Breakfast cruise to Cái Răng floating market 07:00 - 10:00
Breakfast is available as soon as the sampan departs at 7 AM from the Can Tho old market. It blends some vietnamese tasty dishes like banh bao, banh cuon and the Western menu with home-baked breads, chocolate breads, croissants, croque-monsieurs, ham, cheese, sausages, crepes, and grilled tomatoes. For drinks, we offer hot tea, milk, coffee, juices, mineral water and fruits for the dessert.
During breakfast, you can enjoy the scenery of local daily life on the banks comfortably, thanks to the broad view and the spacious accommodation on the Mystic sampan.
After the breakfast, the Mystic sampan cruises into the heart of Cai Rang floating market. There you will see a maze of boats loaded with fruits, vegetables or groceries for trading. You may also join the market by calling for fruits or a drink.
Leaving the floating market, the Mystic sampan takes you to a husking factory where you have a chance to discover how rough rice is made into white rice in Vietnam. Or we may pay a visit to a local ochard instead for fresh fruits. Then the Mystic cruises back to Can Tho city to arrive at the old market before 10 AM.
Breakfast cruise to Phong Điền floating market 07:00 - 10:00
Boarding near Phong Điền at 07:00 with a buffet breakfast fresh off the oven. Coffee and tea, as well as all the amenities on board, will be available throughout the promenade.
Enjoy breakfast as the Mystic sampan sets sail towards the small Phong Điền floating market that it soon reaches. Phong Điền is smaller and more pristine a floating market than the better-known Cái Răng. Here, few larger collector's boats and fewer propellers, most of the trade skiffs are rowed.
The sampan boards alongside small sellers' skiffs to complement the breakfast with fresh fruit, affording the passengers a closer contact with the ongoing trade and maybe some picture opportunities.
The sampan resumes the cruise to take the passengers to a visit on shore, maybe a nước mắm factory, the traditional fish sauce that best defines Vietnamese cuisine, or a rice whitening factory, the remains of an old pagoda and a traditional Southern medicinal herbs apothecary.
The Mystic sampan enters the larger Cái Răng floating market against the current for a glimpse of the larger trade taking place: here wholesellers dispatch fruit and vegetable produce to be sold on smaller markets, afloat or on shore.
The Mystic sampan then heads back home to Ninh Kiều pier, to let the passengers disembark about 10:00 at the old market hall.
Please contact us if you need the road transfer from Can Tho center to Phong Dien. Depending on the day's visit, it may be effected prior to or after visiting Cái Răng market.
Lunch cruise 12:00 - 14:00
We are happy to accommodate parties for a lunch on board, on a round trip to greener areas. Please contact us to establish the detailed program and menu for lunch promenades: we can prepare Generic Vietnamese, specialities and even continental lunches.
The meal is prepared at the premises of the Sao Hôm restaurant, just at the boarding point, and makes the best of the professional kitchen and bakery.
Sunset cruise 15:30 - 18:00
The Mystic sampans will also take passengers at 3:30PM for a sunset cruise.
Take a snack and a drink while cruising about the river through the photographer's golden hour. A stop in a shaded arroyo for a stroll gives you a unique opportunity to come near the rural life of the Cần Thơ area.
The cruise will take you up the Cần Thơ river and into arroyos, or on another route of your choice. The preferred destinations may be into the floating market as night falls, or along a lively canal in the green.
The open bar includes punch and a selection of home drinks, and of course juices. Cocktails, alcohols and beer are also available at a premium. | 
