November 21st: Mekong Delta
Today's trip took us from Can Tho to visit a floating market, an orchard and a rice mill. We had more time in Can Tho before bussing to Chau Doc.
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View from our hotel balcony
Shopping Mall, it was a fairly prosperous looking town
Back on the river
In one of the major channels
Floating refreshment stall
Trading at the floating market
Riverside temple
Traditional delta bridge, they are being replaced by concrete
Tim tries out a traditional bridge
Longan fruit
Longan tree
Pineapple
Papaya/ paw-paw
Grave
Tim's drinking buddies sampling the local rice wine flavored with longans (made by the orchard owner (left)), with our guide in the middle and a Korean tourist on the right
Gas/petrol station
Rice factory
Rice is processed and bagged here
Rice and byproducts (husks for burning, dust for animal feed, nothing is wasted
Machine sort, husk and polish the rice
Tim samples the owner's rice wine
Different qualities of rice on sale
River signage
Tracy and the coconut man
These guys will supply all your secretarial needs
Uncle Ho in the Riverside park
Chinese pagoda
The restaurant we ate at the previous night, on the balcony
Grinding ice blocks to keep the market food cool
Meat market
Covered market
Jackfruit or durian
School
Common local fruit
Scenes from the bus journey
© Tim Cooke 2006
