Thom market: A glimpse into an authentic rural life

Car will pick you up to Mo Cay Nam, Ben Tre, visiting the Thom Market along the river. It is a traditional market in Mekong, trading local products such as aqua products, fish, fruits, clothes, cakes, etc. Walking here, you can sense the real local market life by hearing people advertising products and bargaining.

After that, continue walking along the river to enter Thom Coconut Market. This special kind of market is for boosting the trading of coconuts along the river. You can witness many processing coconut activities in the workshops, such as making oil, coir, fiber, husk, etc. There’s a whole unique picture and knowledge that you can observe and learn on this tour path.

Besides, you can call on a blacksmith oven workshop to understand more about Ben Tre coconut farming tools.

After about one and a half hours of exploring, hop in your vehicle and head to the Son Phu T-junction.

Get far away from a busy and dusty city; deeply discovering the countryside by hopping on a tuk-tuk through Thuan Dien’s tranquil coconut country. Now the peaceful atmosphere begins to cover and heal you with the clean air and cool breeze along the way.

Then, get on a rowing boat and float on the shady small canal. What’s better than sightseeing on the rowing boat while you can hear the trickling water and the sounds of birds singing?

Tourists will have extremely nice pictures of this scenery on the trip.

(Optional)

Let’s have lunch at the local restaurant by the river. Here, you can have a 4-5 dish meal with many local specialties.

Take a break in a nice area.

The boat continues taking you to the coconut candy workshop. Besides looking at how local candy is made by hand, you can taste some sweets.

Then, you can have some fruits, sip honey tea, and listen to our traditional folk music.