BASSAC CRUISE MEKONG RIVER

Duration: 3 Days

TRIP PRICE: Please Contact us for availabilities and price

What To Take
We suggest a small, lightweight daypack for cameras, spare film, drinking water and comfortable walking shoes.

Note:
- Single cabin supplement: only applies upon request and if there is an odd number of passengers.
Trip Price Included
- Transportation on board
- Land transportation
- Accommodation of each passenger in a twin –share cabin, double –or twin bedded.
- Three meals (2 Lunch –2 Dinner –2 Breakfast)
- Vietnamese coffee, tea, mineral water
- Two visits on shore or on a small skiff
- Access to all services on board
- Access to and from the board on a longboat

Trip Price Excluded
Travel insurance
Personal expenses such as shopping, laundry and bar bills etc
Tips and Gratuities
Other service unspecified in the program.

Details Itinerary:

Day1: Chau Doc at noon time
Boarding at the Chau Doc pier, welcome drink, introduction to the ship and crew, check into your cabin.
Departure downstream on the Bassac river, as the crew serves lunch.
We connect through river Vam Nao and around the district of Cho Moi to the First River.
Mid-afternoon, we sail along a small tributary to Song Ho. Exploratory visit at Cho Moi: Village and old churches.
Boarding back at dusk, welcome drink. Dinner is served en route.
the Bassac drops anchor on the way in view of the My Thuan bridge for the night.

Day 2: Cai Be - Ben Tre
Breakfast is available from 6:30 on.
The Bassac sets sail after sunrise towards Cai Be, through sceneries of sweet water mangroves on river My Tho.
Arrival in Cai Be, transfer to a local boat for a tour of Cai Be floating market and handicraft.
boarding back at noon, with a welcome-back drink.
Lunch on board as the Bassac is en route towards Binh Hoa Phuoc Island.
Rendez-vous with a local boat to visit an old colonial house and an orchard garden on the Island.
Boarding back before dusk. Refreshment drink then departure towards My Tho.
Dinner is served en route.
The bar is open, and the upper deck welcomes you for a cool evening.
The Bassac drops anchor for the night in front of the Ben Tre islands.

Day 3: Ben Tre - My Tho
Breakfast is available from 6:30 in the morning.
Mid-morning, check out and transfer to a local boat for an extensive visit of the Ben Tre islands: rowing through the arroyos shaded with water coconut trees, on a horse cart through to a honey farm where you will taste the local production, especially honey tea.
Arrival at My Tho late morning.
End of the services on shore at My Tho by mid-morning.