Another ferry ride

These boats are so congested with motorcycles you can hardly get aboard on foot as they just push themselves on .Since it takes abot 3/4 of an hour to get on I can understand why they do not want to wait for the next one. There is actually another ferry that carries cars and our bus with our luggage. We are on foot.

Mekong day 2

March 9th 2009
Mekong day 2 The next morning we had another 3 hour boat trip on the Mekong. Our first stop was through a huge floating market called Cai Rang Floating Market. There was everything here as the people all live on these boats. Whatever they are selling they have displayed on the end of a long stick like a banner from the front of the boat. It was mostly vegetables and fruit. But some boats we ... read more

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