Qualla: Tra Vinh https://qualla.com/tra-vinh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tra Vinh https://qualla.com/tra-vinh Tra Vinh: Introduction https://qualla.com/tra-vinh/ The shade is the first thing you notice. Most Mekong Delta towns are built of concrete, corrugated steel and glare, and you spend the middle of the day looking for somewhere to stand. Trà Vinh is different. Its streets run under a canopy of trees old enough that their trunks have outgrown the pavement around them, and the light that reaches the ground arrives filtered and green. The city is small - 112,738 people in 2022, spread across just under 68 square kilometres - and its centre is walkable in an afternoon. What makes it worth the afternoon is not scale. It is the fact that roughly one resident in five is Khmer, another six percent are ethnic Hoa, and the architecture of daily life here reflects all three communities at once.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/w/tra-vinh-wk/w3ew-tra-vinh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tra Vinh: The Square Pond and the Wager https://qualla.com/tra-vinh/ Seven kilometres southwest of the centre, along Highway 53, sits Ao Bà Om - a rectangle of still water about 500 metres by 300, so deliberately shaped that its other name is simply Ao Vuông, the Square Pond. Sand ridges ring the shore, and the ancient trees growing on them have h...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/w/tra-vinh-wk/w3ew-tra-vinh-angkorajaborey.mp3 0:06 3 full Tra Vinh: The Cave Gate at Kompông Chrây https://qualla.com/tra-vinh/ The pagoda most visitors remember has a nickname rather than a name. Chùa Hang, the Cave Pagoda, is properly Kompông Chrây - mulberry wharf, after the ferry landing that once operated beneath a great tree at its entrance. Founded in 1637 and led by twenty-two abbots since, it ear...

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