BenTre Provinceis located 85km South of Ho Chi Minh City in the Mekong River Delta, with an area of 2,315km2. Ben Tre is nested between two main branches of the Mekong’s largest tributary, which diverges to create a fertile agricultural region and beautiful coastline. The seaside of Ben Tre Province is 60km of Southern Vietnam’s finest scenery, with an abundance of fascinating opportunities for the curios tourists.

Ben Tre is generally flat, with some surprising topographical features such as sand dunes and unique rock formations. There is lots of farmland which takes advantage of the area’s abundance of fresh water and alluvial soil. This is a place of diverse and complex river systems, winding water channels and canals. The weather in Ben Tre is typically monsoon tropical with high average temperature of 26 to 27 degrees Celsius. The rainy season usually begins in May and lasts until October, with average rainfall of 1,250 – 1,500 mm a year. This climate provides the province with a wide variety of fruits, trees and animals, many of which are rare and valuable species.

At present, Ben Tre is home to approximately 1.35 million people. Like other areas of the Mekong River Delta, residents in Ben Tre are humble, generous and hard-working, but they are also courageous and indomitable.

• Ben Tre Highlights
• Phung Islet
• Coconut Cake of Giong Luong
• Vam Ho Bird Sanctuary
• The Handicraft Villages