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At Mỹ Khánh village, Cần Thơ
Two local girls are preparing fruit for tourists. They wear traditional shirts of south Vietnamese women with black trousers. |
24, 27 and 28 September 2009 - I was back in
Cần Thơ city, which is the biggest city in the Mekong Delta, and it was my 3rd visit to this city. On this trip I would go further south through 4 provinces and reach the southernmost point of
Vietnam. I decided to book a 5-day tour with a travel agent in Hanoi (Vietran Company) and the tour cost VND 3.9 million (US$200). If I traveled on my own, this amount would be enough for only air tickets (round trip) to/from Hanoi and Cần Thơ, so it was cheaper to travel with a travel agent. There were 22
Vietnamese on the tour and 18 of them were women, so it was quite noisy but fun. I was lucky as the agent arranged an old woman to share the room with me, so I didn't have to pay extra money for a single room.
As you may know the Mekong Delta is the southernmost region of Vietnam. The fertile land and rivers are great natural resources for cultivation and fish raising. There are 2,500 rivers and canals in the region and people move around by boats. You can see floating markets in the early hours of the morning and simple houses along the rivers. The Mekong River is known in Vietnamese as the Nine Dragons (Sông Cửu Long).
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