This floating market offered a small array of fruits for sale. Our boat nestled up right beside it, and if you wanted to make a purchase you simply stepped over onto their boat. Some vendors will remain on the water for as long as it takes for their inventory to be sold; some boats also hold a small housing accommodation for those people.

            The green vegetation is water hyacinth. Local merchants will harvest this plant and dry it out before turning it into wallets, bags, sandals, roofing materials, rope, and so forth. This plant is very versatile, and also rather invasive. The water hyacinth was actually brought into Vietnam from South America, where it grew unpleasantly plentiful. Although the hyacinth does have commercial use, it still poses as a pest.

This river boat is for sale, as indicated as indicated by the woven water hyacinth leaves on the pole. This particular boat may not be the newest, although what grants its approximate selling value of nearly $10,000 USD, is its petrol engine.

            A few more painted faces. Clearly, this tip of the boat won't be beneath the water, therefore these faces are more of a decoration to appeal.

            The faces painted on the boats were old time approaches to frighten any large aquatic animals beneath the water. As the years progressed and essentially overfishing occurred, animals such as alligators became less plentiful in the Delta, rendering the painted faces to become less valuable. Today, they were a neat factor which show history from the area.

            This morning, we were able to catch a glimpse of river merchants. These people have a series of goods onboard which they try to sell to other people. We learned some of these merchants will stay on their boats for days until all of their goods are sold. Many of these boats contain a small living quarters; sometimes you can even see people hanging their laundry to airdry from the deck.

            This is one of my favourite bridges I seen during my time in the Delta: it looks simply artistic. This would be another excellent postcard!

            Even early in the morning, people are out on the water continuing their daily adventures.

            Life in the Delta doesn't have to confine your means of transportation solely by boat: there are paved walkways and even bridges.

            The further we went into the more narrow channels of the Delta, we began to see the perks of living establishments and life in this area of Vietnam. People really do live along the river: the water is their streets. Along the bank, you can see a brick wall. Other than serving as a retaining wall for natural erosion, some of the bricks have holes in them to allow the water to splash through them, among other reasons.

            Advancing to another area of the Delta, this scene reminded me of the Lily Lake in Middle Amana, Iowa.

            In the larger areas of the Delta, more massive vessels are able to swim in the water with the personal boats.

            Lunch with the group on the Delta! The fish propped on the table is known as the Elephant Ear fish. For those who ate it, they plucked away at its corpse with their fork, as though they were scratching at it. The red cans on the table are skinny cans of Coca-Cola. It was a very nice lunch to introduce us to the Delta, although I do admit constant heat and humidity does wipe away your hunger.

            Up close and personal to a small collection of bamboo trees. This was a tiny cluster isolated from its forest, but within time it will surely flourish.

            I took this photo while riding a bicycle during our group excursion. Otherwise, it's another photo of plants.

            Within nature, this bundle of bananas is still developing during this humid day.