Vietnam ’15, Part 1: Can Tho

On our second (long) trip to Vietnam we had again planned to visit a couple of different locations. We started with Can Tho because we love the floating market there on Mekong river and we also wanted to show it to our friend Henrik who had joined us on that trip. We started in the morning leaving Saigon and drove to Gò Công, a small village south of Saigon to visit the grave of our grand parents. They are buried in between rice fields behind their house. We then proceeded towards Can Tho and spend the afternoon and evening strolling through the streets:

 

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View across Mekong river
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Can Tho main market
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Yummy street food
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Preparing jack fruit
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All sorts of dried fish on the street market
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Garlic and onions
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Main market at night
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Night market, seems like everything in Vietnam is about trading – day and night
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still pale from the German winter
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Huge joss sticks in a pagoda
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Party boat on Mekong

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More street food
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So many different ways of preparing street food
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and that’s the oven

The next morning we started very early at 5am to go to the floating market, a 45min boat ride. The evening before, we were lucky to meet the same woman who guided us with her boat 3 years ago (time flies…). Even on the crowded market we recognised a few faces of the women selling food and coffee.

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How to dry clothes on a boat
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Soup’s arriving
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Hủ tiếu for breakfast
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The cook in a very narrow kitchen
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Selling melons

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Tons of ananas, hard to believe that these old-fashioned boats can carry such big loads
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Flowers on a fruit plantation near Can Tho
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Taking fotos of each other
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Heading back to the city

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