We booked a 2day tour of the mekong delta. It was pretty awesome (as it fueled apocolypse now fantasies), but really didn't rank that high compared to the rest of our trip.
Our tour guide (from handspan, a company that mike/katie used for halong bay) was an ethnic minority from the da lat area. His english was pretty good at first but deteriorated over time as we got more detailed. The good part was that nobody else booked for our day so we basically had a private tour.
We saw floating markets (wholesale and retail) and a tree nursary where we drank rice wine with a confuscious-looking 87yo man! We spent the night in can tho, the largest city in the delta, and ate at a touristy place by the river.
Our waitress (a cute girl who goes by 'But', was the first person who spent time teaching us vietnamese. She wrote down phrases and helped us with pronounciation. For example: to thank her for bringing the meal, we say "come on, but". Ironic since we were leaving vietnam in a day!
The next day was a bit better as we tooled around on a smaller boat driven by a 14yo boy. We saw cooler markets and went down a canal. We got off the boat and walked around the village, interacting with locals.
By 11am we were back on our bus to saigon.
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