Cai Rang Floating Market
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Address: Cai Rang, Can Tho City
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Opening hours: 5 AM - 9 AM
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Food price: 30,000 VND - 35,000 VND/dish
Floating markets are a prominent cultural feature in the Mekong River region and the Cai Rang floating market is the most ideal place for you to explore the daily lives of local people. Cai Rang Floating Market is about 6 km from the city center.
The boats are filled with tropical fruits and local food
This market has existed for hundreds of years with boats and canoes selling all kinds of items. The boats are filled with vegetables, tropical fruits, and fragrant food, immersed in the bustling atmosphere. It will bring you a completely new experience.
Bang Lang Stork Sanctuary
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Address: Thoi An Hamlet, Thoi Thuan Ward, Thot Not District, Can Tho City
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Opening hours: 6 AM - 6 PM
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Ticket price: 20,000 VND/person
If you are a nature and bird lover then visit Bang Lang Stork Sanctuary when exploring the Mekong Delta. This place is located about 60 km from Can Tho city center and is a garden eco-tourism area loved by many people.
Bang Lang is home to tens of thousands of storks.
This is home to tens of thousands of storks of many different species. To avoid disturbing the storks, you should walk or use a bicycle to go into the garden. In this place, there is a lookout tower. Our advice is that you should stay here at dusk to watch hundreds of different flocks of storks flying back to their nests.
Con Phung, Ben Tre
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Address: Tan Thach Ward, Chau Thanh District, Ben Tre Province
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Opening hours: 7:30 AM - 4 PM
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Ticket price: 30,000 VND/person
Con Phung tourist area is an ecotourism destination in Ben Tre province, this is an island located in the middle of the Tien River, extremely cool and peaceful. This place promises to bring many interesting experiences to you from Western-style entertainment activities to dozens of attractive Ben Tre specialties.
Con Phung is a famous garden eco-tourism area with many interesting experiences
You can take a motorboat along the dunes to visit coconut candy processing facilities, coconut souvenirs, and take a horse-drawn carriage to visit the orchard. Stop by the coconut leaf-roofed house to drink tea with honey and kumquat, and enjoy tropical fruits. Unique experiences that will make you excited when coming here are crocodile fishing and bottle-feeding carp.
Coming here, you should try the crocodile fishing game
Tra Su Cajuput Forest
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Address: Van Tra Hamlet, Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province
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Opening hours: 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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Ticket price: 100,000 VND/person
Tra Su Cajuput Forest is a typical flooded forest eco-tourism area of the Hau River region. Coming here, you will be immersed in nature, not only attracted by the green space with shady cajuput forests but also in close contact with a series of birds and rare wild animals.
Sit on a leaf boat and weave through the cajuput forests
Exciting experiences are waiting for you here: walking on the longest bamboo bridge in Vietnam, taking a boat into the heart of the cajuput forest. And observing the process of harvesting cajuput honey. At the lookout tower here, you can see the entire cajuput forest and birds from above with a telescope.
Tram Chim National Park
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Address: Tram Chim Town, Tam Nong District, Dong Thap Province
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Opening hours: 6 AM - 8 PM
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Ticket price: 20,000 VND/person
Tram Chim National Park is home to more than 230 species of birds, including 32 rare species, 16 species are in the red book. In 2012, Tram Chim was recognized as the 2,000th Ramsar site in the world, the fourth in Vietnam. This is also a place to preserve red-crowned cranes.
Tram Chim National Park is a place with an extremely rich ecosystem
The unique experiences you may like when coming here are rowing a dinghy, setting nets to catch fish, harvesting wild rice. And visiting the bird breeding area with thousands of bird nests. In addition, you can also admire the beautiful fields of white lotus, pink lotus, Xyris indica, and Utricularia purpurea.
Tram Chim National Park preserves the rare sarus crane
Binh Thuy Ancient House
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Address: 114 Bui Huu Nghi Road, Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City
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Opening hours: 8 AM - 12 AM; 2 PM - 6 PM
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Ticket price: 15,000 VND/person
This hundred-year-old house in Binh Thuy is one of the most beautiful architectural works in the Southwest region. It is designed in a combination of European and Vietnamese styles. It shows the harmonious East-West cultural interference of the wealthy class in the Mekong Delta in the late 19th century. The beauty of this place once inspired the setting of the movie " The Lover” (L'Amant) directed by J.J. Annaud.
Binh Thuy Ancient House has an architecture that combines East and West cultures
The bold Western style in the house includes floors tiled with encaustic tiles imported from France, ceilings decorated with patterns, luxurious chandeliers, and wooden tables and chairs crafted in the Louis XV style. What may impress you is the rich collection of antiques. Many precious antiques are imported from China or brought from European countries.
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