Saigon - Final Report

Today was a wonderful way to end our tour of this beautiful country.  Saigon is a city of 8 million people, and has 3.2 million motor bikes, and less than half a million cars.  Traffic is unreal.  We left early, mostly to avoid rush hour, on our way to our exploration of the Mekong  Delta.  As usual traffic cost us about 45 minutes to get out of Saigon, and then another hour or so before we stop at the Cao Dai Temple.  This religion is based in Vietnam, boasts about 5 million adherents worldwide, and is an attempt to merge the best of the world’s major religious beliefs into a single religion which respects the values of each as well as the significant important persona, ie., Muhammed for Islam, Christ for Christianity, Buddha for Buddhism, etc.  Interesting place  Then we board our boat to explore the Delta.  The Mekong is the 10th longest river in the world and has an extensive delta.  We pass hundreds of fishing trawlers that go out to the ocean for three weeks at a time, and return with their catch to provide for the local markets.  There are three significant islands in the area we are exploring.  We can take a canoe in to visit Monkey Island to see a bee farm and local coconut products before traveling across the delta arm we are located on for lunch.   We then return to land and head back to Saigon  Our final dinner is very nice, and different from previous meals.  Our guide gives each of us a group photo that he has taken and printed.    

To all those of you who have followed our blog, we say thanks.  We learned  in the last few days that some of you may have posted comments on our blog.  Unfortunately  those comments were not posted so that we could read them.  Don’t know why, but we do appreciate your interest in our trip.