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Can Gio
Can Gio is an island a short distance from HCMC, consisting of mud flats, mangrove and overly agressive monkeys. You can see from the map below (from here) that it’s basically the delta of the Saigon River (the green area bottom right).
Access is via a car/motorbike ferry which connects with Nha Be and takes only 10 minutes plus any additional waiting time.
I would recommend doing a trip here without 200 school children, not least because it means the monkeys will have less to grab. Can Gio is not monkey infested, but there is a small nature preserve housing the handbag snatchers and also saltwater crocs. ‘Australia Zoo’ it isn’t — we climbed off the bus to come under attack from materialistic beasts who were more interested in new mp3 players than bottom scratching, a more natural activity than theft.
I digress, pictures here are from the mud flats at Can Gio.
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Connections Vietnam is a brilliant company operating in Saigon, Vietnam, with a slogan of "Bringing visitors to Saigon closer to it's people, food and culture". 
Sounds like a very well trained band of 4 legged bandits, those monkey rascals….going after high value items like mp3s. At this rate they should have plenty of bananas when they retire
btw, what are the children looking for in one of the pics?
They’re looking for small crabs or shrimps, which they found and tried to take home on the bus.