The Mekong Delta, in contrast with Saigon, is truly third world.  If you live on the Mekong, you might live on your houseboat, or make coconut shell instruments, or run a rice paper factory.  I got a close up look at how they live, and my favorite part was meeting the amazing woman who rowed us down the river (below)


I took at trip down the Mekong Delta, which was such a contrast to Saigon.  No mopeds, no rickshaws, just slow traveling down the river on boats rowed by these amazing solid women. I sat in the very back of the boat and I was mesmerized by this woman's sturdy stance as she took us down the river, and I had to capture my unique point of view.



Tea tasting party on the Mekong boat trip and a bowlful of leechee fruit