08 Aug 2025
we had an absolutely wonderful time on a 3 night four day trip around the Mekong Delta. Our guide Danh was so knowledgeable of all the little lanes. it would have been next to impossible to replicate this trip without a guide! it was amazing to see how he remembered everyone of the 2 dozen turns he'd have to make during each day. Danh described the detailed training he'd received to memorize all these routes and how the company tweaked them every year as needed based on any construction or road work that might make a given path not so attractive. Sinhbalo's organization was seamless - calling ahead to the restaurants so the food was ready when we were a bit slow, making little detours to buy things we wanted, etc. Another very special thing was the quality of the hotels. On all three nights they had us stay at these amazing places. One mountaintop hotel. One hotel with the most incredible gardens I've seen. One on an island. And the hotels were all so affordable.
Sinhbalo was also able to connect us to guides in other parts of Vietnam and in Cambodia who have freelanced for them, so it is clear that they are the center of a big cycling network.