Mekong Delta Tour 1 day from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is an excellent opportunity to discover and enjoy the real rural local lives in southern Vietnam.
By booking our Saigon Mekong Delta tour 1 day, you will have a great sightseeing trip and walk in the beautiful fruit plantations and villages. Furthermore, you will also learn how to row the local sampan boats on a shallow channel full of water coconut trees.
If you have much time, you should refer to our other Mekong Delta tours, such as
- Cu Chi Tunnels And Mekong Delta Tour – 65 USD/pax.
- Mekong Delta 2 Days Tour – 143 USD/pax
- Mekong Delta Tour 3 Days 2 Nights
In addition, if you want to explore other destinations in south Vietnam, you can refer to our Saigon private cars as follows:
- Saigon To Dalat Private Car – 166 USD/sedan
- Saigon To Nha Trang Private Car – 272 USD/ Sedan.
- Saigon To Can Tho Private Car – 126 USD/ Sedan.
MEKONG DELTA 1 DAY TOUR FROM HO CHI MINH CITY
8:00 am, Our tour guide and Saigon private car driver will come to pick you up at your hotel/apartment in Saigon, and we start the Mekong Delta one day tour.
Upon arrival at My Tho in Tien Giang province, we will visit Vinh Trang Pagoda. It is a large pagoda with unique and delicate architecture and various styles of Asia-Europe synthesis (France, Rome, Thai, Mien, Cham). Nevertheless, the pagoda still imbues traditional Vietnamese sculpture architecture.
Then, we will take a Mekong Delta boat tour to explore the daily life of the local people with local stilt houses, fishing villages, and fruit gardens on both sides of the river banks.
Continue the Vietnam Mekong Delta tour from Saigon. We will have lunch in a local family’s orchard garden on the Tortoise islet. After a delicious local lunch, we will take the boat to An Khanh commune in Ben Tre province.
Upon reaching An Khanh commune, we will visit rural family businesses to taste their locally handmade products, such as coconut candies, honey, and crispy rice cakes. You can learn how to make them under the guidance of the villagers and with our knowledgeable tour guide’s assistance. Then, you can observe the pastoral lives as you roam through the village as well as local fruit gardens.
In addition, we will take Xe Loi – the Southern Tuktuk car throughout the village and learn how to row on a hand-rowed sampan boat along natural canals. Also, you will also enjoy the seasonal local honey tea and fruits, and the unique traditional southern folk songs by the locals.
After all, we finish the Mekong Delta river tour, our driver will transfer you return to your hotel in Saigon. Around 5:00 pm, we come back to Ho Chi Minh city. Saigon Locals Travel wishes you memorable memories with our Mekong Delta full day tour.
Travel Guides
Traveling to the Mekong Delta, you can explore Con Phung, a famous tourist destination in Ben Tre province. Coming here, visitors can participate in many unique games, such as cycling on the monkey bridge, swinging across the river, fishing for crocodiles, bottle-feeding fish, etc. The price is about 10,000–40,000 VND per turn.
There is also Dong Tam Snake Farm, which has about 400 species of snakes. Notably, more than 50 species of venomous snakes here are raised for venom, to serve medical needs, and for export.
When visitors come to this place, they can see live snakes with their own eyes and receive expert instructions on avoiding being attacked. Snakes here are raised freely in areas with protective fences, divided into parts according to the nature of each species. For instance, python breeding area, venomous snake area, water snake area, etc.
Moreover, this place is also like a small zoo, where you can learn about some rare animals. For example, Bengal tigers, bears, crocodiles, tortoises, ostriches, swans, and so on. The snake farm is open from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The ticket price is 30,000 VND for adults and 20,000 VND for children over 6 years old.
