In the morning, go to Cai Rang Floating Market at 5-9 a.m

Cai Rang Floating Market is located a few kilometers away from the city and starts very early. So, if you want to go to the floating market, have breakfast and watch the interesting life on the river, let's start at 5 a.m.

The market is bustling with numerous boats of all sizes which are loaded with agricultural produce. Many boats carry watermelons, pineapples, coconuts, dragon fruits or vegetables. To advertise their goods on the boat, sellers on the boats hang what they sell on a high pole. Thus, even from afar you can know what item is being sold.

Interspersed among big boats are small boats that sell essential commodities and food and drinks. People in this area live right on the boats where all their life activities also occur. Sitting on a boat to visit the floating market, you can have a bowl of noodles for breakfast, drink a cup of coffee, eat fresh fruit and still can leisurely stroll around the floating market. You can enjoy the sounds of people laughing, calling each other or bargaining or those of leaving jet-boats tumult all over the berth.... The more brightly the sun shines, the farther the boats with all kinds of delicious fruit travel.

At midday, go to My Khanh Orchard to pick fruit at 10 a.m – 3 p.m

After visiting the floating market, let’s take a boat, go down the river to an orchard near the city. There are dozens of laden fruit orchards around Can Tho, including My Khanh Orchard located between Cai Rang floating market and Phong Dien with more than 20 kinds of fruit trees, flowers and many varieties of animals.

Branches are laden with fruit. Now you can come in the orchard and freely pick fresh fruit on the branches and eat on the spot. Cool and green spaces of the trees, of the river bring a relaxing summer afternoon for visitors. In the orchard, rose apples (or water apples) gather in clusters, pomelos swoop low to the ground, guavas are as big as a fist, golden ripe mangoes, fragrant star apples, and citrus, and jackfruits, durian, etc. which can be eaten on the spot with affordable prices.

If you want to have lunch in the orchard, you can order right here, too. Food is also made from produce of the orchard such as backyard chicken, stocked fish, clean vegetables, and so on for a delicious lunch; then fresh fruit for dessert. After that, just swing in a hammock, and daydream in a nap while the wind is incessantly blowing from the river.

In the afternoon, take a walk along Ninh Kieu Quay snacking at 4 – 7 p.m

The well-known Ninh Kieu Quay is adjacent to Hau River so it is greatly cool and comfortable in the afternoon. From about 4 p.m, when the sultry sunlight gives way to the cool air is the time for street food stalls start their business. Small kiosks stand along the road to Ninh Kieu Quay with lots of appetizing dishes. The stalls of steamed sticky rice are the most favorite of customers, many kinds of steamed sticky rice are served such as steamed sticky rice with corn, steamed sticky rice with peanut, white sticky rice served with other kinds. Stalls of barbeque, rice pancake, bread, sweat potato, and so on, there are a variety of delicacies that you can choose and eat on the spot or on a bench in the park in Ninh Kieu Quay, just enjoy while watching the sunset. More and more people flock the quay towards the evening. People take their children here to play, go for a walk or find something to snack before dinner.

Ninh Kieu Quay is the busiest place of Can Tho with a park for people to walk along Hau River, across the street is a row of hotels. It becomes a street for dining in the evening and a row of fruit shops serving all day long.

In the evening, listen to Tai Tu Music on Hau River at 8-11 p.m

As the city lights up, the street is blazing with lights along the river. On the river, Ninh Kieu yacht is open for those who want to listen to Tai Tu Music. The music show is open every night. Therefore, if you miss a show, you can come for it on the following evening. One night enjoying romantic music on the Hau river is always a great thing to do with your time. Listening to the sounds of Tai Tu Music, the unique music of the region of waterways under the starry night sky on a windy Hau river when it is getting late at night, is a wonderful and memorable experience ./.