Ca Mau is the southernmost province of Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta region. The land at the end of the country has three sides adjacent to the sea: the East Sea is the East Sea, the West and South is the Gulf of Thailand, the North is Bac Lieu and Kien Giang. Coming to Ca Mau, visitors will hear the story of Uncle Ba Phi, don ca tai tu, river cruises, eat specialties of the forest, crabs…
What season is beautiful in Ca Mau?
The climate is quite pleasant all year round, but the most ideal time to travel to Ca Mau is in the dry season, from December to April next year. The rainy season lasts from May to November. If you go around July – August of the lunar calendar, visitors will enjoy many specialties.
Move
Ca Mau is more than 300 km from Ho Chi Minh City. From the northern provinces, you can choose flights to Can Tho of Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Bamboo Airlines, the ticket price is from 1,500,000 VND to 2,000,000 VND. From Can Tho airport, visitors move to Ca Mau by sleeper bus. The price of a ticket is from 125,000 to 150,000 VND, the distance is about 150 km.
From Ho Chi Minh City, visitors can buy tickets passenger car or self drive. Buses usually depart at night, and stop at the center of Ca Mau city after 7-8 hours. Some good quality bus operators such as Phuong Trang, Giap Diep, Mai Linh, or Tuan Hung… have a fare for the Ho Chi Minh City – Ca Mau route about 190,000 – 200,000 VND one way.
If driving car From Ho Chi Minh City to Ca Mau, you go in the direction of National Highway 1A and Quan Lo – Phung Hiep. The journey takes about 7-8 hours depending on the time of rest. The road is quite beautiful, but there are many rivers and canals. The bridges over the canal are often short, steep slopes, drivers should run slowly. Roads through towns and residential areas have many speed limit signs from 40 to 60 km/h.
The best means to explore Ca Mau city is motorcycle, the second is cars with long distances. The third is ships, boats, motorboats – very popular means of transport because Ca Mau has an interlaced system of rivers and canals.
With the journey to Dat Mui, which is more than 110 km from the city center, the most interesting experience is going to Dat Mui high speed train, to see the river life. The journey took more than three hours as the train stopped at small stations along the way. Visitors to the end point is Dat Mui market and continue to take a motorbike taxi to Dat Mui tourist area about 4 km away, the price is about 50,000 VND per person.
In addition, there are many local bus companies specializing in running the Ca Mau – Dat Mui route such as Phuoc Nghia, Truong Giang, Den Map… priced at about 120,000 – 140,000 VND one way.
Hotels, homestays
You should stay in the city center for convenient dining and entertainment. Ca Mau Hotel is not diverse on online booking platforms. You should contact us directly when booking. Prices range from 200,000 to 600,000 VND depending on the quality.
A high-class accommodation in the city has a four-star Muong Thanh Luxury hotel with the price of about 1,400,000 VND per night; Anh Nguyet three-star hotel is about 900,000 VND a night.
If you want to rest in the middle of nature in Dat Mui, you have many options at eco-tourism areas, homestays such as Rung Duoc, Huong Dat Mui, Dan Ba Khia, Ba Su, Tu Nhuan, Nam Huong… Price from about 70,000 VND per person per night.
Where to play?
Ca Mau cape is the place where GPS coordinates 0001 (kilometer 0) is located. This landmark bears the image of a ship full of wind, reaching out to sea. Ca Mau cape where you can watch the sun rise from the east sea in the morning and set down in the west in the afternoon.
Dat Mui, in Ngoc Hien district, is also the last point of Ho Chi Minh road. Km 2436 of Ho Chi Minh Road belongs to Ca Mau Cape National Tourist Area. The road starts from Pac Bo – Cao Bang, passes through 28 provinces and cities and ends at the southernmost point of the country.
Forestry and fishery 184 located in the middle of Nam Can mangrove forest, in Cha La hamlet, Tam Giang commune, Nam Can district. There are 44 species of plants, in which some rare species such as white toad, white toad, tiger, … Here visitors can row a boat deep into the mangrove forest, watching monkeys playing in the trees.
Cape Ca Mau World Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO-recognized natural mangrove ecosystem that includes Ca Mau Cape National Park, U Minh Ha National Park and protection forest area along the West Sea.
An experience not to be missed is sailing go through the forest in Ca Mau Cape National Park or participate planting mangrovesobserve plants and animals or experience eat bees with local people in U Minh Ha forest, listening to stories about Uncle Ba Phi.
Ngoc Hien Bird Sanctuary covers an area of 130 ha in Ngoc Hien district. It is home to rare bird species and a rich array of flora. Interspersed with the immense green of mangrove and melaleuca forests are red river branches with heavy alluvium.
Visitors can visit in the early morning to watch thousands of birds go foraging, or as they fly across the sky to find their way back to the nest in the sunset.
Other destinations to observe wild birds are Tu Su bird garden (Thoi Binh district, about 30 km from the center), Bird sanctuary in the heart of Ca Mau city (Ly Van Lam, ward 1).
Hon Khoai Island located in Ngoc Hien district, 14.6 km from the mainland. Ca Mau has no mountains but has a high island like the national historical and cultural relic, Hon Khoai with a peak of 318 m above sea level. This island is impressive by its vast rocky ranges, undulating hills and covered green forests.
Silver stone This beautiful island is famous and pure pristine with colorful rocks, estimated to have formed 180 million years ago. Hon Da Bac is a beautiful island cluster consisting of three large and small islands located close to each other: Hon Ong Ngo, Hon Da Le and Hon Da Bac. In which the highest island is 50 m above sea level.
Khai Long Beach There is a sandy beach winding like dragons along the coast in Khai Long hamlet, Dat Mui commune, Ngoc Hien district. The sea is located in the mangrove ecosystem of the region, unspoiled beauty.
Cai Tau Strawberry Garden located in Nguyen Phich commune, U Minh district, about 30 km west of Ca Mau city center. This is the land of thousands of mulberry trees. Guests should sit in a dinghy, wriggle through the small canals to enjoy the peaceful scenery and enjoy the sweet and fragrant strawberries within reach.
Cai Tau strawberry has large fruit, thin skin, succulent, sweet and slightly sour taste. Ripe yellow fruit. When the first rain of the season begins to fall heavily, the strawberries are ripe, at this time, people open the garden door to welcome visitors.
Tan Hung Communal House is a national historical – cultural relic built in 1907. The communal house is located in Xom Lon hamlet, Ly Van Lam commune, 4 km from the center of Ca Mau city. This communal house is the place where the first flag of the Indochinese Communist Party was raised in Ca Mau in 1930. This is where the Republican Guard soldiers stayed to build fortifications, dig barricades, suffered a long battle with the French colonialists. .
Excursion of Trem River With a length of 42 km, starting from Kien Giang to Cai Tau and Ca Mau junction, Trem river is strangely beautiful because the water flow changes with the seasons and time. In the rainy season, the river water is red, dotted with blue water hyacinth branches floating along the stream. In the dry season, the river water is milky white, with green coconut trees on both sides.
Lagoon Thi Tuong It is known as “the lake in the middle of the plain”. This is also the largest lagoon in the Mekong Delta with a length of 12 km, the widest place 2 km, the deepest part 1.5 m. Lagoon Thi Tuong consists of three main lagoons, which are the Upper lagoon, the Middle lagoon and the Lower lagoon, in which the Middle lagoon is the largest.
Sitting on a motorboat surfing on the lagoon, visitors can enjoy the beautiful nature while observing the life of local fishermen, or experience fishing, fishing, catching fish there… Besides, enjoy fish, shellfish, shrimp, crab specialties… fresh and delicious.
Specialties
Ca Mau Crab famous delicious. Connoisseurs often buy natural crabs because the meat is delicious and sweeter than farmed crabs. Crab at Ca Mau shrimp square is always fresh and affordable. Ca Mau meat crab prices range from 150,000 to 300,000 VND per kg and brick crabs from 300,000 500,000 VND per kg.
Many restaurants process crab into many different dishes, from simple such as boiled, steamed, charcoal grilled to more sophisticated such as roasted tamarind, hot pot, crab cake soup…
Grilled ham Similar to clams but larger in size and often live in alluvial plains, estuaries, mangroves. Mui Dat Mui is usually chewier and sweeter than other regions. Vong can be cooked with sour soup, boiled, steamed, fried or grilled with onion fat.
Snail wool Also known as Linh Hoa snail, it is common in mangrove forests. There are many ways to cook, but fried snail with coconut is still the most famous.
Sesarmid is considered the most characteristic and famous of this land. Ba Khiet make salad with sticky rice, boiled or roasted tamarind with salt, pepper and lemon. This dish has a characteristic, irresistible meat flavor.
Mudfish looks pretty weird, lives in swamps. The fish meat is firm, delicious and not fishy. Mussels are usually grilled with salt and pepper, deep fried or cooked in sour soup, braised with soy sauce, cooked in batches.
Grilled snakehead fish It is a dish with ethereal, sweet taste of alluvial water and salty taste of the sea of the homeland. Fish without marinating will still be fragrant and sweet. You can hold the whole grilled fish and eat it properly, or put it on banana leaves, roll rice paper with vegetables, star fruit, cucumber… and dip it with sweet and sour fish sauce.
Bee pupae salad Named the most attractive second in Ca Mau. Beeswax is often brought back by workers in the forest, then processed into dishes such as porridge, stir-fried bee pupae or best of all, it is used to squeeze salad.
Bee sauce is a specialty that not everyone dares to try. The people of Mui land often use it bee sauce Serve with white rice. In some restaurants, people often use pork belly rolls with vegetables such as banana, cucumber, toad leaves, ginger, chili or Chinese smell, dipped with bee sauce.
Tub grows wild in the fringes of lakes and ponds. Tubs are processed like vegetables into many different dishes, including seafood salad and pickled salt. The core of the tub is crispy, soft, and sour, as if lotus and bamboo shoots are blended.
Coming to U Minh forest, you should not miss the hotpot of snakehead fish, wild vegetables, grilled wild eel with crushed salt and peppers. Image: Le Duy Hung
Silkworm cake appear modestly in small street stalls instead of in restaurant menus. This dish is rustic but has a special charm.
The most crowded is the silkworm cake shop on Le Loi Street, Nguyen Huu Le Street, Ward 2 or the breakfast restaurant on Quang Trung Street, Luu Tan Tai Street in Ward 5, Ca Mau City… address” points to a restaurant specializing in selling spicy chicken curry silkworm cakes in a hidden alley, very pampering diners.
Other specialties must be mentioned gobyoysters, fried hamster with lemongrass and chili, fried squid with egg, porridge… It is a popular dish of Ca Mau people. This dish is rich in nutrients, meaty and rich in flavor.
What to buy as a gift
Visitors can buy fresh and cheap seafood during the day such as sea crabs, Rach Goc three slits; or famous dried types such as: dried snakehead fish, dried croaker fish, dried fish chocoi, dried mudskippers; or shrimp paste, fish sauce. The most special is pure honey from U Minh Melaleuca forest. Melon tub It is also often bought as a gift by tourists when coming to Ca Mau areas.
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