November 20th: Mekong Delta

We booked a tour of the Mekong delta finishing with a trip on the river up to Phnom Penh. Many Delta trips require a lot of time on the bus but this option gave us more time on the river. We bussed down from Ho Chi Minh city and got aboard a boat that took us on both major rivers full of traffic and quiet smaller side canals (the system works just like the roads in other areas). We visited a factory making rice paper and assorted sweet items, and finished the day in Can Tho, one of the larger and more prosperous towns in the Delta.