Douce Mekong Cruise

Day 1 – Cai Be – Tra On

At noon, after embarking Douce Mekong Cruise, you will enjoy welcome drink and check in your cabin, while the cruise departs for Can Tho. You will transfer to local boat to visit attractions in from floating market to candy production. When the river tide is high, you will take a walking or biking tour to the countryside where you will visit colonial building, old houses, explore tropical fruit orchards and daily life of local people. Later, you will be taken to Tra On. Enjoy the wonderful sunset on the river while the ship cruises up the Mekong River. You will have dinner and overnight on board in Tra On.

Day 2 – Tra On – Can Tho

After having breakfast, you will cruise to Can Tho. During the time, you will catch all magnificent views of Mekong River in the sunrise. Arriving Can Tho, you get on a small boat to Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the busiest market in Mekong River Delta. Later, you will disembark and come back to Saigon. Your tour ends.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 230 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes:

Day 1 – Can Tho – Tra On

At noon, you will embark Douce Mekong Cruise. After enjoying welcome drink, you will travel to Cai Rang Floating Market by local boat. Cai Rang Market is one of the busiest floating markets in Mekong River Delta. Then, you will go to visit local house and lush green orchards. Later, you come back to the boat to cruise to Tra On while you have lunch on board. In the afternoon, you will go ashore to pop in fruit farms and go strolling around the village and communicate with local people. In late afternoon, you return to the boat, enjoy the magnificent sunset and aperitif before dinner. Overnight on board on Nicola River.

Day 2 – Tra On – Cai Be

After having breakfast, you have time to explore more about fruit orchards and daily life of local people. After that, the cruise sets sail toward Cai Be. Here, you will transfer to a local boat to visit Cai Be Floating Market, local pop-rice and sweets production. Also, you can drop by colonial buildings, old houses, lush green gardens, local coconut candy, and rice paper factories. At noon, you come back to the boat, check your luggage, enjoy welcome-back drink, and disembark. Your cruise tour ends.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 230 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes:

Day 1 – Cai Be – My Thuan – Sa Dec

At noon, you will embark Douce Mekong Cruise. After enjoying welcome drink and check in cabin, you will have lunch during the boat sets sail to Cai Thia. Arriving Sa Dec, you pop in a local market and primary school headed by Marguerite Duras by waking or cycling. You also go strolling in the village and explore daily life of local people in rice fields, vegetable farms and fish farms. In late afternoon, you come back to the cruise and unwind on the sundeck. In the evening, you will have dinner and overnight onboard in Sa Dec.

Day 2 – Cai Thia – Vinh Long – Tra On

After having breakfast, you will visit Binh Hoa Phuoc Island. Here, you will drop by a local handicraft village on the river bank and enjoy fresh local fruit. After that, you will pop in Cai Be Floating Market, old houses, beautiful flower gardens, coconut candy and rice paper factories. At noon, you will have lunch onboard. After lunch, the cruise sails to a countryside to explore tropical fruit orchards and local life. Here, you will join a walking or cycling tour around the village. In late afternoon, you come back to the cruise, enjoy your favorite drink and refresh with foot massage while the ship cruises to Tra On. In the evening, you will have dinner and overnight on Mang Thit River.

Day 3 – Tra On – Can Tho

After having breakfast, you will cruise to Can Tho. During the time, you will catch all magnificent views of Mekong River in the sunrise. Arriving Can Tho, you get on a small boat to Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the busiest market in Mekong River Delta. Later, you will disembark and come back to Saigon. Your tour ends.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 390 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes:

Day 1 – Can Tho – Tra On

At noon, you will embark Douce Mekong Cruise. After enjoying welcome drink, you will travel to Cai Rang Floating Market by local boat. Cai Rang Market is one of the busiest floating markets in Mekong River Delta. Then, you will go to visit local house and lush green orchards. Later, you come back to the boat to cruise to Tra On while you have lunch on board. In the afternoon, you will go ashore to pop in fruit farms and go strolling around the village and communicate with local people. In late afternoon, you return to the boat, enjoy the magnificent sunset and aperitif before dinner. Overnight on board on Nicola River.

Day 2 – Vinh Long – My Thuan – Sa Dec

In the morning, you will have breakfast on board. Later, you will visit the countryside to participate in a walking or biking tour to fruit orchards and explore the local life. At noon, you will have lunch on Mekong Emotion Cruise while the ship departs for Sa Dec. On arriving Sa Dec, you will visit a local food market, a primary school headed by Marguerite Duras. Also, you have a chance to go strolling around the village. In late afternoon, you come back to the cruise, relax and have dinner. The ship moors in My Thuan or Cai Thia.

Day 3 – Cai Ne Departure

After having breakfast, you have time to explore more about fruit orchards and daily life of local people. After that, the cruise sets sail toward Cai Be. Here, you will transfer to a local boat to visit Cai Be Floating Market, local pop-rice and sweets production. Also, you can drop by colonial buildings, old houses, lush green gardens, local coconut candy, and rice paper factories. At noon, you come back to the boat, check your luggage, enjoy welcome-back drink, and disembark. Your cruise tour ends.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 390 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes:

Day 1 – Saigon – Cai Be – Vinh Long – Tra On

You will be picked up from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City to depart for Cai Be. After getting on board in Cai Be, you will transfer to Cai Be Floating Market by local boat. Here, you will visit lush green vegetation and lively floating life in peaceful village. You will pay a visit to old houses and enjoy fresh and sweet fruits. Then, you return to the boat and have lunch. The cruise will depart for Can Tho via Cho Lach while you are having lunch. In the afternoon, you will go ashore to visit a serene village by walking or biking. In late afternoon, you come back to the boat, relax on the sundeck and wait for dinner. You will overnight onboard in Tra On.

Day 2 – Tra On – Cai Rang – Can Tho

In the morning, you will enjoy fresh air, beautiful sunlight of the morning time, and have a hearty breakfast. Then, you will be taken to Cai Rang Floating Market by local boat. Cai Rang Floating Market is one of the most bustling ones in Mekong River Delta with hundreds of small boats operating here to sell their goods. At noon, you come back to the cruise to have lunch and leisurely relax on the sundeck or in your cabin for the whole afternoon, while the cruise sets sail down to the Mekong River. You have dinner and overnight on board.

Day 3 – Long Xuyen – Cho Moi – Hoa Hoa

After contemplating wonderful sunrise and having breakfast on board, you will visit Long Xuyen Floating Market by small boats intermingled through the water as vendors buy and sell their fruit. Then, you will visit a crocodile farm and promenade on Ong Ho Island. Here, you will see daily life of local people who live on both sides of the Bassac River, and small arroyos on the island. At noon, you return to Douce Mekong Cruise, carry on journey to Hoa Hao Village and have lunch on board. You will disembark and travel to Chau Doc. You will stay overnight at a hotel in Chau Doc.

Day 4 – Chau Doc – Phnom Penh

In the morning, you depart from Chau Doc for Phnom Penh. It stop at the Vietnamese (Vinh Xuong) - Cambodian (Kaom Samnar) border for completing formality, and then to Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia. The journey takes approximately 4 hours. When arriving, you transfer to a hotel in Phnom Penh. After that, you have a city tour in Phnom Penh to Wats Phnom, National Museum, Silver Pagoda and Royal Palace. You will stay over at Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh.

Day 5 – Phnom Penh Cruise to Siem Reap

In the morning, you will transfer to Phom Penh port for the boat ride to Siem Riep. The boat winds the way on Tonle Sap River, you will have a chance to take in such spectacular view of rural life on water. On arriving Siem Riep, you will transfer to the hotel. Later, you pay a visit to Prasat Kravan and Ta Prohm. Being one of the area's most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched and mysterious. Then, you visit Takeo, Chau Say Tevoda and Thommanon. Dinner is served on board, and you will stay overnight at Prince d’Angkor Hotel.

Day 6 – Angkor Wat Temple

In the morning, you will Angkor Wat. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. It is seen as the masterpiece of classical Khmer art and architecture. At noon, you will have lunch at local restaurant. Then, in the afternoon, you visit the ancient capital of Angkor Thom and South Gate with its huge statues, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King and Bayon Temple until sunset. In the evening, you will have dinner at a local restaurant and stay overnight at the Prince d’Angkor Hotel in Siem Reap. You dinner will be combined with traditional Khmer folk performance of Apsara.

Day 7 – Departure

At leisure to visit the market or "Les Artisans d'Angkor - Chantiers Ecoles" of Siem Reap (if time permits). Transfer to Siem Reap International Airport for departure flight to the next destination.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 1340 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes:

Day 1 – Angkor Wat Temple

On the first day, you will visit Prasat Kravan with its unique brick sculptures and Ta Prohm. As being one of the most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched and mysterious. Unlike other monuments of Angkor, the temple was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking like very much the ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them. You also visit Takeo, Chau Say Tevoda and Thommanon. In the evening, you have dinner and overnight at Prince d’Angkor Hotel.

Day 2 – Angkor Wat

You will have breakfast at the hotel then visit the most famous temple – Angkor Wat. The temple is well-known by its complex covering 81ha, which can be compared with the Imperial Palace in Beijing in size. At noon, you will have lunch at a local restaurant. Later, you join a tour of visiting the ancient capital of Angkor Thom. Here, you will have a chance to contemplate the South Gate with its huge statues portraying the churning of the milk ocean, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King and Bayon Temple. In the evening, you will have dinner at a local restaurant and stay overnight at Prince d’Angkor Hotel. During having dinner, you will enjoy Apsara, a traditional Khmer folk performance.

Day 3 – Siem Reap – Phnom Penh

You have breakfast at the hotel. After that, you visit Banteay Srei Temple, the jewel in the crown of Classical Khmer Art. Then, you will drop by Ta Prohm, one of the most beautiful temples. At noon, you come back to the hotel and have lunch. In the afternoon, you will transfer to airport for the flight to Phnom Penh. When checking in hotel, you have free time to join a walking tour in the city and pop in a local market. In the evening, you have dinner at a local restaurant and overnight at the hotel.

Day 4 – Phnom Penh – Chau Doc

In the morning, you will take part in a city tour in Phnom Penh. You will visit Wats Phnom, National Museum, Silver Pagoda and Royal Palace. In the afternoon, you will get on Douce Mekong Cruise to Chau Doc. In late afternoon, you arrive at Chau Doc and enjoy the cocktail drink on sundeck. Your diner is served on board. You will stay overnight on boat.

Day 5 – Long Xuyen – Can Tho – Tra On

After breakfast, you get on Douce Mekong Cruise to visit farms of fruits and fish. Also, you will visit Long Xuyen Floating Market to understand more about the life here. The local boat will take you to palmed-shaded creek to visit local old houses and lush green orchards. In late afternoon, the cruise sets sail to Can Tho and moors midstream for overnight.

Day 6 – Can Tho – Tra On – Mang Thit – Vinh Long

After having breakfast, you are taken to Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the busiest floating markets in Mekong River Delta. Visiting here, you can buy many things from fresh fruit to unique local specialties. Then, you will travel to Cai Be via Tra On. During the time, you will be served lunch. After that, local boat will take you to peaceful village along the river bank. Here, you will have a chance to explore local life of people, pop in large orchards and communicate with locals. In late afternoon, you come back to the cruise, relax and contemplate wonderful sunset. Dinner is served on board, and you will stay overnight in Cai Be.

Day 7 – Cai Be Floating Market

In the morning, after having breakfast, you will visit a fruit farm in verdant villages and communicate with friendly local people. Then, the ship continues cruising to Cai Be. On arriving Cai Be, you transfer to a local boat for visiting Cai Be Floating Market, local pop-rice and sweets factories. Also, you will drop by colonial building, old houses, lush garden, local coconut candy and rice paper producing facilities. In the afternoon, you visit Tan Phong Island and discover its tropical fruit orchards. At noon, you will disembark in Cai Be and transfer to Saigon. Your tour ends.

The cruise tour has rate ranging from 1340 USD/pax (tax included). Yet, the rate can be changed seasonally. Thus, you should ask the booking staff for more details to get the best price. The rate includes and excludes: