Ben Tre - An Ideal Destination To Explore Ecological Tourism In Vietnam

Ben Tre Province, which is located at the end of the Cuu Long River, around 85 km far from Ho Chi Minh city, is a green land with coconut trees, fruits gardens, rivers and canals... With its pure ecological environment created by the green of coconut tree lines and large fruits gardens has made Ben Tre a nation’s precious green ecological complex in Southern Vietnam.

A featured land with a plain geography, which is scattered around by sand dunes and adorned by rice fields, fruit plant gardens, and numerous rivers and streams, canals and arroyos. The four Tien Giang river branches, including My Tho, Ba Lai, Ham Luong and Co Chieu rivers, split Ben Tre into 3 islands of Minh, Bao, and An Hoa. All contribute to an ecological system of rivers, canals, arroyos and green trees, facilitating transportation, hydro-electricity, and more importantly, ecological tourism potential.

As a typical tropical climate area with two seasons: rainy season from May till October, and dry season from November till April. The annual average temperature is 26oC-27oC. The average rainfall is 1,250-1,500mm/year. It is the favorable natural conditions that help Ben Tre gain such a pure and green ecological environment.

If see Ben Tre from above, you would feel like it were some heaven's green land. Covering the whole land is the color of green, green, and green trees adorned with pure rivers tortuous in between rows of trees, and the rivers at here, they look like huge tortuous gentle snakes, which probably stimulates your curiosity.

Besides so many rivers and canals, Ben Tre province is favored by nature in term of a plentiful fauna-flora system and the green tropical fruits gardens all year( hick towns). All these excellent natural elements lead to a fresh-aired environment of large green coconut & fruits gardens, and an ecological system, enchanting a huge number of tourists, especially foreign ones.

The extremely tasty tropical fruits and local delicacies are desired by all visitors. Tropical fruits are available at all fruits gardens during the year, for instance, sweet mango, custard-apple, mangosteen, durian, longan, rambuton, and other kinds of fruits with segments. You can also easily find typical southern specialties here, for example for example, salted fish (small fish paste or salted shredded meat, field fish, etc.), sour-tasted soup (such as fish soup cooked with carambola, tamarine, and fresh herbs like peppermint, beansprouts, banana flowers), bitter-tasted soup (such as bitter-melon and centella soup), braised fish (such as anabas, ball fish, “kèo” fish, “lóc” fish, and so on), kinds of shrimp, crabs, eel, frog, and so forth.

Particularly, Ben Tre boasts a unique specialty, coconut products which are available at coconut gardens. Examples are coconut candies, coconut oil, coconut quintessence, etc, from which about 50 dishes can be made. Besides ecological tours, Ben Tre province is also famous destination for the religion and the festivals for the visitors are interested it.

Should you have a chance to trip around, tasting those specialties in The Mekong Delta, I can assure that you will never forget such a marvelous feeling! Surely, when discover in this land, you will have an opportunity to write yourself a happy story on this trip.

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