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Chau Doc Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chau Doc, Vietnam
Voyage to Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... both the Cambodian and Vietnam sides for more stamps in our passports. After about six hours on the water, we arrived in Chau Doc, a small border town and our stopover for the night. Amid more sighs of displeasure from them, we were happy to ...
The Mekong Delta into Cambodia
This is a top pick! Sua s'dai from Cambodia! We hope to put some detail down to accompany the photos soon...that is, if we can remember the details! Hope you like the piccys. Best wishes ...
Restaurant 0, Cockroaches 1
This is a top pick! ... compare sunburns from the previous day (of which there are some impressive examples) on the 5 hour journey to Chau Doc, which will bring us into Vietnam. The road is narrowed sometimes to only one lane because local people have laid their rice harvest at ...
Chau Doc and the Mekong Delta
This is a top pick! ... Tour (other than watching activity on the banks). Our floating hotel was way too pricey for the standard we got and the little town (Chau Doc) that it was floating by had about as much charm as the hookers in Saigon. The next morning we visited a fish ...
Entrance to the Mekong Delta
This is a top pick! ... us to an isolated bamboo shack and tells us that a boat will arrive in 10 minutes to take us to the Vietnamese border and on to Chau Doc. The place looks completely deserted and as Doi drives off in a cloud of dust, I wonder whether a boat will come to ...
Chips & gravy all round & get Corrie on the telly
This is a top pick! ... ; All a bit weird. After all this we took the boat to Vinh Long where we picked up the bus and drove 3 hours to Chau Doc where we would be staying for the night. On the way we stopped at another hotel and picked up Julia from Old ...
Final stretch in the south
This is a top pick! ... our clan will go back to visit. I expressed that I wasn't sure but will pass it along that all should really comeback to Vietnam. My family abroad (France and USA) would be blown away at the changes and progress that has occurred since we last visited in ...
Buses, Boats, and Bikes (and Bruises)
This is a top pick! ... itinerary promised a '2 hour' bus ride, a stop in a 'delightful' town before going to a crocodile farm and boarding the boat to Chau Doc where we were to spend the night in a 'delightful' hotel. They got the bit about the crocodile farm right, but I ...
Crossing to Vietnam by the Mekong
This is a top pick! ... population of Cham people. These are a minority people of Vietnam, who are Muslim, and for a time were a powerful group within Vietnam. Today they generally live quiet lives, centred on the river, and their religion. Danayi and I arranged for a boat ...
Mekong Markets, Rice Noodles and Crocodiles
This is a top pick! ... our scene, so we sat outside eating ice-cream and waited for our group to return. We arrived at Chau Doc, the border town between Cambodia and Vietnam in the early evening. There weren’t many restaurants in the area so we followed some people ...
Chau Doc
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Vietnam in our entry from Vientiane, Laos Peoples Dem Rep entitled 'Touring Vietnam with the Irish and Rum!'. Cheers, K & ...
Drifting around the Mekong delta
This is a top pick! ... --as far as I could tell, anyway!) cousins in the SE Asia mainland region--along with Myanmar/Burma. Thailand and Vietnam seem to be the golden geese powerhouses as far as development, infrastructure, economics, standard of living, population and tourism ...
Ciao from Chau Doc
This is a top pick! ... off our tired legs and achy arms (me – they’re fed up of being in the same position all the time.) Arriving in Chau Doc we checked out the boat situation first and bought two tickets to Phnom Penh leaving at 8am. This boat should mean we will ...
Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers, Chau Doc and Saigon
This is a top pick! ... 't happy with the tip I gave him, but then, I wasn't happy that he had grabbed my bag without my consent! We arrived in Chau Doc at dusk, docked up to a floating restaurant, and got in our usual a/c bus. The streets were crawling with scooters, bike ...
A house of fish
This is a top pick! ... back on the boat and making our way to a Cham village. Chams were once a powerful dynastic race in the south of Vietnam, but now they're a minority. The village we were visiting was a Muslim Cham village on the shore of the Mekong. ...
Beer Ahoy!
This is a top pick! ... Island, Mai Chau, Tuan Giao, Lai Chau, Sapa, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Mui Ne, Saigon, Mekong delta, Can Thou and Chau Doc. Days Visited: 25-Days Budget: GBP 8.70 per day per person (1GBP=28,800 Dong) Total Distance travelled: 3586kms Cost of ...
Chau Doc to Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... approachable -- even the xe dap loi drivers, as pestering as they are, are friendly. Besides a tour to the floating villages, Chau Doc's A second attraction is Sam Mountain -- more of a hillock in fact -- which has reasonable views over the surrounds. ...
Another boat trip - same,same
This is a top pick! ... in a rocky old row boat, by a middle aged women for about an hour. Firstly they showed us the floating village near Chau Doc where the residents make a living from farming fish in cages under their houses. These catfish are far too expensive for the ...
The Wonder of Bikes
This is a top pick! This entry is devoted entirely to the motorbikes of Vietnam. It is a picture gallery of the overloaded bikes I was able to grab my camera out in time for. Anyone considering a 2 wheeled mode of transport and worrying that you couldn't just pop out ...
I thought today might be my last
This is a top pick! ... much better. I'm very glad to be on dry land again. 19:00 I spent the afternoon bouncing along in a bus driving back up to Chau Doc. The scenery was the usual corrugated irons roofs, stalls by the side of the road, endless rice fields and so on. It gave ...
Mekong Delta Day 3
This is a top pick! 07:38 Once again MA amused and at this point frustrated us by announcing on arrival of her breakfast that it was the worst coffee she had "in a long time" I was tempted to ask if she meant since the other day when she also made this claim. 10:19 ...
The Nam
This is a top pick! ... safe by now to cruise the Mekong Delta. We cruised on a rickey(again) boat to the border then up to the little town of Chau Doc where we spent the night. The next day, before heading on to Saigon we explored the local fishing villages and fish farms. ...
The Mekong Delta and the gateway to country #4
This is a top pick! We decided to book a tour into the Mekong Delta for our last 3 days in Vietnam culminating with a river crossing from Chau Doc to Phnomh Penh in Cambodia. To be honest, the tour proved to be abit of a disappointment - mostly because we've got used to ...
Phnom Phen to Vietnam
While I am posting this from Phnom Phen, we are about to board a boat into Vietnam, so I moved my push pin on the map to our next location. I thought I would take a moment to describe the absolute chaos that is the traffic here. There are no ...
Niende dag i Vietnam
Idag koerte vi saa paa knallert 40km for at se omgivelserne og for at se et sted hvor Khemer Rouge var gaaet ind i Vietnam og draebt en hel ...
Transition
... a street side room...hopefully I can sleep with all the noise. Almost everyone participated in the optional motorbike tour of Chau Doc. I passed because I read the guide to the area and there was nothing that I thought would be interesting to ...
Boats and Buses...
... polish off! From here we cycled back to the boat and then travelled along the river back to the boat. From here we drove to Chau Doc arriving at the hotel at about 6pm. The hotel was a ‘Floating Hotel’ which meant it was on the water but it ...
Somewhere up that crazy river
... the front seemed to never tire of telling me he was 80 (in fairness, he didn't look it). We arrived in Chau Doc, our last stop in Vietnam, to a powercut. There was nothing for it then but to knock back a few beers and wait until the next morning when ...
Chau Doc - Mekong tour
... a constant hazard with her. today was more time on the Mekong looking at the floating markets and then onto the border town of Chau Doc, again a tired lot and not really in the mood for bargining for food and a few essentials we need to will just ...
mekong delta
... sounds as the kernals pop!), and rice paper being made - and all done skillfully by hand. We spent a night in the city of Chau Doc. It was really bizarre but the guide wouldn't let us go to our hotel when we were meant to! There was obviously some ...