If you want to see a totally different culture and way of life on your dream vacation in Vietnam, then let your wonderful trip take you to the southern tip of Vietnam. Here you will find the Mekong Delta, which is about a four hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City. It is a very large area made up of 39,000 square kilometers of beautiful rice paddies and criss-crossing river and canal systems. You will be amazed at how rich and fertile this land is and how it exceeds the rice production of Japan and Korea combined.
The reason why the way of life here is totally different from what you were used to is that life here revolves almost entirely around the river. If you travel here on your next Vietnam tour, you will experience how to buy fresh fruits at a river market. You will also go from one village to another using the river roads, and you will be able to observe how they farm mainly in and along the river. You will see, however, that instead of domestic farm animals, what they raise are shrimp, tra catfish, and basa fish, most of which are of export quality.
Some of the highlights of your Mekong Delta Vietnam tour package are of course a private boat ride on the traditional Vietnamese long-tail boat. The boat can take you to many places because most of the interesting places there, such as the coconut candy farm and the honey bee farm and the restaurant, are interconnected by narrow canals in the middle of lush vegetation of river palm trees. You can also taste exotic fruits along the way, as there are many fruit orchards along the banks of the river. As you explore the islands and villages along the Mekong River, don’t forget to shop at the local floating market, where all the market’s fruit and produce stalls are housed in a small boat. Having a small boat as a shopping cart could be a unique story worth telling at home.
If you are wondering what a floating supermarket is like, go to the largest city in the Mekong Delta on your visit to Vietnam Tour. Here in the lively port city of Can Tho, you can start shopping for your groceries at 4am in the morning! Jokes aside, even the largest floating market, Phung Hiep Market, which is located at the crossroads of 7 major canals, is already buzzing with activity from 5am to noon. Vietnamese prefer to shop early because it is fresher and you can buy the freshest produce if you are the early worm.
Get ready to slide through the labyrinth of boats that transport different fresh agricultural products from the very fertile Mekong Delta. Samples of different products for sale are hoisted on very tall bamboo poles so that you can see them even if you are still far away. Choose what you’d like to buy from a distance, and then simply navigate between larger ships so you can get closer to the ship that has the products you’re interested in. If you can’t get close enough due to heavy traffic, just do what the locals do, let pineapples or cabbage fly through the air between seller and buyer! That’s weird, huh? Well, it is not that strange if you are in Vietnam, and the good thing is that your best Vietnam Tour vacation package can take you there.
