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Can Tho Slideshow
Can Tho
Travel Blogs from Can Tho, Vietnam
Cruisin' the Delta
... in our belly it was back to the bus staion where people either returned to Saigon or, like in our case, continued on to Can Tho for a second day on the river. This whole, little charade was manufactured for us, the tourists, and perhaps used some ...
Bus Tours Must Be An Aquired Taste
... a deeper understanding of Vietnamese culture. The one big exception to this were the floating markets at Cai Be near Can Tho. Farmers from all over the region bring their products to this floating wholesale supermarket daily- dealers buy the product in ...
Meandering on the Mekong
Today we took a small boat (ie. two seater!) on an eight hour epic journey of the Mekong River. It was a pretty early start - 5:30am - in order to get the 6kms to the Cai Rang floating market. We arrived just after sunrise as all the boats were getting ...
Mekong Delta
The mighty Mekong begins in China, touches Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma before emptying itself in Vietnam. It is one of the ten longest rivers in the world and is the 3rd longest in Asia, behind the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. ...
Alpha, Beta, errr Delta
... later - happens quite a lot, small world as they say. On the bus back, a guide started singing traditional songs of Vietnam, this was unexpected and resulted in a bit of trying not to laugh syndrome, the Korean girls in front failed! The Vietnamese ...
the Mekong delta
... - of course our encounters with live river snakes and piglets made it even more lively!!! This is the end of our Vietnam tour.. We will miss the amazing food, people, and incredible natural sites around the country. But we surelly will not miss ...
Mekongi delta vol 1
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Warm Beer and Bread
... hot to get it on with some ugly Ecoli bacteria and who knows what that would produce. On that same note, Vietnam has been pretty underwhelming in the culinary department. Very uninspired. Fellow travelerss say that they think even the ...
Cruising the Mekong Delta
... fields for fertilizer, and rice noodle waste is fed to the pigs. Had a quick stop and enjoyed some coconut milk before boating to the Can Tho Market (back on shore) where we had about an hour of free time to wander around. We took a walk down a laneway ...
Crusing the canals of the Mekong Delta
... .We had the most amazing home cooked meal on table river side, and then swung in the hammocks until it was time for bed. In Vietnam right now it is wedding season , so there are many, many weddings, and there was one across the river that night. So ...
Can Tho, Delta du Mekong, 3 Decembre 2007
Dur reveil a 4h30 apres 3h de sommeil pour une journee complete en petit bateau a rames et moteur (qui ressemble plus a un ventilo ceci dit...), pour naviguer sur les canaux et visiter les marches flottants. On est guides par Thuy, toute charmante et ...
Can Tho Correction
... navigated back to this blog. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you but there are currently no markets to be found in Can Tho, floating or otherwise. The reason for this is that all of those people who normally sell things in the floating markets ...
The famous floating Mekong markets at Can Tho!
After trapsing around Can Tho Riverside for a while, we found a hotel with a cheap fan room and started to get our bearings Nik was pretty unsteady still and we took it easy, in addition I was beginning to feel horrendous I didnt complain tho!! That ...
Le Mekon Delta Au vietnam
... general les "locals" sont content de nous voir faire un effort. On a tous les deux pris des photos avec des gens du Vietnam (a leur demande). Cute !! On a vu ceux qui recolte le Riz dans les grands champs. On a vu de Pierres Tombales dans le millieu ...
MEKONG DELTA: Supreme Traveller Beings
We crossed the Vietnam/Cambodia border by boat. It was cool to get our visas on a barge floating in the middle of the Mekong. Otherwise the trip through the Delta was uneventful and we were herded around like sheep by a quite ...
Our tour of the Mekong
... the local economy. We had arranged a Homestay for our first night and we travelled by bus until we came to the ferry crossing at Can Tho. There was a huge tailback and the traffic was just not moving. Our bus did a u-turn and stopped. We ...
off thebeaten track
... and ET a nice woman called Ruby who ran a travel agent in Singapore and gave us her card for when we go there. We arrived in Can Tho which is a little village on the Mekong River; we got on a tiny little boat to go across the Mekong to a place called ...
Mekong Delta part 2
An early start with breakfast provided before we set off although I never did understand how you can eat noodles and rice for breakfast. Luckily Vietnam also has the nicest fresh bread rolls a bit like French bread so I managed to make up for my lack of ...
The Mekong Valley Tour-Little House on the Mekong
It was time to leave Saigon. Last night was a very late night. No details as to what I did. But it was a very enjoyable evening with a lovely Vietnamese lady. This morning came way too fast. Up before 6am to have breakfast and then wait for the ...
Coffee shops and floods
... and watching the world go by (you can’t walk down the road without seeing someone asleep or just sat doing nothing). It was in Can Tho that we really experienced this for ourselves. We’d go to our local café, get a coffee (for about 15p each) ...
Can Tho
... " anymore, but when I asked my fellow passengers (pointing to the name of the town and using mostly pantomime), they motioned that Can Tho was ahead. I eventually got a seat when some other passengers got off, and stayed on the bus until it reached ...
Back on the mainland
... many small tributaries and canals the Mekong splits up into... every town I passed had its own little river. It really is vital to the people down here... even defines them to some extent. I made it to Can Tho, found somewhere to crash and did just that. ...
River Tour
After waking before the crack of dawn this morning we dragged ourselves out of bed and down to the docks to commence our epic river tour. The husband of the lady who picked us yesterday took us down the river and in and out of many small canals. Being ...
Joke of a Day
Do you ever get the feeling of being stuck with something and there is nothing you can do about it? That's how I felt about this tour. Being in two minds about taking the tour or going to Mui Ne beach instead I opted for the Mekong Delta. The day was a ...
Team USA: 1986 Honda "All-Round"
... upon finding the two responsible for his late date with tea, we had to think quickly. Wayne's strength: a unique knowledge of Vietnam history and the smile of a kindergarten art teacher. Wayne's weakness: communicative English. Simply put, we ...
The Mekong Delta
... to the Mekong delta, where he very big river Mekong devides himself into two parts and where most of the rice and fruits of Vietnam come from. We spent a long time on a boat, watching the people nearby the riverside. On our way we had some fruits of he ...
My Time Traveling Brother and The Mekong Delta
... network of underground tunnels built by the Viet Cong forces in the 1940s and 1950s and later expanded upon and improved during the Vietnam War. Their proximity to Saigon (30 kms) made them incredibly strategic: the tunnels gave the Viet Cong access to a ...