Mekong Delta
The breakfast is great. All sort of exotic fruits with yogurt and a banana crepe with a banana shake. Beats anything! I will try and see what I’ll get tomorrow. The rest of the food is OK and sometimes predictable, but the breakfast is the best and you can get breakfast anytime during the day . And if you want traditional, you have to thank to the French colonialists that introduced the baguette and the croissants and crusty rolls. It goes a long way.
After this magnificent breakfast, I left for the bus and at 7:45am I left towards the Mekong delta. Huge group, an entire bus. Lots of French, arrogant as usual and convinced that the world’s civilization rests on their hands and Germans bored to the level of the bench that they are sitting on. The previous night I watched a couple, probably very well to do, at the Korean BBQ. They were bored to the bones, she was playing the entire dinner with her cellphone and they barely exchanged more between themselves than I exchanged with the waiter to order my dinner. Money obviously do not make people happy and it can be a curse if you don’t have the brains to know what the hell you are doing with them and with you.
Anyway, long drive, about 2 hours to the delta, but not too many to tell. We had a quick stop iin a place that had hammocks for water and toilets and we reached the boats that took us in a floating market in Cai Be, no big deal because we were made aware that the market is slow today, but I have the feeling that is slow everyday. Overall the entire day was quite uninteresting, the river is flat and lazy and the canals are nice but the temperature was around 95F. We had lunch after which we got bikes to ride around, again on boats and latter on a bus ride and a last boat ride to Cantho, the largest city in the delta, where I am now. I had an interesting dinner of Fish-Squid-Beef dipped in boiling vinegar in a business restaurant built for the new money, that is right on the shore of the river, actually on stilts inside the water. The dinner was not great but interesting. Worth a try in any case! Many times I asked people here about various places and they have no idea. I heard a discussion in Cantho at the table where the locals did not have the knowledge that the city of Cantho is the largest and many times I ask people where a temple is and they have no idea, no matter that in one situation you could see it on their window. But they could not care less. And everybody is picking on the Americans that they don’t have a clue! After dinner I passed by the statue of Uncle Ho, the largest in Vietnam, a little Internet, and I went to the hotel for a good night sleep.
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