Thoi Son Island

Location: Thoi Son Island, accessible by a 45-minute boat ride on the Mekong River from My Tho City, is located in Chau Thanh District, Tien Giang Province.
Characteristics: The path through the island is bordered with fruit trees bearing plums, mangoes, and longans.

Since 1990, Thoi Son has become a tourist attraction site welcoming hundreds of visitors. The island has tropical climate, with the warm and pleasant weather all year around, so you can visit Thoi Son Island at anytime you want to enjoy its green and peaceful atmosphere and very real daily activities of Southern people.
 

◊ A Popular Ecotourism Site
 

The area features traditional houses inhabited by many generations, gardens with fruit-laden trees, and modest restaurants amidst fruit and bonsai gardens. Strolling on the small path through the island, you will be mesmerized by the fragrance from colourful gardens of plum, mango, jackfruit and longan. There are in Thoi Son Island ripe fruits all the year round. Coming there and you have chances to eat fruits as many as you wish, drink tea with honey and listen to folk songs and music of Don ca tai tu.
 


 

Next, you can hand-row a boat along two lines of water coconuts. After that you sail along the Tien River to Con Phung (Ben Tre) where Mr. Dao Dua practised his belief, visit famous coconut candy establishments or explore the life of friendly, hospitable and open-hearted locals in the hick town in the South.


Coming to Thoi Son Island, visitors can also visite the traditional handicraft villages such as embroidery, producing handicrafts from coconut body and coconut candy, bee farm…
 

ALBUM
NEARBY DESTINATIONS
Vinh Trang Pagoda

Tien Giang

Tien Giang

Tien Giang

WHERE TO STAY
Nam Phuong Hotel

Add: Tan Phu Hamlet, Tan Huong Commune, Chau Thanh Dist.

Tel: (84-273) 3937 339

Phu Chau Hotel

Add: Highway No 1A, Tam Hiep Commune, Chau Thanh Dist.

Tel: (84-273) 3622 448/ 3622 449