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TRULY MEKONG DELTA TOUR 3Days This trip is the mixed up of Biking -- Trekking -- Boat cruising that provides you the 3 dimensional views of Mekong delta landscape and daily life of the local people. It is for easy riders and short time trekkers who really want to explore the spirit of Mekong delta. You can learn how local people make their living on the water and rich land, the real Mekong River will be soon in your exploration. This tour is kind of mixing adventure and relaxing. It also a new creative tour to where no tourist coming massively as other tourist destination doing at the moment. Sa Dec is one of the first trading town in Mekong delta where Khmer, Chinese, Vietnamese have been living together for centuries in peaceful society and very friendly local people whom can give you more detail of how their actual culture from their every little works which gives them the love to share; smiles to welcome guests. It is the town of literature such as the movie "The Lovers" that is the masterpiece of Madame Marguerite Duras. There is so much to tell about this destination of tour. Your choice of this tour is unforgettable tour that you ever made. Cai Rang floating market can not be missed for any travelers who come to Vietnam. The strange way of trading on the water will be surprise you a lot and that can be kept in your memory for years as a lovely strange souvenir or your holiday. Day 1: HCM -- An Huu -- Sadec (L, D) At 7:00 Pick up at your hotel, we drive to An Huu River - Cai Be - Tien Giang Province (around 95km western of Saigon) about 2:30 hour. Upon arrival, we will make a little trekking along the River that takes about 1 Km then we embark on a private boat that also carries bicycles for our biking. From there we cruise along the natural big river and keep on going to an waterway intersection. The boat will drops us & bicycles off on the left side of the river's band for biking into canals for untouchable beauty of sightseeing from local villages; mango gardens along the country roads. This area is where almost the fruit of Mekong delta come from and it is the healthiest villages of Tien Giang province. The local daily life is very peaceful, green, quite. It is the dream of easy riders to ride deep down into one of the biggest fruit garden of Vietnam. At 11:30, the picnic lunch will be available on the boat. We have another 1:30 hour of cruising on the water way of Mekong River to Sadec. This water way will surprise all of us by its beauty and its is the biggest upper part of Mekong River where many water hyacinth plantation are growing; local handmade small brick workshops; fish farm villages will be presented on the way to Sadec. Finally, we arrive in the Roses Garden of Sadec where every family makes their living on flowers and plants that is the reason why it is named Rose Garden Villages. Finally, we arrive in Sa Dec where the Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer living together in a peaceful sideband of Mekong River where the war has gone so far. The concept formation story L'Amant of Madam Marguerite Duras and the drama movie The Lover was directed by Jean Jacques Annaud that was made in Sa Dec. Production began in 1989, with filming commencing in 1991. The film made its theatrical debut on 22 January 1992, with an English release in the United Kingdom in June and in the United States in October of the same year. The film won the Motion Picture Sound Editor's 1993 Golden Reel award for "Best Sound Editing — Foreign Feature" and the 1993 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film. Check in hotel then having Dinner at local restaurant of at a farmer family's house. Overnight in Sadec Part II of traveling from Sa Dec to Can Tho City is continued in the video's link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XTfpYBigQ http://www.vietnamholiday.eu/Tour/69/truly-mekong-delta-tour.html Thanks for your viewing Vietnam Cool Travel