Bến Tre, Province in southern Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Bến Tre is a province in the southern Mekong Delta in Vietnam, crossed by a network of rivers and narrow canals. Wide coconut plantations stretch alongside green rice fields on both sides of the waterways, shaping the flat terrain.
The province emerged as an administrative unit during French colonial rule and initially bore a different name. After the partition of Vietnam, it developed rapidly into an important agricultural center in the southern part of the country.
Residents often travel by small wooden boats along narrow waterways to carry fresh coconuts from farm to farm. Visitors walking along the riverbanks see families drying rice paper under palm-thatch roofs or preparing coconut candy in open workshops.
Most visitors arrive by bus or car from Ho Chi Minh City using well-maintained roads that connect the province to the south. Once there, boat trips along the canals offer a way to explore the countryside and the small villages along the banks.
The province carries the nickname Coconut Land because large parts of Vietnamese coconut production take place here. Visitors can walk along the banks on old monkey bridges, made from a single felled coconut palm trunk and connecting neighboring plots of land.
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