Mekong Delta in the South of Vietnam

Vietnam's Mekong Delta - One of top 10 best value destinations

Lonely Planet, one of the most famous tourism magazines, has rated Mekong Delta of Vietnam as one of the ten best value destinations for 2012. In this list, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta ranks the ninth.

This magazine affirmed that: “Vietnam is always good value”. However, Lonely Planet advised tourists to skip the package trips arranged in Ho Chi Minh City and discover the Mekong Delta region themselves as it’s more rewarding and cheaper. It also listed some destinations in a trip to the Mekong Delta such as Chau Doc, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Ha Tien, Tra Vinh, etc… Tourists can easily travel many interesting places in Mekong Delta by bus, taxi or hire motorbike.

MekongDelta, which is considered as Vietnam’s rice basket, is a watery landscape of green fields and villages, everywhere crisscrossed by the brown canals and rivulets fed by the mighty Mekong River. The inhabitants of this region – friendly and easygoing people – have long toiled on the life-sustaining river, with the fruits of their labor depending on nature cycles that govern the waterways. The delta, which produces enough rice to supply the domestic market and a sizable surplus, was formed by alluvia of the Mekong River over many years. The process continues today, with silt deposits extending the shoreline by as much as 80m per year. The river is so large that it has two daily tides. Green with rice paddies and fish farms, this delta also keep the cultivation of sugarcane, fruit, coconuts and shrimp.