
Visit the cocoa garden in Dong Nai
Visitors to Suoi Mo Park (Tan Phu, Dong Nai) often follow the following route: go along Highway 20, to Ta Lai - Tra Co crossroads, turn right to Suoi Mo. You can try going a little differently as follows: Turn right earlier, right at the junction of Phu Hoa and go toward Suoi Mo Park (see map).
Going this second path will be about 3 km shorter, however it is not important, it is important that you have an interesting stop: Cocoa Trong Duc.
Talk a little more about cocoa in Dong Nai province. Cocoa is grown in Dong Nai long time ago, but in the past, it was only grown ... for fun, until the 1980s people actually cultivated. Recently, Dong Nai has become one of the biggest cocoa growing and production plants in the country. At present, the province has more than 532 hectares of cocoa, of which 365 hectares have been harvested, the fresh cocoa output is estimated at approximately 1,200 tons. Not only planting, some units producing inoculants from large-scale cocoa were born, including Trong Duc cocoa Co..
Trong Duc Cocoa Co., Ltd was established in 2005, growing and processing and exporting finished cocoa. The company has launched products extracted from cocoa trees such as chocolate, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, wine .. exported to European countries, Japan .... In 2016, The company's revenue from cocoa reached 1 million USD.
The stop for the Cocoa World was opened by Trong Duc company in 2016. From the highway 20, the left side is the company's headquarters and cocoa garden, on the right is the Cocoa World.
Stop here, you have the opportunity to enjoy dishes made from familiar cocoa such as chocolate, cocoa powder ... and even some weird dishes like cocoa wine, cocoa wine or .. .
You can also buy cocoa products sold here.
Products from cocoa. Photo: Trong Duc Company
Then you can ask to visit the cocoa garden.
If you go to the crowd, you can ask to visit the factory to be introduced to the cocoa production process.
This is a good idea of Trong Duc company to introduce products and promote tourism. To be honest, the company did this not very well, but this is acceptable. Hopefully will improve better.
On the visitors' side, stopping for 30 minutes to rest, drinking cocoa, visiting cocoa gardens, and not doing a longer journey is reasonable, especially for those who drink cocoa, eat chocolate but never know about cocoa, how cocoa it is!
This is a good idea of Trong Duc company to introduce products and promote tourism. To be honest, the company did this not very well, but this is acceptable. Hopefully will improve better.
On the visitors' side, stopping for 30 minutes to rest, drinking cocoa, visiting cocoa gardens, and not doing a longer journey is reasonable, especially for those who drink cocoa, eat chocolate but never know about cocoa, how cocoa it is!
Pham Hoai Nhan