48 hours in Ca Mau

In addition to visiting the mangrove forest, visitors to Ca Mau can combine checking in at the southernmost point, exploring cuisine and experiencing local production activities.

Ca Mau is located in the Mekong Delta, about 180 km from Can Tho City and more than 300 km from Ho Chi Minh City. This is the only province in the country that has three sides bordering the sea, with a diverse ecosystem of saltwater, freshwater and brackish water. Ca Mau has the advantage of community tourism with the "specialty" of experiences close to nature and the lives of local people.

Move

Tourists from Ho Chi Minh City can choose to take a bus from Mien Tay Bus Station in the evening and stay overnight to save time. Bus routes to Ca Mau depart continuously. Tourists from the Northern and Central provinces can fly to Can Tho, then travel to Ca Mau City in two ways: via National Highway 1 or Quan Lo Phung Hiep.

There are many bus routes from Can Tho City to Ca Mau, passengers can freely choose the bus company and departure time. If choosing to drive from Can Tho City, it will take 3-5 hours to travel.

48-hour itinerary in Ca Mau as suggested by a local tour guide and experienced by a VnExpress reporter, departing from Ca Mau City.

Day 1

Breakfast in Ca Mau City with spicy banh tam. This is a famous specialty in Ca Mau, available at many restaurants in the center.

At first glance, spicy rice noodles are similar to curry noodles. However, the broth is thicker and the main flavor is spicy, made from meatballs or chicken. The rice noodles are smaller than Hue beef noodles, but larger than regular noodles, and when eaten, they have a rich, chewy taste.

Visit Ca Mau Cape tourist area

About 120 km from Ca Mau City, Mui Ca Mau tourist area is located in Mui hamlet and Con Mui hamlet, Dat Mui commune, Ngoc Hien district; the area is about 780 hectares within the Mui Ca Mau National Park. Visitors can get there by bus or private car.

48 hours in Ca Mau — **Mui Ca Mau tourist area is located within Mui Ca Mau National Park.** Photo: Nguyen Thanh Dung

In addition to the tasks of biodiversity management, conservation, and scientific research, the Park also organizes ecotourism services and supports the livelihoods of local communities. This place was recognized as the Mui Ca Mau World Biosphere Reserve in 2009 and the 2088th Ramsar site in the world in 2012.

The garden has a cultural and tourist park in Ca Mau Cape and a community area. The park area alone is nearly 160 hectares, the highlight is Ca Mau Cape surrounded by the East and West seas, the southernmost land of the country. This is a sacred place that Vietnamese people often wish to visit once.

Here, visitors will visit the national coordinate landmark GPS0001; the symbol of the ship Mui Ca Mau; the breakwater. In addition, in the area there is also the Lac Long Quan temple and the statue of Mother Au Co facing the East Sea, a construction that represents the morality of "remembering the source when drinking water".

The entrance fee to Mui Ca Mau tourist area for adults is 30,000 VND, and for children 15,000 VND. Visitors can travel on the internal routes of the area by electric car, with 6 attractions, the ticket price is 10,000 VND per person per trip.

Near the tourist area, visitors can easily find many local restaurants or restaurants of community tourist attractions. These restaurants are often located on Highway 1 so they are easy to find, and are the address for visitors to stop and enjoy lunch.

Here, visitors can order seafood dishes from the coastal area of Ca Mau.

Afternoon: Visit Ca Mau mangrove forest

From Mui Ca Mau tourist area, visitors can join a tour through the forest, admiring the panoramic view of Dat Mui with endless mangrove and fish sauce patches.

The tour route through the forest of Mui Ca Mau National Park attracts many tourists to experience and explore. In addition to sitting on a canoe or a boat through the mangrove forests to sightsee and check in, visitors can also experience catching clams on the alluvial ground.

The price of the jungle tour ranges from 800,000 VND to about 2.2 million VND per trip, depending on the type of vehicle, number of participants and route length.

Overnight at community tourism site

Dat Mui has many community tourism areas and farmstays that serve well the needs of tourists for sightseeing, experience, dining and accommodation, with overnight prices ranging from 300,000 to one million VND.

Here, visitors can buy souvenirs and food services with clear origin and guaranteed quality, most of the ingredients are provided by local people. Visitors should not forget to enjoy the typical products of Dat Mui such as coconut-fried snails, tamarind-fried three-sided crab, grilled blood cockles, mantis shrimp, grilled mussels with salt, pepper and lemon, grilled mudskipper with salt and chili.

In addition, at community tourism sites, visitors can experience activities such as removing traps to catch crabs and setting nets to catch fish.

Day 2

Breakfast at the community tourism site

Khoai fish is a specialty of the Ca Mau sea, often used by tourist destinations to cook porridge to serve visitors in the morning. Khoai fish porridge is cool, healthy, and has a cooling effect. When eaten, each piece of khoa fish has a sweet, rich taste along with the strong aroma of onions and pepper, blending together to create a rich dish of the sea.

In addition to fish porridge, visitors can enjoy oyster porridge, seafood soup, and crab vermicelli soup.

After breakfast, visitors move from Dat Mui to U Minh district, where there is an inland flooded ecosystem, with cajuput forests on acid sulfate soil and peat soil. Here visitors can go to a community tourism site to observe flora and fauna or experience bee-eating with local people in the cajuput forest.

In U Minh, visitors can enjoy dishes with the strong flavor of the countryside such as grilled snakehead fish, fried catfish, young bee salad, and fish sauce hotpot. At the end of the tour, visitors can buy specialties such as wild honey and fruit wine.

Some other options

Ca Mau has many destinations. Depending on your interests and time, you can visit Hon Da Bac tourist area, Thi Tuong lagoon, Tu Su stork garden.

According to vnexpress.net

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