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Chau Doc Slideshow
Chau Doc
Travel Blogs from Chau Doc, Vietnam
Journey to Cambodia
... 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 ...
The Mighty Mekong Delta
... another hour’s drive with yet another scenic memory of rural Vietnam along this great river. The Mekong Delta is huge! We arrived Chau Doc about 4:00 and grabbed a couple of motos to get to the hotel area and found a great hotel washed up and ...
Boarder crossing in the heat
... 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 ...
Good afternoon, Vietnam
We left early and crossed the border into Vietnam after 5 hours of travelling. Another 45 minutes and we arrived in the small city of Chau Doc. Sometimes you can get a bit jaded by a new city every day or two and a new country every week- novelty ...
Good evening Vietnam
... pictures. I am fascinated by the street life in Vietnam. Almost every second there is something new to see. Finally, leaving Vietnam I feel embarrassed that I still don't speak any Vietnamese after more than three weeks in this country. For me it's the ...
Good Morning Vietnam!
... on and Jo nearly went a couple of times). We sat at the back with the german girls and started our journey to Chau Doc. It took us about four hours to get to Cambodian Immigration and we were there all of three minutes. Our ...
One more stop in Vietnam...Mekong Delta
... are the poorest in Vietnam, very small wooden houses on stilts on the side of the river or in the boats themselves. Stayed in Chau Doc overnight, the border town. Met 3 mad Lithuanian guys on my tour that were good craic! They realllly like to drink ...
Good evening Vietnam!!
... good, people seemed genuinely friendly, it felt safe and we had hot water and a TV for the night! Most people simply pass through Chau Doc but we decided to spend the following morning exploring the town with a Canadian couple we had met. As we wandered ...
6pm ain't 6am
... say that setting your alarm for 6pm when you need to be up at 6am does not work very well. That's how my last few hours in Vietnam kicked off. On the Mekong River now, I sit in a slow boat, all my jiggly bits vibrating from the energy of the engine. On ...
2nd impression of Mekong Delta: Much better!..
... . We made our way back to the hotel for a boozy siesta. Later in the day we got up and decided to drive to Sam Mountain. Though this mountain is not particually big, you can get to the top and have a view of Cambodia, from Vietnam which was really ...
Chau Doc
... ', sur l'île de Cat ba. Au sommet, une vue imprenable sur les plaines vietnamiennes et cambodgiennes. Finalement cette petite pause à Chau Doc fut bien appréciable, nous terminons sur une bonne note notre périple Vietnamien. Demain, en route vers le ...
The Mekong Delta
... ’s official one, HoChiMinh City) directly. Instead, I took a boat from Phnom Penh down the Mekong River, across the border to Chau Doc, a small city at the northern end of the Mekong Delta, and overnighted there. The next day, after a short tour in ...
Bees and Rice Paper - by Lorcan
Bees When we got to the stop after seeing some people making coconut candy, we went over to place where we tried some new different fruits and some Honey Tea. They then came out and showed us how they got the honey. ...
NFO Orphanage,best experience so far!
Thanks to Ryan we found out about the NFO orphanage in Takeo. 2 hoursouth from PP. He was heading down to the orphanage today, as we hadseen everything we wanted to see in Phnom Phen. The orphanage soundedsuch a good idea we decided to tag along. It was ...
good morning vietnam!
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. ...
The heat is on in Saigon (and the Mekong delta)
... . We hebben genoten van het nietsdoen/lezen in het park en het bezichtigen van de stad. Dit financiële zakencentrum van Vietnam heeft in tegenstelling tot wat we dachten veel mooie statige oude gebouwen en opvallend veel groen. Het oorlogsmuseum was zeer ...
Mekong Delta
... 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 ...
Chao Doc and Border Crossing
... 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 ...
Are the sights worth the pain?
... travel 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 ...
Chau Doc
Dernier ville du Vietnam!!! Chau Doc est une ville pres de la frontiere du Cambodge, Jeudi 1 er janvier je pars pour le cambodge an bateau. Pour l'instant, je visite un peu la ville, j;avais prevu aller me reposer un peu, en allant a l'ile de Phu Quoi ...
Reflections of Vietnam
... nothing for granted... to live each moment as if it's your last and to say 'why not'! To list my favorite experiences in Vietnam would be impossible... I can't think of one thing that wasn't possitive, fun or enlightening. But I'll try and list some of ...
Good Morning, Vietnam!!
... seem to have a much better infrastructure in place than the border areas of Cambodia. This is very noticeable on arrival in Chau Doc, our first stop which is described as a “classic Vietnamese city which showcases perfectly life on the Mekong ...
Vietnam Part 2
... , pickup from Saigon, 2 nights accommodation and the speed boat to Cambodia, all for $65 dollars each! Our last night in Vietnam was spent in Chau Doc, the port where you board the boat to Cambodia. The four of us spent a LOT of time walking around the ...
Chau Doc
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 ...
Week 9-10 blog entry, sight-seeing, 1 night
... 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 ...
Day 2 in the Mekong Delta.
... . Visit the Sam mountain to enjoy the a breath-taking view on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border with flat rice fields and nice canals, visit caved pagoda. Over night in Chau Doc. Memories include the floating market and a nice view into Cambodia at sunset. ...
Getting to Chou Doc the hard way
... personality, and the fact his motorbike and helmet he wore were possibly handed down from Che himself. He explained to a taxi driver Chau Doc the taxi driver thought he was in for a treat it was at least 5 hours away. Anyway the idea being we ...
Random thoughts from Laos and Cambodia
... pretty tanned, I got a haircut which has been much better in this hot weather. The sweat and the questionable washing of my clothes has worn some of them, so I'll be making some substitutions in Vietnam. Time for a new t-shirt wardrobe! All the best. ...
Slow Boat Down the Mekong
So, after Saigon, we jumped on a bus to Chau Doc, a city on the border of Cambodia and Vietnam. We got really good news that the people we met in Bali (the vets, Matt and Kat) would also be there (what are the chances of that???). So, we got on the long ...