After your leisurely breakfast at homestay, take photos with your host before loading your luggage on the support vehicle. Then, we start cycling from the homestay to the market of Cho Lach. Ride passes nursery, bonsai plants. You can see the old colonial bridge over the canal from the market. The French built the canal to connect the Mekong River to the Saigon River for water transport. Then we continue cycling to Co Chien River to have a ferry to Mang Thit, Vinh Long. Here we are in the Red Kingdom of Vinh Long, Mekong Delta's Vietnam.

Pottery and brick-making in villages of Mang Thit and Long Ho districts of Vinh Long province, Mekong Delta's Vietnam, has been a pottery industry for over a hundred years, and it still exists and develops to these days. People still use the old techniques to make various pottery and bricks. In the past, locals made yin and yang tiles, but many mills abandoned them because yin and yang ties have been known for years. Most of the mills, kilns, and factories are by the Mekong River, its branches, and canals because water was the main transportation in the past and is still in use today. 

More than thousands of households in Mang Thit and Long Ho are now working in the production of brick and pottery. Coming here to admire the techniques of making a wide variety of clay products, you are welcome and have an opportunity to see every corner of villages. Most of the products are handmade for Vietnam's and overseas markets. Ride a bicycle on the country road, visit some special and unique old kilns, and see how people make various beautiful pottery in clay.

This morning's ride is about 25km, with many stops at the oldest kilns and mills, including a ferry crossing Co Chien River. That is enough for this morning. We get on the support vehicles for a transfer to Vinh Long town. Enjoy lunch at a restaurant by Co Chien River. After lunch, our van/minibus will take us to Cai Tau for the afternoon ride. It is a pleasant ride, so we take it easy on paths, through small villages along the country road, river branches, and creeks. We get on a support vehicle in the outskirts of Sadec town. Check in to the hotel and dine in town in the evening.