Being in Saigon gave us the opportunity to book on to a 2 day trip of the Mekong Delta – so we decided to escape the busy city for the meandering river! The Mekong Delta is an enormous river than snakes through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and China. In Vietnam it flows south of Saigon so we were able to take a bus to My Tho city and then we were taken by motor boat onto the Delta and by Dragon Island, Unicorn Island, Phoenix Island and Turtle Island – each of the island had their own little ports and houses on stilts by the coast that the locals lived on. We were taken to Unicorn Island where we were shown a honey farm – Tina tried the honey (which involved putting her finger into a swarm
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