Mekong Delta

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French church by the banks of the river	Local ferry	Cai Be floating market	Cai Be floating market
Fish eyes painted on the bow	Woman paddling along	Transporting rambutan (like lychee)	Longtail boat
Off shopping	Making rice paper	Making rice paper	Making rice crispies
Mixing the rice with hot sand	The heat makes it pop open	Then the sand is sieved through	Tapioca & molasses are added to the popped rice
Then mixed together	Spread out and cut into blocks	Fishing	Mekong River ferries
Motorcycles cram onto the ferry	Ducks being transported	Cai Rang floating market	Lots of buying & selling
Each boat's wares are displayed on a bamboo pole	Pineapple hanging from the tv aerial	Smiley lady shopping	Noodle factory
Similar process to making rice paper	Rolled out and...	...left to dry	Very clean pigs
Huge mum	Tour along the canals	Ducks	Having a rest in the heat
Some of our group	High water	Rice husking mill	After drying the rice, the husks are shaken off
Ít looks like a mad inventor's workshop	Very old machinery	Rice awaiting husking	High school girls...
... wear long white dresses...	...called ao dai	It's their school uniform	Busy local ferry
Us going for a row	Little ladies with lots of skill	Floating village	Fish breeding farm
Fish held by nets...	...under the floating houses	Feeding frenzy	Unusual way to row
Friendly and cute locals	Fish farm	Fish set out to dry	Mosque of Cham people
A foreigner has a go - he's too tall!	In our boat	On our way to the Cambodian border	We pass villages
Transporting wood	Transporting rice husks (used for fuel)	Houseboat	Locals on top of the ferry
Paddling along	Watching us go by	Picking fruit

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