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SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc Full Documentaries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday! Documentary "Mekong, the river of nine dragons" http://bit.ly/MekongDoc Our journey along the Mekong is coming to an end. Before flowing into the China Sea, in Vietnam, the river forms an extensive and complex delta, known as The Nine Dragons. A network of 5,000 kilometres of natural and artificial canals carries the waters to the rice fields. Cantho is the largest city in the delta. It's small in size, but with a large population. The Lee family runs a flourishing fish business in one corner of the market. Hue is thirty years old, and she is responsible for organising the sale of the merchandise every morning. Her biggest customer is the government itself, which in turn, sells to the restaurants and the workers in the state factories. Along with her, another fifteen members of the family help to unload, classify and clean the fish. The market in Cantho is an example of the rich gastronomy of Vietnam. Over five hundred different dishes, but all of them served with rice. Eight o'clock in the morning, and the Lee's are still busy at work. They transport the fish in primitive fish-farming boats. All types of boats come to the market to buy and sell many different things in the numerous floating markets around the delta. The delta was, until the eighteenth century, part of the Khmer Kingdom of neighbouring Cambodia, and was the last region to be annexed by Vietnam. The Cambodians have not forgotten this territory, which still today they call Lower Cambodia. It is one more reason for the mutual hatred between the two cultures. Around ten o'clock in the morning, the Lee family gets ready to return home. Today they have sold fish worth 75,000 pesetas, an absolute fortune if we consider that the average salary of a civil servant is not even 5,000 pesetas a month. The Lees live quarter of an hour from the market, on the other side of the main branch of the Mekong, in a group of floating houses. SUBSCRIBE | http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc FULL DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/Full-Docs CULTURE DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/CultureDocs FACEBOOK | http://bit.ly/FBPDoc TWITTER | http://bit.ly/TwPDoc TUMBLR | http://bit.ly/TbPlDoc
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amazing people!
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excellent
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The ear cleaner did not said the strangest thing he take out is a cockroach. This channel should fire whoever that translated this shit. The ear cleaner only said that he help remove the ear wax and that is all.
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I love the floating market and it was fun too love it thanks for sharing 👍🏻3/22/16
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The fish they catch beside the house were also the fish feed on their daily poop flushed down to water, brought onto table tops for consumption then wasted afterwards on water for other fish to feed on and be caught soon after then life goes on and on and on....
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I love Thai people
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Love these documentaries.
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