One of the first villages to have benefitted from Mekong Quilts is Long Mỹ in Hậu Giang province. To pay homage to the place that made Mekong Quilts possible more than a decade ago, Bernard and his team organise near-monthly bamboo bicycle tours for eager locals, expats and tourists to witness how Mekong Plus and Mekong Quilts operate.
“We have more than 1,000 projects in just this rural district,” Bernard informed.
Each tour lasts 2-3 days and prices start at VND2,000,000 per participant -VND1.000.000 for all logistics, food, hotel, the bike etc. AND a VND1,000,000 donation to the projects visited. This, beyond the opportunity to ride Mekong Quilts’ naturally dampened and comfortable bamboo bicycles, a large part of the participation fee goes into further funding and development of the area.