Travelling to The Mekong delta....Day 15

We left Ho Chi Minh City for a tour up the Mekong Delta, our guide, Been, picked us up at the hotel, we were expecting to be going on a bus with other tourists, but no, along with Me Ggung, our driver,  it was just the four of us in brand new 4x4 Toyota.

It was a two hour drive passing paddy field after paddy field, our first stop was the  Vinh TraNg Pagoda, where Been gave a run down on his faith of Buddism and introduced us to the Monks.

We then went down to the pier to get a boat to cross the mighty Mekong River, we landed on Unicorn island and visited a natural chocolate workshop and tasted their lovely products. We then moved on to a honey making workshop to taste their wares and have some wonderful local fruit. We were also serenaded by local musicians as we drank honey tea.

We then sailed over to "Coconut island " where they use every part of the coconut for a number of uses including the delicious coconut ice cream, a potent drink, coconut candy and even coconut lipstick.

We then boarded a small boat to sail up a small  off shoot of the river  called the Thoi Son canal that was a bit spooky until we came to a landing area that led to our lunch stop restaurant that had a number of crocodiles next to it. The main course was an odd looking fish named " Elephant ear " and a young lady made fresh spring rolls at the table.  After lunch we continued to sail along the Mekong River seeing how local people live their lives.

After a long day we headed to our hotel in Can tho, while we were driving to the hotel we heard that the Vietnam under 23 football side had won a match on a penalty shootout, we arrived in a city of utter and total bedlem.  Thousands of people wereon the street celebrating and the noise from the car horns was deafening.