Asia Hotel Can Tho
91 Chau van Liem Street Can Tho, Vietnam
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Day One in the Mekong Delta (A Day Behind)
For once I'm not sure where to begin. Do I start where I left off or do I start with today and then try to backfill? There's so much that it is hard to believe that just yesterday we woke up in Ho Chi Minh City. Maybe I'll try to start there - the problem is that I'm not sure if I'll last long enough to describe the flooded streets that surprised …
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Floating Market and Cambodia
... just be flat nothing, as far as we could see.
We pulled into Phnom Penh just as the sun was setting. For a capital city, it is tiny. Not a single skyscraper, which we loved. It had such a small town feel and we immediately had good vibes as soon as we got off the boat. We unloaded our things and grabbed a tuk tuk to our hostel, pointing out monks dawning their bright orange robes along the way. We were already stoked for Cambodia.
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Into the Mekong
... but wasn't so bad. We then moved on to another island where we walked through a tiny village and through more thick jungle to a small canal. There we separated into smaller groups and climbed onto a wooden canoe which was paddled by a local woman. We meandered through small canal-ways through the jungle and back out to our main boat.
After another stop to see where this delicious coconut ...
Floating markets
I got the bus to Can Tho with a couple I'd met in Ben Tre and we all decied to stay at the same place again when we got to Can Tho. We got there late and arranged to go out on a boat the following day to see the floating markets that the Mekong Delta's famous for. After a quiet evening trying to find some bars to have a drink in we resorted to a drink in the park by the river, which was really interesting people watching as loads of people came out ...
The Longest Journey Begins with One Foolish Step
... large Hot Pot. Hot Pot lives somewhere between Shabu-Shabu and fondue, in fact Nam Bo's menu calls it fondue. Copious piles of meats, seafood and vegetables are reduced to consumable proportions by chopstick-dip-cooking in a central pot of spiced, boiling water. It is fantastic. We walk a couple of miles back to the hotel through town, stopping along the way to pick up some breakfast for morning. Our choice is a strange shop that crosses danish-style ...



