Day 38: Mekong Delta

Location: Mekong Delta/Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Date: February 16, 2013

Our grand adventure for our fifth day in Vietnam was to head to the Mekong Delta. We had to wake up super early in the morning to have breakfast and be in the lobby of our hotel ready to go. The program we had signed up for was through our hotel. The bus was picking us up (and other people on other stops throughout Ho Chi Minh) and taking us to the Mekong Delta. 

The view outside the bus window.
I believe those are tombstones at their cemetery in a rice field.

The good old Mekong Delta.

The tour guide gave us a little history on the area before we made our way to the water. We "sailed" down the Mekong Delta for a short while. 

Our tour guide talking about honey.

They fed us fruit, tea, and honey while this band played.

Yep, we all rode in that tiny boat. 

Live view from the boat of the Delta.

It really is that brown but otherwise quite pretty.

We all bought hats to save ourselves from the heat a little bit and try to fit in.

We road in that boat too to lunch.

Ew! That was not a very good meal. The fish was too much for me.

They ended off our tour by visiting some Buddhas.

Lauren is a millionaire! That is Dong millionaire.

When we returned from our tour we finished up any last minute shopping we thought we wanted to do. And if I remember right, Lauren and Alexa's dresses weren't finished by the time the alterations shop said they would be. So we had to quickly hoof it over there so they could make sure that there dresses would work which is when I took this picture of Lauren and million Dong.