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Mekong Delta

We toured the Mekong Delta for 2 days and slept overnight in a simple house on stilts over the river. There is so much serenity there. I am reminded of the Yeats poem "Lake Isle of Innisfree." Time seems dripping slow like honey from the bees. Life is easy there. Everywhere you go you can pick logan, rose apples, oranges from trees. The people are ingenious at using the river for everything: bathing, washing and industry.

We watched the making of tiles and rice crafts. It's amazing what is still done by hand in the Mekong because labor is cheap. You might say that the people there are poor because they don't have many of the conveniences of modern life, but to me they seem to have it good. They can eat from the trees and fish from the river. Bathe and wash in the river. They are not rushed or hurried. They seem contented.