• Marja HartleyHello, Suasdey, Xin ChaoTraveler
    Some of the merchants had to start their trip very early – some just past midnight...
    ...and can be a very peaky cabin seat as well, when on the pineapple boat!Cai Rang Floating Market calling – we've been proper early birds as well and up at 6.00 am!It's a wholesale market: you can not just buy a watermelon, but you must do some tens of kilos!After selling out, a quick pit-stop at the floating gas station, before heading back home

    Cai Rang Floating Market

    December 1, 2019 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Mekong Delta is, where the Mekong River meets the Sea. Therefore, in the last sequence, it spreads up into nine smaller rivers, which all are also connected with each other. That historically made it easier to get around by boat than cutting your way through the dense jungle. And still today, farmers from the whole region bring in their harvested fruit and veg of the day into the so called Floating Market.Read more