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- Mar 27, 2025, 5:00 AM
- 🌙 23 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
VietnamCần Thơ10°0’25” N 105°45’3” E
Best morning in Vietnam... So far!

To be fair, this morning will take a lot of beating. Up at the crack of dawn to get a boat to see the famous floating market! I had not done my reading properly and was pleasantly surprised at the craziness of the markets. I thought they would be static stalls on stilts but oh no.... More on that later as that was not the star attraction.
Just after 5am I was ushered on to a boat with a group of Vietnamese tourists, I soon discovered that it was a whole family visiting Can Tho from Saigon. 4 sisters, a son and daughter in law, a daughter and a brother.
Conversations were conducted with smiles, gestures and with the help of our lovely guide! Many questions were asked of me, why was I on my own? Where was my lover? How old was I? These were just a few of them. Then the photo shoot! We all laughed so much throughout the 4 hour trip, it was just heart warming. They bought me breakfast and drinks, we shared fruit, we shared stories and through interpretation I was told "you are our family, you are our sister".
Such a beautiful experience and I smiled all day because of that interaction. I even smiled when I decided to get a grab moto to the cocoa farm but it was shut, 20 minutes on the back of a moped for a closed sign and NO choco ! Fun trip though! Saw parts of the city I wouldn't have seen otherwise!
Onto the markets..... basically the market sellers own house boats on the Mekong and come to the passing boats (us) on their smaller boats selling the products; gorgeous fruits, coffee, tea, vegetables, dried fish..... No insects or rat unfortunately, which is a shame as I was prepared to try!
It was crazy and hectic but I loved it! I bought some fruits which I had never had, Mangosteen, tried some moon berries which were like lychees and tried the nicest mango.... All before 6am! I wanted to buy more but as I was leaving Can Tho in the morning. I didn't, having had previous experience of crushed fruit in my back pack!
We also bumped into the lovely tour guide from yesterday, Hiem, big hugs and big smiles all round.
I'm so pleased I came to Can Tho. It's experiences like this that I don't think I would get if I was in a group or with a travelling companion.
Don't worry Williams/Rogers family, you'll always be my favourite family but I do love my new Vietnamese one.Read more