A Can Tho Trip to the Fullest in 3-Day
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- Can Tho, Ben Tre, Tra Su, HCMC
- By Team Vemekong
Day 1 + 2 + 3 Ben Tre
Day 1 + 2 + 3 Tra Su
Car, Sampan, Bike, Lunch
Up to 8 pax
Can Tho, Mekong Delta
English speaking guide
Veggie-friendly
For those who have only 3 days in Can Tho and would love to explore as much as possible the Mekong Delta. This perfect All-In-One tour includes a floating market, small canals, fruit garden, rice field, village, local life, nature, forest, boat, sampan, bike, birdwatching, trekking, local expert tour guide, authentic lunch, and more.
Highlights
Enjoy: authentic small boat to the floating market
Experience: river life, small canals, local village
Explore: fruit garden, rice field, cacao farm & forest
Entertain: boat trip, birdwatching, trekking, biking
Expect: free drop off in HCMC or Chau Doc & more
Itinerary
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Day 1: Can Tho aternoon tour: 14:00 PM – 18:00 PM; A/c Car, Boat+ At 14:00 PM, our car and tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Can Tho or at Can Tho bus station or at Can Tho airport. Then go on the afternoon tour.
+ Forest & wetland conservation
About an hour drive from Can Tho city, the 2,800-hectare wetland conservation is one of Can Tho hidden gems for anyone who loves to see a real Mekong Delta beside Can Tho floating market.
Exploring and weaving in the untouched wetland of the Mekong delta by boat gives the best experience about the wildlife and nature. Wonderful natural green canals and feeling like nowhere in Vietnam. Then, get to the 25-meter observation tower to enjoy the fascinating view over the wetland forest and the stunning seasonal rice fields. (About one and a half hours in the forest, more or less, depend on your speed and birdwatching time). Take an amazing light trekking about 1,2km (or boat again, transfer back to the station if you do not want the easy trekking with the flat path) in nature for watching native birds.
+ Giant ficus microcarpa tree
Visit a famous old giant ficus microcarpa tree - a great place for VC to camouflage and hide means of warfare and trained guerrillas. Your guide will absolutely explain more interesting things about war sides in the Mekong region.
+ Around 18:00 PM, finish the tour at the hotel in Can Tho City. -
Day 2: Can Tho morning tour: 05:00 AM – 12:00 NOON; A/c Car, Sampan, Bike, Lunch+ At 5:00 AM, our car and tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the boat station for embarking the sampan – an authentic traditional small boat for the tour.
+ Can Tho floating market and the sunrise (sometimes) sampan ride
Arrive at Cai Rang floating market – a must see in Can Tho, Mekong Delta. Your guide will explain and tell you why "early market" "why floating market here" and "why floating market is getting smaller after every 365 days" "why we should see it in real life, real smell before it disappears" and more. The experience includes the best noodle soup on the river tour. Even our guide will take care of your vegetarian breakfast as well. Find a reason to interact with the river life and enjoy the freshest pineapple in your tour.
+ Can Tho rice noodle factory (not rice paper)
Firstly, we do not want you to miss this place. They call it a factory but actually it is run by a family and a lot more authentic than you expect (no shops, no souvenirs). Secondly, the rice noodle is not rice paper. How and Why? Your guide will tell you! You’ll be impressed by the colorful rice noodles, and how fascinating the rice noodles are made by locals. The tour includes a yummy rice noodle pizza made by a member of the family.
+ Can Tho tropical fruit garden
It is an educational and fun trip to learn some things about the native trees and fruits, leaves and flowers at the fruit garden. The tour includes walking around the garden and listening to the tour guide’s stories and tasting the fresh seasonal fruits.
+ Can Tho small canals, quiet, empty and with no tourists
What a romantic trip! Leave the crowds and the market behind and enjoy an intimate peaceful sampan ride in the small canals in the village. Watching the local children playing in the water, the locals preparing things for their daily routines. You may catch the silhouettes of a gentle woman quietly taking guests across the canals by a tiny boat and the more.
+ Optional: Biking in the village (Tell your tour guide if you want to skip the bike tour!)
The countryside bike tour is the perfect break away from Can Tho city! Biking around the village and along the small canals is not only fun and active but also for responsible travel and environmentally friendly of the destination you bike. Enjoy a refreshment break halfway through the tour and get to know more about the local life as an insider.
+ Can Tho organic cacao farm
Your lovely sampan keeps reaching the organic cacao farm, was built in the 1960s and has been maintained until now, where the guide will tell you interesting stories about cacao and Mr. Cacao and how to make chocolates, wines, cosmetics…Have a glass of cacao milk (included).
+ The authentic lunch is included on tour.
+ Around 12:00 NOON, finish the tour at the hotel in Can Tho City.
+ Enjoy your own free time in the afternoon. -
Day 3: Option 1: Can Tho – Ben Tre Tour – Can Tho (Free drop off in HCMC, Tan Son Nhat airport, or Ben Tre or Tra Vinh or My Tho); 07:00 AM – 17:00 PM; A/c Car, Sampan, Boat, LunchStart from Can Tho, tour in Ben Tre and get back to Can Tho City! And FREE drop off in HCMC, Tan Son Nhat airport, or Ben Tre or Tra Vinh or My Tho. With the customized tour in 1 day, tour package taking you through Ben Tre, Mekong Delta. Ben Tre tour includes a boat trip, unique traditional brick kiln, homemade mat weaving village, hand rowing sampan, water coconut canals, authentic lunch and more.
+ 08:00 AM, our car and tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to Ben Tre boat station (about 11:00 AM) where you are welcome for embarking the boat.
+ 11:00 AM, arrive in Ben Tre, boarding the motor-boat at a pier and cruising on the Mekong River, visit the traditional brick kiln and pottery which is a very old fashion of making the mud brick of Mekong people.
+ Keep cruising on the river! Then, stopping at the local house about coconuts, got to know many things about coconut uses (coconut candy, wine, oil, mat, coco shell), the tour guide will explain about coco candy producing process at the local coconut workshop as well – very kid-friendly. Enjoying free samples of local specialties and discovering daily activities of local people.
+ Enjoy the Ben Tre coconut canals and have stunning views from the boat. Take a short walk to explore the other village.
+ Visit and learn the local handmade mat weaving by sedge and interact with Ben Tre people!
+ Discover many more villages by taking the Xe Loi – a Mekong’s Tuk Tuk which is so fun and eye-opening experiences through the countryside.
+ Around 01:00 PM, home-cooked lunch is served in the garden (set Menu included elephant ear fish)
+ Experience Do Cheo (hand rowing small boat/sampan) weaving in and out the water coconut canals.
+ Around 02:00 PM, disembark in Ben Tre city where the car waits for you there and picks you up and transfers straight to Can Tho city. Arrive Can Tho around 5-6pm.
+ This tour includes the FREE drop off in other cities (HCMC, airport, Vinh Long, Sa Dec, Cai Be, Tra Vinh, My Tho). If you don’t come back to Can Tho, please contact us for a free transfer service, and the availability. -
Day 3: Option 2: Can Tho – Tra Su Tour – Can Tho (Free drop off in Chau Doc, Ha Tien, Rach Gia); 07:00 AM – 17:00 PM; A/c Car, Sampan, Boat, LunchStart from Can Tho, tour in Tra Su forest and get back to Can Tho City! And FREE drop off in Chau Doc, Ha Tien, Rach Gia. With the customized tour in 1 day, tour package taking you through Tra Su forest, Mekong Delta. Tra Su tour includes a boat trip & hand-rowing slow sampan, the walking bamboo bridge in the nature, watching tower, birdwatching, a seasonal best rice field, an ancient Khmer pagoda, a sugar palm field, authentic lunch and more.
+ At 7:00 AM, our driver and tour guide will welcome and pick you up at the hotel in Can Tho city.
+ Tra Su Melaleuca Forest
Arrive at Tra Su Melaleuca Forest. You will have a motor boat in the forest, go and spot as many birds as you can with your now trained eyes and the directions of the guide. Pay attention to the sounds of the forest to grasp a better idea of this mesmerizing place, declared one of one of the area’s most peaceful spots in Southern Vietnam. After getting to the 25-meter observation tower to enjoy the fascinating view over the mountain in the area, the expanses of cajeput forest and the white dots of flying storks. Your tour will slow down by taking the hand-rowing sampan for a close-up birdwatching and enjoy the most beautiful flooded forest in Vietnam as well as SE-Asia. Take an amazing bamboo walking bridge in the forest in Vietnam which
+ About 3 hours in the forest included the authentic lunch in the restaurant in the forest.
+ One of the best paddy rice fields in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
On the way, you will see hundreds of hectares of green and yellow rice fields and the tour guide will stop at one of the best rice fields to visit to learn all about the Mekong Delta Rice Fields (rice fields are seasonals in the dry & wet season).
+ Sugar palm fields
Of course, on this trip, you also can taste the sugar palm fruit juice at the sugar palm fields which may bring you some scenic pictures of the countryside views of Mekong region near the border of Vietnam in Chau Doc Tinh Bien.
+ An ancient Khmer pagoda
Surrounded by the small minority Khmer village, The Khmer ancient pagoda, 300-hundred-year-old, has a very tranquil setting and is one of the oldest ancient Khmer-style pagodas in Mekong Delta. Walking around the pagoda, you will feel the relaxation, airy but no less ancient thanks to the pleasant complex of peaceful compound with elaborate stupas and ornate painting of spiritual scenes with the Buddha on the outside of the main building
+ Around 02:00 PM, head back to Can Tho city. Arrive Can Tho around 5pm.
+ This tour includes the FREE drop off in other cities (Chau Doc, Ha Tien, Rach Gia). If you don’t come back to Can Tho, please contact us for a free transfer service, and the availability.
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English speaking tour guide in 3 days
Sampan (small boat), a breakfast on the river
Authentic lunch on day 2 & day 3 (set menu)
Boat trip in the forest, Easy Bike tour (optional)
Entrance fees, water 500ml/pax
Day 3: Tra Su tour or Ben Tre Tour (free drop off in Chau Doc, Ha Tien, Rach Gia OR HCMC, airport, Vinh Long, Sa Dec, Cai Be, Tra Vinh, My Tho
Pick up from/to your hotel by car/taxi in Can Tho
Your own hotel
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Can Tho Rice Noodle Factory & Villages
Nowadays, there are more and more green and responsible tours which are meaningful and educational as well. This is why Can Tho noodle factory is getting popular for both Vietnamese and foreigners to come and explore the cuisine culture and the typical local life in Can Tho, Mekong Delta.
I can honestly say this three-day Mekong Delta tour was one of the most touching and eye-opening trips I’ve ever taken. Our guide, Minh, greeted us with genuine warmth and incredible knowledge from the very first moment. The way he shared stories about the wetlands, the floating markets, and the local way of life made everything feel so alive and meaningful. On the first day, cruising quietly through the untouched green canals of the wetland conservation area was like stepping into a different world—a peaceful, natural sanctuary that felt untouched by time. Climbing the observation tower and seeing the vast rice fields spread out beneath us was breathtaking and humbling.
The early morning at Cai Rang floating market was a highlight that I won’t forget—the colors, the hustle, and the smell of fresh fruit and spices truly awakened all my senses. Minh was patient and caring, making sure everyone in our group was comfortable and even accommodating dietary needs with a delicious vegetarian breakfast. Visiting the family-run rice noodle place and the tropical fruit garden gave a deeper understanding of local traditions and food culture.
The final day in Ben Tre, exploring coconut canals, handmade crafts, and tasting local specialties, showed me the genuine heart of the Mekong people. Minh’s passion for his homeland shone through every story, making this tour feel like much more than sightseeing—it was a heartfelt journey that connected me deeply with the culture, nature, and history of the Mekong Delta. I left with wonderful memories and a true appreciation for this beautiful part of Vietnam. Highly recommended for anyone seeking an authentic, soulful adventure!
If you want a deep dive into the Mekong Delta with a perfect mix of nature, history, culture, and local life, this 3-day tour is unbeatable. It’s well-paced, diverse, and thoughtfully designed, offering both group adventure and moments of peaceful reflection. The added flexibility of two Day 3 options—Ben Tre or Tra Su—makes it easy to tailor your final day.
Days 1 & 2 cover Can Tho’s must-sees in a way that feels both authentic and comfortable. On Day 1, we loved the boat ride through the wetland conservation, surrounded by lush greenery and birdsong, topped with panoramic views from the observation tower. The visit to the giant ficus microcarpa tree added a fascinating historical layer, with stories about wartime strategies that really connected us to the region’s past.
Day 2 began early with a magical sampan ride at Cai Rang floating market. Experiencing the vibrant river market at sunrise, tasting fresh pineapple and the best noodle soup, and learning about the floating market’s shrinking footprint was truly eye-opening. The colorful rice noodle family workshop was a charming surprise—especially the homemade rice noodle pizza! The fruit garden stroll, peaceful canals cruise, and optional village bike ride gave us intimate glimpses of local life. The visit to the organic cacao farm was a unique finale, topped off with delicious cacao milk and stories about cacao products made there. The included authentic lunch was wholesome and satisfying.
Day 3 Options:
We chose the Ben Tre tour and it was fantastic. Cruising coconut canals, visiting the traditional brick kiln, sampling coconut candy, and weaving mats with locals felt like stepping into a timeless world. The tuk-tuk ride through villages was fun and eye-opening. The garden lunch with elephant ear fish was a perfect way to end the day. The free drop-off option made traveling on seamless, which was much appreciated.
The alternative Tra Su tour also looks incredible, with peaceful boat rides through the Melaleuca forest, bamboo bridge walks, birdwatching, ancient Khmer pagoda visits, and tasting fresh sugar palm juice—a nature lover’s dream.
Our guide and driver were attentive, knowledgeable, and flexible throughout. The vehicles were air-conditioned and comfortable, and the boats were authentic and smooth.
If you want to experience the Mekong Delta beyond the surface—with immersive activities, authentic meals, and beautiful landscapes—this is the trip to book. Highly recommend for anyone who loves nature, culture, and meaningful travel.