Cai Rang Floating market, early morning

One of the most interesting sights in the Delta are the floating marketsand associated river life. Cai Rang Floating Market is open all day butit is busiest from sunrise to about 9am. The main items sold there arefarm products and specialties of Cai Rang Town, Chau Thanh District andneighboring areas. Every boat has a long upright pole at its bow onwhich samples of the goods for sale are hung.

Duringthe early morning market hours, larger sized boats anchor and createlanes that smaller boats weave in and out of. The waterway becomes amaze of hundreds of boats packed with mango, bananas, papaya,pineapple, and even smuggled goods like cigarettes. Sellers do not haveto cry out about their goods because their goods can be seen in adistance and their cries would not be heard in the vastness of theriver and the noise of boat engines. Small boats that sell beer, wineand soft drinks go among the other boats to serve market-goers andvisitors. Sellers tie their goods to a

Transporting fruit on a small boat

Eachboat is loaded with plenty of seasonal goods. Activities at the marketare also an occasion for tourists to study the cultural aspects ofsoutherners. You can see the market in the distance, it does not looklike much, just a mass of boats. The boats all display their wares on amast so you can see what they have available.

Tovisit Cai Rang Floating Market, visitors can join a tour of the MekongDelta. On the way to Can Tho, visitors can stop to visit My Tho andtake a boat trip to visit orchards, bee farms and coconut candyestablishments in Ben Tre.

Haveyou been to the Cai Rang Floating Market? If not yet, let’s take a 30minute boat ride to the market. You will be actually awake and enjoyingit! You wind find it very peaceful floating down the river in the earlymorning. Then, tell us why you think this market is a great place!