Phong Dien District belongs to Can Tho City, has become a popular tourist destination for cruising on canals, taking rickshaw rides around orchards and enjoying seafood in the Phong Dien Foating Market.
Phong Dien Floating Market is busy from early morning to 8am. Tourists can buy indigenous specialties and enjoy the traditional seafood cuisine of the Mekong Delta, as well as the sweet melodies of cai luong (traditional southern opera) sung by southern girls in traditional costumes. The friendly invitations from sellers and the laughter and excitement of tourists exploring the market create a lively and animated environment.
Phong Dien District has many inter-connecting canals, all banked with green orchid. A rickshaw ride around the orchids gives an insight into the lives of local farmers who are hard at work in the rice fields, kaingin, rice husking factories, ponds and wharfs. Phong Dien is famous for the Lo Ren star apples from Ro Ren Canal, Ha Chau strawberry and jackfruit from Nhon Ai and Nhon Nghia communes in Phong Dien District.
After excursions on the rivers and canals or around the villages and orchards, travellers can stopover at My Khanh Tourist Village. The tourist village has been designed like a miniature panoramic view of the alluvial plain, with fishing ponds, orchards and traditional craft villages.
A cruise on the river in Phong Dien is an unforgetable eco-journey.
