{"id":65454,"date":"2011-03-22T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/actualites\/2011\/03\/22\/24-hours-on-the-mekong-delta\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:59:17","slug":"24-hours-on-the-mekong-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/news\/2011\/03\/22\/24-hours-on-the-mekong-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"24 hours on the Mekong Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"

For fifteen days, we travelled through Vietnam from north to south.
\nIt was a trip rich in discoveries: landscapes, the life of local people in town and countryside, encounters, and the country’s culture presented by highly competent and attentive guides.
\nHere is one example among many others:
\nIn the late morning, we settle in on the Bassac, a comfortable vessel with about ten cabins.<\/p>\n

\"Navire<\/a>

The Bassac vessel on the Mekong Delta<\/p><\/div>\n

After a delicious lunch and a few hours spent watching life on the Mekong, we stop for a short walk through the countryside. There, our guide names and points out numerous plants and trees of the region, and we finish with a fruit tasting at a local home.<\/p>\n

\"Embarcation<\/a>
\nWe have the pleasure of watching the sunset over the Mekong Delta, then, the next morning, the sunrise at Tra On, before heading to the floating market of Can Tho.<\/p>\n

We watch boats of all sizes arrive one by one, many motorised, some paddled by hand.
\nThey are loaded with all kinds of goods: sacks of rice, watermelons, cabbages, pineapples, bananas, salt, flowers, wood, bricks\u2026<\/p>\n

\"March\u00e9<\/a>

Floating market of Can Tho<\/p><\/div>\n

The traders steer their boats with great skill through the crowd. We buy bananas from a woman selling her fruit from a boat, accompanied by her two small sons.<\/p>\n

The bustle, the noise, the colours \u2014 all of it thoroughly disorienting in the best way\u2026<\/p>\n

An experience that will remain among our best travel memories!<\/p>\n

Christine & Jean-Claude R.<\/p>\n

Trip taken in January 2011, with \u00c9tendues Sauvages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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