Mekong River Expedition February 2, 2014

In the morning our group visited a colorful floating market in the Mekong delta and observed the production of popped rice, rice paper, rice noodles and Vietnamese traditional sticky rice cakes wrapped in palm fronds.
In the afternoon we went to a Cao Dai temple which included elements of Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism with a giant eye located over the altar. Then we walked through a marketplace, through a blooming cactus garden and arrived at a brick factory which used 9 year old boys to push carts of the heavy baked bricks.