We visited the floating market, where purveyors of all kinds of foodstuffs gather together daily, selling their wares (wholesale) to shop owners who come down from as far away as Saigon to pick up a truck full of pumpkins, coconuts, and turnips and drive back to sell them at their roadside stands.

Next stop for us was the mainland where our driver had headed to earlier to pick us up for the return trip to Saigon and what was to be the end of Phase I of our post-volunteering tour.