We didn’t arrive until later in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). We headed for Ben Thahn market and had some street food. Two meals and a couple of beers for £6.
The next day we went for a walking city tour. HCMC has a mix of colonial and modern buildings.
People Committee Hall
Statue of Ho Chi Minh
The traffic is crazy. Swarms of scooters everywhere. Traffic lights are advisory only. Crossing roads is a challenge. Zebra crossings are just a target. Pavements are just used as an overtaking lane.
Swarm of Scooters
Pavement overtaking lane
Scooters always have priority
Scooter barriers are easily beaten. On one way streets, the pavement is used to go the other direction.
Happy Ronnie found a craft brewery pub for lunch
We visited a couple of museums. The Ho Chi Minh City museum and the poorly-named and harrowing War Remnants museum.
We went for more street food for dinner. This time we were given a barbecue to put on the table and cook our pork and shrimps ourselves. 
The next day we took a tour to the Mekong delta. There were a couple of Aussies in our group.
The tides rise and fall about 3m. Some boats struggle to get under the bridges at high tide.
Fish traps capture fish at high tide for collection at low tide.
Boat needing baled-out
We stopped at a brick factory. It’s add done by hand – very labour intensive. A kiln can take about 8,000 bricks for baking at a time and they are stacked by hand.
Inside the kiln
The kiln is made of bricks. What came first – the kiln or the brick?
Bricks stacked in the kiln
The Mekong delta is very fertile and grows the majority of rice and fruits for Vietnam.
Juicy coconut
Coconut transporter
The coconut is very versatile – lots of products from the water, milk, flesh, and shell. We had a shot of spirit of course. See the jar with the spirit infused with snakes – some poisonous. The “three step snake” is named by how far you can go after being bitten.
Coconut alcohol
Mat making. She’s sitting on a mat. How did she make the first mat?
We went ashore for a 13km bike ride around the local villages. Michelle was really happy about that (not). We were following the leader who was on a scooter. I guess it was a Vietnamese Keirin track cycling race. 
Local collector – seventh generation in that house
Coconut tree climbing demonstration
A balanced diet
Back on the bikes. 
Then a Sampan ride back to our diesel boat. The women rowed the boats. Not sure what the men were doing.
Our guide Tien
Back to our boat for the return journey
We went to the rooftop “Chill bar” for Happy hour. Michelle got her prosecco and wine fix.
View over HCMC
