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Published: March 7th 2017
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Today we are off to the Making Delta. The bus ride from the hotel to the delta takes about two hours. Half way through the trip our bus driver pulled over to a Vietnam rest area. The rest areas are great places! They are usually run by one family and they set out a lot of hammocks and have a small convenience store and free wifi. Apparently these rest areas are all over Vietnam and are used mostly by motor scooter riders on long trips as they need to cool the scooters down and also rest themselves. We had some local coffee and relaxed in a hammock for about 30 minutes before we were off again to the Delta.
Our first stop was a village where they make coconut candy and sell locally and ship to Saigon. A young villager took us on a walking tour and we saw many cute homes along canals and a lot of palm trees with coconuts. The village is so quiet and would be a great place for someone in the city for weekend getaway.
We arrived to a small river and got on a very small cigar boat and paddled down the
river for about ten minutes and pulled over by the coconut candy factory. Of course the factory was really just a back yard with a group of woman making the candy. We watched how they make the candy and one of the woman gave us a tour of her home were she raises fighting roosters, makes brooms and ponchos and had tons and tons of coconuts piled in her yard.
We then got on a river boat and sailed around the river before heading to our restaurant for lunch. The food at lunch was really interesting as we had some scary looking fish, but it actually tasted really good. We also had something called a dinosaur egg and unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it before we dived in and started eating it. Basically it's sticky rice paste fried up and it makes a large ball.
After lunch we headed back to the city. As we pulled into the city our guide, Vince, actually got a small group of us our own scooter and driver to take us around the city and back to the hotel. It was a lot of fun as there are so many
scooters everywhere in Saigon and you are dodging and weaving in between tons of other scooters and cars and people crossing the street. I did get nervous a few times, but it was a great adventure.
Drury and I packed really quick as we were transferring hotels the last couple of nights of the tour as we are staying an extra night before leaving Saigon. Margo met us in the lobby and we all headed off to The Reverie Saigon. The Reverie is an incredible hotel, its definitely a little gaudy (okay, it's a lot gaudy!)
Our room is located on the 36th floor and it has amazing views of the city. We are definitely going to enjoy this for the next few nights.
After checking in we walked outside of the hotel and right next door was a Mexican restaurant. The three of us were extremely excited as we have been craving Mexican food. The food was actually really good and is owned by a Brazilian so it was kind of Mexican food meats Brazilian food. After dinner we headed to the bar district so Margo could look at a few paintings she was having done.
We then had a cocktail or maybe a few before heading back to the hotel.
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