The wonderful beauty of the floating water season in Western of Vietnam

Even the lifestyle of western local people, it becomes livelier and busier with many floating markets everywhere. Therefore, it attracts a lot of tourists choosing this kind of tourism in their Vietnam tours. Let's join VN To You Tour to explore with some interesting things about the western floating season!

What is the Floating Water Season in the West of Vietnam?

Water lily

Every year, around August - November , the water from upstream of the Mekong River flows into the Mekong Delta to form a sea of ​​water, especially in the Dong Thap, An Giang, Tu Giac Long Xuyen. This is the time when the green fields in the past were replaced by the immense spectacle of extremely beautiful water waves. The floating water season also brings people in the West a year of a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp.

Not only bring a new vitality to the farmers here, the western floating water season also brings new vitality to the lush lotus, water lily, grass, cajuput forest. Every season of the floating water, the Western looks like a new color, a season of birds flying everywhere to make a nest full of flocks. In other words, this is the time when everything in this land flourished.

Western Specialties In Floating Season

Western Specialties In Floating Season

Depending on the climate each year, the water will come back sooner or later, but the floating season every year brings to the Western many wonderful and delicious specialties: Mud carp fish hotpot with common sesban flower, snakehead fish thick noodle soup, hotpot with macerated fish with water lily, dishes from paddy field rats, grilled snakehead fish, Salted three-striped crab.

What Is Interesting About Western Water Season?

Coming to the Western in the floating season is the right tourist season, when the Western is wearing the most colorful coat. This is also the time when travel companies open many tours to the West with many different forms and schedules. The high-water season coming brings new opportunity for inhabitants living in the region. The water brings a huge amount of fish from the upstream to the region. Plus, it also brings about variety of typical plants and vegetables which can only be found in the high-water season. Before going further to explore the regional cuisine, let’s spend time experiencing the gorgeous nature here:

* Tra Su Cajuput Forest (An Giang)

Tra Su Cajuput Forest is covered by green

To mention about the most typical place to visit in the floating water season, the “green path” in Tra Su Cajuput Forest will be remembered more than the rest. Sitting on the boat controlled by local people to weave in the maze canals of cajuput forest, you will have the opportunity to drop yourself in an eco-friendly surroundings with thousands of cajuput trees straightaway on the two sides. Above the water surface, it is a wide range of water-ferns classified by layers are afloating, which creates a peaceful space occasionally accompanied with loquacious bird-song. If you are lucky, you might see the bird which is not fear of people directly park on a branch of the tree or flowering bush. It is really enjoyable.

Being far from Chau Doc town about 30 kilometers, Tra Su Cajuput Forest in An Giang Province carries the typical beauty of the floating water season in the west of Vietnam. It is a pity if this place is not included in your Vietnam tours.

* Tan Lap Floating Village

Tan Lap Floating Village- view from above

Located in Kien Tuong – Moc Hoa area, about 100 km from Ho Chi Minh City, Tan Lap floating village is an ideal destination for exploring the high-water season in Mekong River Delta.

The village nests the vast cajuput forest bringing out the scenic scenery which can make tourists feel like they are in a fairy forest.

With the two high endless sides and the sunlight needling through the canopies, the forest creates an extremely brilliant sight, it gives you a feeling of gentleness and relaxation when you step on the bridge leading to the forest. Therefore, Tan Lap floating village is a suitable place to “hide” from working stress in the city to enjoy yourself.

Especially, this is an ideal place to take a lot of photos with natural landscapes. It is about preserving your memory of this trip. Also, the experience of crossing the forest by canoe rowing down to Rach Rung and being harmony with the peaceful lives of people here are highly interesting.

* Thap Muoi’s lotus field

Thap Muoi’s lotus field

When choosing one of Mekong Delta tours to visit in the floating water season, you should not miss the opportunity to contemplate the immense lotus fields in Thap Muoi. It is far from Saigon about 130 kilometers to the south. When this season comes, you can see a lot of flooded fields on the roadside to Thap Muoi. After reaching the center of Thap Muoi district, continuing 845 street, you can see several vast lotus fields which are shimmering, sparkling under the sun of autumn in the west. The view of pink lotus mixed with green leaves is a wonderful picture which everyone wants to take. Also, let’s experience your journey on a boat by hiring a rower or rowing by yourself. Then, you row to the middle of lotus fields to contemplate and enjoy the pure beauty of lotus in an integrally way. This is certainly a great experience.

* Tram Chim National Park

Tram Chim National Park

When the floating water season comes, Tram Chim seems to dress up with new colorful cloth and becomes so lovely. No matter when you choose to visit the national park, the breathtaking views here surely induce you to stay for long. When coming here, you will be overwhelmed in the bird sanctuary with plenty of birds flying crowdedly over a corner of the sky. Additionally, visitors also have a chance to see 16 rare species of birds such as Red Sarus Crane, Black Crowned Stork, Black Eagle, or Gray Pelican, etc.

Red Sarus Crane in the national park