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Cai Be floating market in the Mekong Delta, where locals hang fruits and vegetables from the masts of their ships to announce what's for sale

Location: Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Date: June 2008

Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III

ID Number: #52123776


  Other photographs in the "mekong delta" collection:

Houseboat near the Cai Be floating market in the Mekong Delta

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Ferry near the Cai Be floating market in the Mekong Delta

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Boat in Mekong Delta apparently transporting longan fruit, a tasty, easily-peeled white-fleshed tropical fruit

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Meals in the Mekong Delta may involve a deep-fried whole fish, plus some lettuce and rice paper to make fish rolls, crustaceans, and deep-fried spring rolls

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Be warned: Your guide in the Mekong Delta may try to convince you to wear a snake as a boa. This works if the snake is in a good mood.

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Bedroom on houseboat near the Cai Be floating market in the Mekong Delta

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Boat in Mekong Delta apparently offloading longan fruit, a tasty, easily-peeled white-fleshed tropical fruit

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This Mekong Delta woman provides a kind of human-powered water-taxi service, though careless tourists run the risk of falling in the muddy water

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The Mekong Delta, a lush and bountiful region where the lengthy Mekong River broadens, splits into innumerable byways, and begins to approach the sea

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This Mekong Delta pig is being transported by boat: there aren't many roads here

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These women are the Venetian gondoliers of the Mekong Delta

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Mekong Delta boat transporting what seems to be palm leaves

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Think of this woman, who provides water taxi services, as the Mekong Delta equivalent of a Venetian gondolier

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Kitchen in the local equivalent of an upscale home in the Mekong Delta

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Longan fruit transported by boat in the Mekong Delta

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Sunrise in a Mekong Delta hut, with chicken and laundry in the background

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This aged gentleman, described by an interpreter as a onetime Viet Cong, is now a hotelier who caters to American tourists in the Mekong Delta

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Some of the larger boats that ply the waters of the fecund, muddy Mekong Delta

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Boys playing in the muddy, fecund, probably not potable water of the Mekong Delta

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Keywords: cai-be-floating-market / Volume: vietnam

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Cai Be floating market in the Mekong Delta, where locals hang fruits and vegetables from the masts of their ships to announce what's for sale