12 Can Tho Chocolate Tours Worth Booking

1.A Real Mekong Tour, Floating Market, Cacao & Life’s

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 574 reviews · from $25Our pick

Start at 5:00 AM with an English-speaking guide such as Hieu, Duy, Lam, or Chris. Cruise Cai Rang market, eat breakfast by boat, visit a noodle house, fruit garden, cacao farm, and quiet village canals. Small groups keep the morning personal, with no souvenir shops.

“What can I say about this trip, and particularly our guide Hiêu, other than FANTASTIC?! We started off early, visiting the amazing floating market. It was clear immediately that Hiêu was incredibly knowledgeable, engaging and had established good relationships with the local people. Eating a breakfast pho by boat was a particular highlight, as was being invited on to another local boat for tea and fresh fruit. The day continued with visits to a cacao farm, a fruit farm and a place where rice noodles are made the traditional way. I genuinely can't praise this trip enough, and I think that was mostly down to Hiêu and how great he…”

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2.Largest Floating Market, Wild Small Canal System & Organic cocoa

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 564 reviews · from $38Top rated

Start early with breakfast and coffee at Cai Rang Floating Market, then cruise narrow Mekong canals, learn traditional rice noodle making, and visit Muoi Cuong Cocoa Farm. Guides such as Sasa, David, Lam, and Ngan add local insight. Hotel pickup may be available from selected Can Tho properties.

“Enjoyed the whole experience! Breakfast on the floating market was delicious and we loved seeing all the different boats selling their wares. We even got to climb onto one of the boats and see how they live aboard. The noodle factory was a Read more”

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3.Authentic Floating Market, Wild Canal system, Cocoa

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 398 reviews · 5h 30m · from $26

Start at 6:45 AM at An Binh Market for a small-group boat trip to Cai Rang, where you eat noodle soup and drink coffee afloat. Guides such as Sasa, Hannah, Clara, and Lam lead you through quiet canals, a family cocoa farm, a noodle workshop, and local fruit villages.

“Our guide Hannah was a delight. Very enthusiastic and informative. We had a great day”

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4.Cai Rang floating market, Cacao & hidden small canal

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 244 reviews · from $33

Start at 5:30 a.m. with a boat ride from Ninh Kieu Wharf to Cai Rang Floating Market. Eat rice noodles and coffee on the water, make noodles at a family workshop, cruise narrow canals, visit My Khanh village, and taste chocolate at Muoi Cuong Cocoa Farm. Small groups reach 15 people.

“Even if there are not many merchants left, the visit is still worth the cost. Excellent breakfast in the Boat and fun to participate in the making of noodles. A very nice and careful boat captain. A very interesting young guide with a very good French vocabulary.Auto-translated”

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5.Floating Market, Canal, Cacao Farm & Mekong’ Life

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 45 reviews · from $24Best value

Start at 5:45 AM with guide Nick or another English or French-speaking guide, then take a small boat to Cai Rang Floating Market. Enjoy breakfast, fresh pineapple, a rice noodle workshop, water coconut canals, village paths, and an organic cacao farm in a group of up to six.

“Nick was a funny and informative tour guide, I highly recommend this tour as it gives you such a great insight into life on the Mekong delta.”

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6.Cai Rang floating market, see sunrise, CaCao orchard, small canal

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 44 reviews · from $42

Start before sunrise with a small-group boat ride from Can Tho. Guide Dai can help explain Cai Rang Floating Market, breakfast on the water, rice-noodle making, Muoi Cuong’s cacao orchard, and the peaceful canals of Phong Dien. Hotel pickup and return are included.

“Interessante Abwechslungsreiche Tour. Leider gab es an diesem Tag so gut wie keinen Sonnenaufgang- so etwas lässt sich eben nicht planen.”

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7.Floating Market, Canals, Nature Reserve & Forest

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 42 reviews · from $59

Start at 5:30 AM with hotel pickup, then see Cai Rang Floating Market at sunrise, cruise small canals, visit a family rice noodle workshop, and explore Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve. Nick may guide the English tour, with breakfast, fruit, drinks, boats, entrance fees, and transport included.

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8.Floating Market, Cacao & Canals with French Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 37 reviews · from $37

Meet at 5:30 AM in central Can Tho for a French-guided Mekong morning. Cruise to Cai Rang Floating Market, eat breakfast aboard a sampan, visit a rice noodle workshop, walk through villages, and finish with cacao milk and wine at an organic farm.

“The guide was very kind and explained everything very well and answered all our questions. She speaks French very well. We were able to see the floating market, discover how noodles are made, and visit a cocoa plantation.”

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9.Explore Mekong, Floating Market, Cacao & Local Life

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 21 reviews · 6 hours - 390 minutes · from $24

Start at 5:00 AM in central Can Tho for sunrise, Cai Rang floating market, river breakfast, local markets, quiet canals, fruit gardens, and an organic cacao farm. English-speaking guides such as Lam, Jade, Duy, and Hieu bring the Mekong to life in a six-hour small-boat tour.

“Wir starteten um 5 uhr - etwas verschlafen in Richtung Floatingmarkt und unserer erster Stopp war bei einer Kaffedame am Wasser um wach zu werden und danach kam ein Highlight nach dem anderen. Essen direkt vom floatingmarkt, flussfahrt im wildwasserkanal, besuch des Marktes, Besuch einer kakaofarm usw. Während der kleinen wege zum nächsten Ziel, gab es Früchte direkt frisch vom Markt. Man konnte in die Welt der einheimischen eintauchen und unser guide hat einen super Job gemacht. Dank Tom&Jerry vergingen die 6 Stunden wie im Flug- alles wer perfekt.”

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10.Group Tour: Floating Market, Rice Noodle, nursery vegatable

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 8 reviews · 5 hours · from $24

Start at 6 AM in Can Tho with an English-speaking guide such as Tom, then cruise to Cai Rang market, taste floating noodle soup and coffee, make Hu Tieu noodles, visit a vegetable nursery and dragon fruit garden, and row a small canal in a group of up to six.

“Great guide, very knowledgeable and friendly. Explained what we were seeing, and what was being made. The noodle factory was very interesting. Loved the small canals, benefit of being in a small boat. We were the only ones, just the two of us, so it was a nice intimate tour.”

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11.Can Tho Motorbike Tour – Rhythms of the Mekong Delta

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $56

Ride through Can Tho with an English-speaking guide and driver, with one passenger per motorbike. Depending on the session, you may visit the floating market, a noodle workshop, Khmer pagoda, war museum, cacao farm, Gian Gua tree, and a local fruit garden.

“My husband and I (73 & 69 yrs old) rode on Ms Jane and Ms Pi’s motorbikes. We had such a fun filled and educational day! We went to the War museum, a monastery, seen an incredible tree relic, visited w/tasting a fruit (and other items) faRead more”

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12.Countryside Cycling Tour with Cocoa Farm Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2 reviews · from $42

Spend four easygoing hours cycling from central Can Tho through villages, gardens, orchards, and waterways. Meet local farming life at a duck farm, cross the river by ferry, visit an organic cocoa garden, and stop for sugarcane juice. Guides Tom and Sunny have been especially praised for friendly, flexible guiding.

“Super nice tour with Tom, very friendly guide! Nice route through the villages, visit of temple and stop at the "Heritage Tree" with lots of interesting explanations... we really recommend this activity with Tom!”

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