WHERE THE MEKONG GROWS WILD 

Day 1: Mekong Local Life And Rural Village Ride

9:00 AM: Private Departure from Ho Chi Minh City

Your driver collects you from your hotel for the journey to Can Tho. Leave the city behind as the landscape opens into waterways, gardens and the cultivated countryside of the Delta.

Early Afternoon: Enjoy a light Mekong lunch before checking into your countryside retreat. Take time to refresh and settle in before meeting your local host.

2:30 pm–6:00 PM: Mekong Local Life & Rural Village Ride

Scenic Village Ride: Follow your host along quiet paths through riverside villages rarely visited by travellers.You will see real life happening along the water where children go swimming, women wash clothes while they chat and laugh, old men smile and nod as you pass. It's an invitation to see how people actually live, love, and belong to this river.

Local Fruits Discovery: Bike through riverside fruit gardens where golden mangoes, spiky jackfruits, star apples, and pineapples ‘tempt’ you with their seasonal fragrance and flavor. Your guide will share how farmers grow and take care of these tasty fruits.

Rice Fields Experience: Ride past rice paddy fields, taste seasonal fruits, and immerse yourself in the smallest, gentlest moments that stay with you long after everything else blurs.

7:30 pm- Enjoy the Curated Mekong dinner

Meals included: Mekong lunch and Southern Vietnamese dinner

Your stay: Boutique countryside retreat, Can Tho

DAY 2: DISCOVER SON ISLET EXPERIENCE

7:00–9:00 AM: Breakfast and a Morning of Your Own

Enjoy a slow breakfast at your countryside retreat, then spend the morning just as you wish. Swim, stroll through the fruit gardens or relax with a book in the shade, listening to birdsong.

2:30 PM: Across the River to Sơn Islet

Your local host meets you at the retreat for the journey to Sơn Islet. Cross the  Mekong River and step into a community where gardens, fish farming and family hospitality shape daily life.

Floating Fish Farms: Visit a family-run floating fish farm to learn how fish are raised beneath the river’s surface. Your host helps explain the work behind the farm and its place in the local economy. Guests who wish may also try the fish foot massage offered here.

Snakehead Fish: Watch the farm’s feeding demonstration as snakehead fish rise from the water. Learn about the fish and how they are cared for, with an opportunity to participate when the farm’s hosts invite you.

Orchard Paths and Seasonal Flavours

Walk through an island fruit garden, discovering the trees and produce that thrive here. Taste the fruits available that season and enjoy a closer appreciation of the work behind each harvest.

Dinner at a Family Table: Feel at home as a local family welcomes you to dinner on the islet. Gather around a Mekong sweet-and-sour fish hotpot with fresh herbs and vegetables, sharing food, stories and smiles. As evening settles over the garden, enjoy a little more time together before returning to your retreat.

Meals included: Breakfast at the retreat and dinner with a family on Sơn Islet. Lunch is at leisure, at your own expense.
Your stay: Boutique countryside retreat, Can Tho.

Day 3: Floating market, Small canals, Wetland

6:30 AM:6:30 AM : Meet Your Host

Meet your host at your accommodation and set out for your private traditional sampan journey.

Cai Rang Floating Marke t: Breakfast Among the Trading Boats

At Cai Rang, discover boats carrying produce, floating kitchens and the routines of a community whose livelihoods follow the river.

Enjoy warm rice noodle soup and Vietnamese coffee served on the water as boats move around you. Your host explains the produce displayed on poles and the exchanges between traders, giving context to the morning’s activity. When circumstances allow and traders welcome a visit, step aboard a fruit boat for a closer glimpse of the goods and life carried within it.

A Family Rice Noodle factory: The Craft Behind Your Breakfast

Visit a family workshop to discover how rice becomes noodles, from preparing the mixture to steaming, drying and cutting the sheets.

Meet the people behind the process and, when production allows, try a step yourself. The bowl you enjoyed on the river takes on new meaning as you see the skill behind a familiar daily food.

Small Canals: Life Along the Water: Continue into narrower waterways, where tropical greenery, gardens and waterside homes draw closer.

From the sampan, notice the ways families use the riverbank: a boat tied beside a house, plants growing at the water’s edge, a small landing connecting home and canal. Your host helps you read these everyday details.

Mua Xuan Wetland Experience: Journey deeper into the green wetlands of Mua Xuan by small boat, surrounded by floating vegetation and the sounds of nature. Look for kingfishers, herons and other wetland birdlife, wander beneath the forest canopy, then climb the observation tower for sweeping views across this peaceful landscape.

Lunch in the Wetlands: Slow down over a thoughtfully prepared local lunch in the heart of Mua Xuan, with dishes inspired by the flavours and culinary traditions of the Mekong. 

Around 4:00 PM: Return to Your Retreat
Return to your countryside retreat with time to refresh and relax before dinner. Let the day’s encounters settle as you ease into another peaceful evening.

Overnight at your boutique countryside retreat.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

DAY 4: A GENTTLE FAREWELL

Morning: Breakfast and Time of Your Own

Enjoy breakfast and a final unhurried morning at your retreat.

Take a gentle bicycle ride independently through nearby village lanes, spend time in the gardens or linger over coffee. After three nights here, familiar paths and small details offer a personal way to say goodbye.

Around Noon (12 pm): Continue Your Journey

Check out and meet your driver for the return transfer to Ho Chi Minh City.

If your travels lead elsewhere, we can arrange an alternative ending:

Châu Đốc: For a stay before continuing towards Cambodia.

Rạch Giá: For an onward ferry journey to Phú Quốc.

Can Tho Airport: With your transfer arranged around your confirmed flight.

Alternative endings are planned when you reserve your journey. Departure times, transfer costs and any necessary adjustments are confirmed to suit your onward connection.

Meals included: Breakfast.

Thoughtfully Included

• Three nights at a boutique countryside retreat in Can Tho, with your property and room category confirmed in your proposal.
• Personal guiding by local hosts born and raised in the Mekong Delta.
• Private SUV transfers between your Ho Chi Minh City hotel and the retreat, with private transport for all scheduled experiences.
• A private bicycle journey along village paths rarely visited by travellers, personally chosen for our guests, with bicycles and safety equipment provided.
• Traditional sampan exploration of Cai Rang and smaller canals, with breakfast among the market’s trading boats.
• Visits to a family rice noodle workshop and cacao garden, with seasonal fruit tastings along the way.
• A boat journey through Mua Xuan’s green wetlands.
• A personally hosted visit to Sơn Islet, followed by dinner at a local family’s home.
• Three breakfasts, two lunches and three dinners, including your sampan breakfast and Sơn Islet family dinner.
• All scheduled visits and entrance fees.