Can Tho Travel Guide

28Nov 2022

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Can Tho is a unique city in the Mekong Delta, along with other provinces it’s famous for its rice harvest output of 1000 tons/year. Located in the middle – downstream and central of the Mekong Delta, on the South bank of Hau river, Can Tho is known as a buzzing town with a lively waterfront lined sculpted gardens, a beautiful combination of narrow backstreets and wide avenues, and perhaps the biggest gathering of foreigners in the delta.

The best time to visit Can Tho

Can Tho is typical of a tropical climate with 2 seasons: the dry season from December to April and the wet season from May to November. With an average temperature of 28°C, the weather is warm and humid during the year. The city has a unique beauty in every season, thus visitors can travel to Can Tho at any time during the year.

The season of fruit ripening: Fruit is mostly ripe from June to August. If you travel to Can Tho during this time, you will have an opportunity to enjoy many kinds of ripe fruits right in the garden.
The season of flooding water: The flooding season is from September to November. Water floods the rice paddy fields and weaves through canals and rivers, drawing beautiful scenery. This is also the best time to visit Can Tho and the Southwest of Vietnam.
The season of flowers: The period from December to January marks the coming of the Lunar New Year. Hence, Can Tho is overwhelmed with many brilliant colors of flowers during this time.

What to See in Can Tho

Cai Rang Floating Market

The market is the main biggest wholesale floating market near Can Tho where hundreds of boats carrying much of goods exchange throughout the area every day. The boats are laden with fresh fruit and vegetables. A variety of colors come from fruit, vegetables, traders, and tourists creating a large stunning painting across the green murky waters. To join in the market, tourists should go there early in the morning (as early as 5:30 am), and come back through the small tributaries to Can Tho river for about 3-4 hours.

Can Tho Fruit Garden Tour

Visiting some orchards when traveling to Vietnam, tourists not only have a chance of contemplating a rich collection of fruit trees, flowers, and diverse species of birds, fishes, etc. but also are allowed to try these local specialties. In recent years, more and more modern tourism gardens have appeared on every land and water route such as My Khanh Ecotourism, Garden of Mr. Duong, Bich Thuy orchid garden, garden arches on the rivers Phong Dien river, Phung Hiep river and many other family tours in O Mon and Thot Not.

Bang Lang Stork Sanctuary

Pay a visit to Bang Lang stork sanctuary, tourists stand a golden chance to discover one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the Mekong Delta with thousands of storks returning home in the late afternoon after a hard whole day seeking food from other places.

Located in the Thot Not district, there are more than 300,000 storks of nearly 20 varieties residing in the sanctuary. You can watch the storks from a distance or from a bird’s eye view because they are sensitive to strangers.

Tay Do Night Market

Going 1km from the center of Can Tho City to the west of Hau River, tourists will see Tay Do Market, which is not only the trading place of Southern provinces but also the cultural tourist destination features, highlights, and attractions in Can Tho.

The architecture of the market carries the distinct special feature of Southern style and harmonizes with the landscape around. There are a lot of booths inside the market with spacious cemented paths in the middle making an airy and artistic space. Tourists can have a variety of buying choices when coming here.