Cai Rang Floating Market Festival is the first time to be held on July 8-9. It is planned to be held every year in order to preserve the featured cultural identity of the people in the South West waterways region. Also, this annual festival can help provide a tourism highlight so as to attract more visitors to Can Tho City.                     Enjoying local food on boats_ a wonderful experience for tourists at Cai Rang Floating Market. Various Activities Cai Rang Floating Market Festival is held as part of activities in response to Viet Nam Tourism Day (July 9th), to promote Cai Rang Floating Market as it is recognized as the national intangible heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Also, this event helps highlight Can Tho City on the tourism map in Viet Nam, which will create favorable conditions for tourism agencies to cooperate well for better tours and thus...

According to the plan of the People's Committee of Can Tho City, The Fifth Southern Traditional Cake Festival 2016, hold by the Centre for Investigation – Trade Promotion and the Can Tho Exhibition Fair, will take place from October 15 to 19-04, (from 9 to 13-03 of lunar calendar), at the Cai Khe roundabout, Ninh Kieu district.                           With many attractive activities, the Southern Traditional Cake Festival 2015 attracted about 160,000 visitors. It is expected that the festival will have around 150 stalls including 80 stalls of traditional cake, 50 stalls of regional specialties, handicrafts and 20 international stalls, with the participation of artisans from provinces and cities in the country and companies from Japan, Korea, India ... 7 main activities to be held at the festival are: the opening night...

The ecological characteristics of Can Tho are quite similar to other provinces of the Mekong Delta so basically food and dishes in Can Tho are also similar to other regions’ food. Cooked ordinary rice is the major food and dishes are fish, meat ... processed by grilling, frying, steaming, stirring, braising... In addition, eels, frogs, turtles, snakes, birds ... are plenty and easy to be found that contribute to enrich the meals of Can Tho people. It can be said that, a meal of Can Tho people consists of rice + vegetables + fish + meat. Depending on customs of each local and the situation of each family that the materials could be varied. However, previously, Can Tho people, especially in rural areas used to have the habit of prioritizing the meal of rice + vegetable + fish. Meat was secondary because this was luxurious item that was only served in holidays, but rivers were full of fish, just needed to catch for their meal. A simple meal with sour soup, braised fish, stir-fry...