HCMC - COCO RIVERSIDE LODGE - HCMC

Code: CRL03PM

Day: 3days/2nights

DAY 1: SAIGON – VUNG LIEM      (-/-/D)

Transfer to Coco Riverside Lodge, Trung Nghia - Vung Liem within 3 hour drive via Bentre and 4 hours through Vinh Long province by your own arrangement. 

Upon arrival, you will meet a representative, and you are led to the lodge along the countryside path. After just a short walk you will be treated to a welcome drink. Check-in

Select bicycles for a cycling tour in the afternoon on quiet village roads passing by a duck farm, green rice paddies, sedge field, and small villages. Along the way, you visit one of the dragon or orange fruit plantations and taste it directly in the garden. This is a relaxing time with plenty of chances to capture the picturesque Asian sunset scenes. Enjoy the beautiful sunset before returning to the lodge on your bicycles.

You are the chef! A traditional cooking class with locals. A great learning experience that means you can take a little of Vietnam home with you. Dinner is served at the lodge's restaurant

Accommodation at Coco Riverside Lodge

Meals included: Dinner

DAY 2: TRUNG NGHIA – VUNG LIEM      (B/L/D)

Breakfast, loaded boats are already heading to local squatting market and transporting goods such as coconuts from one factory to the other, crossing local ferry to visit beautiful Cao Dai temple. We also had a chance to see these factories. Situated alongside the river, these are small coconut-processing operations. Once the coconut has been shelled, the coconut fibers are removed from the husk to make rope, which in turn is used to weave rugs. You can watch the whole manufacturing process in a short period of time. Most of the work is done by hand at a professional way. The buyers are mostly foreign companies. Back to Lodge and have lunch and relax by amazing riverside

After a chance to rest, you walk around paths leading us to the home of Mr. Cong where you watch how he makes pop rice, shows you the blend of traditional and modern agricultural methods that sustains the local village. He will reveal the secret of making 'rice pop'. This unique and nutritious foodstuff will become a gift for locals or children in this idyllic village. Your guide explains how the animals are raised and shows you the way they collect 'biogas' to make free and sustainable cooking food.

Afternoon, starting with a sampan to visit another village through the canal; then walk to local home watching the home owner making pancake skillfully and try it as a way of local does. Back to the lodge in the late afternoon

Shower and refresh, you start to walk to home of neighbor who fought during the Vietnam war and be shared with the story, experienced of "poon" lights  and traditional music. End of the show, we walk back in hand of traditional torche made of dried coconut leaves.

Dinner with a twist is served after the night tour

Accommodation at Coco Riverside Lodge

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

DAY 3: TRUNG NGHIA – DEPARTURE       (B)

After breakfast, you walk around the garden of the land's owner, feeding fish or fishing if you wish, visiting family's graveyard. Then, help to harvest some water coconut leaves and weave them up by locals and by you. These leaves are a key building material in the Mekong Delta as they are used to build the walls and roof of the houses.

The local people will show you not only how they use these leaves but also how to make the 'poon' sticks that illuminated the previous night. Check-out and departure for your next destination by your own guide and vehicle. 

The end

*** Kindly note that this is a basic program, sightseeings can be changed in order or mixed due to tidal or weather matter

Included

Private air-condition room with complimentary water

Free coffee, tea in the room

Meals mentioned with 1 lunch, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts

Biking, engine boat, sampan and entrance fee

Water during biking

Local guide on spot

Traditional music and pop-rice services

Excluded

VAT bill

Travel insurance

What not mentioned in the itinerary

Tipping for staffs

Drinks during meals or in the minibar

Itinerary in brief

DAY 1:

Welcome and check-in

Sunset bike tour

Cooking pancake and dinner

DAY 2:

Breakfast, boat trip visit market, Cao Dai temple, coconut factory

Lunch, poprice making at the home of Mr. Cong

Rowing boat 

Night tour and Dinner

DAY 3:

Breakfast, fishing activity

Weaving coconut leaves and experience Poon stick making

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