mekong delta day tour - Caibe floating market
CaiBe floating market view from intersection with Mekong river

If you are interested in Roman Catholic Church, we visit to CaiBe church, it was built in 1929-1932 by Father Adolphe Keller. Father Adolphe Keller was born in France, German original. Ordained in 1901, the Missionaries of Paris. In 1905, he was sent to Indochina, in 1913 was sent to CaiBe which was a rural village. Vicar from 1913 to 1945. The beautiful church, Gothic-style exists to this day was built by Father Keller from 1929 to 1932.

He had purchased a lot of land for the parish. Father built irrigation canals and created rice fields and farms for parishioners to inhabited and keep their faith. Father was killed in the historical event 1945-1946.

Later in 2008, the remained bone of father Keller was obtained through a clairvoyant in Saigon. Excavations have found traces only the remains of his father spine in sitting shape, and a piece of a powerful scythe, can be used to cut his neck. The location was in a wild straw field for buffaloes in DongThap province, situated beside the new highway route Ho Chi Minh today. So Cai Be’s Vicar sat there for 62 years until excavations found by descendants !!

CaiBe catholic church and floating market
CaiBe catholic church looks directly to the floating market
Cai Be catholic church - Mekong delta day tour
Cai Be catholic church

The bell towers of CaiBe church hold up 5 bronze bells, each weight between 500kg to 1,8 tons. It’s a wonderful job to bring all these French bells up there. It could be the highest bell towers in the mekong delta area. When they rings the bell, the sounds can be heard far away, specially when the mekong river tide is up.

Cai be catholic church - Mekong delta tour one day
Bell tower of Caibe catholic church

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Mekong Delta Tour BenTre 

Tour Code: SBL5A

See the main branches of Mekong river and daily life around Ben Tre (85 km from SaiGon).

Depart: 08:00hrs
We have about 2 hours transfer to MyTho, the first town on the main branch of Mekong. On arrival to MyTho city, we will drive to Rach Mieu suspension bridge with its panorama view of the Mekong surrounds 4 islands here. From this bridge, the Mekong travel approximately 50km to the ocean. These islands include ThoiSon, TanLong, Con Qui, Con Phung which stretch out more than 15km on the Mekong river. Looking further to your left, this main branch of Mekong will split into CuaDai and CuaTieu estuary to the ocean. Further on to the toll gate, you will pass BaLai river, another small branch of Mekong that flow to BaTri town, a famous area with thousands of birds living in the mangrove forest.
On arrival in BenTre, we will get on board for one hour cruise on Bentre river, a tributary of Ham Luong – the 4th branch of Mekong river. Sit back and relax on board, drift down the busy branch of the HamLuong and into the peaceful canal. We visit a brick kiln and a coconut shell husking workshop. See the daily life of farmers and try the hard work taking shell of the coconut that is unique to the region.
As our boat cruise inner the natural waterways, we visit a coconut-candy workshop, a main product that made BenTre famous. We disembark at a local market of NhonThanh commune and start our walk 500m on village road, explore the market products. We visit a farmer workshop making sleeping mats, an old tradition hand weaving sedge mat or rush mat. Then, the Mekong adventure is on, see what life is really like for locals by explore this quiet island by bicycle or more relaxing way by hop on a “Lambretta triporteur” an old 1960 traditional tricycle in south Vietnam. This
Lambretta adventure will be winding around the coconut palms, bitter melon or cucumber farms to a farmer house that we break for lunch and relax.
In the afternoon, we explore a bit more of coconut farms and fruit orchards of this village on foot. It’s about 700 m promenade through the village, and the villagers will welcome us on their wooden sampan for a paddling on small waterway. This hand-rowing sampan slowly cruise under the canopy of water coconut palms along the canals. Our boat will pick us again and cruise back to the boat landing in BenTre town.
Then we drive back to Saigon.
If time permitting, we will stop in BenLuc for a short walk to the rice field, see the process of planting rice and harvest the crop. Our tour end in Saigon around 5:00 pm.
 

Tour price:
7,000,000 vnd (US$ 265) / solo person.
3,975,000 vnd (US$ 150) / person (2 people).
3,445,000 vnd (US$ 130) / person ( 3 people).
2,915,000 vnd (US$ 110) / person (4 to 8 people).

Services included:
Boat trips & entrance fees.
Lunch and seasonal fruits.
Transport : A/c bus with cold drinking water. (Two 0.5L bottles per person)
Guide: Experienced tour guide.
Hotel pick up and drop off ( within District 1 only. Otherwise, extra charge is applied)

Not included: insurance, personal expenses.

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Pictures below: Start Mekong delta tour BenTre cruise right at the town center, a branch of HamLuong river and we see central market, coconut processing factory, brick kiln on the river bank. Then we turn to smaller waterways with lots of water coco palms….

Mekong delta tours BenTre
BenTre river cruise – local brick kiln factory
Mekong delta tours BenTre - river cruise in small waterway
Cruise in BenTre river and turn into a small waterway to NhonThanh commune
Lambretta ride in BenTre countryside - Mekong delta tour BenTre
An old style vehicle Italian Lambretta ride around BenTre countryside
Mekong delta tours BenTre - local mats weaving
Mats weaving at a local family in NhonThanh commune – BenTre

BenTre is particularly famous for its keo dua (coconut candy). Many women work in small factories making these sweets. Pictures below show the process of making coconut candy. However, there are some other candies and snack are also very tasty. Take our mekong delta tour BenTre and try all of these good stuff.

Mekong delta tours BenTre - coconut husking work
Coconut husking with a sharp knife in upright position.
Mekong delta day tour to BenTre - Coconut candy workshop
Stir coconut milk to make candy in BenTre
Mekong delta tour BenTre - Coconut candy workshop
Wrap coconut candies in rice paper in BenTre

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Mekong Delta Tour BenTre 

Tour Code: SBL5A

See the main branches of Mekong river and daily life around Ben Tre (85 km from SaiGon).

Depart: 08:00hrs
We have about 2 hours transfer to MyTho, the first town on the main branch of Mekong. On arrival to MyTho city, we will drive to Rach Mieu suspension bridge with its panorama view of the Mekong surrounds 4 islands here. From this bridge, the Mekong travel approximately 50km to the ocean. These islands include ThoiSon, TanLong, Con Qui, Con Phung which stretch out more than 15km on the Mekong river. Looking further to your left, this main branch of Mekong will split into CuaDai and CuaTieu estuary to the ocean. Further on to the toll gate, you will pass BaLai river, another small branch of Mekong that flow to BaTri town, a famous area with thousands of birds living in the mangrove forest.
On arrival in BenTre, we will get on board for one hour cruise on Bentre river, a tributary of Ham Luong – the 4th branch of Mekong river. Sit back and relax on board, drift down the busy branch of the HamLuong and into the peaceful canal. We visit a brick kiln and a coconut shell husking workshop. See the daily life of farmers and try the hard work taking shell of the coconut that is unique to the region.
As our boat cruise inner the natural waterways, we visit a coconut-candy workshop, a main product that made BenTre famous. We disembark at a local market of NhonThanh commune and start our walk 500m on village road, explore the market products. We visit a farmer workshop making sleeping mats, an old tradition hand weaving sedge mat or rush mat. Then, the Mekong adventure is on, see what life is really like for locals by explore this quiet island by bicycle or more relaxing way by hop on a “Lambretta triporteur” an old 1960 traditional tricycle in south Vietnam. This
Lambretta adventure will be winding around the coconut palms, bitter melon or cucumber farms to a farmer house that we break for lunch and relax.
In the afternoon, we explore a bit more of coconut farms and fruit orchards of this village on foot. It’s about 700 m promenade through the village, and the villagers will welcome us on their wooden sampan for a paddling on small waterway. This hand-rowing sampan slowly cruise under the canopy of water coconut palms along the canals. Our boat will pick us again and cruise back to the boat landing in BenTre town.
Then we drive back to Saigon.
If time permitting, we will stop in BenLuc for a short walk to the rice field, see the process of planting rice and harvest the crop. Our tour end in Saigon around 5:00 pm.
 

Tour price:
7,000,000 vnd (US$ 265) / solo person.
3,975,000 vnd (US$ 150) / person (2 people).
3,445,000 vnd (US$ 130) / person ( 3 people).
2,915,000 vnd (US$ 110) / person (4 to 8 people).

Services included:
Boat trips & entrance fees.
Lunch and seasonal fruits.
Transport : A/c bus with cold drinking water. (Two 0.5L bottles per person)
Guide: Experienced tour guide.
Hotel pick up and drop off ( within District 1 only. Otherwise, extra charge is applied)

Not included: insurance, personal expenses.

Book Now !

Pictures below: Start Mekong delta tour BenTre cruise right at the town center, a branch of HamLuong river and we see central market, coconut processing factory, brick kiln on the river bank. Then we turn to smaller waterways with lots of water coco palms….

Mekong delta tours BenTre
BenTre river cruise – local brick kiln factory
Mekong delta tours BenTre - river cruise in small waterway
Cruise in BenTre river and turn into a small waterway to NhonThanh commune
Lambretta ride in BenTre countryside - Mekong delta tour BenTre
An old style vehicle Italian Lambretta ride around BenTre countryside
Mekong delta tours BenTre - local mats weaving
Mats weaving at a local family in NhonThanh commune – BenTre

BenTre is particularly famous for its keo dua (coconut candy). Many women work in small factories making these sweets. Pictures below show the process of making coconut candy. However, there are some other candies and snack are also very tasty. Take our mekong delta tour BenTre and try all of these good stuff.

Mekong delta tours BenTre - coconut husking work
Coconut husking with a sharp knife in upright position.
Mekong delta day tour to BenTre - Coconut candy workshop
Stir coconut milk to make candy in BenTre
Mekong delta tour BenTre - Coconut candy workshop
Wrap coconut candies in rice paper in BenTre

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