6 min readNgọc Hân
A day following the NG-Guide robot on a smart farm
A guide robot that speaks four languages, stops right where strawberries are ripe and reminds you to drink water when it's hot.
Stories
Red pottery, coconut candy, rice paper, pia cake, sedge mats, flowers and fruit preserves – told by the people who keep the crafts.
5 min readMinh Khang
Cai Rang floating market at 5 am: how to do it right
Best time, shared or private boat, what to eat on the water and what to avoid.
7 min readThảo Vy
Flood season at Tra Su: a forest carpeted in green
September to November is when the forest is at its best. Here is the 2-day An Giang route I took.
Traditional craft villages
- Red brick and pottery from domed kilnsMang Thit pottery villageAlong Thay Cai canal, red domed kilns stand in a row like a small kingdom – where river clay becomes bricks, jars and pots.
- Hand-cooked coconut candyCoconut candy villageIn coconut country, the smell of coconut cream cooking in pans fills the hamlet from early morning. Every candy passes through a dozen hands.
- Coconut rice paperMy Long rice paper villageWood fires are lit by 3 am. By noon, white drying racks line the village lanes.
- Ornamental flowers on raised bedsSa Dec flower villageIn Sa Dec, flowers grow not on the ground but on beds raised over water channels – so they stay dry when the floods come.
Video features
Travel blog
8 min readHoàng Long
The keepers of Mang Thit's kiln fires
Once home to thousands of kilns, the red pottery village is finding new life through tourism.
6 min readGia Bảo
What to eat in the Mekong: 12 dishes by season
Straw-grilled snakehead in the dry season, fermented fish hotpot with sesbania in flood season.
6 min readNgọc Hân
Hunting tree-ripened durian in Cai Mon – and the salinity sensor
A third-generation grower on the drought year and how technology kept the orchard alive.