Selling strange fabric as big as duck eggs, the price is 3 times higher than usual, the farmer makes a huge profit
The strange litchi variety with “terrible” fruit was named by Mr. Pham Van Giang (Thuy Lam village, Thanh
Lychee fruit is not only a famous fruit of Thanh Ha district, Hai Duong province but also a highlight in travel itineraries, discovering the beauty rich in cultural traditions of the land and the people of the East.
The lychee gardens are likened to a miniature West in Thanh Ha, Hai Duong
In the past, the land around Thang Long (present-day Hanoi) was divided into four towns, including: the western mountain area was called Son Tay town (or Doai country), the southern mountainous area was called Son Nam town, and the coastal area was called Son Tay town. The east sea is called Hai Dong town (or East country), the area north of Hanoi is called Kinh Bac town. That’s why Hai Duong got its name from the East. And Thanh Ha is an indispensable place when referring to the East.
“Who has heard the name Thanh Ha fabric?
Rumors reverberated near and far
Sweet and delicious like a mother’s heart
Get the love of our country’s lychee fruit…”
Wherever you go in Thanh Ha these days, you can also listen to poems about the lychee countryside by author Nguyen Dinh Huan. The sprawling gardens seem to be dyed a bright red color on the peaceful village space.
Thanh Ha in June not only has trucks to buy fabrics but also bustling convoys bringing tourists from many provinces, cities and even foreign tourists to visit and travel. Many tourists liken Thanh Ha as “miniature West”. It makes sense to call it that, because there are few places where there are interlaced rivers and luxuriant gardens like Thanh Ha land. Large rivers such as Thai Binh River, Rang River, and Huong River embrace and build up sweet alluvium for Thanh Ha in four seasons of lush fruit trees.
This is also the time when the Dong Man – Dong Quao eco-tourism area of Ms. Pham Thi Liem’s family is the most brilliant of the year. The 3-acre garden is picturesque with clusters of ripe red litchi running along the river, forming an impressive landscape on the wharf and under the boat.
Since 2015, Ms. Liem has rekindled her intention to make tourism from lychee trees. Since then, she and her husband began to plan and create a landscape for the garden. Lychees are planted in rows, between each row of trees is a small water canal with lotus flowers, water lilies… The entrance to the garden is concreted and convenient for visitors.
In 2018, Thanh Ha district recognized the Dong Man eco-tourism sub-zone – where the litchi garden of Mrs. Liem’s family is located. After that, the lychee garden began to welcome guests. The original purpose was just to do a test, so she and her husband allowed guests to visit for free, without collecting money. While working, she learned from experience.
“In the litchi season in 2022, the garden is officially open for visitors to visit and experience fresh lychee picking for a fee. The ticket price is VND 30,000/person/time, applicable to guests who only enter the garden to check-in and take photos. Visiting the garden, picking lychees to eat on the spot, the ticket price is 50,000 VND/person/time”, Ms. Liem said.($1=24,000 VND)
Being on a boat to visit and enjoy fruits right at the garden is an interesting experience for many tourists. Not only attracting visitors from the northern provinces, or Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and the West, but Dong Man area is also the destination of many tourists from Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), Belarus. …
The model of doing tourism at the lychee garden is also applied by many people in Thanh Ha. Mr. Hoang Van Luom in Thuy Lam village (Thanh Son, Thanh Ha) also admitted that the number of visitors to visit the lychee tree is increasing. In 2022, only from May to July, his family’s lychee garden with lychee trees welcomed more than 30,000 domestic and international visitors. In other seasons of the year, although it is not the litchi season itself, his garden still welcomes several dozen tourists every day.
Tourism is associated with experiencing and learning about local culture
With a dense river system connecting villages, fields and nearly 7,000 hectares of fruit trees, in recent years, Thanh Ha district (Hai Duong province) has had a number of gardeners open tours to visit gardens and experience picking. and enjoy the fabric.
“The interesting thing about Thanh Ha is that you can not only see the vast and red litchi garden, enjoy the fresh ripe lychees at the tree, but also sit on a small boat, wave the oars to enjoy the peaceful river space. “, a female tourist from the South shared.
Thanh Ha is not only brilliant in the red color of lychee but also a land containing a deep cultural layer with about 300 historical and cultural relics including communal houses, temples, pagodas, shrines, churches, and literature associated with various types of culture. Unique folk art form. These can be mentioned as Thanh Hai water puppetry with a history of over 300 years; the traditional festival of Hao Xa pagoda is over a thousand years old; Minh Khanh Pagoda – a national historical relic, dating from the 13th century. In 2022, Dong Man ecological zone welcomes tens of thousands of visitors to visit and experience, including many international delegations.
Thanh Ha has long been known as a land with many long-standing traditional occupations such as boat building, river transport, which is famous throughout the region; or Thuy Lam lychee-growing craft village; Tien Kieu sedge mat craft village; Tan An duck-brooding village… in which many professions are still prevalent and developed to this day such as Tien Kieu sedge mat craft in Thanh Hong commune.
With the advantage of the locality, Thanh Ha district has developed the project “Development of tourist attractions associated with the Perfume River ecology” period 2021-2025. In particular, focus on developing eco-tourism areas associated with specialty trees. Hai Duong Provincial People’s Committee has determined that by 2025, Hai Duong will welcome 2.5 million international tourists and 3.7 million domestic tourists; total revenue from tourism reached 7,450 billion VND.
According to Mr. Vu Viet Anh – Chairman of Thanh Ha District People’s Committee: In the past time, Dong Man destination (Thanh Khe commune) has welcomed more than 30,000 visitors to visit and experience; The site of the lychee tree has also welcomed more than 40,000 visitors. It can be said that tourism with lychee trees not only helps farmers increase income from tourists, but it is also a channel to promote products directly to consumers.”Impression of the West” at the Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village in Vietnam
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