Chau Doc, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Our last stop in Vietnam...
Oct 21, 2009 (71 photos)

... said our goodbyes to Vietnam and headed into Cambodia. On our journey into Cambodia, we saw the floating fishing villages just outside of Chau Doc which was great fun as we got to feed the fish (who went mental when food was thrown in!). There are loads ...

Journey to Cambodia
Jul 22, 2007

... got talking to some guys that were from Marple/Mellor called Will and Tom, they were doing the same travel route as us. We got to Chau Doc, the border down at about 9pm and checked into our hotel. The hotel they put us in was the worst I have seen! I ...

Boarder crossing in the heat
Oct 3, 2009 (1 photos)

... of it. Finally getting through all of that, my bags went through the scanner. Once through the boarder it was plain sailing, off to Chau Doc, just inside the boarder. Once I arrived it was an OK town, but it was dirty. The first thing that we did was go ...

Sam Mountain
Oct 16, 2006 (11 photos)

... bags of rice weighed 100 KG and it took two people to lift it onto someone else's back to transport it. Cheapest meal in Vietnam was in Can Tho having searched out the Com Chay (vegetarian) restaurant. They had imitation pork, bo kho (beef stew) and ...

Chau Doc
Dec 18, 2008 (3 photos)

At the end of our 3 days travelling around the Mekong Delta, we finally arrived in the afternoon in Chau Doc, near the Cambodia border. We walked to the top of a nearby hill called Nui Sam, which has important religious connotations for the locals, and a ...

Are the sights worth the pain?
Jul 10, 2006

... arm bands, although it's a kind of 30 man speedboat so quite smooth compared to recent journeys. I've read the Vietnam section of the lonely planet guide and am expecting less of the poverty experience in Cambodia although I'm told the Vietnamese are ...

good morning vietnam!
May 2, 2005 (9 photos)

greetings! we woke up this morning and decided to come to vietnam ... so here we are in chau doc! so far we are absolutely loving it. but a few words on cambodia are in order. after an amazing few days in battambang we made our way to phnom penh. ...

Mekong Delta
Nov 20, 2006 (9 photos)

... going to a bus station would have helped only they don't get commison that way, so we managed to get taxi eventually. From Cho Doc we organzined a boat thru the Mekong Delta (Apocalypse Now fame) to take us into Cambodia. On the way we stopped off at a ...

Chao Doc and Border Crossing
Sep 30, 2006 (4 photos)

... Mekong to the Cambodian exit point, stamped out and then jumped back in the boat to cross no mans land and then stamped into Vietnam. The process was painless but a little weird. Had all the usual offers of Exchange money for bad rates. We had a drinks ...

Day 3 in the Delta
Jan 5, 2007

malfunction

Week 9-10 blog entry, sight-seeing, 1 night
Dec 10, 2007 (8 photos)

... half of which was bone). At least we got some soup... Aaanyway, afterwards we had to get on a bus again, for five hours to Chau Doc, where we`d spend the night. On day two we first visited a fish farm (hugely interesting...) and some local village (I hate ...

Chau Doc
May 17, 2009 (5 photos)

Chau Doc was our leaving point from Vietnam.  From here we took a boat along the Mekong into Cambodia.  It was a long and sweaty day.  The boat took 6 hours and the bus to Phom Penh, another hour or so (both boat and bus, very basic!).  ...

Into Vietnam
Nov 3, 2006 (4 photos)

Quite a lazy transit day. The ferry between Phnom Penh and Chau Doc in Vietnam runs one a day and only carries about 30 or 40 passengers. Travelling down the Mekong with the flow of the river, only stopping off for the formalities at the border crossing ...

on the border
Feb 16, 2005

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Day 42
Jul 21, 2006

Day 42: Early rise and sour heads found us on a boat again going up the Mekong River towards the Cambodian border. Along the way we stopped at a fish farm which the Irish gang myself decided to opt out and stay on the boat and looking at the others' ...

We made it to Vietnam
Sep 1, 2009 (5 photos)

I am now in Vietnam, i stayed in the border town of Chau Doc, This town is not a tourist town, it is on the Mekong Delta - so took a trip on the Mekong on a longtail boat, taking in the scenery (just layed out at the front of the boat and felt completely ...

Chau Doc, arrival in Vietnam
Feb 19, 2008 (6 photos)

... the riverbanks in Vietnam and the different headwear (conical straw hats instead of red chequered towels).   As we approached Chau Doc we saw a floating petrol station where presumably the petrol was stored in tanks below the water. Then there was ...

The Great Race begins!
Mar 4, 2009 (2 photos)

... would not have any more time in Chau Doc as it appeared to be quite a pleasent little town. Oh Well, next time... * The cyclos in chau doc are different to Saigon, the bike is in the front and the seat is a bit like a little barrow and quite high up off ...

Chau Doc
Oct 3, 2008

Chau doc

Big laugh!
Oct 4, 2008

... back in Can Tho (we had snake!  King Python actually, my poor friend...) we had a 5 hour bus ride to Chau Doc, 5km from the Vietnam/Cambodia border.  This leg was much less pleasant than the previous day's one on boat, especially as I was stuck ...

first day in Nam
Jun 20, 2009 (5 photos)

... whole group went for a trip to a nearby mountain on the back of scooters! It was great fun, it was about a 6k journey to the top. once there we sat down a watched the sun set over Vietnam. The next day we had a 8 hour bus ride to our next destination.

Last place in Vietnam
Jan 8, 2007

Last place

Think Apocalypse Now
Jul 3, 2006 (2 photos)

... The Mekong Delta is covered with crops of rice and fruit and is a green and pleasant place to motor through. I spent the night in Chau Doc, a convenient stop off but not much more. The next day I climbed what they call a mountain, but I would call it a ...

Rainy Arrival via Mekong Delta
Apr 29, 2008 (4 photos)

Crossed the Cambodian/ Vietnamese border via boat.  Was with a French couple and we enjoyed beautiful views and sunny weather up until our arrival at the dockside hotel in Chau Doc...  It was a downpour.

Vietnam, the end
Nov 25, 2007

Today was my last day in Nam, so did the only sensible thing, had a bbg and got drunk. Sad to leave my bike and my two guids behind, Phat and Hui. These two were legends! Now on to cambodia.

Sail into Vietnam
Jul 23, 2004

Took a small speedboat and sailed into the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam

Chau Doc
Apr 3, 2007

In Nam ... After a long day of traveling we finaly made it to Viet Nam. The travel was by boat so it wasn`t that bad ... and the company was really good. Travelling with Naasicaa and Treezy for a while now - they are crazy girls. And ofcause Maria whom I` ...

Chau Doc, Vietnam
Jul 22, 2006

Vietnamese border town where I took the boat up river into Cambodia.

Vietnamese Food
Dec 6, 2007 (16 photos)

We had lots of good food during our time in Viet Nam ... it still can't begin to compare with Thai food though - the best!!  The soups are very good, and in fact we had Pho (the traditional noodle soup they eat for breakfast) from a street kitchen at ...

Chau Vietnam
Nov 6, 2009 (9 photos)

... be an extra hour longer. The driver had a rocket up him and drove in manner that even got one of the locals throwing up into a bag. Chau Doc is a small town with not much to it. We got dropped 3 km from the centre and as motorbike was the only available ...