Vietnam travel destination 17 : Can Tho

Can Tho is a city of Tien Giang Province. It’s located on the North side of the downstream of Tien River. Its North and West borders are Cho Gao Province, Chau Thanh District on the East and the South is Tien River and Ben Tre Province.

Can Tho population is around 215,000 people, divided to 11wards and 04 communes.
Can Tho is right in the connecting way from Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta in both via land and water. It is a gate of Mekong Delta area.
Along with Ben Tre Province, Can Tho was known as one of the green destination.

Can Tho Museum

Can Tho Museum was established in 1976 and has more than 5000 objects and historical relics. With the surface is 2,700m², Can Tho Museum is the biggest Museum in Mekong Delta. It displayed and introduced the history of geography and people in Can Tho, the “ Oc Eo” culture as well as the culture of Viet ( Viet Nam) , Hoa ( China) and Khmer ( Cambodia) .

Floating Markets

Cai Rang floating market position: Cai Rang floating market located in Cai Rang district, Can Tho city, it is about 30 minutes boat ride from the Ninh Kieu wharf.
Features: Cai Rang floating market specialized in agricultural produces dealing which daily happen on river junction, local folk saying that “travel to Can Tho, without visit Cai Rang floating market, is consider unknown about this west land. "Cai Rang market is one of the famous river markets in the Southwest region of Vietnam. The market is center for trading all kind of fruits, agricultural production from surrounding regions. In every morning, hundreds of boats concentrated here for buying and selling goods. What are selling they hang it up on the top of pole, so you do not need to announce as markets on the mainland (actually cannot be classified in the mean time of wave and machine sound constantly and it is difficult to get close to boats side to check what they selling). 

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Due to the demand from the market, here is not only the fruits boats, agricultural products, here is also many other services come along such as: noodles, coffee, popular pub ...
The boat service (usually a small boat) are very skillful row or driving boat, can sneak through very narrow space to provide very thoughtful service.. The unique features of this floating market has left many impressions for foreign visitors, sometimes they shouted excited "o", "a" in a natural interesting way,. Cai Rang regular early meeting, often around 8, 9 pm. The big boats often elect to purchase fruit specialist for the transport to other places, including to Cambodia and China. Small boats are carrying other commodities to provide for daily life local people: oil, salt, sauce, pharmacy, confectionery, staples...

On water region of Mekong delta region of 12 provinces on the southwest; the boat is primarily vehicles of every family, like bicycles, motorcycles of the people in the city. Cai Rang floating market is an attractive destination for all travelers..

Binh Thuy Temple

Binh Thuy Temple is located in Binh Thuy Ward, Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City, 200m from Hau River, 5km from Can Tho City.

Situated in a large area around 4000m², Binh Thuy Temple has its special style. Its architecture is different with other temples in the North.

Bang Lang Sanctuary

Bang Lang Sanctuary is located at Thoi Thuan Commune, Thot Not District, on side of National Highway 91 to Long Xuyen, 45 km from Can Tho City.
It is a large area 2 ha that is the house of around 300,000 birds with more than 20 different gens. For attracting the birds, the owners need to take a good care for the trees, have to plant a new one and even have to raise the fishes, shrimps, crab for more foods.
This is one of interesting sightseeing place in Mekong Delta. There are some others as Phuoc Chung Sanctuary in Kien Giang Province, Tan Long Sanctuary.

 Tay Do night market 

Position: about 1km far from center of Can Tho City on the western region of the Hau River, located in the International Exhibition center complex of Can Tho.
Features: Tay Do Market is a major trading center of the southern provinces as well as the entertainment and tourist attractions. Although Tay Do market has put operation in recent years, But night market of Tay Do is considered as a major tourist cultural features, highlights and attractions in Can Tho attracted not only locals, also many foreign tourists. Tay Do Market was formerly was wholesale market and transition point of many commodities to others region and export. Besides the exchange function of goods, this is also the place which is for other culinary entertainment services ... Because of operation scale and importance to the region, so this market has been a major trading center of the southern provinces. 

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Tay Do night market at present is in harmony with landscape surroundings and it bears typical architect of southern style. Markets are divided very scientific way, clear and succinct, ensuring aesthetic. Entrance road was asphalted spacious. Products at the night market are abundant and diversified to meet the needs of residents and visitors in choosing the products. Besides serving the purpose of purchasing goods, Tay Do night market also has a new entertainment service, modern, such as electronic games, outdoor music stage and other entertainment programs. Coming to Tay Do night market, visitors will have an enjoyable trip. This general picture portrayed the true life of residents living downstream of this famous Mekong River.

The ancient Binh Thuy house in Can Tho

There are attractions in Can Tho, visitors have the opportunity to return to the Mekong Delta should not be overlooked is the ancient home of the Yang family built in 1870 at No. 26/1A Bui Huu Nghia Binh Thuy, Can Tho City.

Old building fifth time 2 this comfortable family Ocean French architecture built nearly 150 years ago, is still relatively intact. Also has an address known as Binh Thuy orchid, by the 5th descendant born in this house is Duong Van Spoken hobby flower, cactus. In the 1960s, he Spoken collected many varieties of rare orchids and began to organize the game spread and combined welcome tourists to visit the old house in the 1980s interest to those who have the opportunity to exchange of experiences to learn and enjoy the hobby flowers and poems. Currently, the 6th descendant Duong Minh Hien and inherit family and keeping house.

Large house 5 for 2 bottles, 22m horizontal, 16m deep, is located on a plot of land with an area of 6.000m2. Front of the bonsai, flower. The right is the orchid, the left corner with cactus Mexico Kim Lang Head about 8 meters high, aged about 40. After the orchard. Ship tiled yard, driveway built four bow stairs. Wander wide with 6 rows 24 shiny black ironwood pillars, about 30 cm in diameter. Connection between column system, brown wooden beams are more sophisticated carvings. When built, to prevent termites and keep the cold house, the owner had spread under the floor with a thick layer of salt grains over 10 cm. System along with the door and airy windows so the sun chang chang in the house very cool.

The house was decorated in typical style of the South. Majestic altar right nave, opened the church is gilded, bed churches, tea cabinet, mahogany booths, couches are conch care. Guests will find here the layout is very harmonious mixed Chinese furniture, the remote fur mosaic style boys French Louis XIV life, pair of nineteenth-century chandeliers, sinks, and four oil lamp placed at the four corners France’s higher than 3 meters. The house is also marked very strange, from the brick flooring, iron fence, crystal chandeliers, wall painting and especially the sink with white porcelain, unique blue flowers placed on the wooden platform … are French.

Is divided into three parts: the front, middle, back. Separation between the front and the middle is a system of three-wheelers and three of the many amenities and deck box is made of wood, meticulously carved by talented Vietnamese artisans with the plan, the familiar conventions in ancient architecture, as well as close to the life of the Vietnamese people in the South: apricot, orchid, chrysanthemum, architecture, lotus, birds parts fortune, bats, birds, shrimp, crab, grapes …

Architecture homes: Western-style layout but most solemn place in the Eastern Church. This suggests that cultural communication East and West in a harmonious manner, selectively expressed keen aesthetic tastes of owners: acquire new but still remains how ethnic, cultural HCO face in this new land increasingly rich and diverse. It has attracted many directors, film studios choose where many famous movies, such as: Horizons where he, HR Policies silt, the poor, it life … especially movies foreign famous: L ‘amant (The love) by French director JJ Annaud.

Binh Thuy ancient house, visitors can also direct talks with the landlord to get more interesting things such as the location of an ancient family meal how (the boy sitting on the right, girls sitting left and the parents sitting in the the door right direction …), Penjing why build large front; sizes rockery stones and water rates the imposition? How blessed countless shows and express the desire of the owner of a ride san peace, happily directing, and remains a good direction (a contingent music paint, money he chess, fishing farming items, targets elaborately cut firewood, his Fisherman fishing …).

The package also contains in it a “hard objects” are stored, maintained through many generations now, as the two sets of tables and chairs came from Yunnan-China, the green marble table still 1.5 m diameter, thicker than 6 cm, the French fur far away Louis XV table marble blue, white chandeliers post, the cup cup Nam tea – wine Ming – a (a Tung Dinh tea, a corpus, cup German Propaganda dating back 572 years ago, 2 the record high of 0.2 feet away Thanh Hoa 1465) …

Their family antiques hobby Binh Thuy Duong land glorious “green province” for a long time and also woven out how to admiring anecdotes. 70s, when just spent 2-3 taels of gold to buy a house between the mall floor was the average payment for a jade green glaze high 1.2 m gold 25 trees. Thrilling than what the landlord to buy African ivory pair up to 2.2m high on Saigon 40 years. Pair this ivory is currently on display at the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City …

This is a valuable architectural works though has gone through two wars is invasive of time, government worship region was fortunate to exist to this day and the next generation, care and treated with care.

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