Sa Dec flower village is crowded with visitors during the Tet holidays (Lunar New Year) in where has thousands of flowers blooming brightly to bring spring atmosphere, attracting tourists everywhere to visit and take photos of these colourful. If you travel here on weekend, you will surprise while a hundred cars and buses park at the entrance of this flower village of Sa Dec (Dong Thap), tourist come delegations from Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho and neighboring provinces connecting long lines. Many people traveling by motorbikes have to wriggle through empty spaces.
Guests visiting the flower garden follow the union to buy tickets 20,000 VND from 17/1. Local people, traders in flower villages, children under 16 years old have a height of 1.4 m or less, disabled people ... do not have to buy tickets.
Sa Nhien Flower Street - Cai Dao is more than 2 km long, which is the most convenient place for visitors to admire the gardens of each colorful village. Guests can choose to walk, take the tram for 40,000 VND per person (going and returning) or rent a motorbike taxi with the price of 20,000 VND.
And Mr. Huy Hoang and his group of motorbike riders from Ho Chi Minh City to Sa Dec from the evening before said: "Wanting to take photos of the flower village early in the morning, we have been here since the previous day. This year is more beautiful than last year. The management of garden owners is also more professional, "Hoang said.
In recent years, some garden houses have built many works such as flower bridges, cafes among flower gardens to create more landscapes to attract tourists. Mr. Tran Huu Tai, owner of a garden of more than 10,000 m2 in Sa Nhien, Tan Quy Dong ward, said that since the Lunar New Year Festival of 2019, his establishment has put in service a steel watch tower of 18 m high, with the amount invest more than 1.5 billion.
And the garden of Mr. Hai Cao also invested over VND 400 million to build Dai Kieu Bridge and Tieu Kieu Bridge so that guests can take photos of the flower garden. Visitors to this flower garden will have to buy tickets of 10,000 VND per person.
Besides the large number of visitors, the flower village also gathered traders from all over. However, visitors are not crowded because there are many flower spaces in the garden houses.
The owner of the flower plant In Thoi said, traders from the place down to choose, buy and rent a car to return. "There are many traders in Hanoi who also place flowers here to sell Tet," he said.
According to many garden owners, the current flower village compared to 3 years ago is completely different. Nearly 20 years of making flowers in the garden, Uncle Dat said: "People in the village now have a sense of planting ornamental flowers combined for visitors to increase their income."
Currently people here actively participate in tourism. Many households have opened homestays, created the best order environment, and found a highlight for each year to attract visitors.
Sa Dec flower village (Dong Thap) is the current name of Tan Quy Dong flower village with traditional flower planting for over hundred years. In the early years of the 20th century, the village only had a few households working with the purpose of serving decorative flowers on the occasion of traditional Tet. Realizing that the flowers were blooming because of the fertile alluvial soil, the Tien River accreted, people took the model of growing flowers into the whole village.
Unlike most other flower-growing areas, the hundred-year-old flower village impresses visitors by the image of flower beds "not touching the ground". The flower pots here are stacked or hung on rigs made of bamboo, higher than the ground, and the bottom is shallow. Floating season, farmers use swimming boats to weave between beds to take care of flowers. “It is like growing flowers in a river-like region. My house always has a few boats ready for flowers, "a garden owner said.
Currently the village has an area of about 500 hectares with more than 2,300 households planting about 2,500 species of ornamental flowers. Not only is one of the largest ornamental flower stalls in the South, Sa Dec flower village is also a tourist attraction to visit the Lunar New Year.
