The Mekong Delta is big--very big. It is 39,000 square kilometers big and I took a boat up it. We woke up around 5 and met our English speaking guide by our hotel. Then we walked to our boat which was around 7 m long and 1 m wide with our driver, a middle aged woman. We found out later that she was very good at turning water coconut leaves into flowers). The highlights of the boat ride included a dead pig jamming our propeller, an orchard with about every fruit imaginable, a famous floating market of the Mekong and a tour of a rice noodle factory where they hand make noodles. After that we hit the road to a small town called Chau Doc with our private driver, Cuong. (Tourists can't rent cars here.) The reason we went to Chau Doc was to take a ferry up the river to Cambodia. After we arrived at the ferry terminal in Cambodia we had to walk about 50 m in the hellish sun to the actual border which was just 2 sets of small gates that just blocked the road. In my experience that is a typical 3rd world country border. Then after doing all the fun paper work involving entering the country we took a rather bumpy bus ride to the city called Phnom Penh.
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