About Can Tho

Your journey to explore the "Capital of the West" will not be fulfilled without visiting the colorful southern orchards, touring Phong Dien, Cai Rang floating markets in the early morning or looking for old houses covered in moss and unique Khmer pagodas.

Best Time To Visit Can Tho

With its pleasantly warm and mild weather, Can Tho is an all-year-round travel destination. Every season has its own beauty. From June to August, it is the time when fruits are ripe, fresh and sweet. From September to November, the water rises slowly not rushing in the fields. Water lilies and sesbania sesban flowers are in full bloom.

Dry Season
(Dec - Feb)

Pleasant sunshine

Spring at Cai Rang floating market

Yellow apricot blossoms bloom

New year spiritual activities

Dry Season
(Mar - May)

Sunny

Fruit trees in full bloom

Hammock swinging in the breeze

Garden glistening in sunshine

Rainy Season
(Jun - Aug)

It rains a lot

The flood season comes on the river

Fruits ripen on the trellis

Enjoy delicacies during flood season

Always bring a raincoat and umbrella

Rainy Season
(Sep - Nov)

Water floods the fields

Water lily and sesbania in bloom

The flood season is splendid

Countless delicacies

Best time to explore the Southwest

Transport

The distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Can Tho is approximately 170 km. Travelling by bus, taxi or your own vehicles will take you 3 - 4 hours. Daily flights from Hanoi and HCMC to Can Tho are extremely convenient, saving you about 1-2 hours of moving.

Explore Can Tho

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RV Mekong Princess Cruise Upstream 3 days: Saigon - Can Tho
Ho Chi Minh City - Can Tho
Visit a local coconut candy workshop. Visit the fruit orchard. Explore variety of local cultures
From US$ 758.00 /Pax
Mekong Delta with Floating Market - 2 days
Can Tho
The Mekong Delta is a vast territory with several minor rivers, islands, and islets, but what distinguishes it most is its water-based lifestyle: the river is the region's lifeblood and the source of everyone's livelihood. Joining our Mekong Delta tour for 2 days allows you to see what this area is famous for as we cruise through the canals, rivers, floating market and visit a local factory. Time to learn about the native's daily life and interact with them.
From US$ 230.00 /Pax

Edible flowers typical of the floating season in the West

The floating season in the West usually starts around July to October of the Lunar Calendar (August to November of the Solar Calendar) every year. This is a typical natural phenomenon of the Mekong Delta when water flows in from the upper reaches of the Mekong River, flooding low-lying areas, creating a vast river scenery with abundant products. The floating season is also the peak season for tourism in the West. Visitors have the opportunity to experience the life of local people, participate in activities such as boating, fishing, and enjoying specialties. Southwest cuisine is always unique, making people who once enjoy it remember forever. The processing method of Western people is very rustic, simple, not fussy, but mainly relies on fresh ingredients, caught in canals, and picked in the garden. In particular, river cuisine often uses flowers in processing, creating a unique feature of this region. People from other places who come for the first time must be surprised by the colorful flowers that can also be made into fresh dishes. The first thing to mention is the bright and colorful yellow crazy flowers. Crazy cotton often grows wild along canals, ponds or planted along the banks of ditches and open land. Bright yellow flowers, with a slightly bitter taste, often grow wild along canals and canals. Crazy cotton is used to stir-fry eggs, make salads or serve with hot pot dishes, but the most famous is still cooking lingfish soup with the sour taste of tamarind, the sweet and sweet taste of lingfish, and the bitter taste of crazy flowers. Chopsticks are a familiar plant in the West but are still quite unfamiliar to diners from far away. Cotton has two colors, white and purple, delicate wings, usually blooming early in the morning, so people have to take advantage of picking them, otherwise they will wither very quickly. Pick up the stems, calyxes and stamens inside to avoid bitterness. The most popular dish is to compare chopsticks to cook sour soup with snakehead fish, perch, copper shrimp or stir-fried meat, braised dipping sauce. Purple water lilies show off their colors on ponds, lakes and swamps, but the flower stalks are also a very familiar ingredient in Western kitchens. The water lilies are picked and peeled, broken into bite-sized pieces. Water lilies can be processed into many dishes such as: cooking shrimp and sour soup, making salads, mixing vinegar, serving with hot pot, dipping braised fish, full tub salad or simply braised water lilies dipped in fish sauce. The crispy, fresh taste of water lilies goes well with any dish. The lily flower is also used in some dishes in the North but in the Southwest, this flower appears in more dishes. The flowers are white or light purple, have a slight sweetness, and a mild aroma. Thien Ly cotton is often used to stir-fry beef, seafood, chicken intestines, cook shrimp soup, crab, howling fish or make dummy. In particular, Thien Ly cotton cooked with field crab is a popular summer cooling dish. Pumpkin flowers are bright yellow in color, usually blooming in the morning. After picking, the squash is removed from the inner part, washed, then processed such as stir-frying pork, beef, cooking dried shrimp soup, mussels, stuffed with meat. Pumpkin is sweet and cool, not bitter, just boil it and dip it in braised gravy, braised is also delicious. Lotus trees provide many ingredients for Western meals. Lotus seeds can be used to make salads, lotus seeds can be used to cook rice with coconut water, summer detoxifying teas, lotus roots can be used to cook soup, lotus petals can be rolled into spring rolls. Keo Neo is a wild vegetable, has a crispy and sweet taste, at first the taste is a little bitter, but if you get used to it, you will be addicted. Noodles are indispensable such as processing fish sauce hotpot, dipping stock, squeezing salad, stir-frying garlic, cooking sour soup, dipping hot pot or making pickles. Image:  24h A tray of all kinds of flowers such as water lilies, crazy, thien li, chopsticks, rafters, bananas make up the complete and fresh taste of Western fish sauce hotpot. In addition to flowers, some fruits such as eggplant, okra, and bitter melon are also typical of Western cuisine. Besides, the bowl fruit is also another unique specialty only in the Southern rivers. The bowl fruit, also known as the guava cork, has a shiny green skin and clear white flesh, when ripe, turns yellow. The flesh is clear white, with many small seeds, a cool sweet and sour taste, very pleasant, often eaten directly, as a dish and smoothie. This is not only a refreshing fruit but also a precious medicine for respiratory and digestive diseases. Follow the Stars

Food & Drink 16/09/2024

Edible flowers typical of the floating season in the West

Water lilies, thien li, crazy, chopsticks, and pumpkins are flowers that not only show off their colors, but also have a fresh taste, marking the culinary imprint of the river region.

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In any season, the delta treats tourists far and wide with sweet fruits, visitors can pick and enjoy ripe fruits in the garden or bring them back as gifts for relatives and friends.
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Over the past 150 years, the ancient house still retains its unique architecture with extremely meticulously and sophisticatedly sculpted pattern details from the pillars, door arches to the edges of the house, becoming an attractive tourist destination in Can Tho.
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