Arrive in Chau Doc, visit the colorful raft village at the confluence of rivers

(SGTT) – When coming to Chau Doc city, An Giang province, crossing the Con Tien bridge, visitors can easily see floating houses and fish rafts following each other for a few kilometers, forming a raft village on a unique river. unique.

(SGTT) – When coming to Chau Doc city, An Giang province, crossing the Con Tien bridge, visitors can easily see floating houses and fish rafts following each other for a few kilometers, forming a raft village on a unique river. unique.

The beauty of Chau Doc raft village. Photo: Dong Giang

In addition to the familiar name "Chau Doc raft village", this place is also known as "Raft village at the confluence of rivers". Visitors can see this rafting village when crossing Con Tien bridge.

Recently, An Giang province has just approved the policy of implementing the project of colorful raft villages at the confluence of Chau Doc River to serve tourists. According to the plan, the raft village will have about 160 rafts painted in 6 colors red, yellow, orange, green, blue and purple. When completed, the project will promote the value of tourist attractions: Ba Chua Temple of Sam Mountain - Chau Doc market - Chau Doc raft village - Da Phuoc Cham village - Cham village Chau Phong, creating favorable conditions for villagers Friends have a lot of income through accompanying services.

Visitors can see this rafting village when crossing Con Tien bridge. Photo: Dong Giang

Here, there are many traditional fish farming rafts in An Giang, especially basa fish. In addition to developing traditional fish farming, in recent years, Chau Doc rafting village has also promoted tourism development, attracting many domestic and foreign tourists to visit and experience. When the project is completed, it will create a unique and impressive landscape in the Mekong Delta.

With the terrain at the confluence of rivers, when standing on the Con Tien bridge looking down, visitors will see the interwoven colors connecting, creating a colorful scene on the river. When coming to Chau Doc, visitors can rent a boat to go to the rafting village. Here, tourists can mingle with the small houses floating on the river, eat together, stay together, live together with the people.

When coming to Chau Doc, visitors can rent a boat to go to the rafting village. Photo: Dong Giang

Visitors will experience the feeling of feeding fish in the raft village, witnessing and unloading the "12 prison gates" (name of a fishing device) with many typical aquatic products such as freshwater dolphins, wild fish. … The journey to discover Chau Doc raft village will be more interesting if visitors enjoy the delicious basa fish sauce hot pot, served with typical purple water hyacinth flowers in the Southwest region.

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Update day : 26/07/2023