The Mekong Delta is the area South of Saigon that surrounds the famous Mekong river (the Vietnamese name for the river is Song Cuu Long meaning "River of Nine Dragons")- which flows 4,500km from Tibet through to Vietnam, via China, Burma, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. The region produces the majority of the country's rice and is famous for its variety of tropical fruit grown here, which we're looking forward to sampling. The people here are regarded as the friendliest of the country!
A long day on the bus was made worse by an hour of almost standstill traffic leaving the city, but we made it to Can Tho the largest city in the Mekong Delta without too much trouble! We were even dropped off outside the hotel we were going to look at by the free taxi service offered by the bus company we went with - which saved an otherwise inevitable of aimless wandering in the southern heat.
After checking out a few hotels, we settled on a nice cheap one (made even cheaper by choosing to forego aircon: a decision we hope we don't regret later), and went out to explore the bustling backstreets and waterfront of the town.
We took some time wandering the markets and people watching while sitting by the river. It was interesting seeing women row passengers in their boats across the life sustaining river.
After dinner we retired for an early night as we have to meet our boat driver at 5.30am tomorrow morning for our adventure on the river.Adlibing it to Can Tho.
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