Oh, What Things We Saw

We saw a slice of rural Vietnamese life as we traveled across the Mekong Delta from Saigon to Chau Doc. Our 120 kilometer bus ride took about eight hours. We soared on the expressway, crawled on the country lanes, bumped across 66 bridges and took a breather on a 15 minute ferry ride and several food and potty breaks..

They were "one with the traffic" and made it across the busy street

Hammock heaven for weary travelers. A Vietnamese rest stop with food, drink, rest and cock fighting

Henry and Vicki admire the fighting cock

She has a bike with training wheels

Telecom companies do well

Brick making kilns (bee hives in back) and the community of brick makers

Local Party headquarters, I think

The Vietnamese traditional dress for women is a "Áo Dài". It is a close-fitting blouse with long panels front and back. It is worn over lose pants. In souther parts of Vietnam it is the official girls' school uniform.

Don't catch the dress in the gears!

 The lotus (not a water lily) is used in all parts of life, as a food, tea, decoration, a wrapper (the leaves)

Lotus

spraying the field

This young girl is shampoo-ing her hair; she shampooed her dog first

U.S. midwest alertt: corn!

Ferry across the mekong at Pha an Long-Tan Quoi

I bought a lottery ticket from this young mother

Video of boarding the ferry