The next day we went on an even smaller boat to tour the river. The tour group was smaller because half of the people choose to take the one-day tour. The smaller boat tour took us into smaller inlets of the river. We went to a banh trang, rice paper, factory, and a rice factory. Factory is too big of a word to describe these operations. They’re more like operations in the back of people’s homes. Once again, the scenery was just breath taking.

It’s hard to go down the Mekong River and not to think of the movie “Apocalypse Now”. It’s insane to think the soldiers took special mission trips up and down the river inlets. Both sides of the river are just jungles. You feel like sitting ducks. What a deathtrap.