The Cai Rang and Phong Dien Floating Markets

One of the most interesting attractions of this area are the floating markets. On my private boat tour I touched two of them. On Cai Rang market merchants bring their products loaded on big motorized boats, and sell them to smaller reseller merchants on smaller boats that can enter smaller canals of the Mekong. These smaller resellers typically buy a variety of products, so they can function as floating grocery stores. They're selling everything to the houses located near the canals.
Each merchant on big motorized boats typically sells one product, like watermelon or pumpkin. There is a pole on each boat with one exemplar of the sold product on the top.

The Phong Dien Market is significantly smaller and more intimate than Cai Rang.
On both markets there are also moving restaurants, which will serve you with coffee or pho for breakfast, after having profoundly washed the dishes in the water of the muddy and probably polluted Mekong. I preferred skipping this, and had breakfast pho on land instead.