Just in from Mekong Delta Day. Well worth the 2.5hr journey. All our buses comfy so that helps. We often manage two seats each! The 2 million people who live there farm sugarcane,fruit,coconut,fish and of course rice. The river is so large it has two daily tides - very fertile soil in delta allows for intensive farming. After the rainy season, about now, one of the tributaries REVERSES it's flow back up into the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia. We will be flying over this lake from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap on Tuesday.
After the drive this morning we took a junk cruise around a large island in the Delta stopping at local home industries along the way. We saw poprice (as opposed to popcorn) being made along with rice paper used to wrapping spring rolls. We then enjoyed a great lunch at a local familie's home.
Have so many pics to choose from... will now finish posting the pics from Hoi An and then get to Saigon.