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Spent today on a tour of the Mekong Delta. Joined this tour run by Sinh Cafe, on the recommendation of one of my Vietnamese friends that they are well-known. Well, they must be. They have a wide selection of tours and there was a huge crowd of people outside the place this morning waiting for their various buses.

For my group, we went to My Tho and Ben Tre. While waiting to board the little boats that would take us to the various islands in the delta, there was a huge bridge under construction next to the jetty. Believe it was the Rach Mieu bridge, apparently it will be completed next year.

Anyway, the day was spent visiting farms where we were shown how they make rice paper, honey, coconut candy and so on. Even had a short performance of traditional Vietnamese music for us. What really impressed was that there was none of that in-your-face style of pushing you to buy stuff. Wares and goods were on display but at no time did you feel you were being forced.

Met a lot of nice people on the tour, there were Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, and one German guy who had apparently been travelling for almost a year.

Going up to Hue on the train tonight.