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Together with Cai Be and Phung Hiep, Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City is one of the three biggest in the Mekong Delta. The shops and stalls at these markets are boats of different sizes.
Cai Rang Floating Market is open all day but it is busiest from sunrise
to about 9am. The main items sold there are farm products and
specialties of Cai Rang Town, Chau Thanh District and neighboring
areas. Every boat has a long upright pole at its bow on which samples
of the goods for sale are hung.
During the early morning market hours, larger sized boats anchor and
create lanes that smaller boats weave in and out of. The waterway
becomes a maze of hundreds of boats packed with mango, bananas, papaya,
pineapple, and even smuggled goods like cigarettes.Sellers do not have
to cry out about their goods because their goods can be seen in a
distance and their cries would not be heard in the vastness of the
river and the noise of boat engines. Small boats that sell beer, soft
drinks and wine go among the other boats to serve market-goers and
visitors. Sellers tie their goods to a tall pole so that buyers can see
from a distance what they are selling.
Each boat is loaded with plenty of seasonal goods. Activities at the
market are also an occasion for tourists to study the cultural aspects
of southerners.
To visit Cai Rang Floating Market, visitors can join a tour of the
Mekong Delta. On the way to Can Tho, visitors can stop to visit My Tho
and take a boat trip to visit orchards, bee farms and coconut candy
establishments in Ben Tre.
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