February 10, 2012
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Vietnam Part 18: Animal Planet.
Day eleven starts off with a tour of the Mekong River Delta. At this point, seeing a house boat is no cause to pull out my camera. Until I see A DOG on the boat. And then I’m all *click* *click* *click* *click*. It’s like a real life version of Pokemon Snap. Because, DOG ON A BOAT.
The first stop on the tour is to see how they traditionally make banh trang. Here’s the wood they use to fire up the ovens.
I like that the heat over time has cracked the entire structure. It’s kind of neat to see how this is traditionally made- takes a bit of skill to make them paper thin.
Sandbags upon the bank to the next stop.
After lunch, we went to see the bee hives and had fresh honey with tea. Here, a rooster pecks away at some lychee, not an eyeball.
Yet another dog just lounging about.
To get to the next part of the tour, they loaded us up onto rickety two-wheeled carts drawn by a scrawny little horse. I was like, what is going on?! Us large Americans loading in some six people deep I thought would make the poor horse collapse, but during the ride I noticed that the way the harness worked, it wasn’t actually pressing down hard on the horse and might actually be somewhat evenly balanced.
During the ride, I leaned out my camera and had it alongside the horse for a lower view. I kinda like it.
We got off for the last stop on the tour. I felt a little bad for the horse- I would rather have had like a bus or something take the tour group instead.
