Sweetness Coconut candy in the Delta Mekong
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
“Coconut candy, Sir, very sweet. Only 100.000 Dong for six.”
With attractive appearance, a woman who called Dung was successful in attracting the interest of tourists from Indonesia to buy a coconut candy he was selling.
“A pack costs 20,000 Dong (approximately USD 10,500). But if bought for 100,000 Dong to a six-pack,” said the woman with the English language fairly well, though slightly slurred.
No wonder he named Dung. In Vietnamese, Dung has described the beautiful and look good.
Coconut sweets with different flavors – chocolate, cheese, durian, and nuts – is one of the mainstay for the people of the Mekong River Delta region in Vietnam. To the tourists, they also offer products of nature, such as tropical fruits and honey.
Thanks to funding from the United Nations and the donor countries, the Vietnamese government managed to raise standard of living in the Mekong Delta region, which lies at the southern tip of the country.
“People in the Mekong Delta and the islands around it are now not simply rely on their livelihood from fishing. They can take advantage of natural resources and their territory to be a tourist attraction,” said Hung Tran, a guide to the share purchase VIVAnews six coconut candy packs sold Dung.
In recent years, many travel agents in Vietnam are now offering travel packages to the Mekong Delta, which takes about two hours from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).
The fishermen in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, offering boat tours (Renne Kawilarang)
“The main attractions offered in the Mekong Delta is a boat cruise with a medium-size to a number of islands in the middle of the river,” said Hung. In addition, the tourists on the island of Unicorn didrop to feel the fun of rowing a small boat with a down time which empties into the Mekong River. The boats were operated by the fishermen and their families.
On the islands around the Mekong Delta, tourists can also enjoy fresh coconut milk and sweet honey of the bees collected. The tourists can enjoy the tropical fruits such as longan, rambutan and dragon fruit. Not only that, “Come, feel too sweet coconut candy sold this woman,” says Hung.
War Tour
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
In addition to selling the beautiful natural scenery, the Vietnamese government offers to the tourist attractions of war. Two main object is the Cu Chi Tunnels in Cu Chi Province, which is about 60 km north of Ho Chi Minh City, and the War Remnant Museum in the city.
Cu Chi Tunnels are one of the destinations visited by many people want to see evidence of persistence of the communist Vietnamese against foreign troops, especially during the French, during the independence war and U.S. troops invaded the country.
Entering the Cu Chi Province, which was a peaceful village atmosphere and shade. Unlike true with the atmosphere of Ho Chi Minh City is busy and frenetic. Invisible traces showing this area as the battleground of the most all-out bombardment of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Unlike Ho Chi Minh City, there are not many old buildings visible on either side of the road. The houses are still relatively young age. Similarly, the existing plant. Not looking trees with large diameter as in other areas.
According to Phi, our tour leader who refused to mention his full name, this area at the height of the ground war by incessant bombing. In fact, the trees are all gone either due merangas bombed, napalm or die due to flushing agent orange so poisonous and deadly.
But the story in the Cu Chi tunnels are not initiated during the Vietnam War. The tunnel had been built by local people as a form of resistance against French colonialism. At that, the colonial develop rubber plantations in the region. For workers, the managers of the garden wearing men from villages around to work camps. This is what ultimately generate resistance and hatred of the Vietnamese people against the French. Finally, while doing resistance, residents build tunnels near their homes to hide when the French soldiers came to search for the men. This underground tunnel that led to French colonialism ended.
