Tân Châu

Today we started the morning by the crossing the border into Vietnam and sorting out passport/visa formalities. We then took a ferry to the mainland where we were shown around local villages. All the villagers were really friendly, and the kids look so surprised to see us. I think it was the first time they’ve seen westerners in two years, and maybe even for the first time. They all came to the dock and waved us off when we left 🥺🥺🥺
We also visited a Taoist temple (which was much more extravagant than Buddhist temples in terms of electronics, there were a lot of lights, but the same amount of statues and candles etc) and were shown around local fields used for farming lots of different vegetables.
Before going back to the ship we stopped off at a boat farm to see how the Vietnamese fishing industry works. They have these floating buildings everywhere with holes in the floor where they pour fish food into. There’s nets beneath the holes where all the fish are so the fish all just gather at the surface immediately when the food is dropped in, it stank….
Oh we also got transported round the villages and fields in these little open roof truck things which were rlly fun as you see a lot more and you can easily wave to the locals when driving by.Read more