The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has launched a project on green tourism at the Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the most-visited destinations in the region.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has launched a project on green tourism at the Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the most-visited destinations in the region.
Unlike the market on land, Cai Rang floating market is held on a river with boats floating to buy and sell. Before becoming a tourist destination, this place was a wholesale market specializing in the wholesale of fruits and specialties of the Mekong Delta such as pineapple, mango, durian, star apple...
The outbreak of novel coronavirus has affected the tourism sector in Thailand as the number of Chinese tourists has dropped significantly. At Damnoen Saduak Floating Market in Ratchaburi, merchants have offered their support to the people of Wuhan as they encounter this crisis, while awaiting the return of Chinese tourists.
The British billionaire owner of English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur, Joe Lewis, returned to Can Tho on his luxury Bombardier Global 6000 private jet on June 3, following his first visit to the Mekong Delta city in May in his superyacht Aviva.
Cai Rang Floating Market is a top tourism destination in Can Tho city, where local and foreign tourists go to learn about the colourful life on the river.
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang’s investments in tourism infrastructure are paying off with a rising number of domestic and foreign tourists travelling to the province.
If you have found your way to Mekong delta, you cannot afford to miss floating markets or “Cho Noi". This type of market can be found in most provinces of Mekong delta.
Cai Rang Floating Market is one of the three biggest wholesale markets in Can Tho. The market is on the 185-kilometre Hau River which is part of the Mekong Delta river basin.
Water and rivers in the Southwest region have been deeply imprinted in people’s subconscious. They go into poetry, music and paintings as sacred images.