VIETNAM TOURS: SOUTHERN FLOATING MARKET- THE TOWN’S CHARM ON WATER
SOUTHERN FLOATING MARKET- THE TOWN’S CHARM ON WATER
The Mekong Delta-one of the special trips in Vietnam Tours became famous world wide during what locals call the anti-American War. The Delta is also famous for its Floating Markets. On arriving in the Delta, you can start the motorized boat to visit floating market, experience how people exchanging goods, fruit and many other commodities on their vessels.
Floating market is a feature cuture of Mekong Delta, in Vietnam Tours. Market is on the river, with hundreds boats. Farmers from the region bring their goods, fruits and vegetables mainly, to the markets and sell them to local dealers. These dealers sell the products to shops in the neighboring towns and to wholesale dealers from the big towns.
The general feature of floating market is that every boat has a pole, on which its products are hung upon the pole. That is called “beo”(promotion pole).
There are more than 5 Floating markets in the South, but 3 of them should be put at the top: Cai Be, Phung Hiep and Cai Rang.
Cai Be Floating Market: one of the many well-known floating markets in the western region of southern Vietnam was formed in the Nguyen Dynasty in the 19th century. The Cai Be Floating Market is always busy, bearing all the characteristics of the locals’ life in the western region. All the goods are transported to the market by rafts and boats.
Phung Hiep Floating Market: The biggest floating market in the Mekong Delta-Southern Vietnam Tours is the busy market of Phung Hiep. The market open at 4.00 am and are open till 11.00 am. To visit the floating market, you should stay in the Mekong Delta area, wake up early and take one of the boats first hour in the morning. If you do a one day excursion, the market will be already closed by the time you get here. On a typical day, youmight see coconuts, mangoes, a heap of turtles, a box of snakesor even a pot-bellied pig being paddled from a riverside villageto be haggled over in the floating market.Trading begins as early as 4.00 am, and by sunrise, the waterwaysare clogged with the sampans of marketeers and customers. Vendorsof smaller items hoist a sample of their wares on a bamboo pole.Shoppers come by land and water, and as they stumble from boatto boat, they often interrupt their shopping to enjoy bowlsof noodles prepared, rather alarmingly, on open fires in special‘fast food’ sampans.
Cai Rang Floating Market: it is just 6 km from Can Tho city center, specializes selling fruits and agricultural products of the whole region. Go to Cai Rang floating Market, visit and witnessed the busiest trading with various fruits and unique products of Mekong River. Seasonal fruits, learn living definition of Southern Vietnam people.
On the floating markets you do not only find pe
ople buying and selling goods, you also find floating restaurants, floating bars, floating gas stations, and many other floating shops. Canals are here the easiest and fastest way of transportation.
All year round, up and down on the river, boats are the major means for
people to meet and trade. As an invitation to an appointed place, people regularly bring the produce of their hard work for sharing and exchanging with one another. Gradually, flocks on the river make a living definition of "floating market"(Cho Noi). Visiting this riverside area in Mekong Delta, Vietnam Tours, tourists can experience the floating market space with bold Southweatern culture and atmosphere of exciting trading.
There are a lot of tours In Vietnam Tours from Ho Chi Minh city to Mekong delta with floating markets included in their itineraries. Those who only want to make a day trip from Sai gon to Mekong area can still have many options in Mekong delta day tour-top 3 of Vietnam Tours offered by travel agencies in Vietnam. For a day tour visiting a floating market from Ho Chi Minh city
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