Mekong Delta Overview Trip ideas Experiences Places to visit Best time to visit Accommodation Back to all places Buzzing with longtail taxi boats and crowded with barges piled with mangoes, pineapples and fresh fish, a Mekong Delta tour is all about getting to know the rhythms of life on the water. Mekong Delta from above Local life on the Mekong Delta Getting around on the Mekong Delta Connects with Vietnam Ho Chi Minh CityThe yin to Hanoi’s yang, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon to its friends) offers a more internationally minded counterpoint to that northern bastion of tradition — not to mention an exciting base from which to explore Vietnam’s most interesting war sites.