The Mekong Delta is always a wonderful choice to explore Vietnam because of the many things see and do. This part of the country is known for its floating markets, the Can Tho bridge and many beautiful Buddhist pagodas. Not only the country’s most important fishing region, it is also abundant in rice and fruits, spoiling tourists with a wide variety of Vietnamese cuisine – all fresh and cheap.
 
If many do not know, there is even more to experience here. Only five kilometers from Can Tho by road or river, a tourism village is said to offer an out-of-ordinary fun and entertainment to its guests. Established in 1996, My Khanh Tourism Village is a garden-type ecotourist site cradling rich gardens of more than 20 kinds of fruit interwoven with a system of bungalows, as well as ancient houses. It sports a 100-year-old traditional house adorned with old wooden furniture is arranged in traditional southern style. Within the property is also 300-year-old house from the southern province of Vinh Long that has been converted into a restaurant.
 
They do have quite a peculiar way of entertaining tourists. To experience the old days of southern, you can choose to put on costumes of a rich landlord or a peasant. The role playing is fun. Choosing to be a landlord allows you to enjoy fruit, hot tea and listen to music from a hand-operated gramophone made more than 300 years ago. When you choose to be a peasant, you have to put on an ao ba ba (traditional Vietnamese shirt), work with local farmers and prepare traditional meals just how it is done in the past.
 
For a more physical activity, tourists can join folk games such as climbing arecas, breaking clay pots blindfolded, jumping in jute bags, and tugs of war. Depending on one’s preference, guests may choose to join the farmers in catching fish for meals or go to their pig-racing arena and get dirty by playing catch-pig while blindfolded. They may also take a stroll around the resort to admire the Flintstone-style bungalows, lush tropical grounds, exotic fruit plantations and the crocodile farm.
 
There are many other activities available like a guided bike tour around the villages. A tour to the floating markets is available on board the My Khanh yacht. Now this isn’t the humongous modern yacht you have in mind. It is more of a traditional boat, privately owned by the resort, and seats very few people. Tourists can also hire bicycles and scooters to discover the whole region, filled with canals, rivers and river islets.
 
When done with getting rough with friends and villagers, guests can swim in the resort’s swimming pool and have specialty meals prepared for a fee. They have a wide variety of meals to choose from ranging from baby rabbits, snakes, tortoises, bats, cuckoos and even crocodiles. Their servings include generous plates of fruits such as rambutans, durians, langsats, mangosteens, oranges, tangerines and pomelos.
 
My Khanh Tourism Village is located at 335 Lo Vong Cung Street, Phong Dien District.