Situated on Au Islet along the Mekong Delta’s Hau River, the tourist park is a short 10-minute boat ride from Ninh Kieu Quay, a pier located on the edge of Can Tho.
The trip is free while an entrance ticket to Phu Sa costs just VND25,000 (US$1.6).
Apple and mango trees are plentiful in the three-hectare park while ancient wooden houses, brought over from central Vietnam, peek out amongst the island greenery.
Decorative boats serve as giant flower pots and small, vibrant fish swim nearby.
Phu Sa Tourist Park offers visitors a wide range of outdoor activities including swimming, canoeing and even “crocodile-hunting” where tourists can fish for small crocodiles.
Visitors can also watch local craftspeople make ornaments, hats and handbags out of fresh coconut leaves.
Rooms are available for overnight stays at the park and cost from VND250,000-280,000 ($15.60-17.50) per day.
A wide array of traditional Vietnamese food is offered at several booths located throughout the park.
Time-honored cakes such as banh duc (rice-flour cake with shrimp and fish sauce), banh tam (rice-flour cake with coconut flesh strings, salt and sesame, and coconut flesh juice) and banh tet (glutinous-rice cake with banana flesh or green-bean paste with pork) are all available for tourists to try.
During special festivals, park staff set up one booth dedicated solely to serving banh xeo Muoi Xiem (rice-flour pancakes) made by a local woman named Muoi Xiem.
Xiem is internationally renowned for her cake-making abilities and her products have enjoyed popularity throughout Vietnam as well as in the US and France.
Phu Sa Tourist Park is becoming increasingly popular thanks to its refreshing green landscape and appeal as an inexpensive island getaway.
Reported by Diem Thu |
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