Can Tho Things to Do

got an MRI and a bunch of blood work done here = $135usd total - did everything in 2 hours
Also got an x-ray of my knee here a couple years ago. cost about $35 usd total

Modern and has some competent staff.

You pay for everything in advance, then you do get it done.

Unlike some other vn hospitals I've been in. (some like a horror movie - not kidding)

Please read tourist trap for detail.

The floating market is not so good. The boating trip with Mr Triet Quang is a bizzar. As for a morning boating trip, it is better take 3 hours' tour with somebody else. It is really useless to take 7 or 8 hours' tour.

Anyhow watch out Mr Triet if you care for your money. That guy is a scam artist.

It's a must-do in Can Tho, take a boat trip to the floating market, have a beef rice noodle on the boat from boat vendor. Or climb to the boat selling seasonal fruits. The whole pineapple in Late Dec and early Jan season is just 10,000VND, half dollar in 2010 Dec-2011 Jan.

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We choose to do a 2 day, 1 night trip from HCMC as we wanted to see the floating markets at Cai Rang. The trip cost US$21 including return bus, boat trip, overnight accomodation in Can Tho, lunch on the 1st day and breakfast and lunch on the 2nd day.
We had a lovely lunch on Unicorn Island. This was followed by a coconut candy making demo, sampling the local honey tea, fruit, a sing-song and also a demo on making rice vermicelli noodles.
The highlight was definitely the next morning experiencing the floating market by boat.
Touristy, but for $21, it is a must-see if you can spare the time whilst in HCMC

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Founded in 1966 in Cantho and located in the heart of the Mekong Delta, Cantho University ( CTU) is the only state university of the MD. Since 1975, there have been several reorganizations of its administrative structure and curricula. Now, CTU offers undergraduate and graduate training as well as doing research and facilitating technology transfer to satisfy individual aspirations and to contribute to the socio-economical and cultural development of the region and the country. CTU is constantly expanding and strengthening. CTU is well-known for its out-reach programs serving communities throughout the delta, and works closely with provincial authorities, private and public enterprises, and farmers. This creates a better understanding of practical problems and enables CTU to focus teaching and research activities on the needs of the environment and the rapidly changing labor market.

CTU is offering training leading to degrees-Bachelor, Master and Ph. D.- in various fields. According to the strategic plan for the first decade of the new millennium, the number of full-time students will be increased annually by more than 1,000. A comprehensive review has recently been carried out to allow any future growth on campus to be organized rationally.

Source: CTGOV

source: CTGOV

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Together with Cai Be and Phung Hiep, Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City is one of the three biggest in the Mekong Delta. The shops and stalls at these markets are boats of different sizes.

Cai Rang Floating Market is open all day but it is busiest from sunrise to about 9am. The main items sold there are farm products and specialties of Cai Rang Town, Chau Thanh District and neighboring areas. Every boat has a long upright pole at its bow on which samples of the goods for sale are hung. Sellers do not have to cry out about their goods because their goods can be seen in a distance and their cries would not be heard in the vastness of the river and the noise of boat engines. Small boats that sell beer, soft drinks and wine go among the other boats to serve market-goers and visitors. The most common goods sold are fruit. Big boats are the wholesalers, selling fruit to dealers from neighboring provinces. Each boat is loaded with plenty of seasonal goods. Activities at the market are also an occasion for tourists to study the cultural aspects of southerners.

To visit Cai Rang Floating Market, visitors can join a tour of the Mekong Delta. On the way to Can Tho, visitors can stop to visit My Tho and take a boat trip to visit orchards, bee farms and coconut candy establishments in Ben Tre. Visitors can also explore Can Tho on their own by taking a coach. In Can Tho, besides Cai Rang Floating Market, Visitors can visit other places such as Can Tho Market, Ninh Kieu Quay, Binh Thuy Temple, and private tourist gardens. In these gardens, visitors can walk, breathe fresh air, enjoy different kinds of fruits and countryside specialties and stay at nice guest houses in the shade of trees.

Source: CTGOV

The busiest market located in the center of Cantho city is considered a nice place not only its unique native features but cultural values as well. Traditionally, market was a trading center of old Southerners and its main function attached to the old people’s daily activities in the past.



Cantho old market once called Hang Duong market ( means market with full of poplar trees) or Market of Six Southern Provinces. Located at the Hai Ba Trung street, the old market is over one hundred years old, and its construction built at the same time as of Ben Thanh and Binh Tay market.



The Cantho market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the Mekong Delta region. It gives us a beautiful view of the tranquil riverside as well as the busiest trading activities in the whole evening. Inside the market, there are about eighty kiosques displaying and selling a wide range of goods and traditional handicraft products for souvenirs. Also, more than twenty kiosques selling agricultural and seafood products of Song Hau farm are available for local people and tourists as well.



With the existence of the typical market in the center of Cantho city, visitors and tourists in the whole country can enjoy the culture tourist and quick shopping expedition of stores and markets while coming to the land of Tay Do province

Source: CTGOV

45km from Can Tho, the area of 1,300 square meters is home of 150,000 storks (11 kinds of them including fly stork, egret, heron, pelican, woodpecker, etc). The biggest bird is 1.4 kg with wingspan of 1.4 meter, the smallest one weighs only 150grams.

From the gate, visitors would walk over two bamboo bridges leading to the garden, then climb up to the stairs to a balcony where they can behold the stork. Some experienced after having seen the sea of storks covering fully the garden that as if they were in a cotton yard during a blooming season or they were watching a snow-filled expanse in Europe when snow falls.

Source: CTGOV