Vietnam Day 3 Mekong Delta

Our wake up call was at 6:10 AM.

We proceeded to have breakfast at 7 AM. The resort had a wonderful buffet.

We were on the boat by 7:45 for trip to floating market . The floating market is a whole market where people come to buy items for resale. The boats advertise what they have to sell by tying the items that they are selling on a long pole. There are also boats selling food items for people coming to buy and sell. A cottage industry has developed around these boats selling food. The locals take tourist boats to the floating market just to order noodles from the boats who were originally just selling food to those who were buying and selling in the wholesale markets. The locals call this buying rocking noodles because you eat the noodles while rocking on the boat.

On the return from the market, our boat had to stop for gas so we got to experience what our guide termed floating 7-eleven.

We headed back to the resort. We ended up having about 30 minutes at the resort to freshen up and pack our bags.

We took a Pontoon across Mekong river to the 'reception' area.

Bob and I walked around the local area. We saw Vietnam's idea of Disneyland along with several coffee shops but not much else.

Waited on bus for rest of the group to board.

We took a short drive to a Chinese temple. Today was new moon day, as a result, many people visited the temple and lite tons of incense. I avoided all the smoke from the incense so Bob and I went back to to bus early.

Across the street from the Chinese temple was a large statue of Ho Chi Minh in a lovely park. This was the only area larger than a postage stamp that was trash free.

We drove to restaurant/truck stop area. We were brave and ordered spring rolls, egg rolls, fried rice and french fries. The food was surprising good.

There was an accident on roadway so we had a 30 minute delay departure from the rest stop.

Upon reaching the port, we entered our stateroom and felt how good it was to be "home".

We dropped our bags and went back out to the pier. At the pier, there is an open air market. We bought some gifts and some shirts for Bob.

We had dinner at the World Cafe with Dale, Jenni, Jim and Janet. We all looked a bit tired from our full days in Ho Chi Minh City.

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