In the Vietnam, the buzz on the streets, the putter of bikes and the honking starts bright & early each morning...uhmm...like 5:30am early.....the floating markets here in Can Tho are no different!
After a quick breakfast, we headed down the Can Tho River towards the Cai Rang Floating Markets, the largest of its kind along the Mekong Delta. Each morning between 5 and 8 am, hundres of boats flood the area with all those goods for sale! If you want to buy, you just 'row' up on a small boat... Just like in Cai Be we saw tonnes of diffent fruits & veggies waiting to be dumped off.
After a 45 min boat ride through this dirty and windy canal, we stopped off at this tropical fruit orchard where we saw more 'jack fruits', 'mangostines' and pineapples...just to name a few....aC had to have her coconut juice...too bad it wasn't ice cold :(
Along the way we also stopped at this Rice Milling Factory where we got a quick overview on how those tiny white things that we all seem to eat so much are grown and prepared for sale...
For lunch 'Thi' ordered us some local Viet-style cuisine at Hoa Chau; some kinda fish in hot bowl + tangy sauce, some red fish in soup along with some veggies....This wasn't your Pho Hoa Dac Biet Gan Sach or Thit Ngua (aka Horse Meat)....but we thought 'lets just give it a try'.....and to our surprise, it was very tasty and quite filling.
After lunch we made our way back to HCMC with stops in Long Xuyen and Chau Thanh (Tien Giang). The timing was just right as aC's 'excess' consumption of coconut water didn't appear to have mixed well with her tummy....all that was reported was, "woe, I was really loud in there, probably the loudest of them all"....thank god for the Mekong Rest Stop station!
We finally arrived back in HCMC at about 6:15pm where we went for some quick Pho, before killing some more time upstairs at the internet lounge (that i'm currently on right now)...still can't believe its only about $1/hour here!
...another day & a half and we are home bound!......
After a quick breakfast, we headed down the Can Tho River towards the Cai Rang Floating Markets, the largest of its kind along the Mekong Delta. Each morning between 5 and 8 am, hundres of boats flood the area with all those goods for sale! If you want to buy, you just 'row' up on a small boat... Just like in Cai Be we saw tonnes of diffent fruits & veggies waiting to be dumped off.
After a 45 min boat ride through this dirty and windy canal, we stopped off at this tropical fruit orchard where we saw more 'jack fruits', 'mangostines' and pineapples...just to name a few....aC had to have her coconut juice...too bad it wasn't ice cold :(
Along the way we also stopped at this Rice Milling Factory where we got a quick overview on how those tiny white things that we all seem to eat so much are grown and prepared for sale...
For lunch 'Thi' ordered us some local Viet-style cuisine at Hoa Chau; some kinda fish in hot bowl + tangy sauce, some red fish in soup along with some veggies....This wasn't your Pho Hoa Dac Biet Gan Sach or Thit Ngua (aka Horse Meat)....but we thought 'lets just give it a try'.....and to our surprise, it was very tasty and quite filling.
After lunch we made our way back to HCMC with stops in Long Xuyen and Chau Thanh (Tien Giang). The timing was just right as aC's 'excess' consumption of coconut water didn't appear to have mixed well with her tummy....all that was reported was, "woe, I was really loud in there, probably the loudest of them all"....thank god for the Mekong Rest Stop station!
We finally arrived back in HCMC at about 6:15pm where we went for some quick Pho, before killing some more time upstairs at the internet lounge (that i'm currently on right now)...still can't believe its only about $1/hour here!
...another day & a half and we are home bound!......
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