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We travelled by car to the Mekong Delta where we were taken by small boat around an Cu Lao Dung (island) in the Delta. On the island we visited a factory where coconut candy, popped rice products and moonshine were being manufactured and hand packaged - so labour intensive and hot hard work for those working there.
Everything is used, nothing is wasted - sand from the river to build and pop rice with, rice husks for fueling the fires, wine from fermentated rice and the list goes on. The ingenuity and hard toil of the VIetnamese people is amazing.
We spent the night in Can Tao city walking the markets and watching the continual flow of activity and never ending comings and goings of mo-peds. As we turned off the lights we could still hear the singing on the Karaoke boat out on the river!
Today was an early start with a visit to the floating fruit and vegatable markets. I have enough trouble maneuvering a shopping trolley up and down the supermarket aisles - I could never manage a boat and shopping at the same time!
We are back in HCMC tonight and off to Hanoi tomorrow.
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