This is a floating market where they sell, buy, exchange goods from their boats. The hang what ever they are selling from the bamboo sticks, which is how they "advertise" what they sell e.g. watermelons, pumpkins etc. etc.
We stopped to see how they make rice crispies and other sweet products. The rice is basically "popped" like popcorn in this big bowl full of HOT sand. The sand then gets sieved back into the bowl.
The rice crispies then gets sieved and separated from the raw rice
The rice crispies then gets mixed into this bowl full of butter, sugar and flavoring e.g. banana, caramel etc. After that it gets flattened into a huge tray, cut up into cubes and put into plastic packets. The outcome...a delicious rice crispie treat!
This is how the dry rice paper
There are some really funny sights and scenes on the Mekong. To mention one (didn't manage to photograph :-( We saw a guy standing, steering his small boat with his legs while eating his lunch out of a bowl using chop sticks.
Passing this boat, all we saw were their hats sticking out.
All the boats have eyes painted on the bows.
We stopped for a Vietnamese lunch.
Well, the dog enjoyed our vietnamese lunch! Marc ate some of it but I decided to fill up on the fruit rather.
After lunch they entertained us with their "Now that's what I call music "Mekong Hits"...
Boat trip to Vinh Long
The Vinh Long Market. I don't think I'll be doing my grocery shopping there but interesting to see never the less...
Just some of the tropical fruit that they sell such as Dragon fruit, Rambutan, Longan, Duriun, Jackfruit etc.
Something else that we didn't photograph because we didn't want to incourage it was a half starved, crazed big brown bear in a cage. Not a nice thing to see and the smell was terrible. One has to almost "look the other way" when it comes to animals in most of Asia I suppose. Especially seeing that the humans don't live in much better conditions.
While waiting on the side of the pier we also watched a fishing boat catch fish by electicuting them. They used a car batery with some sort of steel net attached to a pole....top marks for ingenuity.
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