The day trip to the delta turns round at Ben Tre. This one carries on to Can Tho, which is the whole point: Cai Rang floating market is a wholesale market, and by eight in the morning the serious trading is over.
Day one is the Tien River and the four islands — Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise — an orchard, a bee farm, southern folk music in a fruit garden, a hand-rowed sampan down a water-coconut canal and a coconut candy mill, then an evening in Can Tho. Day two starts at five, on a boat through the Bassac tributaries to the market, with a rice-noodle workshop, a local house and a monkey bridge after it.