Yesterday we took a fairly epic day tour of the Mekong Delta - the point where the mighty Mekong, having wound its way down from Tibetan China through Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, meets the sea. The delta system consists of 9 little rivers (each with a dragon) and between sit islands built up with delightfully ramshackle fishing villages and little fruit farms. Here we are in 'traditional' Vietnamese garb paddling down one of the irrigation canals on one of the islands (where we were introduced to a staggering variety of fruit - Lindsey will remember these better then I but they included the infamous 'Durian', which is apparantly less stinky in Vietnam then in Thailand due to fewer chemical additives. I'm personally not convinced).
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