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floating market boat trip everyday

Name: floating market boat trip everyday
Address: Vietnam

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Enjoy sun rise in the morning on the wooden boat to Cai Rang floating market, see the hustle and bustle of special market on the water way. Explore wonder land of small canal and bird song as a local

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Highlights

Real Cai Rang floating market on river at dawn
Nature small canal with specialits fauna and flora in Mekong River
Traditional Rice Noodle workshop, trying to make rice paper for noodle
Cocoa garden and secret of making chocolate by ancient tool
Fruit Garden: learning create new plants and pick enjoy the fruit under shadow

Description

Do you refer the person tour, informative trip, acknowledge the local life and see some unique things? These things can be find out at Mekong Delta Boat Trip with the local guide. Get up early in the morning at 5:30 a.m, floating on the wooden small boat to discover the Mekong River. The local guide will tell you why the floating market start early. The trip starts at dawn so you can see the picturesque of sunrise. During the time sitting on the boat you can see some fish jump to the air (in the rainy season) and the floating plant-the kind of vegetable that use to cook sour soup and have fun with hand-made animals and flowers made from water-coconut leaf. When the boat reaches the Cai Rang floating market – Whole-sale market, what you can see is the fantastic view on the river. Many boats are full of hundred agricultural product such as: mango, watermelon, turnip, pineapple, jackfruit, sweet-potato, yam, pumpkin, cabbage, tomatoes, carrot, water chestnut, …(depent on the season). You can find how local people live on the boat. They have a small space in the back of the boat, that is the place where they sleep, cook meal, wash clothes, dry the clothes…One interesting thing you just see in the floating market is the way how the seller show what they are selling. They set up the long bamboo in front of the boat and hang in their food stuff on the top so the customer just skim those bamboo and find the product they want to buy. You also can drink a cup of coffee provide from the floating boat with the reasonable price (a half dollar for one) The second stop is Traditional Rice Noodle Factory. There are the families still keep the old secret to make rice noodle. Most of the step making this kind of noodle is hand-made. Next to the rice noodle factory, you can try some grill banana pancake. The next destination of Mekong Boat Trip is sightseeing the small canal systems. The boat driver will run slowly through countryside canal. Tourist trolls in the daily life of resident, water-coconut growing along both site of the canal. Some time, there are a flock of ducks is swimming on the river to find some fish or snail. Now, the boat stop for visitors walking on the peaceful village. The local guide will show you how the banana grow up, you also learn how to distinguish some herb and tree by smelling, try bilimbi star-fruit, enjoy honey directly from flower, take the browse of rice field, attractive with the charming beauty of water-lily, foot on monkey-bridge, you will open mind how the pineapple growing up…

Includes

Enjoy special shaking rice noodle soup on boat on Cai Rang floating market Taste Vietnam coffee, green tea Trying exotic fruit on the tree and on the boat English speaking guide Picking wherever you stay to join the trip