By Carole Goldsmith Copyright ©2011 All Rights reserved
A trip to the Mekong Delta is not complete without a canoe trip along the Delta. Our guides and rowers are ladies in red traditional dresses and hat, they take the helm and let us sit back and enjoy the trip. We pass the mangroves, heavy greenery, palm trees and other boats with their wares on display. After five minutes, we help with the rowing and we look around at the beauty of the area. It is so peaceful and quiet, I hear a rooster crowing and a dog barking from the shore and a lady in her waterhouse waves and we wave to say hello.
We are on the Mekong Delta tour with Mr Hai - Fat Man, that is what he said his boss called him - he is an excellent guide. A visit to the bee farm, I buy some royal jelly as it keeps the Queen bee living 40 times longer than the drone bees so it must be good for me. At the next stop, we also try some coconut candy and see the lady make rice paper over a hot plate from rice and wheat flower and water. Lunch in a grass hut with whole fish, rice, vegetable and meat and a siesta in the hammock after the meal......siesta is always good.
On the way back to Ho Chi Mingh City, we stop at a beautiful garden for some time of peace and serenity....
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