December 25th, 2006
From Sapa love market to Cai Rang floating market
A real trans-Vietnam tour usually takes two or three weeks, with many landscapes from the North to the South. In the North you can visit Sapa and Mai Chau, Nha Trang, Quy Nhon and Hoi An are essential stops in the Central region and Saigon and Vinh Long are some in the South.
To meet higher demands of tourists for this kind of tour, Ho Chi Minh City-based tour operator Ben Thanh Tourist offers its own Trans-Vietnam-tour option.
The starting destination will be the Mekong Delta. There, tourists have the opportunity to walk along villages full of many kinds of fruit trees, including mango, plum and lemon.
In the King Tu Duc dynasty (the 19th century), Can Gio had deep and wide bays where trading boats used to travel in and out busily. In the Nguyen dynasty and French colonial time, Can Gio was a military post, controlling the sea surface of the former Gia Dinh citadel.
Undoubtedly, Son La Prison is one of the most famous historic relics in Son La Province and a large number of tourists visit \”the hell on earth\” during French colonialism to listen to the stories about the struggle and bravery of communists.
The Bai Chay bridge over the Cua Luc strait has been inaugurated after more than three years’ construction. This is the first prestressed concrete and single-plane cable-stayed bridge in Vietnam and, at the same time, the cable-stayed bridge in single plane also sets a world record – the longest span in the world, 435m. The new bridge is viewed as “Ha Long String Instrument” – a new wonder created by intellect and effort of human beings, which is very harmonious with the natural wonder of Ha Long Bay.