Tan Chau-Vietnam, Mekong Delta, Sa Dec and Cai Be.

Our full day of sailing was filled up with cooking classes, towel folding and trivia nights.
I also got time to do a little sewing, in the evening we had a trivia night after dinner.

 Our sunset, in between Cambodia and Vietnam, a beautiful view, whilst drinking cocktails.

 Our fruit carving demonstration

We also had an informative lesson on the many different fruits available in Asia.

The next day, we docked in the middle of the Mekong and were taken ashore to Tan Chau, by smaller boats, we are officially in Vietnam.

The tour today was to cruise to Evergreen Island, to see how the villagers live and grow all their food for consumption. The villagers are fully sustainable, have their own livestock, they even catch the bush rats and eat them. These rats are apparently clean to eat unlike the city dwellers, as they only eat vegetation and no food scraps.

All done by hand

Each reed is fed into the machine, by hand.

We visited the factory where the reed mats are woven, these mats are used for sleeping on.

The reed mats, laying in the sun.

We then visited the local village, access only by boat to have a peek view into village life on Evergreen Island

This house is typical of what is on this island

The kitchen, as mentioned before,  most of the cooking is done outside.

The toilet is out side

The kitchen

Family room with shrine

A sewing machine

The kitchen, outside

Wood for the kitchen

Cattle’s. Lose to house

Lush agricultural lands

The only access to Evergreen Island is by boat

A celebration is going to be held today

The animals on the gate posts rare decided by the year it was built with the animal from the. Hi see horoscope, the year of the dog.

The year of the dragon

farmers on the land

roosters kept for cock fighting 

Cattle are kept close to the house.

After our tour of the weaving factory, we all got onto dinner rickshaws to be transported 15mins down the road to the silk factory.

 Our rickshaw drivers all waiting for us to board.

My little man

 All aboard and ready for the adventure

 Some street secedes along the way

The silk weaving factory.

Some good looking roasted chook, street food, smells good, but I will not try it.

Our introduction to the silk factory process.

After our tour we all got back into our rickshaws to be transported back to our small river boats to be transported to AMA lotous.

The next morning we docked again in the Mekong Delta at Sa Dec, after breakfast we all got into our small boats to go ashore in Sa Dec, here we will visit the Lovers House, a famous movie and the local markets.

 The Lovers House

 The local markets in Sa Dec

The Main Street in Sa Dec.

 The local markets

Cooked rats

Local markets in Sa Dec, after our visit we got back onto our boat and cruised to Cai Be, where we will do a tour to the  Cai Be temple.

After this visit  at the temple, I was helping a fellow passenger  board and this is where my I Pad fell onto the rocks and slipped into the Mekong River, I lost most of my photos that I had not saved, now to commandeer my DH’s tablet.

 The Cai Be temple.

Inside

Very ornate.

Tomorrow we will end our tour on the Mekong River, drive by coach for 1 1/2hours into HO Chi MIn city.
More adventures to come in Ho Chi Min.