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About An Giang: Confused with palm trees in the field

Summer, the trip alone or with friends to An Giang is always one of the choices for young people to enjoy their own vacation.

Clean scene in Ang Giang.HUE MAN

However, during the time of service Covid-19 outbreak, phượt alone or with a friend in An Giang also need to comply with the provisions 5K of the Ministry of Health.

Indulging in the beauty of An Giang

Over 200 km from Ho Chi Minh City to Chau Doc City, An Giang, in the trip, we choose the first attraction is Cham Chau Giang village. Passing the Tan Chau ferry, less than 5 minutes, I reached the other side of the bank. An old woman’s spring rolls on the ferry still had a sweet aftertaste in her throat.



Palm palm fields – a typical scene in An Giang region.HUE MAN

On this trip, we followed the car to find the Cham village, which is famous in the past. Just leaving the ferry, another world seemed to unfold, a world of stories a thousand and one night with mosques big and small, men wearing scarves, skirts, girls in scarves full face, exposing only big, deep eyes. Immediately, their conversations rang out and I completely didn’t understand. Stop by a church, I stopped by a restaurant of noodle soup – a dish everywhere you can see when coming to Chau Doc, An Giang of a Cham family. The fish noodle dish is rich in saffron yellow color and eaten with vegetables, which makes travelers extremely warm. It is known that because of the Covid-19 translation, foreign tourists are completely absent, only a few groups have come to visit.



Experience wearing hard work clothes and learning to weave brocade.HUE MAN

Along the way to the village of Cham, we continued to see stilt houses with special architecture, flickering women sewing, spinning silk. Stop at a shop, which is considered one of the few households that still keep the traditional brocade weaving profession of the Cham people . The experience of dressing up in the Cham costumes, shyly by the loom is a great experience to see the meticulousness in each scarf and cloth of the Cham people. And I understand why Chau Giang brocade fabric is so loved and famous.

Under the summer weather , in the afternoon, Chau Doc and An Giang still did not reduce the hot part. At 18 o’clock, we tried to stay at Mubarak Cathedral – which is recognized as a national heritage, listening to the last prayers of the day by dozens of Muslim men in the village. The eyes of surprise, questioning but still affectionate, like an opening, made the Kinh girl feel secure walking to see the cathedral like the land found only in Arab myths. – a place where women follow this belief not to go but to pray at home.

It was getting dark, we stopped for a few minutes to let her keep the car in front of the cathedral where the Cham people eat bento, the famous trade villages of Tan Chau such as the American A silk village, the mat village, … Goodbye. when it was already dark, the prayers still echoed in the distance. And under the dim moonlight, words intertwined with cicadas squealing in the bushes along the roadside.

The land is filled with human love

Chau Doc (An Giang) under the summer sun makes rice fields brittle, sparkling the river surface. Busy specialty market nowadays, few people are busy, but the baskets of whirlwind fish sauce, fish sauce, Thai fish sauce … a paradise of fish sauce is still fragrant and attractive to visitors.After visiting the Princess Xu, we continued to roam through Chau Doc market (An Giang), quickly ate 2 glasses of jaggery tea like cool a sunny sky, then looked for sodom sticky rice, jaggery beef cake, … This dish can not be ignored when coming to this country.


About An Giang: Confused with palm trees in the field

Visiting Mubarak Mosque.HUE MAN

We took the opportunity to visit the field of periwinkle flowers, where people plant for herbal medicine, find the riverbank where thousands of pangasius fish look for their cultivation. Only then can see, the summer suddenly yellow as honey because human love permeates every way of life in this An Giang.

When I returned home on my backpack, I tied a scarf that I could buy in the Cham village, in the basket was a bag of fragrant Thai fish sauce packed into the city and a memory of love and love that people brought.

Moving to An Giang not only makes us happy, comfortable with mind, make friendships, but also love new cultural features , people and new lands. Follow Thanh Nien

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