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1. How to get Cai Rang floating market
It is about 6km to transfer from the centre of Can Tho city to Cai Rang market and takes about 30 minutes to move from Ninh Kieu Wharf to this market. To get around Cai Rang floating market, visitors should hire a boat with reasonable prices.
Traveling by boat to this nice floating market, travelers will be taken to visit around the Cai Rang market to buy seasonal agricultural products in the garden and taste the specialties. Besides, visitors will have chance to learn more about the daily life of the local people and enjoy the bustling atmosphere of the floating market.
2. What interesting things visitors should try to do when traveling Cai Rang market
This bustling floating market plays an important role of purchase and exchange of goods in this area when the road and vehicles running in the road were not grown there. At the present, the road traffic network in this area has been developed but this floating market not only is still active but also maintains its important position in the traffic. It is also increasingly crowed and become a potential economic developing site in the Mekong Delta.
Cai Rang market usually takes place from the early morning to 8AM or 9AM. Canoe and boat are common vehicles used by the locals for transfer in the market. Each boat often is place selling a kind of good. The locals have a particular advertising way: they set a bamboo column in the front of their boat, which is hung the goods they sell in order that the buyers recognize it easily.
The most bustling time of this market is around 7AM and it is nearly inactive on the Tet holiday. In order to demand the abundant demand of the locals, not only fruit and agricultural products but also many unique services such as boat selling caf, souvenir, pho or noodle soup are available there. The interesting features of this region and fresh fruits are the attraction of Cai Rang market captivating both domestic tourists and foreign tourists.
Traveling this site, travelers will be enjoyed the bustling daily life of the gentle and friendly locals in the floating market with scenery of selling and buying goods and all activities taking place in the boats.
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