After leaving Nha Trang we flew down to Ho Chi Minh (formerly known as Saigon), where we took a day trip down to the Mekong Delta.
We travelled to the city of My Tho, about a two and a half hour drive from Ho Chi Minh where we took a long tail boat to an island on the Mekong Delta. Here we got to sample some of the local coconut candy and a very sweet honey drink. The very strange delicacy that I also got to taste was snake wine, pictured below with a snake and a scorpion in the bottle. It sounds much worse than it tastes!
After lunch and a ride around the villages on a motorised tuc-tuc, we took a further boat trip around the coconut swamps before heading back to town. Whilst it was a nice day out, it was all a bit too touristy for me.
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