Down the Mekong Delta Day 3, January 21

We arrived late last night in Chou Doc and had to get up early today for another tour. This time we were off to visit a floating fishing village and Muslim village. 

Floating houses.

The floating house people raise fish that they sell in the market. The fish are kept in a large net that is suspended from the floor of the house. The net and fish are directly under the house. Guess where everthing from the house goes?? This is where we decided to give up eating farm raised fish froim Vietnam.

Visit to Muslim village. This girl was weaving a scarf about 30 inches long and it takes about 4 hours to make the scarf. They sell the scarf for $2.50.

Next stop was across the river where we will board the speed boat for the 6 hour ride to Phnom Penh.

Our tour guide who took us to the floating village. The French man in front of us has been traveling with us since the beginning of the trip down the delta.

The speed boat cruised right along the river. There were about 20 people on the boat. We stopped at the Vietnam immigration station where some people got off the boat and we continued on to the Cambodian immigration center where we had to buy our visa to enter Cambodia.

Vietnam Immigration

Cambodian Immigration

Houses along the Mekong River.

Restaurant where we had lunch. Interesting way to cook.

Boat house that families live in. Most boat children don't attend school.

Arriving in Phnom Penh port.

We arrived in Phnom Penh and had a tuk-tuk driver take us to our hotel.  After we checked in we walked around the area we were in and found a place to eat.

The end of another adventerous day.