It was an early morning for us. We had to leave and be on the road for the trip of the day by 7 AM! Yeah so that fun but it was definitely worth it considering we were heading out the city to visit the Mekong Delta. I was anxious to see this considering i have only had a chance to see the life of the Vietnamese in a city setting.
The delta was a great place and i was surprised at how welcoming all the locals were when they saw us American tourists. As we walked down paths, people on porths would wave and say hello. It was a nice thing to see. I felt so overbearing though considering we were observing their daily routine and their homes. I think that comes up a lot during travel. Our tour guide, who is awesome, took us to several spots for us to experience the culture. We had fresh fruit at one house, then we stopped to see how cocanut choclate was made, and finally attended an informal lunch. The cocanut chocolate makers were very interesting, but when we were there a monsoon hit. I have never seen so much rain in a short period of time in my life. Some of the people's roof blew away. It did not seem to phase them though. The whole operation stopped and i got send great pictures of the rain. Jackpot! The lunch we had was very delicious too.
It was a long day with the delta trip, but later that night Koah and Chi (friends from the University) took all of us to a club. It was quite an experience needless to say, ask me about. My ears were ringing all of Sunday.
