Mekong Delta

We were picked up by our guide and driver from Water Buffalo Tours at our hotel in Siagon and we headed for the Delta around 7:30.  This was a private tour so it was just Alicia and I.  Our guide was a 26 year old girl by the name of Hung or English name of Lizzy.  She was very funny and fun and short.  Her granddad was a helicopter pilot for the south during the war.  We headed to a local market out on the delta and Mom bought her Vietnamese hat (now she has to hall it around for the next two weeks.  After the market we drove down by the sea and toured rice fields and local homes by motor bike.  Then it was on to a seafood lunch by the ocean, prawns, clams, fried spring roles and soap, again all very good.  Then we headed inland an took a boat a crossed part of the Mekong then a smaller one through a small canal which was pretty.  Then drove about 3 hours to Can Tho the biggest city in the delta were we had a room on the 8th floor over looking the river.  We did not go out to eat as we were to full from lunch.  The next morning we left the hotel at 5:30 to tour the river floating market by boat.  There was a small small boat floating market were locals along the river shopped for fruit, then a larger whole sale market with larger boats.  Between the two markets we toured another canal that was prettier than the one the day before.  After the boat ride we drove about 4 hours up to the border with Cambodia, with a stop at a Cao Daism temple to watch them sing and pray, apparently they have fused a bunch of beliefs together.  After that we had lunch at a local home out in the country side.  Again a big lunch with prawns, a carmalized chicken dish, a veggie dish and a chicken soup dish all very good and again we skipped dinner as we eat around 2 pm.  Then we went for a walk and a boat ride in a forest reserve to see what the area used to be like.  Most of the area is rice fields now.  Then on the our hotel located on a hill side over looking the whole area, it was a nice place.  In the morning we headed into Chou Doc and caught our boat to Cambodia.