Cho Lach, Ben Tre is home to ornamentals, bonsai, and a nursery of plants and fruit orchards. There is no land of rice paddy field at all. The fertile soils and natural lands are suited to other plants than water rice plants. It is the place you stay a night, and this township is not a tourist destination. After you are met at your hotel, we begin this journey to Mekong Delta with 1. hour transfer out of Ho Chi Minh.

Commence the ride in a rural village, outkirts of Thu Thua, enjoy countryside trails along the small hamlets that allow you to understand more about the local lives and Mekong Delta agricultures. See how the crop cultivations are making! Meet new friends, immerse through the lush green countryside and have a fruit stop at small markets along the way. Share spaces with locals on push bikes on rural paths, across the rice paddy fields, small rivers by ferries, enjoy the views that look onto farmlands, watermelon, dragon plantations, and pleasant villages. Have a lunch break in My Tho.

In the afternoon, the easy ride will take you through peaceful villages in Mo Cay, passing lovey nursery and bonsai gardens, visiting family businesses and workshops before you check in the homestay in Cai Mon/Cho Lach. Dine with your host at the homestay.

After your leisurely breakfast at homestay, have some photos taken with your host before loading your luggage on the support vehicle. Then we start cycling from homestay to the market of Cho Lach. Ride passes nursery, bonsai plants. From the market, you can see the old colonial bridge over the canal. It's the canal French built to connect the Mekong River to the Saigon River for water transport. Then we continue cycling to Co Chien River to have a ferry to Mang Thit, Vinh Long. Here we are in the Red Kingdom of Vinh Long, Mekong Delta's Vietnam.

Pottery and bricks making in villages of Mang Thit and Long Ho districts of Vinh Long province, Mekong Delta's Vietnam is a cottage industry for over a hundred years, and it still exists and develops to these days. People still use the old techniques to make a wide variety of pottery and bricks. In the past, locals made yin and yang tiles, but many mills abandoned them because yin and yang ties are not famous for years. Most of the mills, kilns, and factories are by the Mekong River, its branches, and canals because water is the main transportation in the past and current days. 

More than thousands of households in Mang Thit and Long Ho are now working in the production of brick and pottery. Coming here to admire the techniques of making a wide variety of clay products, you are welcome and have an opportunity to see every corner of villages. Explore the traditional pottery villages which over a hundred years. Most of the products are handmade for Vietnam's and overseas markets. Ride a bicycle on the country road, visit some special and unique old kilns, and see how people make various beautiful pottery in clay.

This morning's ride is about 25km, with many stops at the oldest kilns and mills, including a ferry crossing Co Chien River. That is enough for this morning. We get on van/minibus for a transfer to Vinh Long town. Enjoy lunch at a restaurant by Co Chien River. After lunch, our van/minibus will take us to Cai Tau for the afternoon ride. It a pleasant ride, so we take it easy on paths, through small villages along the country road and river branches and creeks. We get on a support vehicle in the outskirt of Sadec town. Do check in the hotel and dine in town in the evening.  

For the locals as Vietnamese, Sadec is famous for flowers of rose and bonsai plants, and it's always colorful and stunning in the Mekong Delta and more and more when the Lunar New Year is coming. Sadec got to know and attracted overseas tourists since 1984 when Duras's 1984 Prix Goncourt-winning novel was published. Marguerite Duras lived in Sa Đec during the three- to four years between 1928 and 1932. Her mother ran a school on the corner of Hung Vuong and Ho Xuan Huong, where a school still exists today. Duras met Huynh Thuy Le, the son of a wealthy Chinese family, and the two became involved in love. The house is located by the river and near the market. We will visit this house, and the local guide will tell you about the loved story of Marguerite Duras before we start our last day ride to villages of flowers and Xeo Quyt forest.

Enjoy riding on small paths along the Mekong River to the home of flowers which is not far from Sadec. Spend time to wander through villages and experience to way to grow plants of the flower. Then we take a ferry to the other side of the Upper River and continue cycling to Xeo Quyt forest. It was an Army base of Viet Cong before 1975. You will have a sampan boat rowed into small rivers, pass some thatch houses and bunkers of Viet Cong. Then have lunch at the restaurant nearby before returning to Ho Chi Minh in the late afternoon.