The entire area of Ba Om Pond is more than 300 hectares, including three main parts: the pond, the pond edge and the ancient forest surrounding the pond.

The center of the scenic spot is a freshwater pond with a fairly standard square shape, so Ba Om Pond is also known as Square Pond, each side is about more than 300 m long, from 01 m (dry season) to 02 m (rainy season) deep. It can be easily recognized that, with a capacity of 01 - 02 million cubic meters, Ba Om Pond is an ancient irrigation lake, manually dug by the local community many centuries ago to store rainwater. ensuring fresh water sources for people's daily life and agricultural cultivation on a large surrounding sand dune land. The pond surface is approximately 100 hectares wide, with perennial freshwater, and is an ideal environment for many species of aquatic plants and animals such as shrimp, fish, frogs, and amphibians; lotus, water lily... proliferate and develop.

The outermost is a primeval forest that is preserved quite intact, about 30 - 100 m wide, more than 2 km long, with thousands of endemic plants of sand dunes, including nearly 500 ancient oil trees. hundred years old. Through the erosion process of wind and rain, sand and soil are swept away, leaving behind ancient tree roots with very strange shapes, stimulating the curiosity of visitors from near and far as well as the imagination of poets and musicians. visited once. Beneath the intersecting foliage of the primeval forest is a cool year-round path with winding, winding, and steep hills, making it easy for people to associate and call Ao Ba Om a "Da Lat in the middle of the Plains". equal".

The buffer between the pond surface and the primeval forest is a sandy bank about 5 m wide, creating an ideal walking path nearly 2 km long, between one side is the ancient forest and the other side is the clear blue water.

Stopping at Ba Om Pond, each of us will love nature and love life more as the famous folk song once affirmed:

       “Ba Dong Beach has blue water and white sand,

         Ba Om Pond is a scenic spot in the West.

             Welcome visitors here,

Stop by to see how magical this place is.”…

There are many different legends and stories that exist side by side to explain the name Ao Ba Om. Among them, the legends of the Khmer ethnic people have many interesting details and are widely popular. This legend says:

…“In the past, Khmer people still followed matriarchy, so the bride's family had to ask for her hand in marriage and bear all the wedding expenses for the groom's family. Gradually, the patriarchy that shapes wedding customs also changes, so there is a dispute over whether the bride's family or the groom's family should propose marriage. To both solve the water source to ensure life and solve the problem of marriage to maintain the race, Phum Soc set up a pond digging contest between men and women, with the rules that the contest takes place at night, until the morning star. If it grows above the top of the tree, it's over.

Going into the game, the young men relied on their health so they did not rush, just drank, danced until late, then fell asleep. The women, under the command of Mrs. Om, knew they were weak so they encouraged each other to dig all night. In the middle of the night, Mrs. Om devised a plan to hang a wind lamp on a tree branch. The sleeping men were startled, their eyes closed and they opened. They saw the wind lamp on the top of the tree, thinking the morning star had risen, so they pulled each other out, just as agreed. In the morning, the women's pond was formed, straight, square and filled with water, while the men's pond was shallow, uneven, and had no shape at all.

Men have no choice but to admit defeat. The nation's traditional wedding customs are still maintained and a large freshwater pond is formed in the middle of a sandy hill, ensuring human life can flourish and develop.

To commemorate the merits of the clever woman, the Tra Vinh ethnic community named the pond after her - Ao Ba Om. …

There is also a legend that on the low hills, sandy loam soil in the southwest of Tra Vinh town, every rainy season, braised cilantro grows abundantly. Local people work together to harvest rice and bring it to the market to exchange rice, as a source of windfall. At one time, delicious beef in Luong Hoa - Nguyet Hoa area (Chau Thanh district) was famous near and far because cows in this area only ate braised cilantro. During the French colonial period, Ba Se beef was ranked among the  "three treasures of Tra Vinh"  (along with Ba Dong watermelon and Dau Bo rice) and was brought to "trick fighting" by the colonial government (similar to attending a world fair). product introduction today) in Marsaile (France). Ao Ngo Om gradually transforms into Ao Ba Om...

No matter what legend or explanation it comes from, Ao Ba Om is a large, ancient irrigation lake, formed by the hands and minds of workers and makes an important contribution to ensuring water resources. Fresh water for daily life and production of Tra Vinh ethnic community for many centuries.

With those great material and spiritual values, Ba Om Pond is ranked as a national historical and cultural relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism). Scenic Monument, in 1994.

Ao Ba Om is one of the main centers of the Ok om bok festival - a national intangible cultural heritage, taking place on the full moon day of the tenth lunar month every year. Along with the historical and cultural relics of Ang Pagoda (a type of artistic architecture), the Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture and the Provincial Cultural and Sports Center, the Ao Ba Om area is an important highlight in the strategy. Developing the Tra Vinh tourism economic sector in the 21st century.

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