Yacht under Rach Mieu Brige watching the architecture

The guides of Ham Luong Tourist Co. Ltd., Ben Tre Tourism Joint Stock Company, Mien Tay Tourism, South Mekong Tourism, Bao Duyen Tourism and other travel company of Ben tre pick up passengers in HCM city or Tien Giang or Ben Tre.

Along the National Road 60 the coach takes you through Rach Mieu Bridge – A cable-suspension bridge 2.878m long, connecting the two banks of Tien Giang, Ben Tre … Cars land the wharf and boats take you through clusters of Islet such as Long – Lan – Qui – Phung watching, Rach Mieu bridge from the boat, through the formidable localities Rach Gam – Xoai Mut, exloring the raft-fish villages in the river, the vast water coconut forests, visiting coconut candy workshop – Ben Tre specialties and craft producers along the Tien river bank. Boats take you to the garden tourist site to enjoy fruit, honey, amateurish traditional music, visiting the handicrafts from coconut by artisans with unique hands and innovative-impressive designs to put out hundreds of different items from coconut shell and coconut trees ... Tourists will eat lunch at Con Phung restaurant or at the tourist communes along the Tien River in Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province. To rest, visit Dao Dua relie. And continue to explore the small canals worming the way in to the water coconut forest by rowing boat. Then to the carriage station riding to enjoy the journey ashore by the horses running clanging on the village road of Ben Tre.

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Vam Ho Bird Sanctuary

Vam Ho at Tan My commune, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre city about 54 km, located on the right bank of the Ba Lai River, an area 68 hectares, is the coastal estuary ecosystems, typical of mangrove forests.

Here, there are 84 species of resident birds such as ibis, heron flies, white storks, night herons, white chest, water-hen, tailorbird, boucal, black drongo, crow, so on … Wild animal black mink, weasels, … reptiles are snakes, pythons, lizards, turtles, … inside the bird sanctuary is a system of interlaced canals so there are many shrimps fish, mainly goby, crab, crayfish … Coming here, tourists go boating down Ba Lai river, watching the vast water coconut forest. When the sun is about to set, it’s time hundreds of thousands of birds storks, from many places to go back to their warm shelter of Vam Ho, a large bird sanctuary, to replace the night herons with the start of taking off for night eating.

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Water River Cruising – Garden Area Ben Tre City Coastal Region

Ben Tre, a land famous for vast green coconut forest still remains two popular song.

“Ben Tre with freshwater and much of coconut

The fields and gardens are fertile, the sea is an excess of fish and shrimp”

From Ho Chi Minh City along the high speed Highway to Ben Tre. It only takes about 1 hour 30 minutes.

Ben Tre city is a young, romantic and peaceful city … Coming to Ben Tre, you will visit the city to gaze at the historic cultural architectural monuments such as: “Dong Khoi Monument”, “Tran Van On Monument”, Ben Tre Museum, “Victory Monument in the river”, An Hoi common house architecture, Phu Tu common house and Bach Mai secular trees over 300 years old, Vien Giac, Vien Minh Pagoda, Cao Dai see and Nguyen Ngoc Tuong original, Ben Tre Church, watching Truc Giang Lake, Hung Vuong street on the edge of the Ben Tre river … Especially to discovery, experience river water – the garden areas of Ben Tre city belong to My Thanh An, Nhon Thanh, Phu Nhuan villages …

Dong Khoi Monument

Ben Tre Church

Departure from Hung Vuong tourist pier by the Ben Tre River side, the sightseeing boat calls at the brick kilns located along the Ben Tre River, visiting the base of coconut to see peeling coconut, breaking coconut for water, coconut meat, … Enjoying coconut jam, banana candy; coconut candy, coconut wine … walking on the coconut bridge, visiting the mat craft village, journeying with the bikes or sitting on the motor-carf looking at country road scenery, orchards, or going boating, rowing along the small canal.

Enjoying Siamese coconut milk picked in the garden as well as garden fruits like, grape fruit of green skin, longan, An Phuoc plum, rambutan and small banana; Drinking honey tea, listening to music and exchanging amateurish folk song.

Lunch right in the garden with the dishes like: shaggily fried Spadefish with rice-paper cake rolling with fragrant herbs, spring rolls, free-range chicken soup with banana flower salad, coconut milk boiled shrimp, plain rice with fish sour soup, belly-fish. Coconut fried tiny shrimp, tilapia, snake headed fish. Mudfish cooked in the bowl. Coconut sprout salad and other attractive dishes. Tourist can register at Hai Ho homestay green Siamese coconut – Phu Nhuan commune.

At the end of the trip, saying goodbye to natural scenic waterways at the garden area – Seeing you back to explore something more excellent in the green trees, sweet fruit area.

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Female General Nguyen Thi Dinh memorial

Female General Nguyen Thi Dinh was born on 03/15/1920 in Luong Hoa Commune, Giong Trom District, Ben Tre Province in a peasant family rich in tradition of patriotism. As early as childhood, Ms. Ba Dinh enlightened the patriotism, loved the people, hated the French invasion. At 16, she began participating in revolutionary activities, two years later (1938) she was standing in the ranks of the Communist Party of Indochina … In 1940, she was arrested by the French and held isolatedly in Ba Ra prison (Song Be – Binh Duong Province). Years’ imprisonment was the time she worked more resiliently. In 1943, she was released from prison and come back to Ben Tre to keep in touch with the communist Party organizations, the revolutionary organization of province. She participated in taking power in August/1945. Female General Nguyen Thi Dinh was selected as a captain by provincial party committee, to command the legendary ship without number crossing the sea to North, met Uncle Ho and asked for more weapons to southern battlefields.

During the Vietnam War against American, she was coming forward to provincial people, making the movement of resounding Rise up (17/01/1960), creating a historical turning point for the southern revolution. In 1974, she earned the rank of major general. Right after the southern liberation, she held various important positions in the Party and the state, led the people to build and develop the country in a new period. She was awarded the title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. She died in 1992.

Female General Nguyen Thi Dinh memorial was built at her homeland in Phong Dien Hamlet, Luong Hoa Commune, Giong Trom district. Far from Ben Tre City about 8.5 km on Provincial Road 885 East. This is one of the cultural and historical education monument contributing to the patriotic tradition of the people of Ben Tre. Every year, on 28/7 (Lunar Year) her death anniversary is formally held here to commemorate the merits of an outstanding leader of the Party, the state, a female general of  Tel: 075.3862214.

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Ben Tre Museum

Ben Tre Province Museum at 146 Hung Vuong Street, Ward 3, Ben Tre city, built by French colonial architecture (Architecture classique), was over 100 years ago. This is a rare ancient house remaining on the land of Ben Tre.

Ben Tre Province Museum was established in 1981, in an area of 14,000 m2, the exhibition area of 474 m2 with rich images and artifacts through two wars to defend the country of Ben Tre People and army. The ground floor consists of three rooms: Relics in Ben Tre were recognized as national monuments by the Ministry of Culture and Information, famous celebrities on the earth of Ben Tre; revolutionary youth organization of Vietnam in comrades association; and the first Branch of Party in Ben Tre was born; activities of the Provincial Party Committee, the resistance forces and the people in the period 1954 - 1960 … the floor consists of three rooms: the Dong Khoi in 1960 and 1964; military and people struggle in the south and Ben Tre Province form 1964 to 1968; Ben Tre people and army insurgency during the Tet (New Year) in 1968 to complete victory in the spring of 1975. There is exhibition gallery on economic achievements, social culture, the country’s defence of Ben Tre which come from the ruins of war.

Tel: 075.3822735

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The artistic and cultural works

* Nguyen Thi Dinh Memorial Park in Luong Hoa village, Giong Trom district, was the place where she was born. She was an elite woman, the first female general, an outstanding leader who devoted all her life to the liberation of the country.

* Hero Phan Van Tri Memorial Temple, located in Thanh Phu Dong village, Giong Trom district, Ben Tre province is 22km far away from Ben Tre city.

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*  Lieutenant General Dong Van Cong Memorial, located in Tan Hao village, Giong Trom district, was the place where he was born. He was an elite man, a hero of resistance against foreign invaders, an outstanding military leader who contributed his life to the liberation of the country, a hero of the armed forces.

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* Tan Ke Shrine located at My Chanh village, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province is 35km far away from Ben Tre city.

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* Military governor Phan Cong Monument

Located in An Hiep village, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province is 38km far away from Ben Tre city. Heaven and earth are yin and yang, man has virtue; man’s duty is first piety and loyalty; general’s morality first has humanity - mind – bravery;

“Up to now, change is common,

In sum, piety and loyalty are the best!”

Military governor and general Phan Ngoc Tong, born in An Binh Duong village, Bao An district, was well-educated, kept on studying, and once taught people in Ben Tre town.

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* Ben Tre Museum is located at 146 Hung Vuong Street, Ward 3, Ben Tre city. The museum was built in the French style in the early twentieth century, once a Palace by reference (French) and Province Chief Palace (the U.S.), with a 2 ha campus. Here they displayed artifacts, traditional historical documents of Ben Tre Revolution. The museum collects and displays historical artifacts and becomes important attractions for tourism of Ben Tre.

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* Dong Khoi Monument, is in Ward 4, Ben Tre city. This is a cultural work which was built and inaugurated on 17/01/1995.

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* Ton Co Tu Society in Quoi Son village, Chau Thanh district is the province's oldest temple, built from the time of Canh Hung (1740) and Monk Long Thien was the abbot. It was built 30 years after the earliest Buddhist temple built in the South.

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* Catholicism appeared in Ben Tre in the middle of the eighteenth century. Cai Bong Church is the oldest in Ben Tre and the largest and most beautiful ones are Ben Tre City Church in Ward 3 and Cai Mon Church in Cho Lach district.

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* Caodaism in Ben Tre includes four sects: the original, Tay Ninh, Tien Thien and Minh Chon Ly. Ben Tre has two holy sees: the Caodai Holy See in Ward 6, Ben Tre city and Tien Thien Holy See in Tien Thuy village, Chau Thanh district. This is the central government of Caodaism and in its great festivals, Caodaism believers from everywhere gather here.

The Caodai Holy See in Ward 6, Ben Tre city

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The national cultural historic relics

(1)* Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s historic grave and monument: The relic is in hamlet 3, An Duc village, Ba Tri district, which is 38km far away from Ben Tre city. Poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu was not born in Ben Tre, but he chose to live here, to open schools to teach, to write and prepare prescription for people and lived with poetry to the end of life. The relic includes a temple, a memorial and a tomb. The tomb contains his grave, his wife La Thi Dien’s grave, and the grave of his daughter, Mrs. Suong Nguyet Anh (the female newspaper editor, "Females in general").

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(2)* Dong Khoi historic relic in Dinh Thuy village, Mo Cay district is the place where the first shot of the Dong Khoi Movement in 1960 was outbroken, uprising in the province and then spread to the South.

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(3)* Tuyen Linh Pagoda, a historic relic in Minh Duc village, Mo Cay Nam district, was built in 1861. Great-grandfather Vice-doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac - President Ho Chi Minh’s father - once lived here, teaching, taking people’s pulse, writing and preparing prescription for people in the region. It was the basis of protecting, caring staff of the revolution against France and America in war years.

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(4)* The North - South end of the bridge to receive weapons, a historic relic: It includes such relics as Khau Bang Mouth of a river, Bung Islet, Loi Islet and Lon Islet. They are ranges of isles adjoining the East Sea in Thanh Phong village, Thanh Phu district. In the past, this place was the precarious harbor of the special shippings to provide weapons from North to South for battlefields in Ben Tre and provinces in Quarter 8. In 1946, at Khau Bang Mouth of a river, a small boat sailed for the first time, crossing the sea to the North to report to Uncle Ho, the Party Central Committee and asked the Committee to supply weapons, headed by Ms. Nguyen Thi Dinh. Now this place is deploying the investment for Cemetery Park project, Ho Chi Minh Street in the sea, with a total investment of the project is 1,500 USD billion, and this is the attractive place for a visit to the coast when the project is completed.

(5)* Y4 Revolution Base historic relic: The relic is located in 2 villages Tan Phu Tay and Thanh An, Mo Cay Bac district. It is a revolutionary base of the Saigon - Gia Dinh District Commission from 7/1969 to 10/1970 and from here, guidance for big battles on the enemy's head office in Saigon - Gia Dinh. The relic is being invested into restoration to become tourist attractions.

(6)* Great-grandfather Nguyen Van Cung's house historic relic and Cay da doi T-junction. This is the place of the establishment of the first Communist Party Branch in Ben Tre. At the end of 4/1930, the first communist party in the province of Ben Tre was established at Mr. Nguyen Van Cung’s house, comprising 10 members.

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(7)* Military leader Nguyen Ngoc Thang temple and tomb historic relic: The relic is in My Thanh village, Giong Trom district. He served as a military leader in the army under the reign of Thieu Tri in 1848. On 27/6/1866 he was shot, killed in a fierce battle with the French. Emperor Tu Duc ordained him with clothes and a sword. Since 1984, local people have taken his ancestral tablet into the communal house in My Thanh village to worship as a god who devoted to the fight against invaders.

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(8)* Mr. Nguyen Van Trac’s house historic relic: This is the place where Mr. Le Duan worked from 11/1955 until 3/1956 in Hung Le village, Giong Trom district to direct the revolutionary movement in the South.

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(9)* The massacre monument in Cau Hoa, Phong Nam village, Giong Trom district: On 10/01/1947, two legion platoons commanded by Leon Leroy, a hybrid lieutenant commander, mopped it up because he suspected that Viet Minh was staying at Cau Hoa hamlet. After failing to find Viet Minh, they turned the fire on innocent people, killing 286 people, mostly women, children and old people, burned more than 100 houses. This is the biggest and most brutal massacre in Ben Tre during the war against France.

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(10)* Great-grandfather Vo Truong Toan’s tomb historic relic: Vo Truong Toan was from Binh Duong, Gia Dinh province. He was a smart learned man. He died on 27/07/1792. After three southeastern provinces fell to French invaders, some intellectuals in Gia Dinh did not want their beloved teacher left the bones in the place occupied by invaders, so they relocated his remains to Bao Thanh village, Ba Tri district.

(11)* Phu Le communal house is in Phu Khuong hamlet, Phu Le village, Ba Tri district. The house is 40 km far away from Ben Tre city, 4km far away from Ba Tri town. It was built in the 7th year of Minh Mang (1826). It is the largest and most beautiful among coastal villages of Ben Tre.

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(12)* Binh Hoa communal house is in Binh Hoa village, Giong Trom district. This old house is 200 years old. Decoration inside and outside the home combines elements of royal art and folk religion art. Today there are more than 100 things in nature of sharp delicate wood carving, including horizontal board pictures, pairs of parallel sentences which correspond to each other, etc. are stored.

(13)* Tan Thach communal house is in Tan Thach village, Chau Thanh district. Tan Thach house that has a Chinese-transcribed-Vietnamese name as Thach Ho Dinh was built in the years 1843-1844. The house has a Tam-shaped structure, iron wood pillars, a Chinese-tiled floor, surrounded around by walls. Currently the house still keeps many objects which are very valuable in art and history: 6 decrees (4 by King Thieu Tri and 2 by King Tu Duc), 4 brass bamboo-eyed censers, 7 brass sandalwood censers, candlesticks; glass lamps, etc. Also, inside the house was decorated with the horizontal board pictures, etc. and finely carved, painted and gilded splendorously.

(14)* The ancient monument Huynh Phu (Huong Liem) and tombs: Located in Dai Dien village, Thanh Phu district, Ben Tre province, the house was built in 1884 with an area of 500m2, rectangular style, three-door, two attics of three and two tureens. The house was decorated with skillfully carved patterns sculpted by hand from wood by skilled artists in Central and Northern parts at that time. This is a unique architecture, whose interior that is protected remains almost intact, and Ministry of Culture and Tourism Information recognized it as a national monument on 14/4/2011.

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The natural tourist sites

* Phung Islet has an area of 52 ha in Tan Thach village, Chau Thanh district, which is 12 km far away from the city center. Tourists come here to enjoy the orchards laden with branches, cool climate, clean ecological environment, and visiting the architectural Coconut Religion, village of handicrafts from coconut trees.

Tourists visit Phung Islet

* Quy Islet is in Tan Thạch and Quoi Son villages, Chau Thanh district, with an area of 40 ha;
* Oc Islet is in Hung Phong village, Giong Trom district, with an area of 1284 on the Ham Luong River, which is about 10 km far away from Ben Tre town to the east. Oc Islet is famous for coconut gardens with many varieties of coconut, such as Siamese coconut, pineapple coconut, strawberry coconut, etc. mixed with orchards. The people are friendly and live peaceful. Visitors coming here seem to be away from the noisy world, mix in the cool fresh air of the water areas;           
* Noi Islet is in Thanh Tan village, Mo Cay Bac district, with an area of 30 ha which Thu Thiem Company is investing and exploiting;
* Phu Binh Islet is in Vinh Binh village, Cho Lach district, with an area of 35.9 ha. The Cuu Long Investment and Construction Corporation Branch built ecotourism spots of fruit tree areas and bonsais well known throughout the nation;
* Phu Da Islet (in Cho Lach district), a rice snail conservation area, is the place to exploit rice snails. Visitors coming here will enjoy rice snails, oyster pancakes, fruit, etc.

 * Forever green Resort of Ben Tre is the ideal resting place of the river delta, promoting the advantages of ecotourism, with a distinctive and unique aspect built by foreign architects; one of the major works by the Lo Hoi Trade Ltd Company belonging to Lien Hoa Group located in Phu Tuc village, Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province as an investor. It has a total area of the project of 21ha with total project investment capital of $50 million.
Forever green Resort consists of:

• 5-star hotel for tourists in and out of the country;
• The superior resort has 60 4-star rooms, 10 Japanese-style rooms to serve such services as massage, makeup, skin care, fitness, etc. In addition, it has a swimming pool, a garden cafe, Vietnamese traditional amateur music, a 250-seat restaurant serving Vietnam and Asian traditional dishes, children play grounds, flower gardens, ornamental gardens, etc.
• A sightseeing zone, a mini-Disneyland, superior family houses along Tien River including 250 5-star Japanese-style independent houses, which serves boating, fishing and the game Jet skis in the river, etc.

* The eco-tourism beauty spot of Vam Ho in Tan My village, Ba Tri district, which is about 25 km far away from Ben Tre city, located in Vam Ho Bird Garden conservation area of 67 ha, is the unique ecosystem of coastal estuaries, represents salty forests under water. With natural conditions and suitable environment, thousands of birds, storks, many valuable types of wildlife and aquatic organisms gather and live naturally there.

Vam Ho Bird Garden (photo collection)

* The 8-village tourist region along the river of Chau Thanh district with the hick tourism destination serve tourists with such things as eating fruit, listening to amateur music, watching fireflies at night, riding horses, paddling canoes, visiting the water rice farm model, the cocoa plantation model, producing coconut candies, cooking wine, keeping bees, manufacturing hand embroidery, artful handmade goods made from materials of coconut trees, etc. In particular, visitors are immersed in the lives of people here and always welcomed with enthusiasm, friendliness and hospitality.

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Riding a horse on the country road

* Thua Duc beach in Dinh Trung hamlet, Thua Duc village, Binh Dai province with an area of 6.3 ha is a coastal resort, a place for eating seafood.

Thua Duc beach (photo collection)

* Thoi Thuan beach in Thoi Thuan village, Binh Dai district is expected to develop superior marine tourism, seafood cuisine, senior recreation, visiting the salt-overflooded forests.
* Ho Islet tourist area in Thuy An village, Ba Tri district, with more than 200 ha is urging investors to build beach resorts.

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