Our guide, Heip, picked us up at 8 to start our drive towards the River.   it was about 3 hours before we reached a place on a tributary where there is a local market and access to our river boat

We moored along the tributary to a larger branch of the Mekong,  and into the larger main channel.  We stopped at a coconut candy making place where we saw them popping rice!  it was just like puffed rice cereal we used to get at home.   The rice grains were roasted in a large wok which contained a local black sand heated to 200° C and it popped,  just like popcorn.   it was then shifted to remove the sand and chaff

We passed under the bridge into the wider Mekong

We stopped next to board a row boat into a smaller tributary

Our lunch on a riverside restaurant was included today,  and quite good.   Soup,  river fish wrapped in rice paper and deep fried, fresh spring rolls, and deep fried spring rolls,  minced pork in Betel leaves,  and prawns and Vietnamese pancake. After she fileted the fish you could see through it

We left the river about 2 and still had an hour and half ride on to our evening stop at Can Tho.  We got our walk in,  along the river… not exactly like the Balboa river walk tho!  Then back to our hotel for dinner on the 10th floor over looking the river.

From 10th of the Iris Hotel

Early tomorrow we leave for the Floating markets.   Thanks for staying tuned!