Yea, this DOES look like something out of Apocalypse Now. Also, a fine place to get Cholera (isn't every place a fine place to get Cholera? ).
Everywhere you look there are these people with conical hats in rowboats. Not the fastest means of travel, but whatever works for you.
A traffic jam? In the middle of nowhere? Anything is possible in the third world. Note conical hats.
People buy and sell stuff (mostly food) at these huge floating markets. This is one in Can Tho.
Stu working the floating market. FLOUR! FLOUR! VERY CHEAP! YOU BUY! YOU BUY!