Cycling 3 days/2 nights: from Saigon - Sadec - CanTho
Destinations: Mekong Delta Cycling Tours. This
bicycle tour will take you to a former Viet Cong base in a mangrove
forest. Then you will have a chance to visit Sadec, the oldest town in
the Mekong Delta. Leave Saigon for the Delta in the morning, enjoy two
hours driving south on the freeway to Tieng Giang province. Visit the
Viet Cong base in Dong Thap. Sedec town can not to be missed. It was
featured in the Hollywood movie The Lover, with Margueti Duras, set in
Sadec from 1928 to 1932, in which a French teenage girl embarks on a
reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man.
Vietnam Bike Tours
Road surfaces: paths & trails.
Detail Itinerary
Day 1: Saigon – Tien Giang – Sadec (L/D) (40 km)
Leave
Saigon for the Mekong Delta in the morning: take a two hour drive on
the freeway to Tieng Giang province. Start biking on beautiful country
roads along natural creeks; pedal slowly through rice fields and pass
many waterway markets. Stop for coffee at a little town and visit a
village, then cross a network of canals to Xeo Quyt Base, a former Viet
Cong base with a small tunnel system. Xeo Quyt also was the headquarters
of the V.C. in Dong Thap province during the American-Vietnam war from
1963-1975. A Viet Cong guide will take you to Xeo Quyt base by row boat.
Here, a Viet Cong guide will explain the difficulties faced by V.C.
living and fighting in this setting. Back to the base for lunch. After
lunch, we cycle to Sadec town. Overnight in Sadec.
Day 2: Sadec – CanTho.( B/L/D) (50-75 km)
Wake
up in early morning, take a walk to Sadec market nearby, and see how
the locals prepare an early morning market in town. Visit some
traditional French villas, built by the French along the canals. Explore
the town of Sadec. Sadec town is the only town could remain Indochina
history in Saigon Gia Dinh. The town also was the place where Madam
Magueret, "Magueret Duras"
made famous in a movie about her love with a Chinese man before 1932.
Check out of the hotel, start to ride through ornamentals, flower
gardens, pass by workshops, and see locals producing rice powder. Lunch
en route. In the afternoon, continue to cycle by sweet potato
plantations and rice fields to Can Tho. Overnight in the capital city of
Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
Day 3: Can Tho – Saigon. (B/L/) (30 km)
Enjoy
a boat ride to the Cai Rang floating market, the biggest and busiest of
all floating markets in the Mekong region. Spend 30 minutes watching
heavy traffic on the water as locals exchange goods from boat to boat.
Then disembark and visit another land market. Start riding on back roads
to O Mon. ride through rural villages and cross a network of canals.
Have lunch and transfer back to Saigon. End of tour.
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