The Soul of the South: Mekong Delta Experience

Overview of Mekong Delta

Mekong Delta, whose full name is Mekong Delta Tours, is a licensed company established in 2008. This is a company specializing in providing tours in the main markets of Vietnam and internationally with large-scale development.

The main products and services that Mekong Delta brings to customers include 06 main types. Categories include consulting – designing tours, Phu Quoc tours, Mekong, Saigon Tour, Mekong Delta tourism.

The tourism product that makes the brand of Mekong Delta Tour is the Mekong Delta and Southern region tour. Professionalism in operation along with perfect service quality and competitive prices, these things help Mekong Delta gain great trust from domestic and foreign customers.

Popular tour types at Mekong Delta Tours

Mekong Delta Tours provides popular tour types and unique tourism products in the southern region. Below are some of the tourism products that the company provides that are of interest to the market.

Popular tour types

At Mekong Delta, the company offers many types of tours for customers to choose from depending on the purpose of the trip. Specifically, the unit provides the following types of tours:

• Cultural tourism: explore the unique cultural values ​​of local areas in the country.
• Ecotourism: serving sightseeing, experiencing ecological and natural areas nationwide and internationally.
• Resort tourism: tours that provide sightseeing combined with rest and recovery of physical and mental health for customers.
• Discovery tourism: taking customers to learn and explore wild and majestic natural destinations domestically and internationally,
• Types of culinary tourism, combined tourism.

In addition, Mekong Delta also provides organized services such as family travel, group travel, and individual travel domestically or abroad.

Floating market tour.

The floating market tour allows visitors to explore the activities of famous floating markets in the Mekong region such as Cai Rang and Cai Be. Visitors can learn about the start and end times of the markets and local stalls along the Mekong region.

Customers joining the tour will visit Cai Rang Floating Market, a famous landmark in Can Tho. Explore the largest fruit orchard in the West and the daily life of people living in the river area.

Eco tour (fruit garden, mangrove forest)

Joining the Ecotour provided by Mekong Delta Tours, customers can experience exploring the fruit garden with the “fruit paradise” Lai Thieu. Ca Mau mangrove forest with its unique ecosystem is considered the largest mangrove forest in the world.

Ecotourism in Con Phung – Ben Tre; Gao Giong – Dong Thap… Besides that, you can visit and enjoy seasonal fruit specialties in many famous fruit gardens, explore famous islands such as Tan Phong island…

Cultural tour (traditional craft villages, Khmer culture)

Mekong Delta offers a cultural tour that highlights traditional craft villages and Khmer culture. With hundreds of traditional craft villages in the Mekong Delta, customers have the opportunity to learn about the unique features of traditional craft villages.

In addition, people have the opportunity to learn about the typical cultural beauty of the Khmer people. Customers can learn about the traditional culture, linguistics, culture and art of ethnic minorities.

Experience tour (boating, fishing, homestay)

Experiential tours from Mekong Tours are always attractive by combining discovery tourism with experiences of boating, fishing, and Homestay.

Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and entertainment with outdoor activities, the selected locations are all extremely practical and close, bringing interesting experiences to participants.

Ideal time to join Mekong Delta Tours

Join Mekong Delta Tours, the company provides many products and services with continuous time periods throughout the year. However, to have the most perfect experience, the following suggestions about the time to register for a tour will help you:

Climate and seasons in the Mekong Delta

Whether or not the Mekong Delta tourism experience is most perfect depends on the climate and season. Because only when the natural conditions are favorable is it truly suitable for tourists to visit and enjoy.

Mekong Delta Tours advises customers to choose the “flood season” in the Mekong Delta to participate. The reason is that during this season, the natural landscape is beautiful and the daily life activities of the people are extremely vibrant. These things open up many favorable factors for visitors.

The advantage of traveling to Mekong Delta during the flood season is that people have more options for specific attractive tours such as:

• Beautiful natural scenery from the flood season
• Diverse and attractive cuisine from the Mekong Delta region
• Visit traditional craft villages, unique tourism products with unique ecosystems, homestay tourism model.

Register for Tours during major cultural events

Mekong Tours  also advises customers to travel during the times of prominent cultural events during the year. During these times, the provinces and cities in the Mekong River region often have cultural festivals and cultural activities with attractive local characteristics.

In the Mekong Delta region, national cultural festivals and festivals bearing the mark of ethnic minorities often take place. Some typical events that customers can consider choosing are:

• Festival of Lady of the Land in Sam Mountain – An Giang, in Ca Mau there is the Nghinh Ong festival
• Commemorative festival in memory of hero Nguyen Trung Truc in Kien Giang
• Khmer festivals: Sen Dolta festival, Bay Nui bull racing festival, Ok Om Bok festival
• Cham festivals: Ramadan, Roya festival, Chinese festival – Thien Hau worship ceremony…
• Other festivals such as Southern Folk Cake Festival, Ben Tre Coconut Festival

Highlights of Mekong Delta Tours

Mekong Delta Tour brings many outstanding destinations to customers from its quality service packages. Some ideal addresses for everyone’s travel experience on these Tours are:

• Tour to explore Cai Rang Floating Market, Can Tho province
• Learn about Ninh Kieu Wharf in Can Tho
• Experience Gao Giong Ecotourism in Dong Thap
• Sightseeing Tour Mui Nai – Ha Tien, Kien Giang Province
• Travel to explore Tram Chim National Park – Dong Thap
• Eco-tourism Con Phung, Ben Tre province..
• Many other attractive destinations….

The most outstanding tours worth experiencing in Mekong Delta

Mekong Delta Tours offers a variety of flexible travel packages for visitors to choose from. Below are some outstanding tours worth experiencing that we would like to recommend to you:

Mekong Delta 1 day tour to the West

Mekong Delta Tours offers a 1-day tour package to the West Mekong with a trip along the legendary Mekong River. Visitors will discover the historical flow, mysterious legends and cultural beauty of the West.

The places that tourists have the opportunity to explore when participating in the 1-day Mekong tour are: watching the Vam Co Dong River, visiting Vinh Trang Pagoda, traveling along the Tien River through the four islands of Long, Lan, Quy, Phung. Visiting and enjoying the fruit garden at Cu Lao Thoi Son; learning about the relic of Mr. Dao Dua in Phung Island….

2-day tour to visit Cai Rang Floating Market

2-day tour with Mekong Delta tour, visitors can come to visit and explore Cai Rang Floating Market – an ideal famous destination in Mekong Tour. For this tour, participants will enjoy extremely interesting experiences such as:

• Explore a day in the life of the traditional Cai Rang Floating Market,
• Cruise on the river, explore the shops in the countryside along the river
• Overnight in Can Tho, a poetic place with beautiful canals
• Stroll through the fruit garden, enjoy fruit and visit traditional craft villages

3-day tour with Mekong Delta Tour

Mekong Tour with duration of 3 days 2 nights is an attractive experience package for tourists. With an extremely affordable cost of only a few million VND, tourists can experience the whole package and visit attractive locations such as:

• Take a tour of the Tien River by big boat
• Visit famous floating markets in Mekong such as Cai Be market, Cai Rang market,
• Visit and enjoy fruits at Cu Lao Tan Phong,
• Visit Chau Doc Hang Pagoda, Tra Su Melaleuca Forest, Crocodile Farm…
• Visit traditional craft villages operating in the Mekong region.

What types of Mekong tours are there?

Mekong VIP tours

This is a type of tour where passengers will be joined by other passengers by Limousine. Because it is a VIP tour, the pick-up location will be flexible at hotels in District 1, District 3 and District 4. The tour includes all entrance fees and group meals included in our service package.

In addition, for passengers choosing the VIP tour, they will be served additional fruits and soft drinks during the trip.

Mekong Private tours

This is a type of tour where passengers will travel alone with a private car with flexible time and flexible stops. For private tours, passengers will not travel with any other passengers, even if there is only one person, they will still travel by private car.

The next benefit of a private tour is that passengers will be able to choose the departure time and pick-up point as requested.

Mekong Group tours

This is also a form in which passengers will be grouped with other passengers in a 29-seat tourist vehicle.

For this type of tour, passengers will be served mineral water during the trip and the pick-up point is only concentrated at hotels in District 1.

Unique experience when joining Mekong Delta Tours

Joining Mekong Delta Tours, customers’ experiences are always extremely unique and attractive. The tours that the company offers players many options along with high-quality service at reasonable prices.

Local culture

The Mekong Delta region has a very unique indigenous culture thanks to the convergence of many favorable factors from nature as well as the people here. Joining Mekong Delta Tours, customers will have the opportunity to explore the culture of the regions and provinces in the Mekong River region with their own typical characteristics.

The Mekong Delta region includes many provinces and cities, each with its own unique cultural beauty. Visitors can learn more about the cultural beauty of the ethnic groups…

Activities on the river

The tours offered by Mekong Delta offer a variety of experiences with many activities on the river. People can participate in exciting recreational events on the river such as boating, fishing and enjoying cuisine.

Experience river activities with high-quality experiential tours. You can come to many traditional festivals or directly participate in local events organized during the year, especially during the flood season.

Mekong Delta Tour explores traditional craft villages

Traditional craft villages in the Mekong Delta region have a variety of craft villages spread throughout the provinces. Industrial and small-scale craft villages with products such as embroidery, palm sugar, weaving, etc., are consumed domestically and a few are exported abroad.

Mekong Delta offers tours to famous craft villages that are loved by many people. Customers have the opportunity to explore the activities and history of famous craft villages in the Southern region. In addition to learning, people can also directly try their hand at making interesting products from traditional craft villages.

Tips and notes when joining Mekong Delta Tours

For customers who are experiencing Mekong Delta Tours for the first time, we have the following advice and notes:

Customers should travel and experience the Mekong Delta at the right time of the year. The advice as analyzed above is to choose to register to go during the typical flood season of the Mekong region.

Customers should find out in advance the detailed schedule of time, location as well as the total and additional service costs to choose the appropriate Tour. This is an important issue and the customer service consulting team from Mekong Delta will directly support customers when provided with correct contact information.

Participants need to be well prepared physically, mentally and financially to be ready for their trip. Prepare these things well to have the best health and mental state to enjoy the exciting experiences at the tourist areas.

Finally, you can book tickets for Mekong Delta Tours at our offices nationwide. Or more simply, you can find out the schedule and book tickets online through the company’s website or 24/7 hotline.