Lai Vung 2 Days 1 Nite - The Mandarin Homestay

Lai Vung 2 Days 1 Nite - The Mandarin Homestay

Lai Vung district in Dong Thap province is a popular tourist destination thanks to its rich culture and beautiful nature. Its mandarin gardens particularly attract tourists.

Nestled between the Tien and Hau rivers, Lai Vung district is blessed with a rich soil and abundant sources of fresh water. Its juicy and sweet mandarins are famous nationwide, especially red mandarins, which were first planted in the region in the early 20th century. Lai Vung is called the “Kingdom of red mandarins”. 

DAY 1: HCM CITY - LAI VUNG

6:30 am our tour guide pick up from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city, we will head to Lai Vung, Dong Thap (southern Vietnam), which is known as the “kingdom of mandarin oranges”. Along the Nation- al Highway, you will have chance to enjoy the peaceful life of Vietnamese picturesque with paddy field, and stopover at the rest stop .

Reaching Lai Vung , you will feel a friendly smile and warm pleasant greet from the host family at the first impression. The tour is more fascinated with a journey of discovery around the fruits gardens. The immensity and charm of the mandarin forest will make you feel bewilder and surprise while walking along the dike and this will be an unforgettable experience of becoming a first time farmer, get- ting lost in a huge garden with magnificent images of nature, taking lots of pictures to bring home and tasting the juicy and sweet of mandarins and tropical fruits such as coconut, dragon fruit, etc. Fol- lowing the rural life experience and getting closer to local people, we will have lunch after that .

Afternoon, we will cycling to explore the village with specialty food from Lai Vung, called “Lai Vung fermented pork roll” (Nem Chua Lai Vung), you can try to rap and ta

at Mekong river.

Late afternoon, we back to home After the dinner you will be experienced making Banh In and enjoy it .

Overnight at the homestay

DAY 2: LAI VUNG - HCM CITY

Leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh city, my home- town offers you the cool and fresh air of quite countryside and see our daily activities. To be closer and deeply know the local people lifestyle, we visit the local market, where they start their business with a stool that very easy to move and almost the activity happened outside , and buy some material for cooking at local market .Following with our bi- cycle, we will visit rice paper village , you will learn how to make it and taste its.

Back to house we will together prepare the lunch , we will cook traditional cuisine with fresh and clean vegetable planted around .After the lunch, we set off to the Sa Dec flower village that the biggest one in Mekong delta , the special here are the flower planted on a bamboo rack in the field or on the water . After visiting Sa Dec flowers village return to Ho Chi Minh around 2:00 pm .