Ben Tre Tourism - New linked products

Travel people said that: "If you go alone, you can go fast, but when you want to go far, you should associate and cooperate with each other - group (G). Therefore, the link to build a specific tourism product in the tourist of the eastern provinces of the Mekong River Delta (Mekong Delta) including: Long An, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh and Dong Thap, have been namely one of the main tasks that leaders of the six Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism has set out in the coordinating goal of linked group.

In the eastern tourist group of the Mekong Delta, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh are two provinces that have linked in the route of the coastal provinces of the East and West. Tra Vinh and Ben Tre have the same Co Chien peaceful river and many tourism potentials that will create unique products, nowhere else. If they are combined together a province, with a lot of tourists exploring and experiencing Coconut Land over the past decade, now cooperates, connects and extends to Tra Vinh province with a rich and unique Khmer culture that creates conditions for both provinces attract and keep tourists staying longer, and be the dominant platform in the group to develop tourism economy in the future.

Floating Coconut Market on Thom river (Photo: Ben Tre Que Toi)

"Waterway - Ecotourism of Coconut Land" wants to mention that Ben Tre province owns 04 large branches of the Mekong River, the green islets and vast coconut and fruit gardens green ornamental plants, traditional craft villages to identity the region. National Special Vestige The tomb and memorial relics of Vietnamese poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu and over 50 national and provincial are introduced to visitors together with kind and hospitable people, have created unique tourism products that few localities have.

Special national relic - Dong Khoi relic

The tourist destinations of Coconut Land have been formed and put into using to serve tourists such as Lan Vuong and Phu An Khang tourist areas in Ben Tre city; Lang Be tourist site and Bao Thach fruit gardens in Chau Thanh district; Culture and Tourism Village is famous for ornamental flowers - seedlings in Cho Lach district; salt - mash and eco-tourism area in Bung islet - Thanh Phu ... have been attracting many tourists. Tour programs of waterway - ecotourism in Coconut Land fascinate visitors on the coconut-lined rivers and village roads, coconut gardens to be interspersed with green grapefruit, fruit trees, craft villages and stayed at comfortable and peaceful homestays. Coming to Ben Tre, visitors also enjoy the coconut culinary culture with the coconut salad with shrimp, coconut rice and coconut fried shrimp which are recognized in 100 Vietnamese specialties. This is a favorable condition for Ben Tre to link and develop with other provinces in the tourist group, especially adjacent provinces of Tien Giang, Vinh Long or Tra Vinh to create new products to attract domestic and foreign tourists to longer in the province.

Tra Vinh is connected to Ben Tre via Co Chien Bridge and considered as one of the provinces with rich potentials for cultural and sea tourism, gardens and waterways and "sap" coconuts specialties especially exploring Khmer ethnic festivals and owning over 140 Khmer temples with unique architecture.

Tra Vinh tourism meets the needs of tourists when visitors experience the routes such as Ao - Om Cultural and Tourism Zone, Khmer Cultural Museum, Ang Pagoda, Hang Pagoda; have sightseeing at the orchards of Tan Quy islet, specialty "sap" coconut Cau Ke district and homestays of rustic and hospitable Khmer ethnic group or Ba Dong Sea, Truc Lam Pagoda, Duyen Hai Thermal Power Plant, Long Khanh Mangrove Forest, etc. In addition, Chim islet community tourism zone at in Chau Thanh district is gradually attracted visitors by local people to protect environment and farm under the model of "shrimp hugging rice plants"

Experience of making flat rice at Tra Vinh

From the rich nature of tourism resources of the two provinces, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Tourism Promotion Information Centers link existing products, tourist destinations with the same guidance and make bridges for the tourist companies of two provinces to build, design tours, specific inter-provincial route 2 days / 1 night, 3 days / 2 nights to attract tourists. This is one of the sightseeing programs that can be adjusted according to the quality of each group of travelers or each tour operator who cooperates to take guests:

Day 1: Picking the visitors up at Ben Tre city, departing for Mo Cay Nam, visiting Dong Khoi traditional House, learning about female military group and Dong Khoi movement in 1960. Enjoying coconut jam, fresh coconut juice, fruits. Rowing on water palm canals. Visiting Tuyet Phung coconut candy mill, experiencing coconut floating market - the place to exchange coconut production and process, coconut fiber on the banks of the Thom river. Overnight at Coco homestay in the coconut garden. For this tourist route, visitors can choose and expand to visit Cho Lach Cultural and Tourist Village (seedlings, ornamental flowers and many tropical fruits); or return to Thanh Phu mangrove forest (Con Bung beach, Ho Chi Minh sen rout relics, ancient house of Huynh Phu, Dai Dien commune ...).

Day 2: Departuring for Tra Vinh along Highway 60, passing Co Chien Bridge. Riding a bicycle or tuktuk around Ba Om Lake, Khmer Culture and Tourism Village Khmer Cultural Museum, Ang Pagoda, seeing traditional dances and music of Khmer people, craft villages (making hats, crowns or swat of glutinous rice). Integrating daily life and enjoying coconut. In addition, visitors can continue to visit the eco-tourism route of Tan Quy islet, coconut gardens in Cau Ke district and homestays with rustic and Khmer hospitable ethnic; or choose to experience ecotourism destination of Chim islet in Hoa Minh commune, Chau Thanh district.

In the similarity of Land and People between the two provinces of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh, the culture, tourist resources have many unique features that many provinces do not have. The link of tourism products of the two provinces has created new products which have been well received and signed by many travel companies. The solidarity and consensus among the four houses: The Government, the Travel Company, the tourist and the people doing tourism will increasingly promote the development of inter-provincial tourist cooperation and help an eastern tourist cluster in the Mekong Delta become an attractive destination for tourists today and tomorrow.

Author: Thanh Son

Translator: Phuong Thy

Source: http://dulich.bentre.gov.vn