An Giang is a province in the Southwest region, part of the Long Xuyen quadrangle, which belongs to the Mekong Delta region, with the Tien and Hau rivers flowing. It shares the border with Cambodia and with 100km long.
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What season is beautiful in An Giang?
An Giang is in the dry, dry season from March to May. You should go in October and November to see the duckweed carpet and the green natural world in Tra Su Melaleuca forest in the flood season. You can admire the ripe rice fields from late November to early December during the harvest season in Ta Pa.
Two significant festivals occur in April or August of the lunar calendar, including the Ba Chua Xu festival on Sam mountain (April 23-27 of the lunar calendar) and the bull racing festival at the end of August. The months of July and August have a fair amount of rain, so you need to bring umbrellas and appropriate clothing.
How to move to An Giang
If traveling by air, the airport in Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho is the nearest destination, and then tourists take a bus to Long Xuyen city of Chau Doc city in An Giang.
Flights to Can Tho operated by Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways, and Vietjet Air from Hanoi, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Vinh, Da Lat, and Thanh Hoa have the lowest price, about one million VND one way.
Buses from Ho Chi Minh City to Long Xuyen and Chau Doc cost 170,000 – 200,000 VND. From Can Tho, the ticket price is about 100,000 VND one way, but very few trips.
An Giang is about 250 km from Ho Chi Minh City, and visitors can ride motorbikes or cars if they want to be proactive about the route and freely rest. Move along Highway 1 to An Thai Trung intersection (An Huu market), turn right, and then cross the Cao Lanh ferry, follow the banks of the Tien River to Cho Moi. Then, you travel the Thuan Giang ferry to the Hau River to the Nang Gu ferry and continue on Highway 91 for about 30 km to Sam mountain.
For sightseeing, motorbikes, personal cars, and taxis are the most flexible forms of transportation. Motorbike rental price is about 100,000 – 150,000 VND a day.
Things to do
The beautiful attractions in An Giang are far from each other. Here are the recommended destinations for visitors to explore in two days.
Long Xuyen Floating Market
Located near the center of Long Xuyen city, the floating market has existed since ancient times and still retains its original activities. Visitors can rent a boat for 200,000 VND to explore the market, and enjoy breakfast on the river.
Tra Su Melaleuca forest
This is one of the largest and most beautiful Melaleuca forests in the Southwest. An interesting experience in the Melaleuca forest is taking a boat ride through the green covered forest that attracts the eye by the vegetation. Tickets to visit the Melaleuca forest cost 190,000 VND per person. If traveling in groups of 7 people or more, the ticket price is 95,000 VND per person.
Ho O Thum
The artificial lake area has a cool space and is a place to sell many specialties of grilled mountain chicken with leaves. After visiting the Melaleuca forest, visitors stop at O Thum Lake to rest for lunch.
Lau Pagoda (Phuoc Lam Tu)
Located in Xuan Phu hamlet, Tinh Bien town, Tinh Bien district, the temple has Asian architecture built into many floors, painted red and decorated to create an ancient look.
Mount Sam
Chau Doc city has Sam Mountain (Vinh Te Son), from the top of the mountain you can have a panoramic view of Chau Doc and Vinh Te Canal. On and around Sam mountain, there are many pagodas and shrines, the most famous of which are Ba Chua Xu Temple, Tay An Pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau Tomb, Phuoc Dien Pagoda…
Tay An Temple
Tay An pagoda is located at the foot of Sam mountain (Vinh Te commune, Chau Doc city) built in 1847, bearing the appearance of an Indian architecture. The ancient temple has been classified by the Ministry of Culture as a national architectural and artistic relic. This is also the first temple with Vietnamese and Indian architecture in Vietnam.
Chau Doc Market
The market is located in the center of Chau Doc city, selling local specialties prepared on the spot and bought, with many stalls selling fish and dried fish of all kinds. If it’s your first time going to the West, don’t miss Chau Doc market with interesting experiences about the life of people in the floating waters.
Tinh Bien Market
The market sells many Western specialties in the floating season, some items from Thailand and Cambodia. Tinh Bien Market also features cultural exchanges of Vietnamese and Khmer people.
Bung Binh Thien
25 km from Chau Doc, the vast and clear Bung Binh Thien freshwater lake is located alongside the Binh Di river (a tributary of the Hau river) in An Phu district. Bung is very beautiful in the floating season with the classic yellow cotton mixed with hyacinth green. Around Bung is a Cham village with intact ancient cultural values.
Cham Village
Chau Giang village is where the Cham people live, about 10 minutes by ferry from Chau Doc city. Here, visitors come to visit the mosques, traditional houses and enjoy the unique dishes of the local people.
Ta Pa field
Located in Tri Ton district, Ta Pa field is like a large carpet, dotted with rows of palm trees in the middle of the blue sky. Ta Pa Lake – remnants of the quarry area on the top of the hill with poetic beauty, as calm as ink paintings.
That Son
Also known as Seven Mountains Region, That Son is 7 typical mountains out of 37 mountains in 2 districts of Tri Ton and Tinh Bien. Cam Mountain has an altitude of 705 m, occupies a circumference of 28,600 m, is the highest mountain in That Son, has beautiful scenery. On the mountain there are: Van Linh Pagoda, Big Buddha Temple, Maitreya Buddha statue, Cao Dai Tu.
Hotels, homestays
Hotels and motels in An Giang are mainly concentrated in Sam mountain, Chau Doc and Long Xuyen market areas. In the Sam mountain area, hotels and motels are quite expensive, usually only pilgrims stay. If traveling, you should stay in the Chau Doc market area, for convenient access to attractions during the day as well as entertainment and dining in the evening.
An Giang specialties
Coming to An Giang, do not forget to enjoy specialties that are only delicious when eaten locally such as Chau Doc fish noodle soup, Tri Ton beef porridge, O Thum grilled chicken, Long Xuyen broken rice, jaggery beef cake, Siamese sticky rice. , where is the salad, the rice is the ca pua of the Cham people.
In the floating season, field vegetables are considered a specialty of the West, including water lily, dandelion flowers, water chives and coriander… Vegetables are often cooked in sour soup, dipped in hot pot or eaten raw. with braised fish sauce, braised fish.
In particular, visitors who have not eaten reishi are considered to have not been to An Giang floating waters. Young reliquary at the beginning of the season is made in vinegar, and at the end of the season when it is grown, it is made into fish sauce.
What to buy as a gift
If you buy specialties as gifts, some easy-to-carry items are jaggery, flat rice , fried rice, fish sauce, fish cakes, Cham cakes, cana dam, dried fish dishes.
