With many extremely beautiful natural landscapes imbued with the western character of the river; The people are hospitable, sincere, and extremely enthusiastic, so Can Tho becomes an ideal tourist destination and leaves a deep impression on those who have ever set foot here. Besides cultural and historical tourist attractions, eco-tourism sites are also magnets to attract visitors. Here are the most ideal ecotourism destinations in Can Tho.
Phu Sa tourist area
Phu Sa tourist area is one of the most famous ecotourism destinations in Can Tho and is associated with the famous hot pot dish near and far. To get to this resort, it only takes you more than 10 minutes by train from Ninh Kieu wharf. Phu Sa tourist area has a green space with charming natural scenes and is especially peaceful. The most prominent feature of this resort is the luxuriant fruit trees that converge all kinds of specialty fruits of Can Tho. When entering the right fruit tree season, the sweet aroma of fruits from mango, jackfruit to durian will permeate every corner of the resort’s campus.
Hoa Su tourist area
Hoa Su tourist area is an ideal eco-tourism destination interspersed with many cultural activities and bold local cuisine. This tourist area has attracted a large number of tourists both inside and outside the province. Hoa Su tourist area is located right in the center of busy Can Tho city, on the banks of the gentle and charming Hau River, this place emerges with small and lovely tents that make visitors have an indelible impression. . Coming here on weekends, you will immerse yourself in the gentle but impressive natural space.
Bay Tien tourist area
Bay Tien eco-tourism area is located next to Hau river, in Thoi Trinh A area, Thoi An ward, O Mon district, Can Tho city. 20km from Can Tho city center along National Highway 91, heading to An Giang, cross O Mon bridge about 500m, turn right into Thoi An ward about 7km to Thoi An ward People’s Committee, then turn left about 2km to reach Thoi An ward. tourist area.
With an area of 30,000 m2, you will enjoy the cool air of the river and enjoy the specialties of the fruit-laden orchards such as Guava, toads, Siamese coconut… Not only that, You will see the process of raising pangasius and basa fish, one of the city’s strong exports. Coming to the Bay Tien eco-tourism area , visitors will experience canoeing, feeding and fishing activities, elegant pleasure of the water area, in addition, there is also an area for playing duck boat games for tourists. Especially, with the increasing culinary demand of tourists, you will be served rustic dishes with bold Southwest and European dishes, ensure safety, hygiene, taste and with the motto “please come and please go”, Bay Tien eco-tourism area will leave a good impression in the hearts of tourists near and far.
Here, the gentle and peaceful beauty of nature, in addition to delicious dishes prepared by
talented chefs are also irresistible attractions of this eco-tourism area.
Thao Nguyen Garden House Resort
Thao Nguyen garden house has an area of about 2,000m2, with the main house built with modern architecture but still subtly rural. Along the canal in the garden, there are small leaf huts, where visitors can relax and drink a cup of water, try some fruit and enjoy the cool breeze blowing from all sides. The whole garden space is a real home garden.
Still living the rustic lifestyle, still the gentle breath of the river, tourists from all over the world visit, like the times when guests come to visit the house very friendly and comfortable. At Thao Nguyen Garden House, visitors can enjoy the rich Western life, from leisurely strolling around the garden, to relaxing on the porch or lounging in the kitchen with everyone to prepare a hearty meal in the true sense of the family. This closeness, maybe in other tourist areas, has been changed or lost a lot of meaning, but at Thao Nguyen Garden House , everything remains the same. And no matter how many times visitors go, and then come back, they still feel the warm closeness of such a country family.
If you have been to the West and experienced garden tours, then when you have the opportunity to come back to this place again, forget to visit Binh Pho B and Thao Nguyen Garden House Ecotourism Area. Please. Coming to this space, you not only have an enjoyable trip, but also feel like this is your cozy second home, always filled with affection and closeness like a real family. NS.
Seven Bo Ke Restaurant
Bay Bo Ke restaurant is a restaurant and eatery with a fairly large scale, this is an ideal eco-tourism address for groups of tourists to stop and rest and enjoy hot and special dishes. Delicious taste with bold river characteristics of the West.
Seven Bo Ke Restaurant, With an area of over 5000m2, located about 50m from Rach Suc, it has many advantages in terms of landscape and convenience in terms of access. In addition to rooms equipped with air conditioning for groups of guests who prefer a more closed space, the shop also has many small huts or tums scattered along the ditches on the premises. These large and small tums are always the ideal choice, for tourists from near and far who love the airy and idyllic landscape of the garden house. Sit back and relax while enjoying delicious food, while watching the fresh green landscape from the orchard, sometimes the field fishes come out of the closed duckweed face in the ditches, making guests excited. Can’t take your eyes off, really anything better. Specialties and delicacies of the restaurant are many, However, what makes diners all over the world always excited is that whenever they return to visit, there are also new delicious dishes with strange flavors to enjoy. However, no matter how strange they enjoy the dish, the regular customers never forget the restaurant’s specialties such as boiled sweet potatoes, burnt rice with braised fish, chicken cooked with lemon and chili, and hotpot with cinnamon vegetables. …
Can Tho cuisine is always associated with simple delicacies but has a stronghold on diners. One of the clear proofs for the special feature of this Tay Do river area is the Bay Bo Ke Ecological Restaurant. Do not stand out with famous dishes, but gently mark the hearts of diners with genuine flavors. It is this flavor that blends in the poetic space of the orchard, with a glimpse of the optimism and freedom of the garden chefs, that makes this restaurant a wonderful and unique stopover. of Binh Pho B is rich, poetic, and charming.
Ba Cong Fruit Garden
In addition to Thao Nguyen, Ba Cong fruit garden is also a familiar place for travel companies in Saigon. This place is always crowded with tourists visiting the garden, picking ripe fruits to eat on the spot or buy as gifts. The garden also has a few small ditches, silhouetted coconut trees, monkey bridges and wildflowers creating a very beautiful picture of the countryside. Just these simple images will make you save unforgettable emotions and impressions.
Ba Cong fruit garden is an eco-tourism destination that is always vibrant and bustling with tourists visiting to visit and shop for specialties. Ba Cong fruit garden is located in Binh Pho B area, Binh Thuy district. If you come here, you will be able to walk around the huge fruit garden by yourself, choose and pick ripe fruits and then enjoy them on the spot. This will definitely be a very interesting and special experience for urban people or foreign tourists.
Cai Rang floating market
Cai Rang Floating Market is a floating market specializing in exchanging, buying and selling agricultural products, fruits, goods, food, eating and drinking on the river and is a unique attraction of Cai Rang district, Can Tho city.
This market specializes in buying and selling fruits and agricultural products in the region. Every morning, there are hundreds of small and large boats parked close to each other, on each boat, there are hanging selling many kinds of products that are not available on the mainland. Coming to the market, visitors will be immersed in the vast river space, eat breakfast on the boat and choose for
themselves the freshest specialties.
Immersed in the bustling atmosphere of the market, visitors can observe and learn about the activities of many merchant families with many generations living on the boat. There are boats like “mobile apartments” on the river with flower pots, pets, full facilities such as color TV, disc player, sound system… including motorbikes. parked on the boat.
Cai Rang floating market is one of the most unique attractions in Can Tho. This is a very unique culture in the Mekong Delta, attracting a lot of tourists, especially foreigners.
Bang Lang stork garden
Bang Lang Stork Garden is located in Thot Not district, about 60km from Can Tho city. Visitors from Ho Chi Minh City can use many means of transport such as planes, passenger cars, motorbikes to get to the city and then continue to move along Highway 91 through O Mon to Thot Not straight to Bang Lang stork garden. From Bang Lang Bridge, there is a smaller road leading to the stork garden, visitors can rent a motorbike, bicycle, or walk about 2km to reach the place. If going in the high water season, visitors will have the opportunity to experience interesting things on boats floating straight into Bang Lang stork garden .
Bang Lang Stork Garden is located in Thoi An hamlet, Thoi Thuan commune, Thot Not District, Can Tho city, this is one of the largest bird sanctuaries in Can Tho. If you go to the stork garden in spring, you will see rows of purple mausoleum flowers blooming on both sides of the river.
In addition, in the early morning, visitors can also admire the beautiful scenes and herd life of birds where the image of storks spread out to find food, and then return to the nest in the late afternoon.
Along the road are rows of purple mausoleum trees and straight old bamboo ramparts whispering to welcome the wind and protect pedestrians, creating an indescribably peaceful feeling.
Love the fruit garden
Can Tho is considered a key economic and tourist center of the Mekong Delta, so when thinking about Can Tho, people often talk about the luxury and bustle with famous attractions in the Mekong Delta. City centers such as Ninh Kieu Wharf, Cai Rang Floating Market … that many people are surprised to discover that, Can Tho also has many green, lush, fruit-laden fruit gardens all year round. In recent years, Can Tho garden tourism is extremely developed and attracts a larger number of tourists.
Besides the above locations, the luxuriant fruit orchards are also eco-tourism sites for visitors. In Can Tho, there are many large fruit gardens for you to visit such as Mr. Sau Duong’s garden, Binh Thuy orchid garden or the arc garden in Phong Dien, Phung Hiep river routes and many other tourist gardens in other areas. O Mon or Thot Not area.
My Khanh Ecological Area
Come to My Khanh Tourist Village , you can freely explore and learn about the life of garden residents such as: visit the Southern Ancient House, enjoy the cultural program “Don ca tai tu”, “One day working”. Dien Chu” with a farmer’s meal, “One day as a farmer”, “Slapping ditches to catch fish…”, visiting traditional cultural craft villages, orchards, on-site services such as horse-drawn carriage ride, swimming boat, electric taxi, pig racing, dog racing, monkey circus, crocodile fishing… and many other programs at your request.
In addition to the existing system of fully-equipped, garden-style bungalows in the village, the village also cooperates with more than 20 gardeners to develop tourism service models. attracting quite a lot of domestic and foreign tourists wishing to stay and relax, will bring you interesting experiences.
With a team of dedicated, attentive and professional service staff, My Khanh Tourism Village promises to be an attractive destination, satisfying visitors from near and far.
Above are the most ideal ecotourism destinations in Can Tho. Hope this article has brought you useful information.
10 Top Destinations In Can Tho
1) Cai Rang floating market
It is said that “not being in Cai Rang floating market means not knowing the land of Tay Do – an old name of Can Tho”. Cai Rang floating market, one of the famous floating markets of the Southwest, specializes in selling fruits and agricultural products of the whole region.
Every early morning, a hundred boats gather together where their owners sell agricultural products. To be recognized easily, they hang out product samples on a long bamboo (called Cay Beo) in front of the boats, so that they do not need to cry about their wares as farmers do in the mainland market.
The market also has most services of a normal market such as food, grocery sales, repairing service, fuel station…
2) Binh Thuy ancient house
Binh Thuy’s ancient house is an ideal place to explore the region’s history.
Located at 26/1A Bui Huu Nghia Street in Binh Thuy Ward, about five kilometers from downtown Can Tho, the house is filled with features that represent rural areas in the Mekong Delta region during the 20th century.
The French-style house was built in 1870 by the Duong family on an area of nearly 6,000 sq m. Its base is about one meter higher than the land surface.
In order to keep warm and avoid termites, the house owner laid a 10 cm layer of salt under the floorboards.
With front and back gardens, the five-room house offers a comfortable environment full of fresh air and brilliant sunshine.
3) Bang Lang stork garden
Located in Binh Thoi Hamlet, Thoi Thuan Commune, Thot Not District, 52 kilometers from the center of Can Tho City, Bang Lang Stork Garden is a popular stop for tourists.
The garden covers about two hectares and is home to thousands of storks as well as many other kinds of birds. There are various species of storks living at Bang Lang Stork Garden including cattle egret, ibis, striated heron, and painted stork.
There are also other species making it their homes such as black-crowned night heron, little cormorant, and greater coucal heron.
Eighty percent of birds in the garden are white cattle egrets. This species of stork often builds its nests in the garden from March to August of the lunar year.
The best time to admire the garden is 5 p.m. when flocks of storks fly back to their nests. They hover in the sky then perch on tree peaks, Twitter together and pose in the wind. There is a three-meter watching tower for tourists to see birds.
Nguyen Ngoc Thuyen, who is often referred to as Mr. Bay Co, the owner of Bang Lang Stork Garden, at first only wanted to save some storks stuck in fishing traps but the garden kept getting bigger and bigger.
Thus, the garden was established in 1983. It is strange that a large number of storks chose to make their home at the garden of Mr. Bay Co. At first, there were very few but then Mr. Bay has created good conditions for the storks to live in his garden. Since then, Bang Lang garden has gradually been expanded with the current area of about 2 hectares and a number of storks ranging from 100,000-150,000 of more than 20 species.
4) Orchards
The orchards are located along all roads and canals in Can Tho, offering tourists the chance to taste various kinds of tropical fruits. The largest orchards are My Khanh, Mr. Sau Duong’s orchard, Binh Thuy orchid garden, etc.
5) Ba Bo Flower Village
Another place worth visiting in Can Tho is the Ba Bo Flower Village where nearly 250 households in the 20-hectare community cultivate dozens of species of flowers and ornamental plants.
6) Ninh Kieu Wharf
Ninh Kieu Wharf is located on the bank of Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong River, close to the center of the city. The wharf is the city’s main trading center where hundreds of boats plying the river, bringing products from the rest of the Delta region.
Close to Ninh Kieu Wharf in Can Tho Harbour, which was built according to a modern design and can accommodate ships of up to 5,000 tons. Can Tho Market, which is near Ninh Kieu Wharf, is one of the major markets in the western region of South Vietnam.
The market is attractive with its floating restaurant located on the Hau River. Connoisseurs can enjoy the province’s specialties while watching hundreds of boats pass by.
7) Tay Do night market
Tay Do Night Market is approximately 1km far from the center of Can Tho City. This market is not only well-known as the trading center of Can Tho City, but also an attractive tourism destination.
In the past, Tay Do night market was a wholesale market, mainly exchanging goods in and out of Vietnam. However, in recent years, besides the task of exchanging products, the Tay Do night market is also used for cuisine and entertainment services. Basing on its large scale and importance, the Tay Do night market is recognized as a large trading center in Mekong Delta.
Tay Do night market is designed in accordance with the landscape around and expresses the Southern style. The market is divided into many stalls of clothes, handicrafts, jewelry, foods… which can meet all the demands of locals and tourists. In addition, there are many interesting activities like games and traditional music shows.
8) Truc Lam Phuong Nam Monastery
This is the largest monastery in the Mekong Delta, with a meeting hall for about 500 monks. The monastery was built on four hectares in My Khanh Commune, Phong Dien District in the Buddhism architectural style of the Ly-Tran Dynasty in the 11-12th centuries.
9) Can Tho Museum
This large, well-presented museum brings local history to life with manikins and life-size reproductions of buildings, including a Chinese pagoda and a house interior. Displays (with ample English translations) focus on the Khmer and Chinese communities, plant and fish specimens, rice production and the war.
10) My Khanh eco-tourism village
My Khanh tourist village is located at 335 Lo Vong Cung Street, Phong Dien District, about five kilometers from Can Tho City by road or river.
My Khanh village, which was established in 1996, features a garden-style eco-tourist site. The village is a special one in Can Tho which brings comfort and relaxation for any visitor.
Visiting My Khanh Tourist Village, visitors in Vietnam travel can experience the old days of southern life by taking on the costume of a rich landlord who lived in a big house or of a normal traditional farmer to feel the difference. As a rich landlord, you can enjoy fruit, hot tea, and listen to music from a hand-operated gramophone made more than 300 years ago. As a farmer, you are given the opportunity to work and prepare meals as southern farmers did in the past.
Another feature that makes My Khanh tourist village special is the 100-year-old southern house that was moved piece by piece from Can Tho’s Binh Thuy Ward and reassembled.
At the village, you are served with Mekong Delta specialties such as baby rabbits, snakes, tortoises, bats, cuckoos and crocodiles, etc. The meals include regional fruits such as rambutans, durians, langsats, mangosteens, oranges, tangerines and pomelos.
My Khanh tourist village also provides accommodation in Central Highlands-style stilt houses with 300 well-furnished rooms in all. There are also entertainment services including a swimming pool and fishing and boating on the river.
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