Nam Vu – Atractive Eco-Tourist Destination

From Ben Tre city along National Road 57 with a distance of about 50 miles, through the Cho Lach district center, Vinh Binh commune to Phu Phung commune you run into Nam Vu attractive eco-tourism destinations.

This is an ideal entertainment if you want to find a quiet space to rest and relax. In the lush garden of 18,000 square meters, Nam Vu eco-tourism is hiding itself under the green trees, ornamental flowers and orchar shading tents from trees, looking cool and cozy, not only suitable for bosom friends exchanging confidence, but also meeting the need for a party, festival from a dozen to a few hundred customers.

To be here, visitors can themselves fish, process food or ask the staff to make unique, attractive such as grilled fish, fish salad, fish hotpot … In addition, visitors can enjoy rustic garden dishes that few places can compare as fighting chicken hotpot, fighting chicken soup with banana plant salad, pancakes, spring rolls …

After the meal, if you do not want to go to quiet space can come over to karaoke parlor. Especially on the occasion of Tet Doan Ngo (On May 5th lunar day) when visiting Nam Vu eco-tourist site visitors will themselves pick and enjoy the fruits specialties in the garden such as Thai rambutan, sugar rambutan, mangosteen …

If there is a long tour in the countryside of waterway, you can stay overnight at Nam Vu resort. The base facilities and quiet space, will bring you peaceful feeling.

Contact Information: Nam Vu Ecotourism

- Address: 341/81 Phung Duc Hamlet, Phu Phung Commune, Cho Lach District, Ben Tre Province

- Phone: 0753.874.042, Mobile: 0168.351.4878

Owner Vo Quoc Vu (Nam Vu) warmly welcome.

Tam Loc Eco-Tourism

Contact address: Phu Hiep Hamlet, Vinh Binh Commune, Cho Lach District, Ben Tre Province

Contact phone: 01255.475.101 (Mr. Tam Loc)

It is 48km of road from Ben Tre city center to Tam Loc eco-tourist destination. If you want to go by waterway, you will be picked up at the pier in front of the committee District and People’s Committee of Cho Lach and only it takes about 30 minutes to reach this destination. If the direction from Vinh Long province, the transport by ship is just 12km to Tam Loc eco-tourist destination.

The total area of the destination is about 02 hectares. The staff and serving people are the local people with hospitality, kindness and warm welcome. Visitors to Tam Loc eco-tourist site will be visiting orchards, directly hand picking the fruit on the tree. It’s fresh to enjoy. If you have the need to eat and drink, you are served with also local dishes and fresh food such as: spadefish, free-range chicken, mussel pancakes, and boiled small snail. At the same time, visitors can see the rake clams raking at Phu Da Islet small snail preservation area.

Quoi An Tourism – Enough Horse Cart, Rowing Boat

Address: Hamlet 3 – Quoi Son Commune (Chau Thanh District), telephone number 0986832543.

From Rach Mieu bridge down to the east about three miles to Hamlet 3 Quoi Son Commune, is the evident, of fresh orchards.

In the past, it was a vast longan garden which should have drying oven investors for longan. Also, Quoi An eco tourist was born to serve the needs of tourists to enjoy in the country and abroad. So as not to overlap with the type of eco-tourism in the region, Quoi An distinctions are coconut houses built of all the building materials of coconut trees, columns, rafters, beams, walls, doors etc. It was a welcome to national and international delegations visiting and working with Ben Tre.

Photo: Collection

Coming to Quoi An you will feel the gentle strokes of Southern village, the folk, traditional music and amateurish song … the sweet cup of honey inside the eye-catching contingent, and fresh fruit dishes, enjoying listening to music to cool the heart, warm the mind of village waterways.

Coming to Quoi An boat today is not only convenient but also for car trips, with about 15 seats. Someone was once at Quoi An would not forget the feeling comfortable with quiet space, handicrafts items from coconut – a specialty of the coconut Ben Tre, you by as a gift after trip to visit relatives living along the river./.

Oc Islet Tourism – Hung Phong Commune – Giong Trom District

Oc Islet is the largest floating one in the Ham Luong River, Hung Phong Commune, Giong Trom District, Ben Tre Province, away from Ben Tre City about 15 km of road. It has a natural area of 647ha. Initially, it was only a little and low, islet with many snails clinging on submerged plants on the alluvial bed, hence, it has been called the snail islet.

Coconut harvest

Coming to Oc Islet, visitors will be guided to visit the craft village and traditional handicraft. Knitting coconut baskets, coconut matting, coir, handicraft products from coconut. Coming to Oc Islet, visitors will hear the story about mother Tran Thi Ke, a mother devoted her life to her husband and children, to the revolution with the trenchant words in front of the enemies: “My husband and children are in my heart, you operate on me to find them”.

To visit the craft village and traditional handicraft

Oc Islet is the home of many endemic species of fruit trees such as Num coconut, green skin … grapefruit of better quality than other regions. Conical top coconut is planted on alluvium soil of Oc Islet with a sweet taste and more milk. Green skin grapefruit citrus here is pink, seedless, not pungent, very tasty with a sour taste agreable to mouth, ripe fruit remains is fragrant coconut. This is a kind of coconut milk and meat of sweet taste with fragrant sweetness. Coming to Oc Islet, visitors go sightseeing at unique coconut garden with different varieties of coconuts. And will enjoy a well-ventilated space, the fresh green coconut milk in the garden. Tourists will have “the old experienced farmer” Do Thanh Thuong (Tam Thuong) “Coconut King” owns more than 20 varieties of coconut share technical experiences to create high productivity tourists still enjoy the rustic country garden dishes which will make visitors feel warm flavor with a feeling of peace and quiet of Ben Tre. Waterways to be here please contact the following address: Do Thanh Thuong Coconut Garden – Hamlet 2 – Hung Phong Commune – Giong Trom District – Ben Tre province. Phone number: 075.3885011./.

Cho Lach Tourism full of attraction

In the middle of the western waterway there is a hypothetical market is located in the reed area. Over hundreds of years of development, the market has become the center of a district. It’s Cho Lach district in Ben Tre province.

Located away from Ho Chi Minh City about 120km to the west, along National Road 57 from Mo Cay district to go up, visitors easily run info the tourist destinations just visiting once is enough to get an unforgettable impression in tourists’ heart.

Hung Khanh Trung B Commune, the gate into Cho Lach is the first point stop after a long trip about 25km from the city of Ben Tre through Ham Luong Bridge into Cho Lach. It is very popular for its specialty of ornamental animal plants, ornamental shape plants, uniquely shaped by skilled hands of artisans, who must be considered uniquely skillful Nam Cong (Nam Cong ornamental plant establishment) with ornamental shaped product, ornamental animal plants which are exported to may countries around the world.

Nam Cong’s photograph of interesting ornamental animal plants

Bordering Hung Khanh Trung B commune is Vinh Thanh commune area, a fertile land with many special kinds of fruit trees that few places can match up. The highlights of Cai Mon – Vinh Thanh village is the birth of 10 seedling craft villages with many different types in which typically yellow apricots ornamental bonsai are created by artisans with quite elaborate shapes, some trees up to hundreds of years old to be at Vinh Thanh, visitors do not forget to miss the chance of visiting ancient impressive Cai Mon church which was built in 1872, visiting memorial stela of scholar Truong Vinh Ky. After the tourist trip in Vinh Thanh City, tourists can visit the resort and stop to rest at the ornamental tree base, garden cafe Lan Anh.

Cai Mon flower village

Cai Mon Church

Leaving Cai Mon – Vinh Thanh, along National Road 57 west to Long Thoi commune, Hoa Nghia commune, Cho Lach town, visitors have the chance to watch the special orchards with speciaties as: Mangosteen, langsat, rambutan, durian … bearing much, ripe fruit.

Through Cho Lach town of a few kilometers is to come to Vinh Binh commune, here there is a preservation area of small snail, getting boat down the river, watching the gentle flow of water in Co Chien river, gazing at people tapping small snails … There is also Ba Ngoi eco- tourism there.

Phu Da rice snail – Vinh Binh commune

Leaving Ba Ngoi tourist site toward Phu Phung, we could come to Nam Vu tourist site. Every place is different, but fruit is everywhere. The same fascinating waterways and the same hospitable people.

Thua Duc Sea Tourism (Binh Dai Province)

Thua Duc – Binh Dai Sea Tourism. The Beauty Of A Sea

If you have the opportunity to return to Binh Dai, visit Phu Sa Sea resort lying on a long sandy beach of Thua Trung Hamlet, Thua Duc Commune – Binh Dai district; Phone: 075.3742006. Thua Duc Beach is far from Ben Tre City approximately 67km of road. It attracts tourists from its wild beauty, with the stretch of fine sand beach together with the dark green poplar swinging in the wind along the beach, the sound of the waves whispering to harmonize with the whisper of the poplar rows creating a unique sound as a piece of music performed to captivate the people’s heart. All will make visitors forget the hustle of everyday life, to spead their hearts along with the sea, with the wind.

Road to Thua Dua sea

From Ben Tre City, only 60 minutes away by car, travelers come to Phu Sa Sea, Tourists, not only swim in the sea and watch beautiful scenery of the sea but also enjoy seafood specialties such as: Clam, shrimp, crab, oysters, and especially the pancakes (Vietnamese pizza) at the sea location.

Delicious Pancakes and unique flavor is the combination of sauce and fresh green vegetables. From the acrid, bitter taste of young mango leaves to the pungent smell of broccoli, lettuce fragrant, herbs with hot sauce, a little sweet, not any delicacies can match.

In Phu Sa sea resort – Thua Duc after swimming at the sea, setting by the tray of pancakes emitting smoke spreading good smell when not eating, how delicious, we feel After finishing eating delicious pancakes, visitors can lie down in the hammock under green poplar rows, to wholly enjoy the fresh air here, A day to experience in Thua Duc beach will leave visitors more unforgettable memories when being with this sea area.

Thua Duc Sea travel With The “Branch”of Pancakes

If you have the opportunity to go to Binh Dai, you will be invited to visit the tourist site “Bien Phu Sa”, lying on a long sand beach at Thua Trung Hamlet, Thua Duc Commune. A fine sandy beach stretch out to the sea with the green poplar row; the sea waves are whispering together with the sound of poplar trees of sugar to creating a unique sound.

Coming to “Bien Phu Sa” resort you not only sunbathe and watch beautiful scenery of the Sea, but also enjoy special dishes such as: baby clam, shrimp, fresh crab which are just caught by fishermen. And especially pancakes which are “specialty” associated with Bien Phu Sa resort. Most people who come here at least once taste the pancakes.

The main ingredients to make pancakes include rice flour, shrimp, meat, turmeric powder and other spices. To make a cake they put a frying pan on the stove, when the pan Is hot they pour cooking oil 9fat) into the pan, they put shrimp and half lean half fat pork sliced into pieces, scooping the solution of the to spread out the pan hollow. Powder reaching hot oil, emit the sizzle pleasing the ear. Then they add some green bean sprouts, or turnip onto the cake, cover and let itself cooked until crisp enough. Open the pan lid and then fold the cake in half, set the cake onto the plate to invite guests. Looking at the plates of crisp yellow and fragrant cakes, the diners want to enjoy immediately.

Pancakes wrapped with young mango leaves, silky leaves, with a pungent water cress, chicory; fragrant herles together with sweet sour, hot sauce will make you hardly forget “Bien Phu Sa” tour./.

Cai Cam Eco-Tourism

Tan Long Hamlet 3, Tan Thanh Binh Commune, Mo Cay Bac District, Ben Tre Province

Tel: 0753.3820850 Fax: 0753.3820850

Email: bentretour@mekongstay.com

Website: www.Mekongstay.com

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One day – Tour: Ben Tre – Mo Cay

From Tien Giang province, visitors take National Road 60 to Rach Mieu bridge connecting the two banks of Tien Giang – Ben Tre, tourists set foot onto Dong Khoi homeland. At Tan Thanh Roundabout Ben Tre city, turning right to Son Hoa commune, travelers take the boat across the Ham Luong River to Thanh Tan Islet (Mo Cay – Ben Tre), Tourists will go by tricycle, or bicycle along the country rood under the coconut trees after another full of shade, stopping to watch the coconut candy facility (Ben Tre specialty).

At the House of Uncle Ba (Luom), tourists enjoy Siamese coconut milk and a number of specialty fruits in Ben Tre. Continue to go down the rowing boat in the winding canals and the vessels take the tourists Cai Cam River; on the cruise, the boat will stop to visit coconut preliminary processing facilities, visitors will learn more about Ben Tre coconut trees.

Ms. Mai, a house is built of entire coconut for vacation (you can spend the night here if wishing to join the tour to the day after), enjoying the afternoon special dishes of Ben Tre … Small Shrimp roasted with coconut juice.

Before getting on the car to say goodbye to Ben Tre, tourists stop by at the coconut broom base in Xep Market. Saying farewell and setting a date to see Dong Khoi homeland later.

Lan Vuong Tourism

If visitors have the opportunity to come to Ben Tre to enjoy the waterway tourist of garden area, they do not forget to visit Lan Vuong tourism, Hamlet 2, Phu Nhuan Commune, Ben Tre city, about 3 km from Ben Tre city. This is an interesting stop, with cool green coconut-lined space, of an area of over 100,000 m².

Here, it is taking shape an organization of cultural activities, sports and travel along the city of Ben Tre. This is a tourist site of trees, shade, ornamental flowers, rowing boat … Especially thatched huts are located on the banks of the coconut made of plant materials in which they serve foods and drinks stage performance, a variety of special fruits like grapefruit, An Phuoc green skin plum, Hoa Loc mango, green Siamese coconut, … Tourists will enjoy right the spot.

Visitors can participate in exchanges of folk music amateurs, music and song, karaoke, etc. In recent years Lan Vuong eco-tourism has really become a great place to organize the camp, art festivals – sports, contests or festivals of coconut  cuisine, a top of the field tourists to the source or the conferences, seminars, traditional gathering …

Coming to Lan Vuong tourism is an exciting discovery that tourists can not miss the opportunity of being with Ben Tre. Please contact Mr. Tran Ba Sanh for more details; phone number: 075.3838030, Mobile: 0913.886178./.

Hai Ho Tourist Destination

Located at hamlet 2, Phu Nhuan commune, Ben Tre city, it lies away from Ben Tre city about 4km. Hai Ho tourist destination with a cool setting, helping visitors with both tasting and enjoying the natural scenery. Shaggily fried shade fish dipping in tamarind sauce or fried spring – rolls has always been the choice of many tourists.

The winding entrance with row meandering coconut causes operators to take visitors here to be crept along the rural gardens lined with coconut tree and tricycle and bicycle or floating in the small boat between two rows of shady green water coconut tree.

Hai Ho tourist destination has Homestay overnight service with reasonable prices, courteous and safe. Tourists coming here can directly contact phone number: 0918.105.601.

Southern Green Coconut Tourist Destination

Located at Hamlet 2, Phu Nhuan District, Ben Tre city, Ben Tre province, about 5 km from Ben Tre city.

Destination of “Southern green coconut” is one of the tourist sites in the countryside nature. Here visitors can enjoy the rustic dishes processed by the chefs of garden area such as vegetable shrimp soup fried spade fish, steamed shrimp with coconut milk, shrimp pancakes free-range, chicken (lemon grass cooked, porridge, fried with butter, etc.) eat fish cooked in claypots, fruit of all kinds.

With the cool air, quiet, with the country side nature from the hatched roof, surrounded by a garden of green coconut. When stopping to stay overnight tourists will have Homestay built in the model of Chu Dinh (Chinese word) in the South, with 5 rooms, up to 25 people.

To come to Southern Green  Coconut destination we can go on road bike, both cycling and enjoying the natural beauty along the way or cruising in winding waterway ride in the river and canals. Tourists can contact the following address:

Services Co. Ltd – Mekong Travel Legend

Address: 217C, Hung Vuong street, ward 5, Ben Tre city, Ben Tre province

Phone: 0753.511496 or 0903.100055 meet Mr. Lai Quang Phuoc

Ba Ngoi Tourist Destination – Cho Lach

Going down the area of orchard and ornamentel plants of Cho Lach district, tourists not only visit the orchards laden with fruits: rambutan, mangosteen, durian, … the village transplanting seedlings and ornamental flowers, but also visit the memorial stela of scholar Truong Vinh Ky, ancient architectures such as Cai Mon church, Long Thoi ancient house …

Ba Ngoi Tourist site is located along the country road full of green tree shade, both sides are orchard laden with fruits, together with the advantage of poetic and lyrical Co Chien River adjacent to it with airy space, tourist destination Ba Ngoi is an interesting stop for tourist exploring journey in the tour program to discover Cho Lach waterway of the garden area in Ben Tre.

Coming here, visitors also enjoy fruit in the garden such as: durian, mangosteen, rambutan, … you, visitors enjoy fruit, in listening to folk music with deep, sweet songs, then you will enjoy rustic dishes such as: free-range chicken soup, pancakes, small snails, delicious mussel pancakes served for many tourists afar to be enthusiastic, especially visitors will enjoy boiled small snails dipping in chili lemon grass sauce. It’s very tasty and attractive. To travel to Ba Ngoai Tourism is a funny experience of tourists in an exciting trip to explor the western waterways.

Ba Ngoi Tourist site is about 46 km of road from Ben Tre city, tourists can start from Vinh Long through about 12 km to get to the destination.

Contact Phone: 0753.871897 or 0989721118, meet Mr. Nguyen Van Tang.

To be here. Please contact the following address: Ba Ngoi Tourism Park – Phu Hiep Hamlet, Vinh Binh Commune, Cho Lach District, Phone: +84 75 3871897.

Temple of South Viet’s guerilla base General

Until now, several generations of Ben Tre have the same pride of the talented, compassionate General.

He is not only a military general under the first generation of Ben Tre set a bright example for the next generations in the two protracted wars of resistance, great hardship, which in time of peace, even in any position, he always completed his tasks assigned by the Party and the Army. At the old age under poor health, he was still restless, but always positive to contribute to the charitable, activities, the movement of repaying and returning favor … until his death.

Who is he?

He is General Dong Van Cong – Hero of People’s Armed Forces. His hometown is Tan Hao Commune, Giong Trom District.

Recognizing the merits and for the posterity. Giong Trom People built his temple at the (on the occasion of) Junction area of Ms. Ba Ngoi Bridge, Tan Hao commune, Giong Trom district. The 6th anniversary of his death (August 6th, 2005 – August 6th, 2011), the Department of Defense coordinated to organize a ceremony setting up Dong Van Cong bust in traditional rituals.

Before setting up the bust is the traditional death anniversary. The funeral oration of the anniversary has it that:

What a glory!

The hero’s name will be resounding for thousand years

The man of on standing talent and sense of purpose will be eternally glorious

“Mr. Cong’s army” Ben Tre steel land, Southern part Brass citadel talented General …

Visiting the temple of Lieutenant-General is not only to review, the past to understand the present but also to contribute to the preservation of tradition of drinking water to remember the source of our nation./.

Cho Lach Services and Tourist Lpt. Company – ChoLach Tourist

Tour tourist attractions: The beauty of the countryside

Charming waterways.

Cho Lach from central Ho Chi Minh City 127 km, along the National Road 1A, 60 and 57 away from Ben Tre 41 kilometers, from Ho Chi Minh City. 15km, from Vinh Long coming. To Cho Lach you seem to let your heart in a peaceful countryside. Childhood memories will come back when you make a tour around the small rivers, villages in the shade of green tree. Here, you will be together with people to the plantation of durian, rambutan, … with people to harvest fruit. And here, you will join the head of family to process the countryside waterway food like mussel pancake, rolling salade, small snail boiled with lemon grass, free-range chicken soup.

After rustic meal, you have the opportunity to visit one of the famous ornamental flower villages of Cai Mon – Vinh Thanh, visiting the famous and largest cathedral of the Mekong Delta’ “Cai Mon Church”. You will visit the memorial stela of scholar Truong Vinh Ky. All values in a trip only contribute to our lives more meaningful.

Office of transactions: National Road 57 Hung Nhon Hamlet – Hoa Nghia Commune, Cho Lach District, Ben Tre province.

Phone: 0753.711822 – 0756.280177

Fax: 075.3710710

Mobile: 0985.014.616

Email: dulichcholach2008@yahoo.com

Website: www.cholachcaimon.com

Ngan Ha Tourist Company

Ngan Ha Tourist Company specializes in organizing tours round the country, the tours at the request of tourists with high quality services from a team of the guides, vehicles, restaurants, hotels and places with attractive preferential price.

To provide the following services:

- Organizing domestic and overseas tours.

- Extension of visa, guiding immigration records

- Organization of conferences, events, team building

- Organization of the garden tour, ecotourism

- Air tickets for domestic and international trips.

For further information, please contact:

Ngan Ha Tourist Company

Address: 156D, Nguyen Van Tu street, Ward 7, Ben Tre City

Tel: 0908874371 (Ms. Ngan – Director of the company).

Bao Duyen Tourist

BAO DUYEN TOURIST specializes in organizing tours to explore historic-provincial culture; River Tour, eco-tourism and discover the garden of the coconut; Special service: Yachts for eating and drinking in Ham Luong River, Ben Tre River; Traveling inland to explore the attractive destinations of the tourist sites in the country; Bao Duyen Tourist provides services, organizing tour for companies to travel inside and outside the province in need of a link that takes visitors to the country of the three-range isle.

Notably a series of waterway tour to visit Ben Tre coconut land (1 or 2 days, 1 night’s time). The departure of road at the request, Bao Duyen Tourist deployed with many cultural activities to learn the culture, attractive ecotourism, Visiting historical and cultural monuments such as tombs of patriotic poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Woman General Nguyen Thi Dinh Temple … going boating in the river to view the fishers to Nhon Thanh commune, enjoying the specialties of the coconut land walking along the country road to see the paddy fields, coconut gardens, field crops, listening to southern Vietnamese traditional music, scooping ditch for fishing, relaxing in the large coconut garden of Bao Duyen …

Together with the staff, local guides who are enthusiastic, dynamic; BAO DUYEN TOURIST gives you tourist products of good quality, reasonable, suitable for all subjects!

ECO-TOURISM LTD COMPANY BAO DUYEN:

Office: 18D, An Thuan A Hamlet, My Thanh An Commune, Ben Tre City (at the foot of Ben Tre Bridge I).

Wharf: 166, Hung Vuong Street, Ward 3, Ben Tre city.

Tel: (075) 3817366; Fax: (075) 3575247; Hotline: 0913.219.539

Email: bentre@baoduyentourist.com; baoduyentour@yahoo.com

Website: www.baoduyentourist.com

VNAT celebrates Viet Nam Tourism Day (July 9)

(TITC) - On 7 July 2014, Celebration of the 54th anniversary of Viet Nam Tourism Day (9 July 1960 – 9 July 2014) solemnly took place in Viet Xo Friendship Labour Cultural Palace in Ha Noi.

The celebration had the presence of leaders of VNAT, representatives of European Union Delegation (EU), Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Program funded by EU (ESRT), representatives of relevant Ministries and Departments; VNAT’s officers and staffs; more than 300 students of tourism universities & colleges in Ha Noi, and media agencies.

Speaking at the celebration, VNAT’s General Director Nguyen Van Tuan affirmed Viet Nam Tourism has played an important role in the national economy and effectively contributed to further promote Viet Nam’s image to the world.

On this occasion, VNAT launched domestic tourism demand stimulation program which focuses on fostering domestic tourism growth in mountainous, coastal, and island areas; encouraging oversea Vietnamese to travel hometown; introducing hospitable and friendly Vietnamese people. The program will be implemented nationwide to maintain continuous growth of the tourism industry which aims to contribute to developing economy, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty.

Within the framework of the celebration, over 300 students took part in a cycling parade program on main streets in Ha Noi capital in order to propagandize and encourage community to travel exploring their beloved country.

Source: vietnamtourism.gov.vn

Vinh Long takes efforts to lure more tourists

The tourism sector of Mekong Delta Vinh Long province has promoted its historical and cultural relic sites and traditional villages along with its strength of eco-tourism in an effort to lure more tourists.

Vinh Long is home to over 450 relics, including 10 national-level and 34 provincial-level ones. Over the past six months, the sites attracted nearly 220,000 visitors.

Luu Hoang Minh, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Information and Tourism Promotion Centre, said the provincial tourism authority has updated information and knowledge on historical and cultural sites for its guides, thus providing better services for visitors.

The centre in collaboration with universities, colleges and relevant agencies has held courses on professional skills for them, Minh added.

In 2014, the industry targets to welcome 950,000 tourists, including about 200,000 foreigners, and rake in 210 billion VND (9.8 million USD) in revenues.

Located between two major rivers of Tien Giang and Hau Giang, Vinh Long province is known for orchards green all year round and the cannel system which facilitates waterborne travel.

Source: vietnamtourism.gov.vn

Ben Tre Green Skin Pomelo

For the past twenty years, special fruits that have become speciality on the island of Ben Tre, is green skin pomelo. Green skin pomelo is grown in My Thanh An commune, the commune of Ben Tre city, Chau Thanh district, Mo Cay Nam, Mo Cay Bac and Cho Lach district. Green skin pomelo of pink intestine has very few seeds, the segment of the doesn’t grapefruit taste bitter, sweet, the more eating the more craving green skin pomelo product has been exported too currently, green skin pomelo planting area around Ben Tre reached over 3,000 hectares.

Visitors to Ben Tre city should spare time to visit the garden of green skin pomelo of the Cooperative Agriculture of green skin pomelo in My Thanh An – where the National Office of Intellectual Property (MOST) issued certification of the brand green skin grapefruit since 2005 (No. 160, Hamlet 2, Phu Nhuan commune, at the foot of the bridge, about 3 km from Ben Tre  city. Tel: 0752.487838). This cooperative is on 70 hectares of pomelo tree giving fruit, a member of GAP (good production and consumption of products, safety).