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Can Tho, Vietnam – Dawn Tho Tho Tho is full of rounds of the city’s river tour vessels.
In the distance, traditional wooden house ships, Cai Rang appears between dark light because it appears to floating the market.
Cai Rang and other markets like this, once a history of the early 20th century was between the most recognized cultural signs of South Vietnam.
Before the development of roads and bridges, there was a basic vehicle of trade and traffic to the development of numerous waterways of the Delta region, to the development of floating markets.
However, in the last two decades, the markets in Tandem in Tandem with the rapid economic development of Vietnam, gradually, and then suddenly, the 10 main market of the region maintains any significance.
“When the first time in 2011 was the market, he was greater in 2011,” said Linh, the local guide, Al Jazeera said.
“Now about one-third of this size,” said Linh to the market to the market a few years ago.
Today, Cai Rang consists of about 200 vascular in the 1990s.
The nearby Phong Dien market was less than a boat from it, and mostly disappeared from tourist routes.
A market that develops once in the neighbor Ben Tre province is among those who have a good way in 2021.
Historically, the largest of Delta’s markets, Cai Rang is still at least similar to the assembly of the Boat.
The market looks more sparse in the next check. Today, tour vessels make up a significant part of the traffic in water.
Still, as always, the SAMPs are loaded with larger “from the seller” product, then it is imported to markets.
Boats for many vendors double like home.
Ship residents werehed dishes with river juice, cooking on small ovens or cooking in baths or often cooking with children and pet dogs in full screen full screen.
There are still concerns behind photogenous charm.
“Business is not good,” said Phuc, who sold pineapples to tourists in the market, said.
Sometimes he sells only 10 pineapples in 20,000 Vietnam Dong (0.78) ($ 0.78).
“It is possible only to make enough money in the high season. The remaining time, we are barely survived.”
Until two years ago, Phauc and his husband worked as Wholesalers selling Yams.
For the previous 25 years, Ho Chi will go to a province near Ho Chi Minh City, which has been a few days away, near the city and a reckoned process.
However, as the road infrastructure improves in the last decade, soil-based trade has become faster and more efficient, ensures the need for tea-based trade.
“The only people who continue to work here, to buy a minibus or a large car (to deliver a product),” to deliver the product, “he said,” her husband, Thaize.
Tuyen, who works as a wholesale seller selling onions, garlic and sweet potatoes, is also lowered.
“Ten years ago I was making good money to do it, but it’s enough to get it now,” he said. “Now everything is more difficult.”
Tuyen said that the Covid-19 pandemia was a turning point, many vendors, many sellers who could not end, passed to work on land.
He asked why he did not join them, noted the market point, about five million Vietnamese dong ($ 195).
On the ship, there is no lease to pay.
“I preferred to stay in the land – more comfortable and comfortable – but I do not have money.”
Improved roads are often the reason for the decline in markets, other factors played a part.
Many small market struggled to get rid of temporary parcels during pandemic, because health and safety rules caused a transition to land-based markets.
Weaker planning aggravated the situation.
To eliminate the annual flood of Mekong Delta, the government has built flood prevention walls on the shores of the Tea Tea River in recent years.
Despite the flood and erosion of these walls, the lack of supports complicated the continuation of tea-based trade.
Wider cultural turns poured a cloud with the future of the floating market.
As Vietnam modernizes, young generations are looking for better education and career opportunities and turn their backs to their parents.
“My daughter doesn’t want to work here,” said Phuc. “He prefers to work on their terms and invest in sharing. He does not like us – he does not like this life.”
Although the sellers can worry about the future, the survival of Cai Rang is smaller for the middle city resident of the nearby city.
These days, most people shop in shopping centers in supermarkets and shopping centers and have little reason to visit Cai Rang.
“It’s not a special thing for me,” a hotel recipe called “a hotel recipe that happens only once in the market, asking for a hotel recommendation, Al Shimera.”
However, tourism contributes about 6 percent to the city’s economy, the main draw of the CAI floating market.
In 2017, the city welcomed 7.5 million tourists, according to official figures.
Although the arrival reached 5.9 million in 2023, the numbers remain significantly after the peaks after the pandemic.
This is due to the reason for the results of the flights from other regions from other regions of Pandemia and other regions of Vietnam.
If the floating market closes, the efforts to revive tourism can still be difficult.
Huynh, who waved cooking lessons and unbeated track channel ships, said he could pay attention to the appeal to tourists, referring to the floating markets of the Bangkok to protect the market.
“Bangkok sells many different things in the markets,” said Huynh Al Jazeera said. “Here we are mainly selling fruits and vegetables.”
However, he said that he would have to do more to help the government, traders stay, build new bridges for the installation of new bridges to load goods and lift new bridges.
In any case, Huynh said he would lose the originality of the market and the cultural value.
“It would not be the same in my mind,” he said.
Up to 8 o’clock, Cai Rang ended the day’s trade.
The sun rose high on the coast of the palm lining and the sellers are relaxed to their homes. However, Linh, tour guide, Serenity will be closed in several years and doubts that Cai Rang will close.
“Then I have to look for a new job,” he said.
