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Picturesque Ba Dong beach in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta
260 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Dong beach stretches nearly 50 kilometers over three communes in southern Tra Vinh province's Duyen Hai district on the Mekong Delta.
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Tourists will surely be taken by surprise at the salty sea flavor since just a moment ago, they breathe in the sweet scent of fruits typical of the delta's alluvial soil.
The beach's tourism potential began to be tapped in early 20th century
when the French colonialists built a guesthouse there for local
officials to spend their weekends.
Now you can visit several beautiful churches built by the French like Giong Rum or Phuoc Hao.
Ba Dong beach has seafood restaurants offering typical southwestern foods angled directly from the sea. Specialties include crab sauce eaten with bananas, carambola, girdle cakes or rice rolls and boiled meat.
The beach is dotted with huts and beach chairs ranging in prices, which offer tourists relaxing moments just stretching their backs and enjoying the sounds of sea waves and winds rumbling back and forth.
You can play on numerous sand dunes on the beach.
Other places of interests here is a lighthouse, shrimp lakes, and small islets.
On the beach that stretches as far as the eye can see, you can fly
kites, play sports or drive motorbikes fast enough to get thrills
otherwise hard to attain elsewhere.
As night falls, you can sleep in "underground houses" built during
the war to avoid shells and bullets. They are protected from above
by luxuriant trees.
From the beach just 7 kilometers away rests an imposing mangrove
forest.
Long Khanh mangrove forest
To see this you have to take a boat ride alongside a river bounded
by coconut trees, during which you can enjoy a variety of plants
and birds typical of mangrove forests near the sea.
On reaching shore and thus the forest, you can wade in streams
to catch fish, shrimp, crabs, or clams bare-footed. Then you can
enjoy your catch for meals.
Grilled clams, shrimps eaten under the open sky in the midst of
the forest with chili salt and fresh vegetables is wonderful in
itself.
Tourists can enjoy a local specialty alcohol called Xuan Thanh
wine tasting very strong.
Compiled by Hoang Bao
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