Water Merchants

Tourists are not advised to drink the water.

This boatman was glad to have me take his picture, with the kind of friendliness we encountered over and over again in Vietnam.

I have mentioned the floating market in the Mekong Delta in another post.  The people here are too busy buying and selling to notice that scores of tourists are taking pictures of them.

This man has bought pineapples from a middleman on a large boat or barge, and now he's bringing them ashore to sell them.  We ate so much pineapple on this trip that we almost got tired of them.

When this child's mother noticed that I was taking their picture, she withdrew.  Our guide explained to us that parents keep little children with them on the boats until they're school age.