Yacht under Rach Mieu Brige watching the architecture

The guides of Ham Luong Tourist Co. Ltd., Ben Tre Tourism Joint Stock Company, Mien Tay Tourism, South Mekong Tourism, Bao Duyen Tourism and other travel company of Ben tre pick up passengers in HCM city or Tien Giang or Ben Tre.

Along the National Road 60 the coach takes you through Rach Mieu Bridge – A cable-suspension bridge 2.878m long, connecting the two banks of Tien Giang, Ben Tre … Cars land the wharf and boats take you through clusters of Islet such as Long – Lan – Qui – Phung watching, Rach Mieu bridge from the boat, through the formidable localities Rach Gam – Xoai Mut, exloring the raft-fish villages in the river, the vast water coconut forests, visiting coconut candy workshop – Ben Tre specialties and craft producers along the Tien river bank. Boats take you to the garden tourist site to enjoy fruit, honey, amateurish traditional music, visiting the handicrafts from coconut by artisans with unique hands and innovative-impressive designs to put out hundreds of different items from coconut shell and coconut trees ... Tourists will eat lunch at Con Phung restaurant or at the tourist communes along the Tien River in Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province. To rest, visit Dao Dua relie. And continue to explore the small canals worming the way in to the water coconut forest by rowing boat. Then to the carriage station riding to enjoy the journey ashore by the horses running clanging on the village road of Ben Tre.

Vam Ho Bird Sanctuary

Vam Ho at Tan My commune, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre city about 54 km, located on the right bank of the Ba Lai River, an area 68 hectares, is the coastal estuary ecosystems, typical of mangrove forests.

Here, there are 84 species of resident birds such as ibis, heron flies, white storks, night herons, white chest, water-hen, tailorbird, boucal, black drongo, crow, so on … Wild animal black mink, weasels, … reptiles are snakes, pythons, lizards, turtles, … inside the bird sanctuary is a system of interlaced canals so there are many shrimps fish, mainly goby, crab, crayfish … Coming here, tourists go boating down Ba Lai river, watching the vast water coconut forest. When the sun is about to set, it’s time hundreds of thousands of birds storks, from many places to go back to their warm shelter of Vam Ho, a large bird sanctuary, to replace the night herons with the start of taking off for night eating.

Bat Trang Traditionnal Pottery Village

Situated only 15km south west of Hanoi, Bat Trang Traditionnal Pottery Village can be reach either by boat or by road. The number 47 bus from Hanoi to Bat Trang sets out from Long Bien Bridge of Hanoi every 15 minutes and stop outside the ceramic market area of Bat Trang. Bat Trang is a true craft village ans has achieved fame inside and outside Vietnam for over hundred years.

All members of the population are involved in some aspect of the making of marketing of ceramics. The villages do not grow food so this is all brought in. A recent innovation has been to open workshop, where the visitors to Bat Trang village and students can learn the basic skills, of forming a pot on a wheel. Because this has brought many visitors to the village, restaurants and food stalls have also opened.

The history of the ceramic making in Bat Trang can be traced to the fact there is such an abundance of good quality clay, and its close proximity to the Red River and Hanoi. Blue and white ceramics are exported to Asia and beyond.Most of the ceramics are still produced in small family workshops with the skill being passed down from parents to their children.

Visitors to Bat Trang should not leave without going to the market, where an amazing array of ceramics is for sale. Tourists of Bat Trang also should not miss the large communal house and the old Van Chi (Temple of Literature).

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