Started the day early at 6:00 to have an early breakfast and get out onto the Delta main river. We went straight to the river and onto a boat to experience the floating market. It was absolutely incredible, with boats of all sizes selling goods. We bought fresh mangoes and rice products to eat at the time. We tried a new fruit as well, called 'pamella' which was a mixture between an orange and a grape fruit. Tom thinks it may have been a variation of grape fruit,...

Woke up at around 7am at the hostel and prepared to get ready to leave by bus to reach the Mekong Delta (South of Ho Chi Min) we stopped off at various places on the way, including a place with huge Buddha statues. The 3 Buddha statues were: standing buddah, sleeping buddah and happy buddah (real inventive names right?) they each represented a part of life that people would go and pray for. The sheer size of the statues was pretty incredible, hard to take in at f...