Mekong Delta

We spent our first couple of nights in the Mekong Delta on a pretty floating house on the river near the town of My Tho.  Pretty basic what with bamboo walls, ceiling and floor so no protection from mosquitoes but thankfully there weren’t any to speak of.  It felt like living on a waterbed for two nights.  We then each took a motorbike taxi to a bus which took us to Can Tho, the main town in the delta where we are now.  We were up at 5.15 this morning to go off to see a couple of floating markets – Cai Rang and Phuong Dien but the tour also included visiting a rice noodle factory which I found fascinating.  We also got to try a huge number of different fruits: jackfruit, mango, longan, dragon fruit, banana, papaya, pineapple, pomelo (large grapefruit), something which sounded like ‘lachrymose’,  water coconut and star apple.  Extraordinary variety here.  Mangoes are just coming into season.  Some of the smaller canals are astonishingly beautiful. 

This was our floating house on the Mekong

Floating markets