Whether tourists from a thousand kilometers away or coming from Saigon and surrounding areas will be amazed and delighted by the landscape and rivers of Con Son (Binh Thuy, Can Tho). With only half a day on the national reunification holiday tour, International Labor Day, walking around the “garden” in the middle of the large river (approximately 70 hectares), anyone can have can find regular breathing, because a green space is so relaxed …
As a floating land in the middle of the Hau river, in the past, during the French colonial period, Con Son also had another name as Tra Noc isle.
This land, which inherently has a lot of paint trees (whose resin is exploited to make gold paint for wooden furniture), is gradually called Con Son.
Con Son’s original traditional profession was the exploitation of sumac trees and timber production, but after a lost job, people gradually turned to planting fruit trees and raising fish cages, both a model suitable for the suburbs of a country. Big city like Can Tho but also to enjoy more natural incentives for this place.
On the river surface, not far from the islet, people set up a raft to raise fish. When they turn to serve tourism, these rafts are also the stops for tourists.
Here, visitors will be introduced to the fish typical of the river region. Moreover, they also get foot massage in colorful Koi fish tanks with hundreds of greedy and adorable fish fighting each other … serving (by “poking” at visitors’ feet), creating moments memorable, extremely humorous.
Also on the raft, visitors can take advantage of refreshments with quick drinks such as coconut water, ice cream or try the famous hot Thac Fish cake with exotic vegetables.
Expanded, the space is divided into many areas according to uses, from living, welcoming visitors to areas reserved for tourists to relax … Here, the owner of the raft is available with many hammocks for visitors to lean on. , reclining in a nap dispel the fatigue after long haul journey.
The river breeze is cool, the space is only faintly the murmur of goby fish or the cheerful giggles of other tour groups will definitely be the joys that are not easy to get for any visitors. come here.
Contrary to the bustle, bustling, suffocating bustle of Can Tho – one of the big, busy, central cities for a long time, boarding a boat, about 5-7 minutes, visitors can step to a completely different land – rustic, natural, pure and peaceful, peaceful – Con Son.
This place is one of the land of longan, rambutan, breast milk … All fresh, sweet and very cheap. About 10 – 15,000 VND, visitors will have a large bag of jackfruit, a bunch of bananas or a bunch of sweet and fragrant banana.
Not only are the services for young people to “check-in”, explore, women relax, take pictures, men have fun drinking, but also services for children to admire and enjoy. .
One of the interesting services of Con Son is the garden snakehead snakehead fish. The owner of the garden knocked on, divided the food for the fish, so hundreds of fish jumped up into the air to catch the bait.
Not a bit of urban color, not a bit of a high-rise building or anything related, Con Son in front of your eyes is luxuriant orchards with tables full of labels, whips, jackfruit, guava. , welcome to enjoy, are tiny canals with wobbly bridges, are poetic floating water hyacinth rafts …
In recent years, under the support and joint hands of all levels of authorities, social organizations that Con Son has gradually built up and successfully transformed into a special community tourism area.
Here, families in the same area organize different tourism activities and services. Some of them provide orchards, others sell groceries, fruits, souvenirs, while others organize fishing, dining, singing, entertainment, and culinary activities.
C cancer services for continuous follow-tourism model community – village / pineapple / residential clusters along concentric, united effort to do tourism, attract tourists but Con Son is rather focused on expressions when the whole floating island area is “decorated, arranged” simply but very romantic, “flattering” the visitors visit.
Maintaining natural, rustic and friendly landscape, maintaining garden houses with cool floral and fruit trees is the strength of Con Son beside an urban space like Can Tho. Perhaps so, this floating island resort, regardless of the tourist season, still has its own way of attracting tourists.
Only a few hours by car from Saigon or just as much time to fly in from Hanoi or remote northern provinces, after hours of exploring the city of Can Tho, miss a fascinating land like Con Son is absolutely not recommended, for the holiday season is longer than half a week to come.
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