Imagine what the Union Square Greenmarket would look like if each place was 100 times bigger, floating and advertised what they were selling based on what was hung from a bamboo pole. Got that okay, now just look at the photos and you’ve got the floating markets of Can Tho. There are all these boats that congregate for days to sell their produce, fish, etc from the Mekong Delta. There are yam boats, and sweet potato boats; melon boats, pumpkin boats, lettuce boats; little boats traveling through the bigger boats selling breakfast and coffee; lots of other boats carrying tourists gawking at what a different sight this is from what they’re used to. The main market, the Cai Rang, has big boats with this stuff, and we’re talking boats loaded with fruit, etc. They’re kind of doing more whole sale type retailing. Don’t want to buy 100-1000 melons, probably not getting any love here then. Then there’s a second market, the Phong Dien market. This is much smaller, somewhat passenger sized boats reselling goods. You’ll be able to find more normal quantities of products to buy here, but to some degree they’re just reselling from Cai Rang. Some of the boats end up becoming floating groceries stores with a selection of produce and goods that then pass up and down the canals and are a free delivery supermarket for people who can’t get to a floating market.