Cai Rang Floating Market Can Tho

This morning at 7:15 the others woke us up through the walls, they were noisy! Then breakfast, at 8 am the bags were packed into the minivan. It then took two hours to drive to Cai Be, we had to go on a car ferry across the river. Once there we climbed into a boat just the 6 of us an headed of to travel down the Mekong to look at the boats. Some of …

6:00am
An early start, a quick breakfast and off to the harbour to catch the boat.
A quick boat ride and we were at the floating market. The market was a novel concept; none of that stepping on land nonsense. That said, it was slightly different to what I expected. I expect floating shops and stall, whereas it's more of a case of rucking …

Left Phnom Penh Cambodia,ended up calling it poo poo town we were offered drugs on the first day and an old lady hassled the hell out of us everyday for food so being compassionate about not seeing anyone go with a meal we ended up buying food for her family, then clothes, then shoes and school books and pencils, it took the cake when she tried to …

floating markets really cool, got to eat pinapple Cambodian style. I think the delta is a wonderful place full of color and activity busy busy all the time …

I entered Vietnam with perhaps the most knowledge of any country that I've visited on this trip, and to be fair it’s all built on very shaky ground – movies and the odd war documentary. Here’s a run-down of what I knew, or shall I say thought I knew, about Vietnam before making the crossing:

• They’re all …

The trip to the Mekong Delta started with us checking out of the Beautiful Saigon 3 hotel and being collected by a mini bus. It arrived earlier than scheduled and we had a bit of a last minute rush as we had been chatting to some people who has just arrived from Hanoi the previous night. The hotel are looking after our cases so we just had …

4/04 Há Tiên to Càn Tho; 193 kilometers by Bus
(Not Nga Bay as planned!)

At 7AM, our buddy, with his moto-friend, was there as promised to take us to the 7:30am bus to Càn Tho.... out of the goodness of his heart.....imagine that...what a guy! By now we are pretty fearless about getting on the motorcycles with all our gear …

After a month in Siem Reap, we were sad to lose our little apartment and our routine. But it was time to move on and Vietnam was waiting with all its highly rated food to conquer. We zipped our way into South Vietnam on a speedboat down the Mekong Delta. It was a great way to travel, not only because of the speed but because the delta remains a …

... just fine. Our little boat headed down the river, being chased by the rays of the sunrise, until we reached the Cai Rang Floating Market. This is a massive collection of boats, big and small, selling all kinds of fresh produce and food stuffs. Our ...

... the jetty where we got our boat. We boarded and 30 minutes later we tie up along side another large boat on the outskirts of Cai Rang floating market. A small rowing boat came to meet us and there we split into 2 groups and took it in turns to visit the ...

... and led both his group and Donald's combined to the waterfront. There we boarded a boat and were taken to the Cai Rang floating market, one of the Mekong Delta's biggest attractions. Farmers from all over the delta load their boats with produce and ...

... i mention there's an absolute heap of people living in REAL third world conditions. One of the highlights was the Cai Rang floating market. The market here is still very much a genuine place of business. One thing that fascinated me was the long ...

... the nearby floating markets in the morning. Up early the next day and we were quickly aboard a boat again heading for Cai Rang floating Market, which is the largest in this region. Was such an amazing sight to see the locals carrying out their day to ...

... I had expected, and thus far its been a real pleasure to see. Thursday morning we had a 7.30am start to head to the Cai Rang floating market, one of the truly unique features of the Mekong Delta. Half an hour upriver from Can Tho is the world’s ...

... see the local floating markets which are at there busiest between 6am-8am so we needed an early start. We first went to Cai Rang floating market which is 7km down the river from Can Tho. This is the biggest floating market in the Mekong Delta. It was ...

... hour epic journey of the Mekong River. It was a pretty early start - 5:30am - in order to get the 6kms to the Cai Rang floating market. We arrived just after sunrise as all the boats were getting ready for their morning of selling. This market had a lot ...

... and then met up with the rest of the group back in town. The boat picked us up and we went up river to the Cai Rang Floating Market. We bought a fresh pineapple off one of the boats for a mere 5000 dong (about 30 cents). It was tasty! Then we ...

... band procession on the street in front of the hotel! After breakfast we got on a boat and visited the Cai Rang Floating Market. It was different that the other floating markets I had seen... the canal was larger and the boats ...