Phong Điền and the orchard road
Fruit gardens after the market, then the long ride to the storks if you have the hours.
Plan the day as the floating market from 5:00, fruit gardens at midday, then the quay. Mỹ Khánh is about 10 km from the centre, at 335 Lộ Vòng Cung. A department tour text says more than 30 ha. A one-day article on the department site says more than 50,000 m². Newer lines say phường An Bình. Older lines say xã Mỹ Khánh, huyện Phong Điền. The garden offers dog racing, pig racing, a day as a landowner, draining a ditch for fish, boating, fishing, a craft visit, tài tử, and a monkey act. The operator’s gate is 149,000 VND for an adult over 1.3 m, 99,000 VND for a child from 1 m to under 1.3 m, and free under 1 m, open 07:30–17:00. The department listing says 07:00–18:00. The road from the centre is about twenty minutes.
A traditional noodle village in Can Tho offers a hủ tiếu pizza tasting after the sheets are made. A department tour text places a noodle workshop at Mỹ Khánh.
Thiền viện Trúc Lâm Phương Nam is a few hundred metres from Mỹ Khánh and about 15 km from the centre, on đường Mỹ Nhơn. It is nearly 4 ha on that account, the largest zen monastery in the delta there, with timber columns, tile roofs, and ship-tile floors. A construction value of 145 billion VND is also given. That figure is not a ticket.
Cồn Sơn, in the Hậu at Bình Thủy, is about 70 hectares. The boat from the Cổ Bắc ferry is about 5–10 minutes, and a boat can also be hired at Ninh Kiều. The kitchens there make bánh bò lụi, bánh ít, bánh bột lọc, bánh lá mít, bánh da lợn, bánh đúc, bánh xèo, and bánh khọt. It is not cồn Ấu.
Vườn cò Bằng Lăng is in Thốt Nốt. One account says 60 km from the centre, 20 stork species, 300,000 storks, and 16,500 m². The department advice page says about 50 km on National Route 91 and about 1.5 ha, formed in 1983. A 2020 article carried on the department site says Thới Bình 1, phường Thuận An, 60 km, a start at 13,097 m² and later 16,500 m², and also more than 15 ha and more than 300,000 birds. The birds leave around 5:00–6:00 and return at dusk. Breeding months are lunar August to lunar January for the flock, and lunar February–April for cò ma.
