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Mekong Delta Slideshow
Mekong Delta
Travel Blogs from Mekong Delta, Vietnam
M for Mekong
... we said we'd never ever do under any circumstance.................Yes .............we went on a tour of the Mekong Delta.............I know............I know ...............what the f**k?..........Jamangie what happeneed? but with a coupla days to kill ...
Mekong Delta 3
... caused the water to appear to be boiling. Next we went to a place where the Cham people live, a minority tribe of Vietnam. They manufacture weavings and woven products. The town appeared quaint as we arrived. The street was dirt and the houses were ...
Delta adventure
... The trip took us first to My Tho. A fairly poor river town, mostly fishing and farming. But the main hub to the delta region. Unfortunately our first site there was seeing a group of local houses burning to the ground. It was quite upsetting for everyone, ...
The Mekong Delta
When we had had enough of the busy city we escaped to the beautiful Mekong Delta region a few hours south from Saigon. We visited the area as part of a small tour group with a Vietnamese guide who took us around. A good overview of the life and scenery of ...
Crossing the border on the flow of the Mekong
After the nice days at the beach of Sihanoukville I moved back to Phnom Penh, and booked a 3 day boat tour through the Mekong delta, before ariving to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city). Crossing the border, as in the whole reagion of the S.E. Asia, was a whole ...
Delta tour
One day organised Mekong tour is shit. I heard the two day one is not better, either. ...
Cycling the Mekong Delta
... graduate, male alas), and good quality bikes in the back of the van - and headed south to the delta. The delta is a huge area where the Mekong splinters into many branches and floods into the South China sea. It is the biggest rice producing part of ...
The Mighty Mekong
Our three day tour around the Mekong delta started with a stopver in the small town of Chau doc located on the river. Most tourists use this town as a transit point while crossing the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. We had an evening and night to ...
River life
We took a three day tour to get from PHnom Penh to Ho CHi MInh City. Two different buses to the river then we clambered onto a tourist-packed grungy old boat. A couple of hours later we stop at the Cambodia border and line up for an exit stamp. A 100 ...
Rain, rain and more rain in the Mekong Delta
... writing on it. This goes up on the door annually to protect and unite the family. People in the Mekong Delta and other poor areas in Vietnam sleep on bamboo mats instead of mattresses. How that is comfortable, I have no idea. Day 2 ...
Floating round the Mekong Delta
... take ANOTHER bus into Cambodia, we thought a much more pleasant way would be to amble around by boat and take in the sights of the Mekong Delta on the way. A pretty relaxed scheduled tour picked us up in Ho Chi Minh and drove us to a dock near the city. ...
Spiders, Snakes, and Elephant Ear Fish
Day three in Vietnam found us boarding a tour bus headed for the Mekong Delta. The Delta is very important to the southern Vietnamese people because it serves as a lifeline, bringing food and other products to all of the many towns and villages on its ...
Good Morning Vietnam!
... captain pulled out 3 deckchairs for us and so we climbed onboard and made ourselves at home! As we cruised down the Mekong Delta on our slowboat we got a glimpse of the lives of the Vietnamese river people. Down the backwaters we saw floating houses ...
Pesona Suburnya Sungai Mekong
... Luar biasa, memang. "Sungai Mekong memiliki hulu di dataran tinggi di Tibet. Dari Tibet, Mekong mengalir ke Cina, Myanmar, Laos, Kamboja dan membentuk delta Vietnam Selatan sebelum mengalir ke laut Cina Selatan," ujar Leung, pemandu wisata kami. Sejatinya ...
Sweet Home Ho Chi Minh City
... the 90 minute journey to Mytho City. From there we got on a boat and started visiting a series of islands in the Mekong Delta. First stop was a place where we ate local fruit and listened to traditional music before climbing into rowing boats and ...
Fly Delta
I left Saigon via boat, and embarked on a three day exploratiion of the Mekong Delta. The first thing that you notice is just how vast the Mekong River is. The delta consists of numerous branches each one easily fifty times the width of the Lagan. The ...
Boating and bussing along the Mekong
... and all immigration. Ben and I were very happy to pay it and not deal with the stress! Back on the boat after passing both Vietnam and Cambodian immigration, we had another 2 hours before we then got dumped on the bank side and found a park full of buses, ...
Mekong Delta
13/01/2009 Today we were taking our Mekong Delta trip with the Sinh Cafe. We were up early so we were there in plenty of time to work out the bus situation. But no worries, it was all very organised. There was a huge crowd of people outside the cafe ...
The stroppiest tour guide in the world
... in mentioning how kind they were when I ran into our guide a bit later. So not the most inspiring of tours. We did get to see some nice parts of the Mekong delta, but unfortunately the negatives outweighed the positives this time. ...
Exploring the country side of the Mekong delta
... oh well) and we headed to the harbor. We got on a little most or boat and stated down the saigon River toward the Mekong Delta. What an experience...we got to see so much by boat. The floating markets, selling fruits and vegetables, house boats and big ...
Cruising the Mekong Delta
... good his ‘wares’ really are... So we agreed to the tour, we were romanticised with the idea bobbing along the Mekong Delta in a motorised sanpan with his ‘sister’, and the very fair price of USD40 was within our budget. The next ...
The second worst day of T's life
... So the thought of going to Cambodia by boat was obviouly going to be a winner. We chose to spend one day on the Mekong river, then the following day cross into Camodia. Sounded pretty good, we knew there was some embelishment in the literature about how ...
The people of the Mekong
... lives of the Mekong people are directly linked to these waterways--they use it for food, transportation and floating markets. The Mekong Delta produces enough rice to feed the entire country and we were fortunate to spend a day and night with these ...
Mekong Delta Tour
I've written a bit about the Mekong delta tour in the next entry from Cambodia but here's some photos of ...
It's water, it's land, it's wand, the Mekong Delta
We booked a 3 day trip around the Mekong delta with the lovely girl from Mekong Tours in Chau Doc and had a grand old time. It kicked off at 7am when we met our guide and group and were all marched off to the dock to board a traditional wooden long ...
Cruising the Mekong
... couple who live in Singapore. 31st January Up at 6.30 today as we are going to the busiest floating market on the Mekong Delta - Cai Rang floating market. Hundreds of vessels gather here to trade all kinds of fruit and vegetables from the farms ...
Mekong River Boat Tour
Today we took a full day tour of a tiny part of the Mekong River Delta. The Mekong River starts in Tibet, runs through China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and finally Vietnam where it fans out into 9 major outlets to the South China Sea. We toured the ...
Mekong Delta
... and not done the third day). We avoided the restaurant that served turtle, eels, snake and RAT. Day 18 17/11/04 Mekong Delta - HCMCity Free hotel brekkie (the bread really sucks over here). We took the bus to longboats and then sailed through a ...