At 06:00 AM, our local tour guide will pick you up at 28 Phan Đinh Phung, Ninh Kieu Ward, Can Tho city, and then you will head to Cai Rang floating market by a wooden boat. On the way to Cai Rang floating market, you will see beautiful sunrise reflecting on the river. It is interesting that you can see real local activities such as washing the clothes, catching fish, children swimming. Arriving in Can Tho floating market, you will know the history, cultural values, bustling trading scene and amazing people there. Don’t forget to enjoy “floating noodle soup”, a cup of Vietnamese milk coffee onboard and savor fresh pineapple on a pineapple boat.
After savoring rice noodle soup at the floating market, we will stop at a local traditional rice noodle factory to see how to make Hu Tieu - rice noodle step by step. Have fun when you try making noodles guided by the noodle expert! Enjoy a special crispy homemade “rice noodle pizza” that you cannot buy anywhere else.
Afterwards, we visit a local house to see how the locals make rice noodle “hu tieu”.
Then we will walk through a very nice nursery vegetable village, get to know how the locals grow it. Following this, we will get back onboard the boat and journey into a very beautiful canal with lots of water coconut on both sides of river. We will visit a dragon fruit garden of the locals and try some.
If you are interested in rowing the boat, there will be an opportunity here to learn (depends on the tide, we can go through the canal or just a short distance) and we can walk a bit to take a look at some nursery plantations of the locals, get to know more things and you can offer some gifts to local kids. Then return to the boat station, talk to the locals, and give some small gifts to the kids. The tour comes to an end here, our guide will drop you back at your hotel around 11 AM.