Trip to Ho Chi Minh - Day 2

After breakfast, meet the tour guide at 7.45am their time. They r one hour behind us. We are going to the Mekong Delta today.

The traffic is very heavy, due to the Liberation day, Labour day and one extra off day, alot of people is going back to their home town from HCM. The tour guide said that the journey normally take about 2hrs but we are taking 3hrs.

A Japanese couple join us to Mekong Delta. When we reached its drizzling. We boarded the boat and each of us have a coconut.


We cruise along Mekong River. Saw the Fisherman trading their fish...

...and fish farm


Then we come to one of their village, the bee farm. We are served with honey tea and peanuts. Our tour guide pour some honey, squeeze a "kam kua", then pour in tea for us. He also pour honey inside the squeezed "kam kua" and asked us to it. It is sour, bitter and sweet.

Then we proceed to another resting place. There we are served with fruits, papaya, water melon, dragon fruits and pineapple. There are women and little girls singing the songs.


Then we have a walk in the garden, saw many fruit trees.


We come to the bank of the stream, we took the boat and cruise around the stream.


We reached Mekong River again and we stop by a slanted stairway, it lead us to a coconut candy making factory. As it is raining and the stairs are slippery, moreover its a 2 way traffic, there are pple going up and pple going down.....no hand rail to hold........ scary, adventure....


At the coconut candy factory, we saw how they make the candy.


After the tour, we have to take that thrilling staircase down again, back to the mainland and had our lunch. The lunch is Elephant Ear Fish wrapped with rice paper and vege, Prawn, pork and Fish balls with sticky rice. We got to know that the Jap couple came for honeymood and my sis treat them to the beer.

After lunch, we set off to HCM city. Bid goodbye to the couple at their hotel and then we are back to our hotel. We rested for a while and then set off for some shopping, my sis slipper give way so no choice.

We asked the receptionist and she directed us to Ben Thanh Market. It closed at 6pm and we have about 2hours. There are lots of shoes, bags, foods etc. Just like china town but a more croweded one. U got to bargain for everyting u buy. Bought some bags and shoes from there, too much things to see, we got abit blur. The market is so hot that we are shoaked with sweat.

After shopping , went back to hotel, freshen up, my sis collegue come to fetch us for dinner. He brought us to a French buffet at Sofitel Hotel. Nice dinner. He sent us back around 10pm.