Chau Doc - Can Tho
After breakfast, check out for today's travel to Can Tho. Just a short drive from hotel to Bassac River, and you have a floating village tour of the river. The floating fish raft village in Chau Doc is a lively tourist spot. You will experience local living at both floating and catfish farms. On your boat ride, you can see children go to & back from school by boats, and sampans carry food for fish every day, small grocery boats with long-tailed noise engines. Visit one of the catfish farms and learn how locals make many from growing fish.
Then the boat takes you to Cham village. Therefore, the original Chams are the likely heirs of Austronesian navigators from South Asia, whose main activities are commerce, transport, and piracy. Without forming an accurate leaving traces in written sources, they invested in the ports at the start of important trade routes linking India, China and Indonesian islands. In the 2nd century, they founded the kingdom of Champa, which Vietnam gradually absorbed.
Afterwards, you return your car and depart to Can Tho. Stop at the crocodile farms, visit the farm, have lunch in town, and keep on travelling to Binh Thuy for a short visit of the ancient house with colonial exterior architecture blended oriental interior designed. It was a landlord house and built-in 1870. Now the six generations of the Duong family living in. Finally, take a rest on vehicle transfer to Can Tho.