Meet up at your hotel early this morning, you will then be transfered a couple of hours out of Ho Chi Minh City to My Tho– the gateway of Mekong delta.

Today’s ride will lead you right into the heart of the rural Mekong. The cycling begins after the ferry journey across the Tien River at My Tho. The route takes you through narrow roads and lanes, past banana plantations, fields of sugar cane, through the lush green landscape of the delta, crossing rivers and canals by numerous, ubiquitous, fascinating ferries. A section of biking cuts off road onto gravel and dirt lanes, and weaves around hamlets, across water channels, and through quiet dense vegetation. This makes for superb biking.

A final ferry across the gaping expanse of Co Chien river leads us to Tra Vinh, a pretty tree lined town with a large population of ethnic Khmer.