The 15 Best Can Gio Mangrove Tours from Saigon

1.Can Gio Trek – Monkey Island & Crocodile Farm

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 353 reviews · from $28Our pick

Spend 9 to 10 hours outside Ho Chi Minh City with an English-speaking guide such as Kevin, Sam, or Rich. Walk through Can Gio’s mangroves, meet cheeky monkeys, visit Hoa Ca crocodile farm and Rung Sac Military Base, enjoy lunch, and add a speedboat ride if you wish.

“Had a great day away from HCMC. Tour guide Kevin was excellent and very informative. Mangrove forest walk and monkeys were the highlights”

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2.Can Gio Mangroves – Monkey Island by Motorbike and Scooter

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 126 reviews · from $65

Leave Ho Chi Minh City at 7:30 AM with a local motorbike guide such as Nathan, Tyrone, Ben, Adam, Long, or Khoi. Ride the ferry to Can Gio, see hundreds of monkeys, learn wartime history, visit the seafood market, beach, and Cao Dai pagoda.

“The tour was excellent. To summarise, motorbike ride and Ferry with awesome views to visit the monkey island to see the monkeys and learn Vietnams history. Highly recommend it if you are down for a bit of an adventure and want to explRead more”

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3.Vam Sat Mangrove Forest – VIP Private Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 74 reviews · from $129

Spend about eight hours exploring Can Gio with a private guide, canoe rides, bird and bat sanctuaries, wild monkeys, crocodiles, seafood lunch, and a 26-meter forest tower. Pickup covers Districts 1, 3, and 4, with VIP limousine or private vehicle options.

“Fun activities, lovely landscape, friendly guide and not too far from Saigon. I really enjoyed travel.by speed boat and look out to the mangrove forest.”

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4.Can Gio Mangrove Adventure: Speedboat with Monkey Island

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 60 reviews · from $38

Spend a full day in Can Gio with a private English-speaking guide, feeding monkeys, visiting a crocodile farm, riding a speedboat to a wartime guerrilla base, and relaxing at the beach. Guides such as Duckie, Phil, and Harry have helped make the day friendly and easy to follow.

“The bus ride was quite long but it was fun driving onto the ferry to get across to the island. The best part was the forest itself as it is quite unique. The rest was just ok.”

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5.Cần Giờ Eco-Tour with Monkeys, Crocs & War History

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 59 reviews · from $32

You’ll leave Ho Chi Minh City by air-conditioned van for Can Gio, where a guide leads you around Monkey Island, a mangrove boat route, and a crocodile farm. Lunch, entrance fees, water, cool towels, and District 1 hotel transfers are included. A vegetarian meal is available by request.

“This tour was rather disappointing. After we booked the dinner cruise online we were then told that the cruise boat was not operating that evening because of Lunar New Year Holiday. So the dinner was swapped for one in a local restaurant. Read more”

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6.Can Gio Mangrove Forest 1 day tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 37 reviews · from $55

Spend a long day from Ho Chi Minh City exploring Can Gio’s mangroves, Monkey Island, crocodile farm, war-era forest base, pool, and April 30 Beach. A guide, lunch, boats, and District 1 hotel pickup are included, though the advertised Mekong Delta details need checking before you book.

“perfect services.Great tour guide .Excellent value for money”

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7.Can Gio Beautiful Nature Mangrove Forest Day Trip

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 37 reviews · from $89

Leave Ho Chi Minh City for Can Gio Biosphere Reserve on an 8-hour private day trip. You’ll see long-tailed monkeys, crocodiles, mangrove wildlife, wartime sites, and quiet waterways by speedboat, with local lunch, bottled water, and district 1 pickup included.

“We had an amazing day at mekong river delta, including a trip to family tiny garden where we tried our hand at cooking Vietnamese pancakes and then exploring thoi son island. Our guide, Milo, was fantastic and very knowledgeable. He helped us throughout the day and was very entertaining as well.”

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8.VIP Tour in Vam Sat: Can Gio Mangrove Forest by SpeedBoat

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 27 reviews · from $350

Travel by speedboat from Bach Dang pier to Vam Sat in Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve. An English-speaking guide leads the visit, with Vietnamese lunch, fruit, cake, water, and wet towels included. Guide Van has been praised for friendly, enthusiastic service.

“Overall a nice river cruise, with fresh food and some croissants. Our guide Van was friendly and enthusiastic. Interesting crusing along Saigon River and seeing way of life. Can Gio/Vam Sat itself is interesting with good nature elements and aRead more”

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9.1-Day Can Gio Island-Mangrove Biosphere Reserve-Trekking

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 25 reviews · from $85

You’ll leave Ho Chi Minh City for Vam Sat Eco Park in Can Gio, traveling by air-conditioned vehicle and canoe, then walking 2 km through mangroves. Expect a bird sanctuary, Monkey Island, crocodile camp, Tang Bong Tower, Vietnamese lunch, and fruit tasting. Linda may guide some departures.

“Abbiamo prenotato il tour convinti di avere con noi altre persone invece abbiamo fatto un tour privato con Linda, la nostra guida. Accompagnatrice preparata e gentilissima. Il tour è stato splendido, lo consiglio vivamente.”

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10.UNESCO Listed Can Gio Mangrove and Monkey Island trek

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 11 reviews · from $43

Leave District 1 at 8:15 am for Can Gio, a UNESCO-listed wetland with mangrove waterways, crocodiles, and more than 1,000 macaques. Your English-speaking guide leads the day, with transport, ferry tickets, lunch, entrance fees, and a canoe ride included.

“Great trip. Very knowledgeable English speaking guide. Was good to see and interact with the monkeys and understand more about the history of the area.”

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11.Full Day Tour in Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 10 reviews · from $45

Leave central Ho Chi Minh City at 7:30 am for a nine-hour trip through Can Gio’s mangroves. You’ll ride by boat, see free-ranging monkeys, visit a crocodile farm and guerrilla base, eat local food, and finish at black-sand Can Gio Beach.

“Nice trip, love the monkeys and a little bit about the history. Except the last stop at the beach was not neccesary for us”

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12.Private Can Gio Mangrove Eco Tour – Boat & Wildlife

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $147

Spend about eight hours with your own party exploring Can Gio from Ho Chi Minh City. Guide Harry and driver Cong may lead the day, with a speedboat, canoe rides, Monkey Island, crocodile farm, canopy tower, local lunch, and hotel transfers included.

“We had a great time feeding crocodiles, watching the monkeys and learning Vietnamese culture, the speedboat was a lit of fun and our guide Harry was friendly, informative, helpful and fun to hang out with, both he and the driver Cong done an excellent job and made the trip very memorable for us”

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13.Private Can Gio Mangrove Eco Tour – Boat & Wildlife

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $150

Spend about eight hours with a private guide in Can Gio, traveling by car, ferry, boat, and canoe through mangroves. Visit Monkey Island, a crocodile farm, a canopy tower, and a fishing hamlet. Guides such as Jacky Hieu, Tua, and Tranth have earned praise for their care and humor.

“Wonderful full day tour to Can Gio Mangrove. Our guide Jacky Hieu was amazing. We were with our 8 year old grandson and he made it an excellent experience for all of us. We were picked up at our hotel on time and enjoyed a private driver Read more”

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14.Small-Group Tour to Can Gio Vam Sat Mangrove Forest

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 7 reviews · from $129

Leave Ho Chi Minh City at 7:30 am for Can Gio Vam Sat with an English-speaking guide. Cruise by canoe and rowing boat to see fruit bats, crocodiles, monkeys, and seasonal birdlife, with lunch, entrance fees, water, and selected hotel pickup included.

“Lovely Tour guide, great boat trips around the area as well as a cute little canoe ride. Nice food given as part of the package, the views were really pretty especially being 26m up high at one point! Pick up and drop off from the hostel was lovely too as they gave us water and air con.”

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15.Full Day Monkey Island Tour with Canoe in Can Gio Mangrove Forest

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 6 reviews · from $39

Travel from District 1 to Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve for monkey-spotting, canoe and speedboat rides, crocodile viewing, lunch, and seafood-market time. A professional English-speaking guide leads this 7 to 8-hour trip, limited to 13 people, with hotel pickup, bottled water, and pool access.

“We did get to see lots of monkeys but the whole thing felt like you were in a zoo. You walked down one Long trail and the monkeys came out when the security guards/caretakers threw peanuts at them. Basically comes off as a tourist trapRead more”

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