Vietnam Part 2

Our second day in Vietnam was spent on a trip to the Mekong Delta.  We took a powerboat ride (or is it swift boat?) to the city of My Tho.  There we boarded smaller boats and canoes to travel between the jungle-covered islands of the delta.  For lunch we ate a really large freshly caught and fried fish and then relaxed on some hammocks.  The highlight of the day was a bike ride through the jungle of the delta passing scattered homes.  We got a little lost with some Australian tourists and they were grateful my Vietnamese-speaking parents could ask for directions.  Pictures of that day are here.

The next day we went east of Saigon to the home of my Aunt (my mother's sister).  She's the mother of my cousins Phuong, Trung, and Hai (I mentioned them in part 1).  She lives on the land of my grandfather, in a beautiful fenced in house with views of mountains and rice farms.  We visited the tomb of my maternal grandparents located on the property.  Having not seen her sister in many years, my aunt treated us to a multicourse meal of lobster, pork, soup etc..  Megan had durian, a very pungent fruit, for the first time, which she thought wasn't bad (I think because she ate it in an open-air dining room).  The rest of the afternoon was spent lounging around my Aunt's home and then on the beach.  Pictures of that day are here.  Sorry, no pictures of the beach yet, but they ARE coming, so stay tuned.