Mekong Delta

I took a two day trip from Ho Chi Minh city to the Mekong Delta to see the wonders of this part of Vietnam. The trip consisted of boat rides around the Delta visiting floating markets, and places where coconut candy, rice paper and rice krispies are made. My first impression of the tour wasn't very good as the first floating market that we visited was pretty dead as all the action happened before 11am, the time that our bus got to the delta. After that we enjoyed a free lunch with "unlimited fresh fruits", which turned out to be only a handful of leeche fruits and rambutans. Needless to say the tour could only get better.

After lunch we got back in the boat and went to tour the coconut candy and rice paper shops. These were fairly ordinary but the coconut candy that was freshly made was delicious.

The following morning was spent going through another floating market. This time though it was 8am so the market was full of life and much more interesting. Each boat had people on it and everybody trying to sell something, from what I could tell it was mainly fruit for sale. After the floating market the tour stopped at a rice krispie shop where the rice krispies squares were being freshly made from the nearby grown rice.

After the tour it was a 4 hour bus ride back to Ho Chi Minh to spend the night and then on to Nha Trang.



Typical Mekong Delta setting, for one of the smaller river branches.













Rice paper drying in the sun














The floating market, the items displayed on the bamboo poles are what each boat is selling





















Making kice krispie squares