Read my Southern Vietnam Delta Overview here: The Mekong Delta
My travel guide to the Mekong Delta places of interest:
Once you reach My Tho stop to visit the Vinh Trang Pagaoda, the temple´s facade is extremely ornately decorated with mosaics and broken pottery. Two massive white Buddhas sit in the surrounding gardens one very happy one and one reclining one.
A little market town its full of street vendors so makes a great place to stop and eat some local dishes.
Ben Tre is made up of numerous small islands and you can pop on and off them via small bridges or ferry boats.
Little houses nest in-between small water ways and tiny paths lead to them. Small water side food stands and hidden home stays make it a lovely quite destination to stay and wander about.
Vinh Long is almost its own island as its a network of surrounding complex canals and islets. Cai Be floating market is a popular designation to grab a boat to do a river tour about the flower filed gardens and groves.
Can Tho is reached via the modern 2.75-km cable-stayed Can Tho Bridge. Its the largest city in the delta and here you can visit the Ong Pagoda, characterized in Chinese architectural style with porcelain decoration imitating Chinese legends and classic references on the roof and two sides of gates. At night it’s a floating sparkling river due to the illumination from the river boats and at day full of floating restaurants and merchants.
Rach Gia is a lovely sleepy Port town. Its modern center is filled with shops and its outer popular coastal strip lined with massive disco tech styled karaoke and sea food resorts. No way as tacky as Nha Trang and barely any foreign tourists are found here as its mostly a locals tourist destination. Close to the ferry departure area are quite guest houses and smaller hotels nestled in amongst the modern houses.
If you fancy more adventure and some island time you can catch a ferry boat from Rach Gia to Phu Quoc or some how find a way to get to one of the Nam Du Islands.
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