Tay Ninh - Where Profound Stories Are Recounted in a Day’s Time

If you would like to climb a mountain as day trips without traveling far away from Ho Chi Minh city, Tay Ninh will be a best choice for you. Ba Den mountain in Tay Ninh is the highest mountain of Southeast Vietnam. Moreover, a special province of Tay Ninh will give interesting stories of culture and history within a day's trip.

Ba Den Mountain (Source Internet)

The story of the Vietnam war was imprinted profoundly in Tay Ninh where was located the base of the Vietnam revolutionary force in the South of Vietnam before they regained the sovereign from The Republic of Vietnam. That land still maintains revolutionary monuments of the Vietnam war and Vietnamese spirits (in war): braveness, sacrifice, relationships between citizens and soldiers. Furthermore, the land could recount the stories of tears and bloods of the Polpot genocide and the operations of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Southwest border war.

Cao Dai - one of the internal regions of Vietnam was established in Tay Ninh. Tay Ninh Holy See (Toa Thanh Tay Ninh)- the holy land of Cao Dai religion, is the place of pilgrimage, especially on the fifteenth day of the eighth month annually (according to the lunar calendar). Incense dragon dance and fruit art are striking at the event on that day. The architecture of two parallel towers of Cao Dao’s temple becomes a symbol of Vietnamese traditional architecture. Cao Dai believers worship The Creator through the symbol of the Eye of Providence.

Tay Ninh Holy See (Source Internet)

Tender beef, shrimp chili salt, and rice cake are the outstanding provincial identities of Tay Ninh. These special foods will make your one day trip from Ho Chi Minh city tasty and enjoyable. The province’s location is non-coastal but it is a famous place of products of shrimp chili salt and snacks made in salt. Rice cake is an important identification point of Vietnam food, and Tay Ninh is a right place to learn about that culinary culture.  Dozens of snacks made from rice cakes help to contribute to the diversity of the Southern street food. You can see rice cake and shrimp salt everywhere in Tay Ninh. The piece of rice cake made by grilling and leaving under the night fog is a Vietnam heritage and culinary masterpiece.

Tay Ninh also has the peaceful evening in the border area where people could look at Cambodian poor workers and children who wander along the border area to earn their living such as cutting grass and picking bottles, cans. When the sun dawns, they quickly go back to Cambodia. The shadow of them tells the sad stories of underprivileged lives in the Southeast Asia