Visit Con Son Can Tho

After stressful and tiring working days, you want to relax and take a trip to the West to have a new experience of Western life, Con Son Can Tho is an ideal destination for you. The unspoiled beauty of Son islet is likened to a jewel in the middle of the city and with the type of community tourism, Son islet has created a new identity for the tourism industry of Can Tho. Favored by nature with luxuriant fruit trees, abundant fish and shrimp, here visitors can mingle with nature, learn about the simple life of the people of the South.

Con Son is a floating land in the middle of Hau River, also known as isle. Con Son is located in Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City. According to the French map of 1949-1950 saved, Con Son is called “Tra Noc islet”; There is a document called Con Linh because in ancient times, Binh Thuy was plagued by an epidemic, many corpses were washed in the river, buried by people, then many strange phenomena appeared, saying that people Due to the spirit of drowning, it was called Con Linh. During the reign of the 5th King Tu Duc (1852), the mandarin Huynh Man Dat sat on a boat to patrol the Hau River, and just arrived at Con Linh when he encountered a hurricane. The week government asked the elderly who needed shelter, they could only go to the isle with “peaceful canals, no big waves or big winds. Prosperous crops, peaceful people. Tuan government agreed to name this area Binh Thuy, with Con Son islet lying horizontally. According to the seniors on the dune, before 1930, this island, formerly known as Con Linh; Later, a lot of gardenia trees grew. The name Con Son was created for that reason. The trees are harvested from the sap used to paint wooden furniture. The original traditional occupation was harvesting the sap of the gardenia tree and making wood. Gradually, this profession gradually disappeared. People started to switch to growing fruit trees and raising fish.

From the city center. In Can Tho, you go in the direction of National Highway 91. To Co Bac wharf (Binh Thuy ward, Binh Thuy district), then catch a boat to Con Son only takes about 5-10 minutes to arrive or rent a Can Tho boat at Ninh Kieu wharf. Seen from a distance, Con Son looks wild when surrounded by cork trees, four sides are immense rivers.

Con Son has an area of ​​about 70 hectares of fertile land, alluvial deposits all year round, green gardens. In particular, the people of the country are honest, simple, and likable, but they are hospitable and enthusiastic, bringing a closeness and affection that captivates any fastidious visitor when visiting this place.

Not far from the mainland, but Con Son has a completely different space. Visitors seem to have stepped into another world, quiet and fresh with a simple, rustic beauty like the open world.

The most attractive point of Can Tho Con Son tourism is the community-based tourism model that brings a new experience on every discovery journey. Community-based tourism is all households working together to do tourism. People here associate with each other on the basis of village love.

Each household has its own character. Households with orchards are offered for visitors to choose from. Households with fish rafts will bring guests to visit. Households with skills will guide guests to make cakes. Each household has its own job and function. All make up a collective that supports and fully compensates for each other for Con Son tourism to grow and leave good impressions in the hearts of tourists.

From raising fish rafts to supplying restaurants, the people of Con have taken advantage of their own production facilities on the river to turn them into attractions for tourists. Be fish farming village is located at the gateway to Con Son and is currently visited by delegations before officially stepping foot on the dunes. Here, in addition to learning about the care and processing process… visitors can also experience feeding fish. As soon as guests drop a handful of food prepared by the raft owner into the water, hundreds of fish will gather and splash in the water, creating an interesting and beautiful scene.

At Song Khanh garden house, visitors are taught how to “feed rice” to fish.. At Cong Minh garden house, visitors can learn how to explode, visit how to make fish sauce and be directly hosted by the owner… Specialty of Con Son must mention the “jumping snakehead fish” located right in a garden house. In order for the fish to perform, the owner of the garden must form them to respond to the sound, by dividing the food daily, using a percussion per feeding. This activity is repeated many times, causing thousands of fish to throw themselves into the air like “jumping” to grab the bait every time they hear a noise.

Coming to Con Son, visitors will feel like walking in the endless green. The green color from the hyacinth strips, the cork trees along the river; green from the orchards and vegetable gardens of the households. Enjoy moments of great relaxation, breathing in the cool fresh air without noise and dust.

The land on the dunes is alluvial all year round, so it is very fertile, the fruit trees are lush all year round, this place is the land of rambutan, milkweed, Ha Chau strawberry… The season with the most ripe fruit is around March. 4-5 Lunar Calendar. The feeling of enjoying fruit picked by your own hands right in the garden is really great, you will fully feel its delicious, crispy, and fresh flavor. And really regret if you don’t buy some fruits as gifts for relatives or friends because you rarely have the opportunity to buy fruits with excellent quality, safe without chemicals and extremely cheap prices right in the garden.

 

 

When traveling to Can Tho to visit Con Son, visitors also have the opportunity to make famous cakes of the people in the West such as: banh khot, pancakes, grilled sandwiches, printed cakes, etc.

You can participate in every stage from preparing ingredients, kneading dough, manually processing delicious, beautiful cakes with a Southern flavor. After making the cake, guests wait a few minutes to steam, boil and then enjoy. Each tray of cakes brought to customers has all kinds, colors, and is presented beautifully. Western cakes have in common is simple processing, using local ingredients and fragrant coconut milk. You will feel both sweet and salty, depending on the type of cake.

In addition, visitors can also experience the life of farmers through activities: fishing, catching crabs, catching snails, slapping ditches to catch fish… After many hours of diving, covered in mud, the results obtained are fish. The field fish (snakehead fish, tilapia, catfish…) struggled, making many people happy. From this result, visitors can cook with local people on the spot with ingredients available in the garden, into wonderful country dishes such as: grilled fish with straw or banana peel, grilled snails.

Coming to Con Son, do not forget to enjoy local specialties at people’s garden houses. The dishes are made from products right at the alcohol. A special thing is that in the meal, the dishes are because many households voluntarily bring a dish that they cook the best. For example, stir-fried frogs at Chinh Nho’s house; field crab, grilled snakehead fish from Song Khanh garden house; snail hot pot, coconut water pigeon from Nam Cong garden house; Banh xeo, banh khot from Ms. Minh’s house, fish with giant fish from Ms. Nam’s house….

Tourist gardeners will cycle to bring their typical dishes from house to house on the dike under the cool green trees to bring their signature dishes to the tray of rice for you. Just like that, the “community tray” has more and more dishes, colorful, multi-flavored and unforgettable

After the meal, visitors rest in hammocks in the garden, letting their souls drift with the wind and clouds. Swinging and listening to birdsong is also a difficult thing to find in the city.

A special thing here is that you can visit the stork garden, see with your own eyes hundreds of white storks, black storks flying in flocks at the top of Con Son when sunset falls. What could be more wonderful than seeing a peaceful scene and resting time amidst the cool and quiet space of the countryside of Can Tho.

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