{"id":20940,"date":"2016-05-16T05:44:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2016-05-16T05:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T05:54:23","slug":"vietnam-explorer-tour-mekong-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/vietnam-explorer-tour-mekong-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Explorer Tour: Mekong Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two days in Saigon, the 2016\u00a0Jim Cline Photo Tours Vietnam Explorer Tour<\/a> left Saigon on our private boat for a trip down into the Mekong Delta, our destination, Can Tho.<\/p>\n

Can Tho is the biggest city in South Vietnam\u2019s Mekong Delta, with an estimated population of 1.5 million. The name Can Tho comes from \u201cc\u1ea7m thi giang\u201d \u2013 river of poems. It is also referred to as \u201cTay Do\u201d meaning \u201cWestern capital\u201d. The city is famous for its floating markets, Buddhist pagodas, delicious food, fresh fruits and friendly, welcoming people. Can Tho\u2019s bustling port is the busiest in the delta.<\/p>\n

The region was known as Kampuchea Krom (lower Khmer, or lower Cambodia) to the Khmer Empire, which likely maintained settlements there centuries before its rise in the 11th and 12th centuries.<\/p>\n

Today, the Mekong Delta makes up 47% of Vietnam\u2019s land used for cultivating crops; more than northern and central Vietnam combined. Most of this is used for rice cultivation, and the regions rice making capacity is approximately 54.8% of Vietnam\u2019s total output. The Mekong Delta is also Vietnam\u2019s most important fishing region, with just under half of Vietnam\u2019s offshore fishing vessels.<\/p>\n

Life in the Mekong Delta revolves much around the river, and many of the villages are only accessible by rivers and canals rather than by road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After two days in Saigon, the 2016\u00a0Jim Cline Photo Tours Vietnam Explorer Tour left Saigon on our private boat for a trip down into the Mekong Delta, our destination, Can Tho. Can Tho is the biggest city in South Vietnam\u2019s Mekong Delta, with an estimated population of 1.5 million. The name Can Tho comes from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21437,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions\/21437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}