Cruising Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (Part 2)

What makes the Mekong Delta a must-visit destination to exerience ?

2. River romance

After my foray onto the tourist trail, I was back on my own, easing between the intertwined Bassac and Tien Giang rivers. In Sa Dec, a bustling market city with lingering French ambience, my guide Oanh told me of the delta’s steamiest romance. In her book, The Lover, former resident and novelist Marguerite Duras recalled her 1930s tryst with an older Chinese businessman, Huynh Thuy Le, when she was aged just 15. It scandalised Sa Dec.

We visited the French school, where Duras’s poverty-stricken widowed mother taught, and Le’s opulent ancestral mansion, which left an impression on the youthful Duras. Oanh readily divulged the scandal as we went: “They met en route to Saigon… Le’s father wouldn’t let them marry because Duras was too poor… She refused to see Le decades later in Paris because he’d shunned her…”

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