Can Tho – Binh Thuy - Chau Doc
After breakfast, we board the motorized boat on the Can Tho River to the Cai Rang floating market. It's a genuinely unique floating market in the early morning, with different sizes of vessels steering around. The bigger boats anchor when small sampans move and try to find a good deal on business. Every boat advertises what to sell by hanging its product on a long bamboo pole—wholesale from neighboring provinces and the sampans from local rural villages. Tiny sampans sell steamed rice, noodle soup, coffee, and even lottery tickets. Disembark from your boat, and pick up the bike for a morning ride to Binh Thuy. Explore the backwaters of Phong Dien, pass local schools and some little land markets by the waterways, and visit the oldest ancient house in Binh Thuy.
It is one of the wealthy landlord's houses in the 19th century in the Mekong Delta—Built-in 1870 with a blend of Asian and colonial architecture. The exterior was French, but the interior was a traditional Vietnamese house. The house was set in the movie of "The Lover" in 1992 based on Marguerite Duras's novel who loves Huynh Thuy Le between 1928 to 1932 in Sadec township. Lunch en route before a 2-hour vehicle transfer takes us to Chau Phu District, a rural area near Chau Doc. It's the perfect time to continue the afternoon ride around 2:30 pm when the weather is cooler. Ride on tracks along agricultural canals, enjoy the Sam mountain views, and see farmers harvest rice crops. Finally, you will transfer on a winding road to Sam Mountain and check-in at the Sam Mountain Resort.