Can Tho is famous as a beautiful tourist city in the Mekong River Delta. However, if you do not know anything about Can Tho City but have come here to visit, visitors will be able to experience all the wonderful and interesting things when visiting the attractive tourist areas in Can Tho. To help visitors know more about Can Tho City, this article will share the travel tips to visit Can Tho.
1. What is interesting to travel to Can Tho?
Coming to Can Tho tourism, the first thing visitors should do is explore beautiful tourist destinations in Can Tho such as Can Tho Bridge, Ninh Kieu wharf, Can Tho night market, Cai Rang floating market, or Truc Vien Zen Monastery Lam Phuong Nam … Each location has its own beauty, modernity, ancient beauty, dreaminess and tranquility … which makes visitors extremely excited and curious to set foot on the discovery. Besides the famous tourist destinations, Can Tho is also a land of extremely attractive Mekong River cuisine. The famous Mekong River Delta dishes that every tourist wants to enjoy whenever they come to Can Tho City are: bun mam, noodles, crab vermicelli, banh xeo, banh man, etc. If talking about the most interesting experience in Can Tho that visitors should not miss, it is the boat trip experience of exploring Ninh Kieu wharf and Cai Rang floating market. On weekend nights, do not forget to go to Ninh Kieu wharf to go for a walk and listen to the sweet and echoing local songs on the Tien River.
2. Free beautiful tourist destinations in Can Tho
Cai Rang floating market It will be extremely unfortunate if visitors set foot in the Mekong River Delta without taking a boat to visit Cai Rang floating market. Among the floating markets in the West, Cai Rang floating market is considered by many tourists to be the floating market with the largest scale of trading on boats. Arriving at Cai Rang floating market at 5 am, visitors will be able to see the scenery of hundreds of boats, boats carrying a lot of fruits, vegetables, Mekong River specialties … to the market to trade, exchange goods. There is no charge to visit the market but visitors will have to rent a boat to the market from Ninh Kieu wharf. The rent for each boat is from 300,000 VND / turn.
3. Where to visit in Can Tho?
Tay Do night market
If you do not know where to go to play in Can Tho in the evening, please visit the Tay Do night market. The market is located just 1km from Ninh Kieu wharf, so many tourists prefer to walk to the night market rather than by car or motorbike. Inside the Tay Do night market, there are many famous specialties such as fish sauce, dried snakehead fish, coconut candy, handicrafts, and so on. During the trip to explore Tay Do night market, visitors do not forget to enjoy delicious snacks such as fruits with yogurt, braised steamed rice, pancakes, savory pancakes and take photos of interesting moments on the trip.
Truc Lam Phuong Nam Zen Monastery
Truc Lam Zen Monastery is an ancient temple with the most beautiful architecture in the West. The temple has a Buddhist architecture from the Ly – Tran dynasties, this architecture focuses on the motifs and patterns, so visitors to the temple will be surprised and admire the masterpieces of pattern, Han and dragon carvings on pillars and on the roofs of the main hall, the Shrine, the reception room … Not only that, Truc Lam Phuong Nam Zen Monastery is also the largest monastery in the Mekong Delta with a total area of 38,000m2.
Ninh Kieu Wharf
Ninh Kieu is one of the irreplaceable symbols of Can Tho City. In the early morning and late evening, there are many tourists coming to Ninh Kieu wharf to go for a walk. On weekend evenings, Ninh Kieu wharf organizes ancient singing activities on the river. Don’t forget to stop by Ninh Kieu wharf in the evening to join this exciting event.
