Morning: Cai Rang Floating Market 5am – 9am
Cai Rang Floating Market is located a few kilometers from the city and starts very early, so if you want to go to the floating market, have breakfast and see life in this very interesting river area, start at 5 am.
The market is bustling with all kinds of large and small boats full of fruit trees. Watermelon chairs, pineapple chairs, coconut stalls, dragon fruit or vegetables. To announce the items they have on the boat, each boat puts up a long pole, hanging the fruits they sell there. Therefore, even if you stand from a distance, you will know what the item is being sold.
Interspersed with large cargo boats are small boats selling all kinds of daily necessities and food and drink. Life is floating on a boat, so all life activities are also on the boat. Sitting on a boat to visit the floating market, you can have breakfast with a bowl of noodles, make a cup of coffee, eat fresh fruits and still leisurely walk around the floating market. Buzzing all over a riverbank, the sound of calling each other, the sound of buying and selling, the sound of laughter talking, the sound of motorboats separating from the wharf... The sun rises and shines brightly, the boats come and go, bringing all kinds of delicious fruits to all rivers and waters near and far.
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Noon: Lunch in the orchard, fruit picking 10 am – 4 pm
After playing at the floating market, take a boat ride down the river to a certain orchard near the city. There are dozens of such fruit-bearing gardens throughout Can Tho, including My Khanh garden located between Cai Rang and Phong Dien floating markets with more than 20 types of fruit trees, ornamental flowers and many kinds of animals.
The fruit trees are scattered on the high and low branches. Now you are free to go into the garden to pick fresh fruits right on the branches and cups on the spot. The cool green space of the trees and the river brings a relaxing summer afternoon to visitors. In the garden, whips (or plums) are in bunches, grapefruit is low on the ground, guava is as big as a fist, ripe mango is golden and nurturing, milk breast is fragrant, then citrus, then jackfruit, durian... Eat on the spot at affordable prices.
Lunch, if you want to eat right in the garden, can be ordered right here. Food is also a product in the garden. Chickens in the garden, fish in chuom ponds, clean vegetables grown by themselves... A delicious lunch, fresh fruit dessert. Then swing on the hammock, dropping your soul into a nap in the sound of the wind whispering the foliage constantly blowing in from the river.
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Afternoon: Walking and snacking on Ninh Kieu wharf, visiting the pagoda from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Ninh Kieu wharf is famous for being located close to the Hau Giang River, so it is cool and pleasant in the afternoon. From about 4 p.m., when the sweltering sun has given way to the cool air, it is also the time when street vendors are sold. Small food stalls along Ninh Kieu wharf road with all kinds of attractive dishes. Sticky rice is the most popular, crowded with all kinds of corn sticky rice, peanut sticky rice, and white sticky rice served with all kinds. Baked goods, rice cakes, onions, cassava... All kinds of delicious dishes that you can choose and eat on the spot or go to a stone chair in the park on Ninh Kieu wharf while sitting and eating while watching the sunset. In the afternoon, more and more people flock to the wharf. People pass children out here to play, go for a walk or have a snack before dinner.
Ninh Kieu wharf is the busiest place in Can Tho with a pedestrian park on the Hau Giang River, across the road is a row of hotels serving tourists, in the evening there is a night food street and a row of fruit shops selling night ahead.
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Evening: Listen to Don Ca Tai Tu on the Hau River 20h – 23h
The city lights up, the street lights up along the river. On the river, the Ninh Kieu cruise ship opens its doors to welcome guests to listen to Don Ca Tai Tu. The music night program of Don Ca Tai Tu on the river is performed every night to serve guests. Therefore, if you can't buy tickets tonight, you can save it for the next night. A night of enjoying lyrical music on the Hau River is always a great thing that you should spend time on. Late at night, listen to the sounds of Don Ca, a unique type of music of the river region in the midst of the starry night sky on the windy Hau River. The feeling of experience is extremely wonderful and memorable.
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