Procuring a guide for a boat ride around Chau Doc was an easy task since our guide found us. We have discovered that when we arrive in a new town walking around aimlessly seems to be the best way to get our bearings and see what the place is all about. While near the waterfront, Peta, a twenty something man (actually seemed more like a boy) approached us with the normal array of questions. "Where are you from?" "How long you stay?" "What you want to do while your here?" When we told him we wanted to take a boat tour, it just so happened his family had a boat. He spoke great English and we liked him, so it seemed a perfect fit.

At 7am we met Peta and his father, who would be our driver, at the dock. We jumped on their aqua blue boat adorned with a red prow and white eyes.

Peta..

Dad.....

Catching fish.....

Lounging while mom and dad work....

Selling goods at the floating market.....

Some families have fish farms beside their homes. The fish are kept in cages below floating structures. They feed them pellets that closely resembled dog food.

Feeding time......

The pellets are a mix of rice, vegetable scraps and dead fish mixed in a giant, putrid vat. I know that in nature fish are cannibals, but this was still a bit disturbing. I imagine that if these fish could speak and became aware of what they were eating it would be a scene closely resembling the one from the movie Soylent Green

Fish......"Soylent green is fishies" Followed by blood curdling screams.

They took us to a Cham Village. The Cham are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group found in this part of SE Asia.

Brave.....