Asia Hotel Can Tho

... going back to Ho Chi Minh City. <br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Include <br>Entrance fees<br>Motorised boat <br>1 mineral water bottle/pax/day<br>Accommodation: hotel in cantho<br>Full transportation by as tour program indicated. <br>Full meals as indicated in the itinerary. <br>English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request) <br><br>Not include<br>Personal expenditure<br ...

... and tried to talk us into over paying substantially more for a boat tour of the floating markets the following day. We decided to do a bit of research on our own to negotiate a fair price and after trip down to the waterfront I headed back to the hotel to get it booked up.<br><br>The crazy thing was that in the hour that had passed since we had last walked down the street it had turned from being bone dry to being under at ...

Hi everyone,<br><br>Hope you are all well!<br><br>After leaving Saigon we went on a 3 day tour to the Mekong Delta.<br><br>The first day we visited the Cai Be floating markets (which weren't all that much by the time we got there), went to ethic minority village where we watched the locals make rice paper, rice crispies and sweets all by hand. So fascinating to watch them make everything but it is such repetitious work I don't ...

21st August<br>Got up at 7.30 to have a morning on the beach, then caught our ferry but to Rach Gia this time. The journey was boring but got through it and as always we were surrounded by bloody moto drivers shouting prices and destinations at us. One showed us where the bus station was as we wanted to get to Can Tho as soon as possible and didn't want to stay a ...

... restaurante Nam Bo, recomendable, y nos dimos una vuelta por la ciudad.<br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br>Tras mirar en algunos sitios, al final reservamos la excursión en barca al mercado de Cai Rang y delta del Mekong en el hotel.<br><br>Cenamos en un barco, que supusimos iba a ser la leche ... y lo fue.<br><br>Se empezó a llenar de vietnamitas, chinos y asiáticos varios ...

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 annoying tour guide. <br><br>We realised that on the trip so far (since January) we have slept over night on a bus about ...

... We left the large canal and travelled down a smaller one passing homes with people going about their daily routines. After docking, we got on the bikes and happily road for a good part of the day. The terrain kept changing... from small trails in a 'jungle-like' setting to small roads along a canal that then changed to rice fields with mountains in the distance. On the approach to Chau Doc I noticed a change in the economic status as well ...

... bij andere bootjes lekkere broodjes (ow wat fijn dat ze die hier hebben) gekocht (gelijk een floating market idee). ' Vol is vol' kennen ze hier trouwens niet, iedereen kan mee in het bootje! Volle bak dus, dat laat de temperatuur nog meer stijgen... Maar wel gezellig! Aangekomen in Can Tho eerst een terrasje gepakt (de stoeltjes hier zijn onze kinder-stoeltjes, vooral voor Michiel levert dit een dubbel gevouwen lichaam op!). Gelijk sprak een vrouw ons aan of wij interesse ...

... of boat and accommodation to take us all the way back to HCMC. That afternoon we wondered through town having pizza and beer at one place before hitting a waterfront café to watch some of the boats go by. Can Tho has about 350,000 people and the bus station was a bit mental, but down here things are a little more calm. Dirt seems to be the main commodity on the Mekong! Every second boat seemed to be some big barge transporting dirt; some transported it up stream, others ...