The past few days Clem and I have spent cruising around the floating markets in the Delta in the south west part of Vietnam. Its the most densely populated area of Vietnam and completely beautiful. We had our first experience on a local bus (no where near as bad as some of the stories of being sat next to chickens etc, much to our disappointment). We woke up at around 5am one morning and bargained with a woman who we thought would be our boat driver, however, she turned out to basically be the pimp of all the boat drivers, instead we had her "sister" who spoke no English but seemed reasonably nice anyway. Our first stop was the biggest floating market called Phong Dien. It was surprisingly well organised. Each little boat had something similar to a flag pole, with a little bunch of whatever produce they were selling at the top. Also the boats were rammed with pineapples etc which was literally falling out of the windows! We cruised up the river for another hour and stopped at the "best" market called Cai Rang.
boat of pineapples
our boat driver
the pumpkin boat
the way they cut up pineapples here is just amazing
random torrential rain
best noodles we have had so far
