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Monday,  Feb 6,2017,08:08 (GMT+7) Traveler's Guide Vam Xang Rustic Home worth visiting Kim Dung Friday,  Feb 3,2017,17:42 (GMT+7)         A group of tourists dressed like local people in the Mekong Delta to sell fruit at a floating market A two-day-one-night trip to Vam Xang Rustic Home in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho  is recommended for those wishing to learn about local people and culture. After a three-hour bus trip from HCMC, tourists will arrive at Vam Xang fruit garden in Nhon Loc 1 Hamlet in Phong Dien Town in Phong Dien District in Can Tho City. A young tour guide in ao ba ba, a traditional costume of people in the south, and bandanna shows guests how to cross a foot bridge above a pond to get into an estate where tourists can admire a line of high areca trees in front of the house. The owner of the garden is Uncle Nam Lien who would introduce visitors to all members of his family and the tradition of worshiping ancestors and the customs of the locality. Then, guests will receive keys to their rooms which are assigned with images of animals like cricket, dragonfly, ant and bee, instead of numbers. Guests will see some beautiful small bridges across canals with benches along the bridges. The rooms have wooden walls and outdoor bathrooms. There are vegetable areas, rice fields and cottage houses in the property. Tourists, especially foreigners, may find it interesting to see each cottage house having a wooden fence and a big vase to contain rain water and a dipper made of coconut shell. People should spend some time visiting Ha Chau strawberry garden in the property and learn about farming techniques from locals. After visiting the garden and enjoying fresh fruit, tourists will join a bike tour to the other side of Vam Xang River. On the way, people may find a peaceful moment by admiring gardens and fields. The first destination is the facility of blacksmith Sau Quyen who was born into a family with a tradition of making hammers and knives. The next destination is the house of Uncle Ut Dzach who has the traditional job of making banh hoi, steam rolls made of fine rice flour. The food making techniques should be transferred to daughters-in-law in the family as locals believe that daughters-in-law are their real children, not their daughters who will get married and live in their husbands’ homes. Uncle Ut Dzach will introduce every step in the process of making banh hoi and visitors can learn to make the cake using wooden frames. Then, guests will steam the cake and eat it with grilled pork, vegetables and fish sauce. Another destination on the tour is a garden where farmers plant various vegetables like cabbage, cucurbit and eggplant. People can take pictures and buy seeds to plant at home. Tourists should head back for dinner with banh xeo, a Vietnamese-style pancake, and rustic dishes of southerners, including stewed pork with coconut juice, fried fish, boiled vegetables and crab soup. They can choose to have a foot massage and bath with herbs so as to have a sound sleep to prepare for the next morning to work as a seller on the floating market on the river. They will don ao ba ba and bandanna, and come in a group of three to buy fruit from wholesale shops for resale at the floating market. They will have to transport all the fruit to boats to get to Phong Dien floating market, a popular destination in Can Tho, to sell their products. A man makes banh hoi, which are steam rolls made from fine rice flour A woman tries to make a knife at a traditional house Tourists are seen at a floating market Travelers cycle on a village road A room at Vam Xang Rustic Home in Can Tho City - PHOTOS: KIM DUNG

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Service price list:

v     Room service :

-         Double or Twin: 50$us/pax/day

-         Single room: Charged 20$us/pax/ day

Includes:

·        Welcome drink

·        1 dinner : fried catfish  with lemon, fish cooked with sauce, pumpkin soup, fried beef with vegetables, steamed rice, seasonal fruits. In case of not using dinner, down 10$us/pax/day. 

·        Cooking class : tourists will learn how to cook local foods such as Vietnamese pancake (bánh xèo) or spring roll (chả giò)

·        1 Breakfast: eggs (omelet or fried eggs or boiled eggs), pineaple jam, butter, cheese, banana, tea and coffee

·        Seasonal fruit plate and water in the room

·        Internet TV

·        Daily maid service

·        Billard service .

-         Check in time: 14h00

-         Check out time: 12h00

-         Check out : after 16h00  charge  50% room price

-         Check out : after 18h00   charge  100% room price

* The price list of Bike rent

- From 1- 4 guests: 15$us / bike /morning or afternoon

- From up 5 guests: 12$us / bike /morning or afternoon

- From 1- 4 guests: 25 $us/ bike /day

- From up 5 guests: 20 $us/bike/day

Includes: direction guide, 1 water bottle of 500ml, 1 cool tissue/ person/time

# Tour guide: English: 15$us/ morning or afternoon

# Direction guide: 6 $us/ morning or afternoon

# Shrimp finishing: 5 $us /1time / fishing-rod

# Traditional herbal massage service: 10 $us/ 1time/ person. Time: 60 minutes

# Boat rent:

-         Boat from1 –  to 7 seats : 300.000 VND / 1 time/3 hours

-         Boat from 8 – to 20 seats: 500.000 VND / 1 time/3 hours.

-         Boat up to 21 seats – 50 seats : 900.000 VND / 1 time/3 hours

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TOUR PROGRAMME	CODE	PERSON						Tour includes:	Excluding:
		PRICES ($US/PAX)
		1	2	3	4	5_7	8_25
2 DAY 1 NIGHT	VX17(2-1)	120	95	90	85	80	75	-         Experienced tour guide through this tour program	personal expenses, expenses incurred outside the program
								-         Boat as mentioned in program
								-         Qualified bicycles
								-         Cool tissue, bottle water: 1 bottle of 500 ml, 1 cold tissue / day
								-         1 breakfast, 1 main meal (cooking class)
								-         45 minutes Herbal Massage
								-         Welcome drink
								-         Visiting Vam Xang orchards
								_ Stay 1 night (check in time: after 12 hours; check out time: 12 hours)
								_ Sightseeing tickets (smithy handicraft, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang, orchards).
3 DAY 2 NIGHT	VX17(3-2)	160	150	145	135	128	120	-         Experienced tour guide through this tour program	personal expenses, expenses incurred outside the program
								-         Boat as mentioned in program
								-         Qualified bicycles
								-         Cool tissue, bottle water: 1 bottle of 500 ml, 1 cold tissue / day
								-         2 breakfast, 1 main meal (cooking class), 2 meal with typical Southerner foods
								-         45 minutes Herbal Massage
								-         Welcome drink
								-         Visiting Vam Xang orchards
								-         Stay 2 night (check in time: after 12 hours; check out time: 12 hours)
								-         Sightseeing tickets (smithy handicraft, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang, orchards, Cacao garden).
4 DAY 3 NIGHT	VX17(4-3)	220	190	180	170	160	150	-         Experienced tour guide through the program	personal expenses, expenses incurred outside the program
								-         Boat as mentioned in the program
								-         Qualified bicycles
								-         Cool tissue, bottle water: 1 bottle of 500 ml, 1 cold tissue / day
								-         4 breakfasts, 1 main meal (cooking class), 2 meals with typical Southerner foods
								-         45 minutes Herbal Massage
								-         Welcome drink
								-         Visiting Vam Xang orchards
								-         Stay 3 night (check in time: after 12 hours; check out time: 12 hours)
								-         Sightseeing tickets (smithy handicraft, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang, orchards, Cacao garden, Lung Cot Cau, Cao Dai temple, local family, catching fishes, rural market)
Soft cycle tour 1:	VX17(sct1)	35	25	20	18	15	12	Tourist guide, Cool tissue, bottle water, qualitative bicycles, expense for the ferry, Sightseeing tickets (smithy’s shop, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang orchards).
Soft cycle tour 2:	VX17(sct2)	30	20	18	15	12	10	Tourist guide, Cool tissue, bottle water, qualitative bicycles, and Sightseeing tickets of Cacao garden.
Cycle tour 1	VX17(c1)	45	35	30	25	20	18	Tourist guide, Cool tissue, bottle water, qualitative bicycles, and Sightseeing tickets (smithy handicraft, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang orchards, Lung Cot Cau, and Gian Gua)
Cycle tour 2	VX17(c2)	60	50	45	40	35	30	Tourist guide, Cool tissues, bottle waters, qualitative bicycles, and Sightseeing tickets (smithy handicraft, Ut Dzach, vegetable nurseries, Vam Xang orchards, Lung Cot Cau, Gan Gua, cacao garden, Cao Dai temple, lunch, hammock)
Cooking class 1	VX17(cc 1)	30	18	16	14	12	10	Cool tissues, bottle waters, welcome drink, family welcome, processing techniques, materials for pancakes cooking, sightseeing tickets of Vam Xang orchard.
Cooking class 2	VX17(cc 2)	35	25	20	18	15	12	family welcome, cool tissues, bottle waters, welcome drink, processing techniques, materials for making Southerner folk cakes, sightseeing tickets of Vam Xang orchard.
One day being as “Local water Trader” tour	VX17(lct)	55	45	40	35	30	25	Tour guide, cool tissues, bottle waters, boat, insurance, lunch: 1 meal, sightseeing tickets of Vam Xang orchard, Cao Dai temple, hammocks.