Dong Sen Thap Muoi is one of the outstanding eco-tourism destinations in Dong Thap province, offering visitors a peaceful experience amid wild natural landscapes and vast lotus fields. Here are some attractions to visit in Dong Sen Thap Muoi.
General information about Dong Sen Thap Muoi Tourist Area
Address: Thap Muoi Commune, Dong Thap province.
Opening hours: 7am – 17pm
Reference ticket price: 20,000 VND/person (weekdays) | 30,000 VND/person (weekends)
Currently, there are many places that grow lotus, but only at the Dong Sen Thap Muoi tourist area can you experience most of the flower’s outstanding features. And especially, when you come here, you will definitely have wonderful photos and enjoy delicious lotus specialties.
Dong Sen Thap Muoi covers about 20 hectares and experiences minimal heavy traffic. The space here is free of dust, noise, or hustle and bustle. All give way to the peaceful but extremely gentle beauty of pure lotus color. The tourist area is quite large, so you will hardly have to jostle to secure a private lotus-viewing corner. You can freely walk around the lotus field and immediately take photos with the lotus without fear of jostling, pushing, or taking up the space of others.
What is the best time to visit Dong Sen Thap Muoi?
Each season, Dong Thap offers a unique beauty you rarely find elsewhere. However, to visit Dong Sen Thap Muoi when the lotus is in full bloom, you should come here during the flood season (June to November every year). At this time, in the field, hundreds of lotus flowers will compete to bloom, jostling one another to grow, creating a radiant scene. If you look closely, you will notice the unique color change in the lotus flowers. Usually, in the morning, the flowers will be light pink, then turn pink at noon.
The lotus is considered most beautiful around 3 pm, when the flowers open wide, their black-and-yellow calyces sparkling in the sunlight. In the afternoon, the lotus gradually turns a deeper pink, and when the sun sets, its color also turns red like the sunset. The next day, the lotus continues blooming as before; after 3 days, it will wither.
When the lotus flowers wither, other flowers will grow, competing to bloom, creating an impressive, radiant space – activities to participate in at the Thap Muoi lotus pond eco-tourism area.
Tourist activities in Dong Sen Thap Muoi Tourist Area
If you visit other tourist areas, you can row a boat to the fruit garden. When you come to Dong Sen Thap Muoi, you can sit on a boat and slowly drift in the middle of a large lotus lake. Wherever the sampan goes, you can enjoy the flowers, pick lotus buds, and the green lotus leaves will crowd together to welcome you. And remember to save this incredible moment of the sun.
After relaxing on the boat, you can begin exercising your hands and feet. Participate in fishing, catching fish, picking lotus buds and shoots, and other rustic, familiar activities of farmers in Thap Muoi. Perhaps these experiences will stay in your memory forever.
Enjoy specialty dishes from the local area
Lotus not only has ideological significance and cultural and spiritual beauty for the Vietnamese people, but also plays a significant economic role for the people of the Dong Thap Muoi. Lotus products deliver substantial economic value because the entire lotus plant can be used. If Ben Tre has a valuable coconut tree from the top to the root, Dong Thap will have lotus from the root to the flower.
When discussing specialities in the Dong Sen Thap Muoi tourist area, we must mention the typical dishes of the West, but with a lotus twist. Instead of grilled snakehead fish in other provinces, Dong Thap will have grilled snakehead fish wrapped in young lotus leaves. The combination of the sweet aroma of snakehead fish, the slightly astringent taste of young lotus leaves, the fatty aroma of peanuts, the slightly sour taste of tamarind sauce, … you must try it.
The next dish with lotus is lotus seed rice. Nowadays, many places can make this dish, but the taste right in the “land of lotus” is something not to be missed – fresh lotus seeds from the garden. Lotus seed water is used to cook local rice, which is very good for health. All wrapped in lotus leaves, it is both beautiful and delicious.
Another dish at Dong Sen Thap Muoi you cannot miss is the lotus root salad. The lotus roots in the pond are used directly; they are very fresh, crispy, and delicious. The meat and fresh shrimp are boiled until very sweet, the meat is mixed with lotus roots, the lovely and sour sauce is very appetizing. Eat this dish with your meal, and you will never get tired of eating other dishes.
Not only that, but you can also enjoy dishes with local flavors, such as lotus chicken salad, steamed snails, lotus fried rice, lotus tea, and lotus sticky rice. About drinking, there is an exceptional product called lotus milk with a truly impressive taste. It is made from lotus seeds and milk, which helps your body cool down.
All are processed using a specific method by the team here, so they have a unique flavor that is not available everywhere.
Source: collected by An
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