Album Vintage – Crossing the Mekong Delta at Can Tho in the years 2000

Before the bridges were built to span the various arms of the Mekong river, traveling through the Delta meant to wait for the ferries. The most famous one was replaced by the Cần Thơ Bridge, constructed over an arm of the Mekong, the Bassac (or Hau Giang), near the city of Cần Thơ.
“It’s the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong. The elegant man has stepped out of the limousine. He smokes an English cigarette. He looks at the young girl in a man’s felt hat and golden shoes. He approaches her slowly. It’s clear he is intimidated.” M. Duras in The Lover
It was then a time of rest and conversation for this crossing, now forever closed, which can be felt in this sequence of photos.