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Chau Doc Slideshow
Chau Doc
Travel Blogs from Chau Doc, Vietnam
Konging down the Me
For a change from 'coffin travel' it was full steam ahead, boat style, to Cambodia. The cool breezy air was a welcome break from the clinical air conditioned bus we'd become accustomed to. We boated through a floating market where locals exchange exotic ...
Hello Mekong Delta!!!
... narrow water ways weaving in and out of the palms it looked amazing.. Myself and Mark leave the tour party and get on another bus to Chau Doc for an overnight stop. The bus to Chau Doct is full of locals and they look at me and mark like we are aliens ...
Mekong-Delta
... es nach Chao Doc, das direkt an der Grenze zu Kambodscha liegt. Ich konnte also schonmal einen Blick auf Kambodscha werfen, das im Vergleich zu Vietnam sehr viel aermer und auch schwieriger zu bereisen sein soll. Mal sehen... Viele Gruesse ...
The ONLY White people on the bus
... and half a baby pineapple for each of us for the equivalent of $1.75. Just can’t beat these prices! We made it to Chau Doc around 3 this afternoon. It took longer than expected because of a ferry we had to catch. At least it wasn’t because of ...
Just like riding a bicycle
... the pick up point at 7.15am. As it turned out the bus arrived nearly half an hour late but that's pretty normal for Vietnam. We boarded a mini bus with three other passengers already on board (a Canadian couple from Vancouver and a Korean man who lives in ...
Off to Vietnam (3 day tour via the Mekong Delta)
... for 2 hours to reach the destination for our first night. It was a small town in the Mekong Delta called Chau Doc. I discovered that I had booked a homestay tour and everyone booked a city package, so after dropping everyone in the ...
Mekong Delta
... as the sun was coming up, and already the large floating market was well underway. We passed many house-boats during the trip to Chau Doc, with entire families living on 1 boat. In the morning we noticed that there were even boats which acted as mobile ...
Good morning Vietnam.....
....and your traffic! We decided to get the boat down the last stretch of the Mekong into Vietnam - a more scenic way to go. After paying for a slow boat, we were told that we were the only two people to have booked it, so were bumped up to the faster ...
The Catch-22
... the further off the beaten path I travel, the less I am able to communicate with anybody. My plan to acclimate myself to Vietnam before going into Saigon has not been terribly successful. Although Chau Duc is the gateway to Viet Nam along the Mekong ...
Chau Doc
... Vietnamese curry and spring rolls and some wine! and it was good! mmmmm So Stuffed after our big meal and wine we headed home for an early start in the morning. Chau Doc was a wonderful plave and one of my favourites Next stop Ho Chi Minh ...
Chau Doc
... hours by bus to reach the Vietnam border. "Time is too slow for those who wait." Another short bus ride to Hai Chau Hotel in Chau Doc. Walking around with no tourist in sight. It's great because you don't have all the locals trying to sell you ...
Chau Doc
Up and out on boat to go to a floating market.......no clothes thank goodness. Stopped at a boat and Thiep purchased some pineapples for us that a woman peeled and put on sticks like lollies....just as juicy as lollies as well. For some reason I have ...
Fin du voyage au Viet Nam
... par le War Remnants Museum, originalement appele quelque chose comme Musee des crimes des imperialistes americains et chinois au Vietnam, mais qui a ete renomme pour ne pas offenser les touristes... Le musee s est averee une experience relativement ...
Mekong Flussfahrt
... 'ftigen schwimmenden Märkte. Ein wenig konnte man noch sehen, dann in den für alle touristischen Aktivitäten in Vietnam obligatorischen Stopp in irgendeiner Fabrik oder Shop, diesmal Reispapier und Kokosnussbonbons. Dann weiter auf dem Fluss, der durch ...
The Cai Rang Floating Market
... nbsp; It begs the question “Why??” With an hour to kill before our bus departed for our next destination, Chau Doc, we walked the streets and lingered over another delicious iced coffee. Our bus got going and with a 4.5 hour drive ...
Pride comes before a muddy fall...
... ; I'm now writing this from Phnom Penh in Cambodia, where we arrived today via a spectacular journey up the Mekong Rover from Chau Doc in Vietnam. Our plans for diving and snorkeling on Phu Quoc Island were thwarted by a combination of poor visibility and ...
Three Days in the Delta
After saying syonara to Saigon I went for a 3 day tour of the Mekong Delta. This is an area criss-crossed with rivers and canals - water is the very life-blood of this region. So appropriately enough, the tour took us on a huge variety of boats - large ...
Uuuhhhh... Is this going to be Vietnam ???
... about 15 USD for a grilled Mekong fish ?). We all ended up in bed very quickly. Fortunately, I had at least a nice feel for Chau Doc because, unlike the others who preferred to take a nap, I decided to go for a walk downtown, which was 10 minutes ...
Chau Doc
... matter if people were next to them. I think they would relive themselves if people weren't looking. Boat Tour My purpose for visiting Chau Doc was to see the floating village and the Cham people mentioned in the Let's Go guide book. I didn't use any ...
We're millionaires!
... journey much easier! After crossing the border with the usual formalities, we arrived at about 1pm and checked into our hotel in Chau Doc. There's not a huge amount to say about the town itself, apart from that it's a border town approximately 45 minutes ...
Chau Doc in Mekong Delta
... when we got to the hotel was 1 set a piece, 6 games each and 1 point in the tie breaker each - ya can't get much closer!!!! So, Chau Doc is famous for the home to the "floating houses" - these being of different size but usually a 6 or 7 metre by 4 to 6 ...
Mekong Delta
Can Thou is the start of the Mekong Delta to take a river boat into Cambodia ( the coolest way to cross a boarder). We took a river boat round some of the small tributries that dart from the main river in Can thou. The trip was really nicer, the weather ...
Floting market and crocodile farm
... for them too to see it...) After a lot of negotiation for the group, I obtain to get at least the visit of the crocodile farm as we would never been able to see the sunset on the dune due to the late hour. We arrived then to Chau Doc to spend the ...
More floating things
Out again to another floating village. These really are villages with often hundreds of houses on floating rafts. These ones today were different as the entire bottom of the raft were enclosed to hold fish. These fish were fed 10 times a day...different ...
Leaving Vietnam
... - the large amount of people speaking English and the services in place for the foreign visitor were quite welcome; getting around Vietnam is very, very easy. The problem comes when the people then see you as an unlimited source of wealth to be ...
South Vietnam & The Mekong Delta
... day we travelled to see the Cao Dai Great Temple and watched their noon ceremony (Cao Dai is an indigenous religion to Vietnam and a combination of Christianity, Muslim and Buddhist beliefs). We then stopped at the Chu Chi tunnels (the tunnels were a ...
Last stop in Vietnam
It was strange to realize that our time in Vietnam was already over, but exciting to be about to enter ...