Soil conditions :
The local soil conditions are very suitable for the growth of cash crops and fruit trees.  The 100-km coastline in Dong Nai is a natural reserves for different kinds of seafood. In addition this coast is endowed with two beautiful beaches which attract many swimmers and holiday makers.
Dong Nai is also a major industrial complex with about 100 major plants and enterprises.  The province is easily accessible by land, river and sea routes.  It is endowed with many picturesque landscapes such as Tri An Water Fall, Cat Tien National Park, Long Hai and Phuoc Hai swimming beaches.

Dong Nai River:
The river starts from the central Highlands for a stretch of 480 kilometers. The portion of the river running across the province is about 294 kilometers. Sprawling along the two banks of the river are many beautiful villages. Some islets merging from the river also offer a good habitat for some local flora and fauna which make the river more picturesque. The provincial tourism company has already developed a new kind of tour by offering visitors boat cruises along the river.

Tri An Water Fall:
The water fall in the Dong Nai river is 50 kilometers down stream from the capital township of Bien Hoa. The fall is 8 meters high and 30 meters wide. It offer a broad view of the magnificent natural surroundings. The bed of the fall is dotted with several islets and boulders.

Tri An Hydro-electric power plant:
This is the biggest power plant in southern Vietnam. It provides sufficient electricity to Dong Nai and the several neighbouring provinces including Ho Chi Minh City.  Tri An is a mighty water fall. This area is reputed throughout the eastern part of South Vietnam for its picturesque landscapes. Thus, it has now become a major tourist attraction in Dong Nai.

Long an Lake:
This area can be compared to a miniature Ha Long Bay in the Tonkin Gulf. the lake is tens of hectares in area and six kilometers from Bien Hoa town.

What attracts many vacationers to this lake is that it is surrounded by and dotted with large boulders that make it look like a small inland bay. Although it is a man-made reservoir long An lake remains a popular place for visitors.

Buu Long Mountain and Buu Phong Pagoda:
Buu Long is a mountain peak seven kilometers from Bien Hoa. The mountain peak is accessible through a flight of 99 stone slabs. On top of the mountain peak is located a pagoda houses some wooden statues with carvings very typical of Oriental arts. The pagoda was built in 1679.

Cat Tien National Park:
Cat Tien is a primitive forest with an area of 3,500 hectares. The forest is a natural habitat and a diverse and rich bio mass. The forest is home to valuable and giant timber trees such as red wood and bang lang. It is also an ideal habitat for large wild animals such as elephants and bison and rhinoceros. What is attracting many archaeologists to the forest is that it still houses some valuable archeological relics.  Cat Tien forest is about 150 kilometers from Bien Hoa.

Long Hai - Phuoc Hai beaches:
These are two beautiful swimming beaches about 100 kilometers Southeast of Bien Hoa. They are reputed not only for their long strips of white sand and gentle waves but also for special local seafood.

Hang Gon ancient tomb:
The ancient tomb has been listed as a cultural relic itemized in the government protection list. The tomb is believed to belong to a culture existed more than 2,500 years ago. The peculiar trait of the tomb is that it has been built with large flat slabs of stones. The tomb is regarded as a typical item of a motif called "DOLMEN" in Southeast Asia.  The ancient tomb is located in Xuan Tan village in Xuan Loc district, about 80 kilometers from Bien Hoa.

Binh Da lithophones:
The site is 8 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City. It attracts a lot of archeologists for their researches of the lithophone musical instrument.

Pomelo Tan Trieu village:
The village, 25 kilometers from Bien Hoa, is reputed regionally for its many orchards of pomelo. Visitors to the village are likely to be offered several fruits to try for different taste that the several kinds of pomelo at Tan Trieu have to offer. The Thanh Tra pomelo is recognized easily for its freshly sweet. Tan Trieu pomelo village is a very sought after in the domestic and foreign markets. Dong Nai remains home to the traditional pottery making trade.

Buu Phong Pagoda:
Buu Phong Pagoda was built in the 17th century on Buu Long Mountain, in Dong Nai province, 6 km from Bien Hoa. Nearly 100 steps must be climbed to go up Buu Long Mountain and reach the pagoda.  At first, the pagoda was only a thatch-roof hut that was reconstructed more solemnly by Master Phap Thong. The pagoda was renovated and enlarged again in 1829. More renovations were also done recently.

Cat Tien National Park :
The Cat Tien National Park is located in the three provinces of Dong Nai, Lam Dong and Binh Phuoc. In 1978, the South Cat Tien and North Cat Tien parks were put under the State's protection. In 1992, the Cat Loc Park was listed in the program for the protection of natural wild animals and flora. In December 1998, these three parks joined together to become the Cat Tien National Park, under the management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Covering an area of 74,319 hectares, the Cat Tien National Park has preserved its original natural soil with a diverse ecological system and many rare and valuable species of animals listed in the Red Book of Endangered Animals. The landscape surrounding the Park is magnificent, and the local people have maintained practicing customs and habits full of national cultural identities.

Coming along National Highway 20 from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat, at Milestone No.174 being Tan Phu cross-road, and turning left, you will see a board "Cat Tien National Park - 24km".

Let come  into the forest on a trail covered with tree leaves. The sunshine was on the canopies, layer after layer. The air was humid. The cicadas resounded over the forest. Don't forget to see a 400-year-old conifer there. Going a bit further you can see another tree, called bang lang (Lagerstroemie corniculata), which is almost 300 years old. From its trunk of nearly 3 meters in diameter, 6 ivory sub-trunks sprouted. There are many other strange trees in the forest: a red-wood tree having a diameter of 3.7m, a benjamin fig having a fasciculate root that runs along the stream and can shade about 20 people, a banyan tree having a hollow trunk which is large enough for 3 people, to name but a few.

So far, in Cat Tien Park, 1,610 kinds of flora have been classified which belong to 75 species, 162 families and 724 branches, many of them listed in the Red Book.

The Dong Nai River is a natural boundary that embraces three sides of Cat Tien Park. On the left bank, villages and gardens are built close to the water, and on the right bank are wild forests with primitive green canopies. Numerous species of birds built their nests in the canopies. Inside the primitive forest, there are various kinds of fauna typical for the low land of the eastern Truong Son and the Central Highlands. According to surveys made by the Park's Management Board, there are 77 kinds of animals belonging to 28 families and 10 species; 326 kinds of bird in 62 families and 18 species; 37 kinds of reptiles in 18 families and 3 species; 133 kinds of fish in 28 families, and a wide range of insects. Most worthy of note are the animals listed in the Red Book of Endangered Animals such as Ban ten bull, Gaur bull, tiger, bear, wolf, black-foot monkey, peacock, white-neck crane, pheasant (which are found only in Southeast Asia), crocodile, pantheon, etc. In particular, there is a group of 7-8 one-tusk rhinoceros, which has attracted attention from both domestic and foreign scientists. At 4 a.m, on May 17, 1999, an automatic set of cameras captured images of a grown-up rhinoceros, which has been classified as a member of the Java rhinoceros family.

In November 1998, in Phu My Village, Cat Tien District, an ancient village dating back 2,500-3,000 years was discovered. This is a complex of relics, including temples and towers and many artifacts, which proved the mixture of the Chan Lap civilization of the south and the Cham Pa civilization of the north. Among the artifacts, there are several statues which were for worshipping, such as the Linga-Yoni (sacred worshipping items representing the human sexual organs). There is a Linga, 2.1m high, which is the biggest of this kind in the world. Many other vestiges showed that Cat Tien was the Holy Land of the ancient Phu Nam Kingdom built about 2,000 years ago.