Tales From The Mekong Delta

Everything turned into a beautiful blue. Visual, auditory, tactile, and change in thinking. Creativity flows freely from your thoughts to your hands and pen and paper. This blue is "You know your blue and the place you live, it will never forget" (107). Blue is repair and excitement that addicts get from medicine. Addicts are looking for escape. They feel that enjoying life and being more fully experienced if they are beaten with this sort of blow. In Kate Braberman's short story "The Story of Orgas from the Mekong Delta", she explains women's struggle with drugs and how they returned to them after she woke up for years.

The Mekong Delta in Southeast Asia is in one of the worst drought in decades. The Mekong River reaches the Delta through six countries and millions of people depend on it to make a living. However, this river rich in biodiversity is vulnerable to climate change. Many people living in this area are struggling to cope with drought and climate change threatening to maintain resources. Lien, 22, lives in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Her family lost nearly half of the rice crop this year due to extreme drought and saltwater intrusion. The irrigation canals and ponds in front of their house are dry - so they buy fresh water for drinking and bathing, which is the main economic burden of low harvest years. They are Khmer people, ethnic minorities in southern Mekong Delta. Like many Khmer families, they are not fluent in Vietnamese and can not read or write.

If you explore the waterway with a long tail boat, you can head to the center of Mekhta delta in Vietnam. The Mekong River has twisted and twisted in six Asian countries before reaching the Delta of Vietnam, but this is a historically important area that has been producing nearly half of the country's agriculture. The rural area of ​​Tiang Giang is Cai Be Floating Market, one of the most famous markets in the country. This market consists of countless suppliers of pontoons full of local cargo. When you cross the market you can sell a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and living animals through a narrow canal surrounded by lush rice fields.

If you have the opportunity to travel to the Mekong Delta in southwest Vietnam, access to the water market should be on your list. The Floating Market is a unique feature of the Mekong Delta. This special market style is always done in the river with hundreds of yachts, samps, boats. Activities in these markets are held every day, but the busiest time is early in the morning. All boats are full of agricultural products, especially fresh fruit. Each boat has several long poles and the top of these poles is what the seller wants to sell. Thanks to this, you just need to pay attention to Paul and know which ship sells what you need.