A visit to Southeast
Asia’s biggest snake farm in Vietnam
In the southern province of
Tien Giang, tourists should drop by Binh Duc Commune in Chau Thanh District
to take a close look at different snake species at the Dong Tam Snake Farm,
the largest snake farm in Southeast Asia.
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This is the province’s biggest such facility and one of
the country’s largest snake breeding and anti-venom making center. Covering
11 hectares, the farm, about 10km from My Tho City, has a collection of over
50 species of snakes, including poisonous ones, such as king cobras,
Colubridae snakes and pythons.
The farm’s snake museum has been certified as the first
snake museum of Vietnam by the Vietnam Records Book Center. Next to the
museum are restaurants serving snake dishes including rice soup with snake,
snake salad and fried snake bones.
Visiting the Dong Tam farm, tourists can learn how to
treat snakebites, remove venom and use venom as medicine. Snake wine, powder,
glue and anti-venom are available at shops around there.
Apart from snakes, Dong Tam is home to sheep,
ostriches, tortoises, monkeys, birds and crocodiles, as well as a lot of
large trees, green space and lakes. The farm is not only a place for
preserving rare snake species and doing research on snakes but a center for
visitors to indulge in wildlife and explore nature.
Tickets for admission to the farm cost VND25,000
(around US$1) per adult and VND15,000 per child.
Below is the suggested three-day trip to Tien Giang.
Day 1
7 am: Departure from Ho Chi Minh City to Tien Giang. If
traveling by car, you can choose Trung Luong Expressway.
9am: Stop for breakfast in My Tho City
10am: Going to Dong Tam Snake Farm. Making a tour
around the farm to see different species of snakes, learn about their life,
the procedures to collect venom and to produce snakebite medicine.
12pm: Having lunch in the museum. Take a rest.
1 pm: Leave the snake farm to the Rach Gam - Xoai Mut
relic site.
3pm: Visit Vinh Trang pagoda on Nguyen Trung Truc road
in My An hamlet, My Phong commune. The temple was built in the early 19th
century, featuring Asia – European architecture.
4pm: Visit the My Tho Cathedral at 32 Hung Vuong
Street, which was built in the early 20th century with the Western European
style.
5 pm: Go to the hotel to take dinner, discover My Tho
City at night.
Day 2
7am: Check out of the hotel, depart for Go Cong.
9am: Discover Truong Dinh Mausoleum, a temple of
Oriental architecture.
10am: Visit the complex of tombs built in 1826 of the
Pham Dang family. This is one of several works in the southwestern region
which have existed for several hundred years.
11am: Go to Tan Thanh beach, one of the famous beaches
in the southwestern region. You should catchoysters and enjoy delicious
dishes processed from oysters.
2pm: Visit, purchase and enjoy seafood at Vam Lang
market.
4pm: Drop by Kieng Phuoc village to see a giant whale
skeleton at the village’s communal house.
5 pm: Go to the hotel to rest, have dinner, and explore
Go Cong at night.
Day 3
3am: Visit Cai Be floating market. The market operates
from 3 am to 6am every day.
7am: Hire a boat to travel along the Tien River.
8 am: Stop at Tan Phong island to enjoy fresh fruit in
orchards on the island and visit a coconut candy production facility or a
handicraft making facility.
11am: Go to Long Islet by boat, the home to fish cages
and boat repair facilities. Have lunch, relax and listen to southern music
here.
2pm: Hire a small boat to travel along small canal
under the shade of water coconut trees.
3pm: Departure from Tien Giang back to HCM City.
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