One of several brick making kilns we saw on the river.  The green stuff floating in the water is water hyacinths.  there are lots and lots of them and sadly, they aren't edible or the people would have an endless supply of vegetables.

It's hard to see but the river is behind Hans. We're having lunch at the Mekong Lodge, a resort on one of the islands.  It was another fabulous lunch, as you can see below.
There's a jackfruit growing on the tree behind Hans - it's yellowish and just to the right of his glasses, but there are some green leaves in front of it.  better photo below.

This is fried river fish.  Isn't that an interesting way to present it?  The 14 year old waitress showed us how to pull the meat down either side away from the spine.  Very easy and quite taste.  We had circles of rice paper that first had to be moistened to be made pliable, then you add a little fish, a slice of cucumber, tomato, mint leaves and a few white noodles.  wrap it all up in the thin and very sticky rice paper, and eat.  Yummy.

I wanted a photo of the jackfruit growing on the tree.  while I was in the WC, Hans put his glasses on the fruit so you can see the scale.

Many of the boats had these piercing eyes painted on the stern.

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