The Tour
A morning or afternoon on the water with the people who fish it for a living.
This is one of those trips that sounds simple and turns out to be the thing people talk about for the rest of their holiday. You head out onto the Cua Dai River with a local guide, meet the fishermen who work it, and have a proper go at what they do: casting a weighted net, hauling in a large river net, and paddling the round bamboo basket boat that is almost impossible to steer on your first attempt.
In between, you cruise the water coconut palm channels of Cam Thanh, hear the Ba Trao singing and rowing tradition that belongs to these coastal villages, and learn about the waterways' wartime past from someone who grew up here. It finishes with a Vietnamese meal cooked by the captain and served on the boat, lunch on the morning departures and dinner on the afternoon one.
