Our last trip out.

Our last trip out of hostel is to Mekong Delta. I was kind of interested to see how it really looks like, as this is one of the places that I know about Vietnam before coming here. For once our trip to other places is short, in terms of journey and also the time of stay. About 3 hours ride, and we had reached Mekong Delta river! Oh, before that, we went to eat at the Saigon tourist village. The place was beautiful, because we ate in a small hut beside the river/lake. We even saw 2 couples taking wedding photos there. ( Did I mention that, every week I will see like 4-5 couples taking wedding photos. It can even be seen beside our hostel. This seems exaggerating, but it's true. Haha! )

Went to take a motorised sampan and out we are at the sea. Bad bad weather, it was raining that day! We were kind of lucky with this type of trip, thinking about the trip at Dalat and Nhatrang, because of the rain, we had really missed out a lot of things. Fortunately, though raining, we still headed out for our trip. However, we will need to wear poncho. While in the motorised sampan, a local tourguide will then give an introduction of the life on the river. We will be heading towards Mekong River town of Cai Be. Cai Be is know for its large floating market, where they displays food produce are hung from bamboo poles over the host boat in order to attract customers. We also see that actually rice husks are of use, they are used as fuel for the regions numerous brick kilns. We also get to see how they make coconut sweet and pop rice. Getting to eat them fresh from oven is just so nice. We had also bought some back for our families. After that, a long boat ride to My Khanh tourist village to enjoy fresh fruits and amateur traditional music. It was so fresh that I even see worms on it, which do freak out me. The traditional music was nice. There was even one song where there is rap in it! This reminds me of the song'' Welcome to Vietnam''. It was kinda of famous in Vietnam.
After that, coming onboard to the land for our lunch. Then headed to the economic hub city of Can Tho. It was said that it was officially called a city during 2004. It was also regarded as the ''Western Capital''. Checked in to our hotel and rest awhile. We had our dinner at the cruise. It was something special. Totally enjoy this, but there's one bad point. In the cruise, they allowed people going up to sing, however, there are 2 storeys, meaning that 2 loud songs at a time. Upon hearing it, we seriously do not have the mood to continue eating. It make us headache. After eating, we went up to the ''rooftop''. The view and wind was nice, most importantly, peaceful. Haha! Before back to our hotel for a rest, we went to have a little shopping at the small night market beside our hotel.
Second day! Early this morning, we went to enjoy a cruise to Cai Rang. It was something similiar like the market yesterday. For me, there isn't really much things. Seeing those kids coming out to sell things together with their parents made me kinda sad. Singapore's kids are really lucky nowadays. Everything ended kinda fast. After that, we went to a tourist village for a walk. It's my first time seeing dog and pig racing! However, I didn't bet. Haha! My friends who had won in their bet, won a piggy bank for themselves. After that, some of them even want to have a sampan ride, something like our canoeing but 4 people (?) After that, lunch!! Time to have our 4 hours ride back home!~
On the road, I had also realised that there isn't road lights. Meaning that drivers must on their car's light and need to drive carefully. I wonder is it because they do not have enough money to make it or some other reasons.