We started the day with a 3 hour drive to 'Cai Be' a town in the middle of the Mekong Delta where we visited a floating market where growers were selling their produce in bulk from their boats:
Went to a few of the obligatory tourist things - coconut candy factory and rice paper factory which were mildly interesting, even if the tourists were being fed in one end and out the other like a meat grinder making sausages. Naturally we came out a few dollars poorer trying to pick the coconut candy out between our teeth.
We had lunch on An Binh island and then hopped on bikes and went exploring the tracks and bridges alongside and over all the little canals. The countryside is so lush (is raining season - so everything alive is growing like mad) and you never know whats around the next corner:
Then a 5 hour boat trip along the narrow canals got us to the city of Can Tho - it was such an amazing boat trip, looking into the houses of people who live on and over the water - as they wash, cook and work. This is a typical row of shacks - everything is so run down and poorly maintained:
The young kids in these places were so excited to see us - they would yell, jump up and down and run alongside the river banks waving until we all waved back - they made us feel like royalty.
It was a fantastic day - with too many highlights to meantion here.
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