Nha Nghi Nature-Mekong Can Tho

... e. Love your work Donnie. Only hitch was I ended up somewh**e else, and eith** Wiki Travel is totally wrong; the hotel adv**tises fraudulently, or the Xe Om taxi rid** did a dodgy. The hotel I was supposed to be going to was called ‘the Green hotel’. Ended up at anoth** one called Hien Guesthouse II, which is sort of greenish. It’s cheap at 170,000 dong a night, small room with no extras but aircon and cable TV; but its ...

... that, which was fun. She sat on the parcel rack behind me and held my seat. Was great except when my sunglasses fell off and I stopped to get them, swung my leg over to get off and promptly kicked her in the face. Yeah. Apart from that… way fun!

We were then told to get back on our boat and were taken to a bus station where we had a two hour drive to Can Tho which is where tonight’s accommodation is.

The hotel is strange, it’s down a dark ...

... upgrade to A/C and we would be safe from the
malaria-plagued mosquitoes. No, we didn't pay the extra $7 and no
there weren't any mosquitoes although the bathroom was definitely the
scariest bathroom we've had to date.

Luckily the scenery was beautiful and we had gorgeous weather. The Mekong is the color of caramel and there are huge green vines that float down
the current. Against the blue sky, white clouds and green coconut
palms the area is enchanting ...

... here in the Mekong and it certainly didn't disappoint! As we rounded a bend we could see lots of boats moored up ahead in the middle of the river. Each boat had a makeshift mast with the fresh produces they were selling tied to the top as a form of advertising. We spotted potatos, kumuras, apples and grapes amongst other things up on the masts. To get a feel for boat life we moored alongside a pineapple boat and climbed aboard - the owners cut up the fresh fruit for us using ...

... sous le casque pour eviter les rayons qui trouvent le chemin entre le masque et le casque. Les pieds dans les ballerines sont caches par des chaussettes. Les bras, sous le t-shirt manches courtes seront caches sous des gants sur toute la longueur du bras. Cela ne suffisant pas, un sweet shirt a capuche est ajoute sur le tout pour eviter tout rayon inopportun.
Dans ce pays baigne de soleil et de chaleur unegrande ...

... what they are selling by attaching an example to a bamboo stick at the front of the boat (have got some photos to put up when I have time). It is pretty much unorganized chaos there are boats everywhere big and small all trying to squeeze past one another!

We then went to another smaller fruit market where our driver bought this strange grapefuit ...

... times, on trains about 8 times, and on boats 2 times. We have honed our bladder control, mastered our Valium/Diazepam intake, and sharpened our elbows to get the best seats most of the time. We can eat almost any roadside foods without sickness. We can tolerate insane bus overtaking manoeuvres that would have the average person in tears. We ...

... We left the large canal and travelled down a smaller one passing homes with people going about their daily routines. After docking, we got on the bikes and happily road for a good part of the day. The terrain kept changing... from small trails in a 'jungle-like' setting to small roads along a canal that then changed to rice fields with mountains in the distance. On the approach to Chau Doc I noticed a change in the economic status as well ...

... water uit om zo toch zuurstof te krijgen). Zeer bijzonder! In Ca Mau zijn de toeristen nog niet ' ingeburgerd' ! We werden als aapjes aangekeken (was het een keer andersom!). 's Avonds goed het stadje bekeken (de markten blijven bewonderend, zoveel kleuren aan fruit en groente) en de aller lekkerste fruitshakes op! Omdat wij vooral de Mekong Delta helemaal willen beleven, hebben we de volgende dag weer een klein bootje genomen naar Can Tho: de 'toegangspoort' van de Mekong Delta ...

... The slow bus to Can Tho took us about 4 hours. There were waterways along the road for most of the way as there are throughout the Delta. Nowadays waterways are important during the floods and the wet season but they are loosing their importance as roads get built on higher and higher banking. I was surprised out here to see that even though the housing looked pretty sparse the roads were still jam packed with traffic. One thing we had seen a lot of driving around were ...