Mekong · Ben Tre & Bird Sanctuary

Mekong Delta · Cho Gao · Ben Tre · Tam Hiep Island

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Mekong Delta · Cho Gao · Ben Tre · Tam Hiep Island

2 days/ 1night Mekong Delta with Cho Gao – Ben Tre & Tam Nong Bird National Park

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Hotels, internal flights, and daily pacing are customized. We arrange private vehicles, licensed guides, entrance fees as specified, and real-time support while you travel. Share your dates, hotel preferences, and must-see sites for a detailed proposal.

Sample itinerary

2 days / 1 night · Mekong · Ben Tre & Bird Sanctuary

Sample pacing only — hotels, flights, and daily order flex with your dates and interests. We quote after we have your dates and hotel preferences.

Day 1 — Saigon – Mekong Delta: Ben Tre – Cho Gao – Tam Hiep Island

7:00am departure from your hotel. After 2 hours driving from Saigon, you will arrive Cho Gao District of Tien Giang Province.

Transfer to a wooden boat to discover Tam Hiep Island in Ben Tre Province on an excursion which crosses two branches of the Mekong. We’ll arrive at Giao Hoa village, 30 km from the sea..

Walk to a local house to observe the production of sticky rice cake wrapped in banana leaves. Later, we’ll return to our boat and cruise to Long Thạnh village where we’ll visit a local factory where many kilns produce charcoal from coconut shells.

The boat will then take us to Tam Hiep Island, where you can bike on small village paths through huge orchards before arriving at a special farm where they produce La sam – a leaf which we will pick for making and tasting special herbal jelly. Next, you’ll bike to a local house located in the middle of green orchards to enjoy an exotic lunch.

Day 2 — Full day trip to Tram Chim National Park and transfer back to Saigon

After breakfast, transfer to Tram Chim National Park, with a stopover en route to have some traditional Vietnamese coffee. Arrive at Tram Chim National Park Information Center to learn general information about the area.

You will then embark on a solar powered boat to explore the park – one of four Ramsar sites in Vietnam (an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands) – where you will be introduced to a wide-range of animals, birds and plants whose habitat is here in southern Vietnam.

There are 200 types of birds here – a quarter of the bird population of Vietnam. The most typical and well-known is the Red-headed Crane, one of the last 15 crane pieces in the world.

After that you’ll continue experiencing the eco-system by rowboat, as well as by walking along trails inside the reserve. Later, have lunch at the home of a local family, and try fishing on a lotus field and enjoy local products made out of lotus such as milk and lotus seed soup (chè sen).