Walking tour around Can Tho wet market and motor ride to Can Tho bus terminal

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Route: Along Can Tho wet market to nearby roads
Date: 2 July 2019
Duration: Walking (around 1 hour); motor ride (around 15 minutes)
Mode: Walking, motor riding
Fare: 40k dong (motor ride)
Difficulty: Communicating with locals
Highlight: Witness the dynamics of a wet market in Vietnam, search for motorcycle ride to the bus terminal without an online app, bargaining for prices of services

After the dawn to morning tour at the floating market in Cai Rang, I went back to my rented room to prepare myself for travel back to HCM. I felt both carefree in enjoying the walking tour and rushing to catch up for the bus back to HCMC. I felt carefree because my flight will still be in the late afternoon but I felt being rushed thinking about the traffic situation when I will reach HCM.

Feeling carefree, I still took a walking tour from my apartment to the foot or the bridge which is only around 15 meters from there. Then I took a walk around the market around the bank of the river once again. It is the same market where I ate durian and noodles last night. I roamed around the market, took some photos and observed the place. I noticed some kind of weird vegetables that they dishevel (pare)  and turn into noodle-like strings. They mix this with actual rice noodles to make a very delicious noodle soup.

Along the way, I remembered that I might encounter traffic congestion in HCM so I rushed back to Cai Rang Bridge where I spotted some middle-aged men ready to take rides. I told the motor bike rider to take me to the Can Tho bus station. I asked him how much and he opened at 50k dong but in my insistence, we ended up at 40k dong. At this point, I already learned to bargain through showing the digits from my cellphone.






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