Day 16 - Mekong Delta Day 3


After another nice sunrise we had breakfast and then went on a bike ride around the Mekong island of Tan Thuan Dong.  We had been told we would be cycling on main roads but these are more like concrete paths.  We only saw other cyclists, motorcyclists and a few tuk tuk type trucks.  It was really nice and most of it was in the shade of the fruit trees.



Morning sunset

Paul getting ready to go

Halfway stop

Cycling in the villages

Heavily laden motorbike

Road that we cycled along


End of the ride


On our return we had an hour before the boat left so went for a walk in the opposite direction to the route we took with the bikes. We could hear very noisy music coming from a building which appeared to be the local pub! People were singing and dancing.  We walked about 1km and saw some large butterflies and some nice houses and lots of plants and fruit trees.  The cicadas were suddenly extremely noisy and one of the group recorded them and said they were only 1 decibel below the UK noise limit for wearing earplugs.

Road sign

Cactus like plant

Large house with dog statue on gate posts



Blue and black butterfly

Large butterfly

Children doing their homework

Party in the morning


Late afternoon the chef gave a cookery demonstration on how to nake Vietnamese savoury pancakes. They were delicious.

Our chef and Cruise manager

One of our group having a go

The last event of the Mekong Cruise was a sunset cocktail party.

Cocktail party on deck

Approaching sunset

Sunset



We leave Vietnam early tomorrow morning to start the Cambodian part of the tour.

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