Mekong Delta

So an early start in Saigon to go on our Mekong Delta tour for a couple of days, was a really good trip and great value for all the things we did. We were really lucky to meet another British couple (Nic and Chris) doing the same tour as us and then heading over to Phu Quoc Island too so that was really nice. The first day of the tour consisted of visiting a few islands near the town of My Tho, we tried honey tea (really good), I tried some snake wine (not so good) and some coconut candy, which I expected to be much nicer but it was still tasty. We also had a little boat trip down one of the narrow branches of the delta, it was so busy though with tours etc, it was like the M25 in rush hour!

That night we stayed in the town of Can Tho. We went with Nic and Chris to this really cool ‘do it your self’ BBQ by the river for dinner, it was amazing! We had so many different meats and shrimp, definitely a fun way to have dinner – and no one got food poisoning from our cooking, result!! The other option was having Rat or Frog in the restaurant near our hotel; I think we definitely chose wisely.

 Snake wine - lovely!!!

On the second day of our delta tour we visited the Cai Rang floating market, there were heaps and heaps of boats but it was more like a wholesale market, you couldn’t just buy little things (so Ben was quite pleased I couldn’t spend more money!). We stopped at one of the many pineapple boats and had some yum pineapple, the tropical fruit is amazing here. We also did a little trip to an orchard to try some more fruit and have a little stroll, the mango was epic!

After that we had to split form the group to go to the ferry port town of Rach Gia, pretty rubbish town, we got approached by a Vietnamese hobo with a glove on one hand – Nic and I thought he may be hiding a hook!