We are definitely better off running the waterways than the highways these times.
Đồng Tháp province have decided to enforce strictly the weight limitations for trucks on their roads, for the rainy season it seems, and so most of the heavy truck traffic between Saigon and Long Xuyên is now forced through the bottleneck of Cần Thơ ferry.
Remember Cần Thơ ferry was supposed to accept trucks only after dusk, a schedule meant to ease the passenger traffic through within the day, and you have a great recipe for a delta-sized traffic jam.
The Cần Thơ ferry pier is now very often crammed with trucks awaiting the authorization to cross the Bassac river on the ferries, pushing the road transfer times to Saigon up from 4 hours to sometimes 6.
We are alleviating this with the help of the flexible Mystic sampans, often fetching passengers from the Vĩnh Long side of the Hậu Giang river on behalf of the Bassac, or bringing back passengers who have taken lunch in town to the other bank.
