Tourism: in Vietnam, buyers and sellers travel by boat to the Long Xuyên floating market

Of all the floating markets in the Mekong Delta, that of Long Xuyên (Vietnam) is undoubtedly the most authentic. Far from tourists, hundreds of boats of fruit and vegetable wholesalers come to sell their products every day to traders in the surrounding villages. A colorful market that wakes up every day at dawn. In this market, you have to know how to negotiate. Customers keep coming and always want to drop prices.

Noodle soups sold on the water

The specialty of the Long market Xuyênthese are his fish. This arm of the Mekong has around ten fishing villages, who sell their catches on the market. A nourishing river on which sellers of noodle soups, the traditional Vietnamese pho, also navigate. The bowls are prepared on site, upon request. Around noon, when the market closes, buyers of fruit and vegetables go to a market on dry land. This is where they sell their products purchased on the river.