{"id":18763,"date":"2019-03-09T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wohutravels.us\/?p=18763"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:42:20","slug":"day-6-tra-vinh-can-tho__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=18763","title":{"rendered":"Day 6, Tra Vinh \u2013 Can Tho"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Off we went this morning for another beautiful day bicycling through the rice fields of the mighty Mekong delta! Not quite sure how Hai knew where we were going. Some of the paved paths were only the width of a sidewalk and MANY, MANY\u00a0 intersections . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . on the way out of town we passed this monument in the middle of a round-about.<\/p>\n

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Most of the rice is now mechanically harvested but many of the smaller fields and those used for local family consumption are still planted and tended to by hand.<\/p>\n

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The majority of the Vietnamese people are Buddhist and part of their belief system is if you treat your relatives, both alive and dead, with respect they will look after you while on this earth and in the afterlife. A common practice is to bury relatives right out in the rice fields in well tended private little cemeteries.<\/p>\n

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Lots of domestic ducks today which are fed during the rice growing season but are released into the fields to ‘clean up the scraps’ after the rice is harvested. Their wings are clipped so they don’t fly away!<\/p>\n

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Great infrastructure on today’s ride. Most of the cement looked new!!!<\/p>\n

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Our first temple visit along the way . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . where an orchestra made up of youngsters was waiting for the arrival of a neighboring monk, from another pagoda.<\/p>\n


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