Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Cần Thơ - Vị Thanh - Rạch Giá

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Program of the journey: Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Cần Thơ - Vị Thanh - Rạch Giá

Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Cần Thơ - Vị Thanh - Rạch Giá

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Cao Lãnh, on the first day at noon

• Boarding at Cao Lanh at noon, welcome drink, introduction to the ship and crew, checking into the cabins.
• Breakfast is served as the Bassac gets under way towars Cho Moi on a small tributary to the Tiger river
• By mid-afternoon, the Bassac drops the anchor for the visit of a late XIXth century Franciscan monastery on shore.
• After boarding back before dusk, and a welcome drink, the Bassac resumes her trip.
• Dinner is served en route.
• The Bassac drops anchor on Song Hau, the Bassac river, for the night, after rounding Cho Moi district through the Vam Nao river.

Day 2

• Breakfast is available from 6:30 on, as the Bassac resumes her progress towards Chau Doc, upstream of river Bassac.
• Upon arrival at Chau Doc, transfer to a local boat for the visit of a floating fish farm on the way and a village of the muslim Cham minority.
• Boarding at noon at the Chau Doc pier, welcome drink.
• Departure downstream on the Bassac river, as the crew serves lunch.
• Upon arrival at Thot Not, transfer on the longboat for a visit of a village.
• Boarding back before dusk, a welcome drink and the dinner are served on board while en route.
• Rest on the deck before the night. The Bassac drops anchor near Long Xuyen for the night.

Day 3

• Breakfast is served from 6:30 AM, as the Bassac is on its way downstream the river towards Can Tho.
• Arrival in Cai Rang floating market, transfer onto a local boat to visit the floating market, then a noodle factory and return to the Ninh Kieu pier.
• Arrival at Ninh Kieu, Can Tho, by mid-morning.
• Boarding back onto the Bassac at the Ninh Kieu pier, welcome drink.
• Lunch as the Bassac cruises up river Can Tho and crosses the sleepy floating market at Cai Rang.
• The boat then entes the very active Xa No canal, the main river link of Hau Giang province. The canal is lined with waterlocks and connecting canals dug in the early XXth Century to help foster rice production.
• Visit on shore in teh second half of the afternoon, in the vicinity of Vị Thanh.
• Boarding back at nightfall, and dinner after a light refreshment as the Bassac resumes her long cruise towards river Cái Lớn.
• The Bassac casts anchor for the night once past the quiet town of Go Quao.

Day 4

• As there is no light pollution, if teh weather is clear, the early morning sky is full of stars.
• Breakfast is available from 6:30 in the morning.
• As she enters the brackish waters of the estuary, the Bassac may send schools of silvery fish flying. By clear weather, one can see above the trees the peak of Hon Tre island, in the gulf of Siam.
• Arrival at the Xèo Rô or Tắc Cầu ferry pier by mid-morning, check-out and transfer to shore.

End of services by mid-morning on shore at Rạch Giá.

Please note you will leave the Bassac for good upon boarding the small boat for the last visit, typically about 8:30.
The details of the program and the visits may vary depending on logistics or technical constraints.

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