30 Sept Can Tho city

This morning we were picked up at the hotel at 7 am, there was a free breakfast of french baguette and omelet. we walked to the Can Tho pier to board a motor boat to take us to the floating wholesale fruit and veggies market .It was quite sunny that day and we were in a boat with no roof,we saw many boats of all sizes packed to the brim with all kinds of veggies and fruits , to advertise what their boat sold, they hang all the types of veggies and fruit on a tall bamboo pole on the roof of their boat so when the other boats passes by they know what they are selling, we were told that these boats bring their veggies and fruits from all parts of Vietnam and they stay in this region till all their veggies are sold ,then they go back and bring more...so it was usual to see the whole family living on their boat with children on them as well.
The next stop was a noodle making factory .they still used the traditional method of soaking rice in water and then making a thick kind of rice flour soup then it was pour into a steamer and separate thinly and then steamed for a few mins then it was taken out ..laid on bamboo mats and dried in the sun ,later it will be collected and then cut into strips of noodles, but this was only a family business so it does not produce the majority of the noodles in Vietnam but only for the local consumption.Then it was on to the next place...A rice Mill, where we saw how rice was husked by machine, then polished the tour ended at the same pier we walked to this morning and we were brought to a restaurant called " Nam Bo' food was good I had a seafood fried rice and some Vietnamese spring roll., Lou had pumpkin flower soup and Cantonese fried rice,we were told that our 3 rd tour guide will be picking us up at the hotel at 3;15 pm so I had some time to look around the market I bought a T shirt and a pair of shorts then met Lou and we went for coffee at the Pier's restaurant.
The bus was late picking us us as they were caught in a traffic jam at the ferry terminal, then we drove 4 hours to the city of "Chau Doc" the last city before Cambodia, we were put up in a floating hotel in the middle of the Mekong river, dinner was not included but we had to eat at the hotel there was no choice as we were stuck on this floating hotel.I had fried chicken Maryland and tomato rice ,Lou had fresh Vietnamese spring roll and fried rice we both had a plate of tropical fruits for dessert. we had to go to sleep early as the next day was a very long day we had to do the 3 rd day tour and then drive all the way back to Saigon.