The Mekong Delta
We spent the day wearing rice hats (like the one you see here) and boating around the Mekong river. I actually took this photo from the back of the boat.
Many of you know of this river from the Vietnam War and war movies like Apocalypse Now.
From what we were told, the area we were in saw a lot of fighting between the US Navy and Viet Cong Guerrillas.
I sure as shit would not have wanted to fight here as you can not see anything on the banks, and the water is brown so you can not see what is 1 inche in the water. Talk about being a sitting duck. You are totally blind on all sides. Scary stuff.
There are really no words to describe just how thick the jungle is here. I am not exaggerating when I saw that like the water, you can’t see a single inch into it. This is something I’ve never given real thought to until today.