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Travel Blogs from Delta Mekong, Vietnam
How to Make Rice Noodles
This is a top pick! How to Make Rice Noodles: 1. Soak rice in water for 6 hours or overnight. 2. Grind rice into watery flour and tie in bag. 3. Let bag sit and dry for 2 days. 4. Take semi-dried flour block out of bag and boil for 50 min. 5. ...
Good Morning Vietnam!
This is a top pick! The Vietnam/Cambodia water border on the Mekong River recently opened to foreigners and is becoming increasingly more popular, and sailing down the Mekong sounded a lot more interesting to Eva and I than taking the international bus. We had read that ...
Cu Chi Coup!
This is a top pick! ... anyway! Fortunately he got a good price! We reboarded our boat and made the two hour boat journey up the Mekong to Cambodia. We got to Vietnam immigration where we had an hour for lunch. Our passports were being stamped while we had beef noodle soup. ...
Paddle and peddle power!
This is a top pick! ... grid lock. We dock just 5 metres upstream from the traffic-jam and are back on dry land. Our first destination is a traditional Mekong delta house and kitchen where we sample seasonal fruit, accompanied by tea and honey, and is topped off with some ...
Into the Delta
This is a top pick! ... Chinese food, marry a Japanese girl, and live in an American house" says our guide, Nhan. Today is the first day of our Mekong Delta adventure. Nhan and our driver picked us up at the Rex at 7:30 this morning. Side comment about the Rex The Rex ...
Apocalypse Now
This is a top pick! Monday 8th August 2004 Why oh Why do I not have some Doors albums on my Ipod????? I'm sailing up the Mekong Delta, Apocalypse Now country, its must have music for here - I blame Mr Downing for letting me down. Sailing the Mekong, on route to Cambodia, ...
Towards Can Tho and Back to Saigon
This is a top pick! ... by the boat. The company makes all sorts of pots and bricks from the clay at the bottom of rice paddies. Apparently, Vietnam used to export to Thailand, but now they just send their goods directly to Europe. Donna found this particularly interesting as ...
Who Can Pass Up A Banana?
This is a top pick! ... of package tours were offered at reasonable prices, I decided to head to the long-distance bus station in Saigon, destination: the Mekong Delta. The first difference was that I was the only foreigner at the bus station: in Vietnam, Open Tour buses ...
Water Water Everywhere
This is a top pick! Good Morning Vietnam!! Hello everyone, how are you? (that means reply!) The last two days we have been to the Mekong Delta on an organised tour. The Delta is beautiful, lots of salamander filled mud banks, winding canals, palm trees and heaps of small ...
War Museum and Floating Markets
This is a top pick! ... Not what I had expected out of a backpacking trip. After recovering from wedding celebration hangovers -plural- I make a 3 day trip around the Mekong Delta. The trip is ok & I meet a really good group of fellow travellers. The highlight of the trip is ...
Wherein I burn one arm and witness a murder
This is a top pick! ... , I survived the journey and we booked it to the Saigon River where we hopped on a boat and journeyed the 3 hours to the Mekong Delta. Now, look, I get that hundreds of people do this trip a day and everyone says the same ...
Mekong gone Wrong !!
This is a top pick! After vowing never to book another tour again we find ourselves booking a 2 day tour from HCMC along the Mekong Delta River and all the way over the border to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The Mekong is supposed to be beautiful so we figured how bad can it be ...
Off to the Mekong Delta
This is a top pick! This morning we set off for the Mekong Delta. The bus left at 8.30am for our 2 and a half hour journey. We stopped off half way at a small roadside café where we all collapsed into some hammocks. If you look at the photos, Lorna's knees look completely ...
The Delta
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Good morning Vietnam!!!
This is a top pick! ... , clothes, clothes !! (Heike's heaven). After our sightseeing blitz in "Ho Chi Min", we booked onto a 4 day tour to travel on the Mekong Delta with our final night being a home-stay, this was a superb trip and we got to see all of the ways in which ...
Show and Tell
This is a top pick! My trip to the Mekong Delta By David Murray I went to the Mekong Delta. This is a river system in Vietnam. Vietnam is a long way away from home. Once there was nothing there. This was because America sent in a spy called Orange and he destroyed ...
Another boat trip - same,same
This is a top pick! 5th June - Time to leave Vietnam unfortunately. We decided to take the scenic route to Cambodia via the Mekong Delta rather than take the cheap bus trip direct to Phnom Penh. We signed up for an organized trip as we only had two days left on our visas. ...
A final goodbye to the Mekong
This is a top pick! ... night, checked back into our hotel, which had happily kept our booking and then booked ourselves on the open bus all the way for Hanoi. Vietnam has an open bus that allows you to hop off at about 6 places as you head up north for only $22 (thats nearly ...
My first full day in saigon was spent at ...
This is a top pick! ... along a part of the tunnel system that narrowed down to just 1.2m high and 80cms across. The next morning i headed out to the Mekong Delta. Faemers working hard in the fields, with flat deep green rice fields, this part of Vietnam is the 'rice basket' ...
Location, location, location (part 2)
Here the efficient, determined nature shone brighter as the people of the Mekong adapt, combining modern lifestyles with traditional methods of work. Manufacture for example, is made faster and efficient by the introduction of electricity just 20 years ...
We did things, we did
I wanted to see boats and triangle hats so the next stop was the Mekong Delta. We got up too late to catch the bus so we got a taxi to a place called Cai Be, a market town on the Mekong River. We got a boat round the floating ...
Mekong Delta boat trip
While in Saigon, we booked a 3 day tour round the Mekong Delta through a smaller company and were stoked we chose this company as the three day adventure down the Mekong was fantastic! Our guide was a 60 year old Vietnamese man who spoke English ...
Life on the Mekong - In Pictures
The Mekong is one of the most colorful places in the world to travel through. Giant Buddhas rise from temples as you float along one river tributary after another. Locals conduct life entirely on the rivers themselves - fruits and vegetables are sold, ...
Mekong Delta
Im Mekong Delta lernen wir alle Art des Kunstwerks kennen. Das Thema Recycling ist hier echt gross geschrieben. Es wird einfach alles was sich nicht retten kann wiederverwendet. Schoene Bilder kann ich machen mit echt spannendend Motiven. Es wird ...
Mekong Delta, Aug - Sep 2005
Cruising round the Mekong Delta we visited floating markets, a coconut candy factory and paid a little extra to stay with a local - well worth ...
fancy doing this all day
What a simple but also hard life. Two people's wages approx. 8 pounds per day. Sure if we tried squatting all day, wouldn't be able to move, Makes you wonder why they don't sit on a stall, something I suppose you get used to. Lunch back on board The ...
3 Day Bike Ride in Mekong Delta
... with our guide Thang for 40-45km a day. We travelled through the heart of the watery canals & rivers of the Mekong Delta from island to island linked by small arched bridges or ferries,not seeing another Westerner for 3 days. We booked ...
Mekong Marathon Tour Day 1
... the boat before turning to eachother and asking what had just happened. This boat took us to Can Tho, Vietnam's "most cosmopolitan city". A neon sign advertising latex matresses flashed above the shacks across the river from Can Tho. We ...
Mekong waves
... saw a group of young boys cock fighting on the banks, a sight I thought I would never see. That morning, at the closest thing Vietnam has to a service station where we had stopped, tanks full of eels crawled over each other in a few inches of dirty water, ...
Great Investment Opportunity
... head down to Saigon (yes now called Ho Chi Minh City on a map, but not so much by the locals) via the Mekong Delta. And of course images of Martin Sheen, a mysterious, evil and otherworldly river journey during the war. Whatever resemblence the movie ...