Vietnam Vacations – Ca Mau

Sunset at Ca Mau
Ca Mau province is very south of the country, there are three sides to the adjacent sea 307km coastline. The northern borders Kien Giang Province, the northeast border with Bac Lieu, the east and southeast coastal borders east, west and southwest borders Thailand Bay. Ca Mau is a great destination for eco tours during your Vietnam Vacations.

Ca Mau is located in tropical climate, monsoon, hot and humid. The rainy season starting from 5 months to 8, the other in less rainfall. Average rainfall 2.500mm/nam. Average temperature in about 26 º C – 27 º C.

Ca Mau is the new land, including land-phen, salty soil, peat land and beach land claims and make the fertility field. Ca Mau has network rivers chang chit, 7 River is the river Mr. Doc, Sat Hap, brawl, Ganh Hao, Dam Move, Trem Trem, Bach Nguu create the large estuaries. Peripheral Ca Mau also Hon Khoai island, Hon Chu?i.

Potential economic development and tourism

Water Ca Mau
Ca Mau has a long coastline of the ability to catch a big fish shrimp. It developed a lot of shrimp. Ca Mau has many rivers and canals network chang chit should travel and transport by boat wherry very convenient. Even in the forest, the forest tram, boat and no place to be.

Ca Mau City Cantho 179km months, city, Ho Chi Minh 350km. As a young city-speed economic development rapidly in recent years. Seaports International Year Battle fish and other ports, the Ca Mau airport has been improved to include use. Supermarket of the Ca Mau, a commercial center large, with shops and supermarkets, 3 stars hotels and offices for rent.

Transportation

Ca Mau Street
Road no: Ca Mau Airport.

Road: Highway 1A from Can Tho, Soc Trang down through Bac Lieu (114km), Ca Mau (180km) from Ca Mau to Nam (through the water) 55km. Street Highway 63 from Ca Mau to Rach Gia 130km. There are car routes from Western Bus by Ho Chi Minh City to Ca Mau. Planning a trip to Vietnam? Get the best Vietnam Travel Deals from Viet Vision Travel.

Waterway: ships from the Ca Mau City. Ho Chi Minh City (takes 30 hours), Rach Gia (12 minutes). There are ferries to forest U Minh Ngoc Hien.

Ca Mau Chief Procurator dismissed

Tran Cong Loc, Chief Procurator of the People’s Procuracy of the southern province of Ca Mau, has been replaced by Dam Hoang Vu, previously Vice Chief Procurator.

Loc was dismissed for violating regulations on declaring assets. Loc declared that he had only two houses, one in Ca Mau city and another in Soc Trang city, two breeding shrimp farms and two motorbikes. However, inspectors found out that besides the luxurious house worth a billion dong that Loc’s family is using, the chief procurator owns some other plots of land and houses located in very good positions in Ca Mau city, worth tens of billion dong.

In addition, Loc built a family temple in Nga Nam district, Soc Trang province, worth billions of dong. It is the largest of its kind in the Mekong Delta.

Loc also committed other violations related to land, irresponsibility, as well as has four children. State employees are allowed to have only two children.

In May 2008, the People’s Supreme Procuracy decided to suspend Loc from his job. On May 22, the Ca Mau Party Committee dismissed Loc from the Party and asked the People’s Supreme Procuracy to dismiss Loc from his post of Chief Procurator.

Ca Mau loses millions of euros from sale of antiques

The questionable decision to hold the auctions of Chinese pottery antiques in the Netherlands is estimated to have cost Vietnam millions of euros.

The wrecked ship was discovered accidentally. In 1998, Binh Thuan authorities detected two boat owners, Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Nguyen Ngoc Linh, offering for sale many antiques. Investigation revealed that the two men had taken 32,569 antique items and 2.4 tonnes of metal from a wreck, around 90 miles from Ca Mau Cape.

Experts joined forces to determine the origin and the age of antiques and they concluded they were Chinese pottery.

The ship was determined to have sunk while transporting the pottery from China’s Guangzhou to Indonesia’s Jakarta between 1727 and 1735. Because of fire, the boat, 24m long and 8m wide, sunk in the territorial waters of Vietnam.

Ca Mau province set up a steering board on the excavation and maintenance of the antiques taken from that wreck. The board’s members were officials of the Vietnam History Museum, the Ca Mau People’s Committee, the Ca Mau Department of Culture and Information, the Visal Rescue Enterprise, and representatives of the Ministries of Home Affairs, Defence and Transport.

From August 8, 1998 to June 7, 1999, Ca Mau fished out 131,639 antiques made of cloth, pottery, wood, stone, etc. The pottery is thought to have been produced at famous kilns in China.

The government permitted the two provinces of Ca Mau and Binh Thuan to take these antiques to the Netherlands for auction. More than 76,000 antiques were transported from Ca Mau to HCM City’s Cat Lai Port for export to Holland.

According to the agreement between the related sides, Ca Mau and Binh Thuan would share the income from the auctions, with 20% for the auctioneer, Sotheby’s.

The total income obtained from the auctions was more than Eur3 million but it fell to Eur2.5 million after paying income tax to the Netherlands, and the sum continued to decrease after paying fees for protection, maintenance, excavation, etc. Finally, Vietnam received around Eur1 million.

An antique expert said Vietnam lost millions of euros because of the auctions in the Netherlands since Vietnam had to pay tax, commissions to the organisers, etc. In addition, some businessmen in HCM City went to Holland to participate in the auctions.

The question is: why weren’t the auctions organised in Vietnam?

After the auction, Ca Mau province received nearly VND28 billion ($1.75 million). This sum was transferred into an account of the Ca Mau Department of Culture and Information at the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank).

The sum decreased again when the chief accountant of the Ca Mau Department of Culture and Information embezzled VND130 million ($8,000). However, the accountant died while the case was being investigated.

More than just Ca Mau Cape

Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau is well known for its cape which is frequented by tourists, both domestic and international.

But Ca Mau has other places for travelers to visit and one of them is Hon Khoai (Khoai Islet).

Early in the morning when fishing villagers along the Rach Goc River are still asleep, the eastern horizon turns reddish to remind people of a new day on the beautiful islet.

About 25 kilometers from the mainland of the Rach Goc estuary, it takes visitors nearly two hours to reach the islet by boat. On the way there, travelers can see the vivid scenery of the blue sea, the yellow sunlight and the green mangrove forests from afar.

The boat passes by some other islets like Doi Moi (tortoise shell), Tuong (elephant), and Sao (star), and rocky isles with unusually shaped rocks which look like towering animals.

The boat calls on Nho (small) beach southwest of the islet. The beach is so shallow that travelers can get ashore on a smaller boat. However, the beach is primitive and attractive thanks to luxuriant trees, limpid sea water and tender waves. A lovely egg-stone beach lined with casuarina trees will please tourists at the right side of the beach.

Although the island is unpopulated, visitors there are still greeted by service people and border guards. They are always ready to tell guests stories about the islet, life, storms and even homesickness.

Some young tourists are eager to climb up a mountain road to visit the lighthouse on top of the islet through forests rocks, and red soil. Tourists may be amazed at many kinds of tropical trees there such as an ancient tree with a diameter of around seven meters, ironwood, pine, and others along the mountain slope.

Moreover, they also enjoy twitter voices of birds around black tram fruits above and fragrance of magnolia spreading out the air. Tourists can stop by small springs to mirror themselves on the limpid water.

People in charge of the lighthouse are also willing to tell tourists about their daily life on the islet. They always serve as enthusiastic tour guides and introduce guests a stele next to the lighthouse to commemorate Hon Khoai revolution in 1940, some old prisons built by the French, even rich mango and jackfruit gardens nearby and vegetables.

Going down the mountain on a shady road to the eastern side, the Lon (big) beach comes into view. Some tourists pamper themselves in cool and clean water among sparkling waves, others just lie down on white sand to watch the faraway islets in the sunlight, fishing boats going up and down between forests and mountains. The scenery is like a luxurious resort.

In addition, the island is still an ideal place for environmentalists and scientists given its rich source of fresh water and a diversity of flora and fauna. An officer also tells tourists about the primitive forest on Khoai islet with many valuable medicinal herbs like multiflorous knotweed, fungus and cinnamon twig, and animals like varan, python and squirrel.

Tourists finish the trip with a dinner with braised fish, sour soup, boiled crab, and sticky rice alcohol. They will never forget the relaxing time with the beautiful scenery, friendly people on the islet.