Muoi Cuong Garden – Homestay

A trip to Mekong Delta would be incomplete without a visit to Muoi Cuong garden. It is the one of famous places (area of 1,2 ha) in Can Tho City.
May to August is summer in Vietnam and this the season for many fruits to grow in Can Tho. So this will be the best time for you to visit the fascinating orchards and try the fresh fruits right then and there. Muoi Cuong Garden is located at 275 My Ai Hamlet, My Khanh Commune, Phong Dien District in Can Tho City.
 
Muoi Cuong Garden - Homestay (Phong Dien district, Can Tho city) is a favorite destination for visitors. It is famous not only for various kinds of Southern fruits but also for cocoa. Beside visiting and enjoying fruits, visitors can buy products from cocoa as gifts.
Having owned a cacao garden covering over 1.2 hectares since he inherited it from his father in the 1960s, in Phong Dien District, Cuong is known for producing cacao products from cacao sugar, cacao chocolate, cacao wine or cacao butter.

It takes about 30 minutes by road and about 40 minutes by boat from Can Tho city to Muoi Cuong Garden – Homestay. The first image in the visitors’ eyes is a cool and spacious place. This is known as a community tourist site of My Khanh commune, Phong Dien district, Can Tho city. As many gardens in the region, Muoi Cuong Garden – Homestay has a lush orchard with a variety of Southern fruits.

Coming to the garden, visitors will visit and enjoy many kinds of seasonal fruits. Also, visitors can take part in some activities at the garden and experience the life of the farmers in the countryside to feel the honest of the local people.
There are some services in the garden, such as: serving local food, homestay accommodation (Muoi Cuong Homestay with 4 air- conditioned rooms), renting bicycles out to visitors going around, selling souvenirs made from products of the garden.
Coming here, visitors have not only the peaceful life of the countryside, cool breeze,delicious fruits but also the honest of the local people. Cocoa fruits and their pure pods.Roated cocoa pods .Mr. Lam The Cuong (Muoi Cuong), the garden owner, is processing cocoa. He introducing cocoa making process to visitors.

 The different point of Muoi Cuong Garden - Homestay with the others in the region is cocoa. Cocoa is considered as an industrial tree, but it is grown in the orchard with many different trees. Especially, after the harvest, Mr. Cuong not only exports rough cocoa but also processes cocoa with manual methods into final products serving visitors.
Contact:
Cocoa Garden - Muoi Cuong Homestay
Address: 275 My Ai hamlet, My Khanh commune, Phong Dien district, Can Tho city.
Tele: 0292 3 942 573 - 0939.427 589
Visitors can book rooms at lamthecuongmkct@yahoo.com.vn
Source: Tourism Newspaper. Translated by Minh Loan
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