Young people are excited by the beautiful pink grass season in Thieng Lieng island hamlet

(Today) - Not Da Lat or Gia Lai, the ripe pink grass on the most beautiful sunset viewing route in Thieng Lieng island, only a few tens of kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, is the check-in point causing a fever in the world. children this fall.

(Today) - Not Da Lat or Gia Lai, the ripe pink grass on the most beautiful sunset viewing route in Thieng Lieng island, only a few tens of kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, is the check-in point causing a fever in the world. children this fall.

Patches of pink grass next to salt fields are waiting for the monsoon season.

Thieng Lieng is a small, wild and rustic island hamlet located about 7km from the center of Thanh An commune, accessible by waterway. Wild, peaceful scenery, typical of the Can Gio mangrove ecosystem, rustic, sincere, and hospitable indigenous people, Thieng Lieng is a favorite trekking tourist destination for backpackers. nature and photography.

Mr. Tuan Duy, a frequent visitor to the island, said that Thieng Lieng is beautiful in every season, everywhere there are super quality frames, but there are two seasons that attract photographers the most, which are the salt season and the pink grass season. .

Salt and rose grass in Thieng Lieng is a peaceful scene that attracts tourists.

The salt making profession in Thieng Lieng originated from salt farmers who reclaimed and opened the land. More than 40 years ago, on their way to find a place to "anchor", they discovered a deserted strip of land and stayed there to live and named the hamlet Thieng Lieng. These salty salt grains have always been the source of life for people in remote and remote island hamlets.

Thieng Lieng is currently one of the rare regions that still preserves the region's traditional salt making methods such as using rollers, wooden water paddles and hand-cranking. The salt making season here usually starts from the monsoon season (around the 10th lunar month) and lasts until April of the following year.

Coming to Thieng Lieng during the salt season, you will not only be able to see the traditional salt making method of the salt farmers but also have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a rare peaceful scene, above is blue sky and white clouds and on the ground is Endless white salt fields, like tropical snow.

The road around the hamlet is filled with pink grass in late autumn.

It is now November, the first weeks of this year's salt crop. In the salt fields, a few salt farmers go to clear the ground, prepare to roll and reel, waiting for the wind to return.

Before the monsoon season, is the pink grass season. The entire Thieng Lieng island hamlet has only one 4 km long oval road winding around salt fields, rivers and mangrove forests. On both sides of the road are patches of ripe pink grass, glowing under the sun, dawn, night dew and late sunset.

There is pink before sunset on the sea surrounding Thieng Lieng.

The pink grass in Thieng Lieng is the same species as the pink grass hills in Da Lat and Gia Lai, but because it is close to the sea, it is healthier, taller than the grass in the Central Highlands and the color is also very beautiful.

Along with the clear blue sky, the pink grass is a beautiful scene that makes visitors unable to stop, linger and remember forever.

The pink grass road on the island's most beautiful sunset viewing route.

Ms. Muoi, the owner of a small homestay on the island, said that tourists not only enjoy watching and checking in with the pink grass season, but also love it when her homestay brings pink grass to plant to beautify the homestay's space. This simple woman, from this year's pink grass season, began to know how to arrange beautiful pink grass, adorned with tiny white wildflowers or pale purple flowers.

Ms. Muoi's homestay is in a chain of 16 services participating in the community tourism project on Thieng Lieng island hamlet - the first true community tourism product of Ho Chi Minh City. All food and drinks on the tour are made, cooked, and processed by local people themselves using handmade methods and ingredients available in the garden. These include dishes such as ginseng, banh loc, aloe vera juice, or coastal cuisine such as red goby fish and oysters.

Homestay of Ms. Muoi's family, one of 16 households participating in the Thieng Lieng island community tourism project.

Tourism services on the island are coordinated by Thieng Lieng Agricultural and Commercial Tourism Services Cooperative. Ms. Nguyen Thi Bach Tuyet, Director of the Cooperative said: At first, many households were shy or did not know how to provide services. However, after only a short time, thanks to careful training and mutual support, 16 households gradually got used to tourism and developed many more interesting activities. Every month, households participating in community tourism in the island hamlet sit together, frankly discuss what is possible and what is limited, and give suggestions to jointly develop the model. Community tourism helped Thieng Lieng attract more than 2,000 visitors in just a few months, bringing in more than 400 million VND in revenue.

Tourists enjoy the super romantic pink grass scene on the island.

In late autumn, Thieng Lieng island hamlet is dreamily beautiful in the pink of the grass, the yellow of the Hoang Yen cassia flower, and the green of the nipa palm leaves. On the way to see the most beautiful sunset on the island, the lighthouse closest to the shore in Vietnam and the salt barns preparing for the season, you will feel peace in every clear breeze...

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Update day : 16/11/2023