My last ride on the Mekong River ferry between Saigon and Phnom Penh

For decades, old rusting ferries have carried trucks, cars, motorbikes and people across the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia.They've been an enduring feature of travel around the Mekong Delta. They've also provided an income for hundreds of poor sellers and the boat men. In a few months though, a new bridge across the Mekong at Neak Loeung will connect Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. The ferry service will cease. I just took my last ride on the Neak Loeung ferry and shot a little video to remember it by. I never thought I'd feel sentimental about these ferry crossings. But it seems I do. The bridges represent huge progress for local people and local economies. But suddenly all those hot long waits to board Mekong ferries at Can Tho, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh and Neak Loeung have a certain romance to them. I definitely didn't sense the romance at the time.