Colorful floating village

Elaborate investment

The colorful raft village has a poetic location at the Chau Doc River junction in Chau Doc city, An Giang province, and was completed by the An Giang Investment and Trade Promotion Center in December 2023.

The colorful floating village in An Giang is located at the confluence of Chau Doc River.

The project is over 1km long with 165 floating rafts that people use to raise fish, covered with paint with the main colors of red - orange - yellow - green - blue and purple. The total cost of phase 1 is nearly 2.7 billion VND.

Chau Doc floating fish village is a freshwater fish farming village that was formed in the 60s of the last century. At first, there were only a few floating fish farms raising fish naturally, without feeding them because of the good water source.

The highlight of the raft village is the monochromatic colors of red - orange - yellow - green - blue and purple.

However, from the 1970s onwards, due to the high economic benefits, the number of fish rafts increased significantly and gradually became the economic focus of An Giang.

The golden age was from 1990 to 2005, Chau Phu, Phu Tan, Cho Moi, Vinh Nguon areas had over 2,000 fish rafts with an average annual harvest of over 20,000 tons/year.

Most of the fish raised in floating rafts in the regions are catfish breeds such as tra and basa, mainly for export to Western European and North American markets.

In addition to fish farming, Chau Doc raft village people develop tourism to increase their income.

Currently, fish farming on rafts is still maintained by the people, while combining tourism development to create a highlight to attract visitors to the river region of the West, including An Giang province.

Mr. Le Trung Hieu, Director of the An Giang Trade and Investment Promotion Center, said that the formation of a colorful raft village to develop tourism received high consensus from people raising fish on rafts.

From here, create new community tourism products for people to develop the economy associated with traditional craft villages in the Bay Nui region - An Giang.

"The difference between Chau Doc raft village and other raft villages is that in addition to raising fish, people live on rafts.

Therefore, when doing tourism, tourists will have the opportunity to visit, experience and learn about the culture of the people in the river region. At the same time, it creates a different highlight and contributes to increasing the income of the people," Mr. Hieu added.

River tourism highlights

According to Mr. Hieu, the new tourism product organized by An Giang has its starting point from the colorful raft village at the Chau Doc river junction.

After that, visitors will be taken by tourist boat to other attractions such as Cham village and Sam Mountain National Tourist Area.

Next, visitors will take a car to visit Tra Su cajuput forest, Vinh Te canal and Chau Doc market...

"With such interesting things and closed tourism products, we hope to bring many memorable experiences when tourists have the opportunity to visit An Giang province," said Mr. Hieu.

The colorful floating village of Chau Doc is an interesting destination that attracts tourists from near and far.

Joining the group to experience the new tourism product, journalist Thanh Dung (Nhan Dan Newspaper) said: "It is really interesting with this new tourism product of An Giang when sitting on a boat floating along the river.

In addition, when boarding the raft, people display many gift products with typical characteristics of the province, which will contribute to promoting the local image."

Many typical products are sold to help promote the local image.

Mr. Duong Tran Duy (40 years old, living in Long Xuyen city, An Giang province) - a tourist who joined the group to experience the new tourism product of Chau Doc's colorful floating village said that An Giang has many famous spiritual tourist destinations, now adding community tourism products will bring many new experiences for tourists who have the opportunity to visit the land of Bay Nui - An Giang.

Mr. Duy said: "This is the first time I have experienced a tourism product like this with a colorful floating village on the river, very eye-catching.

What's more interesting is to see and witness the fish farming process and the daily life of people in the Mekong Delta."

With the strength of spiritual tourism and many interesting experiences, in 2023, An Giang province welcomed more than 7.5 million visitors to visit, experience and learn about the characteristics of the Bay Nui region - An Giang.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/lang-be-da-sac-mau-diem-nhan-du-lich-miet-song-o-an-giang-19224011811470538.htm