Mekong Delta, Vietnam Travel Blogs

How to Make Rice Noodles
May 8, 2004 (8 photos)

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!
May 22, 2006 (104 photos)

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!
May 11, 2004 (9 photos)

... watch TV and escape the heat. We watched Wolf on the movie channel and then headed out to sort our trip out to the Mekong Delta further south tomorrow. You could enter Cambodia either by road from Saigon or by boat going up the Mekong River. We decided to ...

Water Water Everywhere
Feb 10, 2006 (27 photos)

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 ...

Into the Delta
May 8, 2004 (10 photos)

... 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 is ...

Apocalypse Now
Aug 8, 2004 (2 photos)

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
May 9, 2004 (6 photos)

... 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?
Feb 1, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 and ...

Off to the Mekong Delta
Aug 5, 2008 (60 photos)

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 ...

War Museum and Floating Markets
Mar 25, 2004

... 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 a ...

Good morning Vietnam!!!
Dec 11, 2004 (36 photos)

... , 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 the Boat ...

Show and Tell
Jul 13, 2000

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 ...

The Delta
Oct 21, 2007 (6 photos)

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Another boat trip - same,same
Jun 6, 2003

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. ...

My first full day in saigon was spent at ...
Dec 30, 2001 (3 photos)

... 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' of ...

A final goodbye to the Mekong
Apr 3, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Location, location, location (part 2)
Sep 12, 2009

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 ...

Mekong Delta boat trip
May 12, 2007 (37 photos)

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 very ...

Mekong Delta
Mar 28, 2006 (10 photos)

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
Nov 11, 2005 (29 photos)

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 it!

3 Day Bike Ride in Mekong Delta
Sep 14, 2009 (87 photos)

... 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 this ...

Mekong Marathon Tour Day 1
Jul 6, 2007 (13 photos)

... 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 ...

Great Investment Opportunity
Jun 8, 2008

... 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 ...

Mekong Delta
Feb 7, 2007 (13 photos)

Mekong Delta 6th February 2007 Today we have booked an overnight tour to the Mekong Delta, south of Ho Chi Minh City.  The tour was booked through the Sinh Cafe and was very cheap at $16 each so we are not expecting to be staying in a luxury ...

A Day in the Mekong Delta
Jun 11, 2006 (5 photos)

I decided to make a really productive day during my trip and so I did a tour to the Mekong Delta...which is about 2 hrs from Ho Chi Minh... We were driven in a bus and then took a boat to see people make coconut candy...which was actually really good! It ...

Taylor's trail...
Feb 16, 2007

Mekong Delta

Propoganda in Saigon
Nov 21, 2002 (6 photos)

... away from the backpackers and more with the locals and ex-pats. Thought the 20p beers were slightly dangerous though. The Mekong Delta is only a short drive from Saigon, but a massive contrast of waterways, paddy fields and lush green plantations. We ...

Water, water, more water... & fruit
Jan 4, 2003 (3 photos)

... through the Mekong Delta on route to Cambodia. Certainly the best way of getting to Cambodia! The Mekong Delta is a large agricultural area in the south of Vietnam where most of the rice and fruit produced in Vietnam is grown. It's a really beautiful ...

Mekong Delta - The action packed day and a half!
Jan 17, 2009 (5 photos)

There is so much to tell you!  This will be a long blog!!!!  So we left for the Mekong Delta (MD) at 8.00am.  3-4 hour private coach before we met Tony, our guide for the day and a half in MD.  We jumped on a motorised boat which had ...

Year of the Rat
Aug 1, 2008

... its way through several countries in SE Asia before dividing into several tributary rivers and traversing the alluvial planes of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. This alluvium has built up over the years and brought fertile soil to the Delta. Fruit and rice grow ...