Visit Lai Thieu to admire the ripe fruit season

With a favorable geographical location along the Saigon River, a dense system of canals, for a long time, people in the wards of Hung Dinh, An Thanh, An Son, Binh Nham, Lai Thieu of Thuan An City, Binh Duong have been famous for growing fruit trees. Around this time, fruits in the gardens of Lai Thieu and Cau Ngang of Thuan An City begin to ripen, adorned with many characteristic and attractive colors of fruits such as: durian, mangosteen, strawberry, rambutan, jackfruit, longan... Tourists come to enjoy the fresh air and enjoy the specialties of Binh Duong gardens, such as: Mangosteen chicken salad, grilled chicken with durian...

In particular, Lai Thieu mangosteen has been honored by the Vietnam Record Organization in the Top 50 famous fruit specialties of Vietnam. Lai Thieu mangosteen has also been recognized as a collective trademark by the Department of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Science and Technology). Therefore, this place is likened by many tourists as a "paradise" of the most attractive tropical fruits in the Southern region.

In order for gardeners in Lai Thieu to have the opportunity to exchange, learn, share experiences, and promote the Lai Thieu fruit brand in particular and the South in general, Thuan An City has organized the "Lai Thieu Ripe Fruit Season" Festival in April or May of the lunar calendar every year. With many attractive activities and many commercial booths from gardeners, traditional craft villages in the province and neighboring localities in the South, the festival has attracted many tourists from all over the world to admire and explore for many years. Thereby, the festival has gradually become one of the traditional cultural events of Thuan An City.

This year, the festival takes place at Cau Ngang area, Hung Dinh ward, Thuan An city with the theme "Cau Ngang season of appointment". The festival has many rich activities to serve the sightseeing and shopping needs of people and tourists from near and far. On this occasion, Thuan An city also organizes many attractive entertainment activities, such as: Thuan An City Open Cross-Country Race with the theme "Orchard Road", "Graceful Garden" contest, "Colors of Ripe Fruit Season" photo contest, "Thuan An Land and People" beautiful photo space exhibition, "Children's Fine Arts Award" painting contest, etc.

According to Mr. Ho Anh Thi, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Dinh Ward, Thuan An City, the festival is an opportunity for the locality to continue to build and maintain the promotion of the image of Lai Thieu fruit garden to tourists. Thereby, creating conditions for the locality to have the opportunity to exchange, learn, promote trade, invest in tourism, contributing to promoting the economy and tourism in the ward, especially garden ecotourism. To spread the festival, the ward has implemented many forms of propaganda and encouragement to help people understand the purpose, meaning, and content of the festival, at the same time mobilizing people to participate in promoting garden tourism, responding to the activities of the festival, demonstrating the spirit of hospitality, communication, and civilized and polite behavior.

The “Lai Thieu Fruit Season” Festival has been identified by the leaders of Thuan An City as an important event, with the desire to contribute to building a “festival brand” of local tradition. The festival organizers also hope that this will be an opportunity for gardeners in the Southern region to exchange, learn, discuss and share experiences in developing agricultural economy, promoting the role of people in joining hands to build and develop garden ecotourism, and at the same time introducing quality fruits to visitors.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien, Vice Chairwoman of Thuan An City People's Committee said: Through this festival, the city hopes that functional units will strengthen close links with businesses and gardeners to join hands to restore the famous Cau Ngang - Lai Thieu tourism brand. People also need to change their mindset, business model, and be friendly in serving tourists, contributing to preserving and building a friendly, enthusiastic, and hospitable image to attract more and more tourists to Lai Thieu in particular and Binh Duong province in general.

In recent years, Binh Duong has taken many measures to improve and develop the productivity and quality of fruit orchards with an area of over 1,238 hectares, of which mangosteen trees cover more than 660 hectares. To develop Lai Thieu orchard ecotourism services, many practical solutions have been proposed such as: Encouraging investment facilities to serve each type of tourist such as resort guests, weekend guests, conference guests, group tours, sports tourism, river entertainment, etc.

The “Lai Thieu Fruit Season” Festival held recently not only serves the needs of sightseeing, shopping, enjoying delicious dishes, famous fruit specialties of Lai Thieu land, but also raises people’s awareness in preserving orchards and conserving valuable local fruit varieties. At the same time, aiming to develop garden tourism has been closely associated with the formation and development of Thuan An land. Above all, in the process of rapid urbanization, maintaining the festival is one of the effective ways for Thuan An city to strive to preserve gardens in the middle of the city to develop tourism.

THUAN UYEN

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