Sa Dec 2 Market (12/31/2012)

Still Monday, December 31, 2012
Our water bus took us from the brick factory to the Sa Dec town market.
A fisherman on the riverside of the market stalls:

Produce going to market:

Chau Doc Market:

Shophouses:

A lunch opportunity where we disembarked for the market:

Looong load:

They really wear coolie hats here:

KSS

White eggplants:

"Money" for sale:

To be burned for use of your ancestors.
This lady is pulling open a duck!

This one is trying to weigh a wiggling fish:

Colorful fabrics:

Curcuma longa/Turmeric rhizomes:

Probably ducks' blood:

Colocasia esculenta var./Taro tubers:

Tea preparation of Pandanus amaryllifolius/pandan leaves:

Happy vendor:

Blossoms for cooking; these are pumpkin flowers:

Banana "flowers:"

Big chicken feet:

Rice varieties:

Feather duster for the top of the bus:

Dried stuff:

Fluta alba/Asian Swamp Eels?:

Cuttlefish:

River snails:

Winged beans:

Fish ball meat:

Snakes and turtles:

KSS

At the wholesale market, shallots:

Beets:

Small watermelons:

Pumpkins:

Tamarind pods:

Rose apples:

KSS

Tiny truck:

From the movie and book "l'Amant," the author has a love affair with the son of the Chinese family living here:

Reception hall:

Doorway where you can push the wooden poles across the opening to bar entry, but allow ventilation:

Main hall:

Continuing down the street, dried beans and pasta:

Plastic goods:

Drying water coconut husks:

We returned to the RV Indochina for lunch, and to set sail for Cai Be.
Next, Cai Be.