The Canals of Vietnam

We are now in the Mekong Delta; it is really an interesting place especially with all the canals.
Between the canales I could see the beautiful colorful different kinds of fruits that they plant or grow naturally. Vietnam farmers are excellent farmers. Everything grows so nice and in perfect rows, it is such sight to see. I have enjoyed the guavas, mangos, Japanese maranones,, caimitos, zapotes and some other kinds of fruits that they grow around the channels.
I love to see how people live in their boats and how they transport different materials. They transport big piles of sand, wood, pipes, and some other kind of merchandise. It is astonishing to see how hard people work in this canals and how they manage to survive in their small boats.
We were in Mi Tho two nights in a hotel by the river. I was watching from the hotel terrace how a mother was bathing her naked child and then she started to wash their clothes. And then the mother lit a small cooking stove and started to cook. The children were having fun on the deck flying a kite. The next day the whole family left to work and came back in the afternoon and I saw that the mother did the same routine.
I have obserbed something that strike the most it is against the law to ride a motorbike without the helmet, but it is O.K. for younger children not to use helmets or other kinds of protection. What a contradition.