Chau Doc, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Chau Doc and the Mekong Delta
Mar 15, 2009 (21 photos)

... (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 farm ( ...

Entrance to the Mekong Delta
Nov 27, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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 collect ...

Buses, Boats, and Bikes (and Bruises)
Nov 21, 2003 (2 photos)

... 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 don't ...

Crossing to Vietnam by the Mekong
Aug 29, 2008 (14 photos)

... 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 tour that ...

Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers, Chau Doc and Saigon
Nov 10, 2006

... 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 taxis ...

Chau Doc
Feb 17, 2004

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 & S

Drifting around the Mekong delta
Aug 22, 2004

... --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 ...

A house of fish
Mar 27, 2008 (38 photos)

... 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!
Aug 16, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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 transport: ...

Another boat trip - same,same
Jun 6, 2003

... 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 Mekong Delta and the gateway to country #4
Jan 27, 2005

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 doing ...

The Nam
May 14, 2006 (25 photos)

... 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. Check ...

Reflections of Vietnam
Apr 30, 2009 (2 photos)

... for granted... to live each moment as if it's your last and to say 'why not'! To list my favorite experiences in Vietnam would be impossible... I can't think of one thing that wasn't possitive, fun or enlightening. But I'll try and list some of the little ...

Phnom Phen to Vietnam
Dec 19, 2007 (9 photos)

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
Aug 2, 2006 (2 photos)

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 landsby.

Me Kong Delta: In search of Colonel Kurtz
Dec 1, 2008

... and went to University in Kuala Lumpur before relocating back to home to be with his parents and to raise his family.  Chau Doc is a largely Cham village, which is a minority religion and culture in Viet Nam.  It is also a large Muslim ...

Somewhere up that crazy river
Apr 26, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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
Oct 1, 2006 (18 photos)

... 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 have ...

mekong delta
Oct 24, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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 kind ...

A Different Kind of Morning
Nov 17, 2008 (6 photos)

... that to get to the docks from the hotel, it's too early for taxis so as I write this, motorbikes are lining up outside the hotel to take us there. By motorbike. In Vietnam. At 6am. Followed by 4 or so hours on a boat. It's going to be a good day.

Farewell Vietnam, thanks for the memories
Jun 4, 2009

... in lotus ponds, the sun set in Halong Bay, Sunrise with hundreds of exercising Vietnamese in Nha Trang. We wonder, with Vietnam embracing tourism and the market economy and with a large proportion of Vietnamese being under thirty, will their culture and ...

border towns......
Dec 7, 2005 (8 photos)

... say about Chau Doc. Its used as a door into Cambodia. From here you get on a boat to go up the Mekong to Phom Penh. Getting to Chau Doc is another story. We found 2 swiss guys looking to go so we all got a taxi to share and take us to Chau Doc. We got ...

Vietnam, North (cont..) and South
Jul 28, 2009 (27 photos)

... photo of them splashing about in the sea, never mind the stunning sunset I was trying to take pictures of! We returned to Chau Doc a different way, stopping at Ba Chuc, a skull pagoda for the victims of a particularly barbaric Khmer Rouge attack. The drive ...

A watery wonderland
May 17, 2009

... might have botox in their cheeks to stop them smiling (like f****** Faye).  I then got a motorbike from the border to Chau Doc which is about 20km away.  Just a quick aside - motorbikes are cool.  This is an irrefutable fact.  So ...

Ottende dag i Vietnam
Aug 1, 2006

Saa koerte vi i bus i 8 timer for at naa til det hotel jeg ogsaa boede paa for 7 dage siden her i Chau Doc.

bootstour richtung vietnam
Mar 1, 2007 (4 photos)

[01.03.2007] nach 24 tagen in kambodscha gehts auf dem boot richtung vietnam. der grenzuebertritt geht ueberraschend einfach ueber die buehne. raus aus dem boot, 5 minuten anstehen am kambodschanischen grenzuebertritt, ausstempeln in kambodscha, ...

driving through the Mekong to Chau Doc
Nov 6, 2005 (5 photos)

... - lots of small villages, fishing boats and little houses built on stilts on the banks of the river.  We finally arrived in Chau Doc around 4.30 and a few of us set out for the market to stock up on water and essentials.  There was actually a ...

Entering Vietnam via the Mekong Delta
Feb 14, 2005 (5 photos)

So I made the trek from Phnom Penh to Chau Doc, Vietnam via the Mekong River. The first leg of the trip was in a mini-bus. A hot, dusty and very bumpy ride. Road conditions here are very poor. The driver honked the whole way, which is very common. It ...

Getting taken for a ride in Vietnam
Mar 31, 2007

... I got into Rach Gia and decided to stay the night to get some rest (and recover from the SuperDong) and leave early for Chau Doc.  I made arrangements with one of the local motorbike drivers to pick me up at 7am and crashed out early. This morning ...

Le delta du Mékong
Feb 12, 2007 (6 photos)

... de temps je suppose avec les villes qui prennent le dessus sur les campagnes. Le delta du Mékong avait certains des plus beaux paysages du Vietnam et me laissera de très beaux souvenir de ce pays, bien que après près d'un mois, ça fait du bien de changer de ...