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Mekong Delta Slideshow
Mekong Delta
Travel Blogs from Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Mekong Delta...Day 2
Another early start, 6.30 call time ready for a 7.30 departure...a breakfast was provided, soup, rice and noodles would have been the traditional route, we opted to stay western and eat bread and jam, with a coffee! Although my chopstick skills are ...
Gooooood morning Vietnam
... We wouldnt have minded... if they werent all naked as the day they were born! Many of the people living around the Mekong Delta survive in simple floating wooden houses, with no gas, electricity or other amenities. Their income comes directly from the ...
Miss(ing) Saigon (Not)
... touristy trip that took us via souvenir shop to fruit farm to coconut candy factory (yummy especially when still hot!) via the Mekong Delta - the first really touristy trip like that I've done since the Cameron highlands! Well at least I was safe ...
3 Days on the Mekong Delta
... country I was travelling through I decided to join a guy from Scotland and take 3 days to travel over the border and down the Mekong Delta. This turned out to be a fantastic idea, despite the trip being a little too "package tour" for my liking, its was ...
Communication challenges, flies and sticky heat
Today (March 19, 2011) is my 6-month anniversary of being on the road. Wow! My last day in Vietnam, I am off to the Mekong Delta and after an overnight stay will be taking a boat back to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Over breakfast at NGA Hoang hostel (one of ...
What an Adventure
Our 2 day tour of the Mekong Delta was a really cool experience.It is such a simple way of life for the delta dwellers. it was quiet on the islands we visited with small dirt roads for the motorbikes and bicycle and canals between the rice paddies. ...
Mekong Delta
... River stretches 2,610 miles from China (on the border with Tibet) through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and down into Vietnam where it forms the Mekong Delta, with its many subsidiaries. We decided to catch a boat from Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong ...
Mekong Delta - 3 day to to the Cambodian border
... we need to get out of the country (otherwise you can be jailed). We decided to cross into Cambodia via the Mekong Delta, it is one of the largest rivers in S.E.Asia and crosses 5 countries...it also has the brown-est ...
Homestay in the Mekong Delta
A day floating around the Mekong Delta going to various local factories making coconut candy, rice popcorn and a taste of snake ...
Mekong Delta
... with. Instead of taking the bus direct to Cambodia, I opted for the two day trip that took in a quick visit to the Mekong Delta. The trip started in Saigon and finished in Phnom Penh, the Camodian capital. I'd done the trip the other way round when I ...
Boat Trip on the Mekong Delta
Mary's Impressions: For our last stop in Vietnam we wanted to visit the Mekong Delta. The Mekong Delta is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of tributaries. We booked a ...
Floating around
... to view its final and most impressive stretch in Vietnam. We chose a 2 day one night trip to the Mekong Delta, with a homestay for something a bit different. The expectation was to glimpse an insight into river life; floating villages ...
A night on the Mekong...
As we join our bus bright and early we head south and start our 2 day tour to the Mekong Delta. The bus is full and it's a mix of Czech's Aussies, Canadiens, Japanese and English. We drive out for about an hour until we reach My Tho, which gives us ...
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta isn't the tropical oasis I thought it would be, I had visions of little canals untouched by anything, no developments by the water, hardly anybody about but in reality it's nothing like that at all. I suppose I shouldn't have expected ...
On the River
... , to which the locals found very amusing. Nic fared a little better as the hardened spirit drinker of the two of us. Overall the delta was really cool even though it rained for a lot of it, but hey what else can you expect during the rainy season ...
Mekong Delta
We flew over the Mekong Delta when we flew to Phu Quok Island. Now we had a chance to explore it at ground level. Our route included travel by minibus and boat to 2 home stays, both of which were very enjoyable. The food here is quite different to the ...
The Mighty Mekong, boats, houses and markets
... 20th that we went to the floating market and I've not even mentioned all the acres and acres of rice fields everywhere. The delta area in Vietnam is the richest growing area of the country and three rice crops a year are usual. The sight of lush paddy ...
Week 9-10 blog entry, sight-seeing, 1 night
... lower and raise my offer more slowly. Getting to Cambodia proved to be quite a journey itself. We joined a two-day tour of the Mekong Delta, which would take us to Phnom Penh. On day one we first drove three hours in minibus to some place in the ...
The Mekong Delta
... as her mums and two horrible boys who constantly blew on a whistle for 6 hours! Nightmare! Having said all that the Mekong Delta itself was very beautiful, and we enjoyed the bit when we got to go out for dinner on our own – ...
Mekong River
Mekong Delta Tour Got up really early to catch our bus. The Mekong Delta is about 3-4 hours south of Saigon. Our tour guide didn't speak English well...we couldn't tell if we was speaking Vietnamese or English. I had to concentrate hard - which gave ...
Mekong Delta
... the correct price for the meal, and so then it didn't seem so bad. The next day we boated around more of the Mekong delta, visiting various sites. We saw a small weaving village and a bird habitat. We continued touring around that day by car to Can ...
Sailing the Mekong Delta
... with sickness and diarrhoea from about 5am onwards, and we in a dilemma as to whether we should continue with our trip down to the Mekong Delta. In the end we decided to go ahead, as he is a resilient chappie. We then had seconds thoughts when within 5 ...
101 ways to use a river
We went on an overnight home stay in the Mekong Delta, in the very south of Vietnam. This is the end of the Mekong River which starts in China, travels through Laos, forms the border with Thailand, flows through Cambodia before opening up into the delta ...
My Tho, Ben Tre, Can Tho, Chau Doc
... huge. The river starts in Tibet and flows through China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is the second biggest river delta in the world. 75% of Vietnam's population, 60mil people live here. They all make thier living in it, on it, around it or because of ...
Mekong delta
This tour was included in our slow boat package. We visited some cool little fishing towns, a floating market for the locals and a huge snake.... all in one day enjoy the pictures ...
Home Stay
... (she has been very sick lately and Rusty is coming down with something too) while we (Rusty Tibby Jack Tom) hit up the Mekong Delta on a small motor boat with our hosts. We were taken up a lot of different little tributaries that took us in along canals ...
sailing down the river
we left for the mekong delta early in the morning took about 4 hours on the bus, on arrival we transfered onto a boat and sailed down the river. we stopped off in a little village and toured round all the factories they could find seeing how to make rice, ...
Puttin' thru the floating markets
Our two day trip of the Mekong Delta with Sinh Travel had us taking a two hour bus trip to Ben Tre followed by a boat trip past villages built on the shores of the Mekong. As we kicked back enjoying not spending they day walking for once we got a good ...
5000 Dong to Pee in a bush
... almost time for dinner here so we have decided to stick to some of the more interesting highlights of our 2 days in the Mekong Delta region (please note, the locals actually call it Cuu Long so don't be surprised if they dont understand Mekong). Another ...