The "rice bowl" of Vietnam, the Mekong Delta, is a landscape carpeted in a dizzying variety of greens. It is also a water world where boats, houses, restaurants, hotels, and markets, float upon the innumerable rivers, canals, and streams that finger their way to the South China Sea.
It is a rural area that has the most densely populated regions in Vietnam, where almost every acre is farmed. The pace is slow, but everybody is busy, working at whatever task they take on.
Our tour led us to a variety of sites including fish farms to bee farms, coconut candy making to rice paper making, horses pulling carts to women rowing small wooden boats, entertaining us with snake charmers, and traditional Vietnamese music. Delicious food was dish up, and if you had the stomach for it, you could have tasted the spirits of snake wine.
We almost passed up this visit to the Mekong Delta, but after taking a second look at our visas for Vietnam, we realized that we had a couple more days. So off we went, and glad we did!!
The Mighty Mekong River, and then the departing
point from the bus to the boat.
Walking to the rice paper kitchen.
Rice paper drying.
Making rice paper.
Rice paper chips. It tastes like rice crispies.
Homes on the Mekong.
Our boat on one of the arteries.
Bees.
Traditional musicians and singers.
Brave young Aussie!
Row boating down an artery.
Shared a boat with the young Aussies.
Water buffalo.
They farm fish right off their boats.
Laundry day!
Arranging nets while the tide is down.
Low tide mud flats.
Walking to the restaurant for lunch.
Elephant fish... some of our lunch. We had something
similar in China.
More homes on the river.
We got to ride in these small carts pulled by very small,
skinny horses.
Anyone for snake wine?!!!
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