Morning: Cai Rang floating market 5h – 9h
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 water, start at 5am.
The market is bustling with all kinds of large and small boats filled with fruit trees. Watermelon boats, pineapple crabs, coconut crabs, dragon fruit or vegetables. To announce the items you have on the boat, each boat puts a long pole, hanging the fruits you sell on it. Therefore, even from a distance you will know what is being sold.
Interspersed with large cargo boats are small boats selling all kinds of daily necessities and food and water. Life on the boat is home, so all life activities are also on the boat. Sitting on the boat to visit the floating market, you can have breakfast with a bowl of noodle soup, make a cup of coffee, eat fresh fruits while still leisurely walking around the floating market. Buzzing around a river wharf, calls to each other, the sound of buying and selling, laughter, the sound of motorboats splitting berths... The rising sun shone brightly, the boats came and went, carrying all kinds of delicious fruits to all rivers far and near.
Lunch: Lunch orchard, fruit picking 10am – 16pm
After you are bored at the floating market, catch a boat, follow the river to an orchard near the city. There are dozens of such fruitful 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.
Fruit trees on tall branches and low branches. Now you can freely go into the garden to pick fresh fruits right on the branches and cups on the spot. The cool green space of trees and rivers brings a relaxing summer afternoon for people to play. In the garden, the whips (or plums) are in clusters, grapefruit swoops low to the ground, guava as big as a fist, ripe yellow mango, fragrant milk breast, 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 the product in the garden. Free-range chickens, free-range fish, home-grown clean vegetables... A delicious lunch, fresh fruit dessert. Then swinging in a hammock, taking a nap to the sound of the wind whispering incessantly foliage blowing from the river.
Afternoon: Snack walk on Ninh Kieu pier, pagoda sightseeing 16h – 20h
The famous Ninh Kieu wharf is located close to the Hau Giang River, so it is cool and pleasant in the afternoon. From about 4pm, when the sweltering sun has given way to cool air, it is also time for street vendors to be sold. Small food stalls along the road of Ninh Kieu wharf with all kinds of attractive dishes. Sticky rice is the most popular, crowded people come to buy with all kinds of corn sticky rice, peanut sticky rice, white sticky rice served with all kinds. Baked goods, cakes, bread onions, cassava goods... All kinds of delicious dishes that you can choose and eat on the spot or go to the stone bench in the park on Ninh Kieu wharf while sitting and watching the sunset. The later in the afternoon, the more people flock to the wharf. People pass kids 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 street is a row of hotels serving tourists, in the evening is a night street and a row of fruit rows selling night and day ahead.
Evening: Listen to singers on Hau River 20h – 23h
The city lights up, the street lights up all along the river. On the river, the Ninh Kieu cruise ship opened its doors to welcome guests listening to amateurs. The program of the singer night on the river every night performs for guests. So, if you can't buy tickets tonight, maybe for the next night. A night of enjoying lyrical music on the Hau River is always a great thing that you should spend time with. Late at night, listen to the sounds of duo, the unique music of the river in the starry night sky on the windswept Hau River. The feeling of experience is extremely wonderful and memorable.
Ngan Hang