This week we took a 3-day bike trip through the Mekong Delta. The Mekong River starts in China, flows through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and in its final stretch, Vietnam, where it flows into the South China Sea. In the Delta, the Mekong splits into the Upper and Lower River, each splitting into several arms, surrounded by thousands of natural and man-made canals. Rice paddies, sugar cane, dragon fruit, and coconut palms shape the lush and flat landscape. As we were riding by, children would wave and shout hello, and even many adults greeted us with a big smile and a hello.
Every once in a while we would get off the main road ( where we riding alongside schoolchildren on their bicyles and local people on their motos) and take a little path into the fields - the honking of the motorcycles and minivans was replaced by tranquility and the buzzing of insects, and the busy street by dense vegetation, vast rice fields, and houses hidden by coconut palms.
Dragon flies abound - alongside other huge bugs, whose names we don't know.
Every once in a while we would get off the main road ( where we riding alongside schoolchildren on their bicyles and local people on their motos) and take a little path into the fields - the honking of the motorcycles and minivans was replaced by tranquility and the buzzing of insects, and the busy street by dense vegetation, vast rice fields, and houses hidden by coconut palms.
Dragon flies abound - alongside other huge bugs, whose names we don't know.
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