Chuong Duong Hotel-Restaurant My Tho

... their responsability to take care of us!! About 30 minutes after we arrive on site this little old lady appears with coconuts for us to drink, and about 1 hour into the afternoon another girl turns up with some sort of snack. Yesterday it was some fruit and pumpkin with a kind of rice pudding sauce. <br><br>We also had a fun evening out for Kevin's b'day where we were introduced to typical Vietnamese ...

... local market and having some more local nosh. We wanted to get the ferry across to Ben Tre but when we got to the ferry port, it was completely dead (and was miserable weather) so decided to give it a miss... Boo... <br><br>My Tho was a great little place and we loved the boat tour so would have liked to stay a bit longer. However, due to the imminent end of our visa, we decided to head off the next day... <br><br><br>

... tied to a tree- and dog skulls lying around as they eat dog on the mountain. Coming down without the engine on was so much fun- and the traffic on the way back was worse but it was fun by that time- apparently I looked like I did it every day haha. Although the last time i was on one i fell off after 2 minutes and had to go for an xray! <br><br>Dinner was pretty bad. We all went to this really wierd place, it was a hotel reception area- it was all a ...

... peace and a safe and uneventful return home,&#8221; or something like that. Our prayer and incense coil were hung alongside the others, although the cynical side of me envisioned Mr. Cig coming along after we'd left and blowing the incense out for reuse by someone a little more worthy than a couple of tourists.<br><br>We then walked along the canal to a Chinese Buddhist temple. A lady within was periodically banging a gong, letting the sound slowly fade to nothing before repeating the ...

... which sat a platter of pineapple, pomelo, dragonfruit, and rambutan, as well as several (pirated) paperbacks. Behind the sitting area was a short hallway leading to the bathroom and bedroom. The bathroom was fully functional with a shower, toilet, and sink. There were two metal switches, one to turn on the light and metal fan bolted to the wall, and another to turn on the water. The bedroom area was also lined with windows on either side and contained a large, low bed with ...

This morning we booked a trip around the islands so we headed off on our little boat. It was pretty cool as we were the only ones that were on the trip. The first island we stopped at we saw a bee farm and was told about the process and we got to hold one of the honey lats from the hive. We also got to taste honey tea which wasnt too bad. I was then asked if i wanted to see a snake and duly accepted. It was a fairly large python that they draped ...

... up together and anchored. Smaller boats could stop and buy whatever they wanted from the seller's boat. We saw different fruits being sold, plants, rice, and clothing. Honestly, this wasn&#8217;t that impressive. But later we stopped off to see how they make coconut candy. It was really impressive. They showed up step by step. First they make the rice paper which is super thin. Then you take a coconut take out the inside and grind it up. That ground up coconut then ...

... but we could tell by the giggles and winks that he thought he was funny. <br><br>We were taken to various places to try coconut candy, snake and scorpion wine (packs a punch - 32% alcohol) and fruit (not a fan of jack fruit but pomelo and some others were nice) and were rowed through the canals of the delta with the rower saying something under his breath that Luke says sounded very much like "money, money, money".... but we couldn't understand unfortunately.<br><br>At the ...

... she seems to be mumbling, she has a mid twenties daughter that is mute, but funny enough i communicate with her the best because she has become an expert at sharades....something you have to rely on as there is absolutely no one in the whole area that knows any more english then hello or US dollar. Her husband Nui is the builder, and they have a 5 year old son called Kha...probably the least favourite kid out of all of them...a bit of a ****...but nothing a few english ...

... s rapidly-growing construction. <br><br>Because of the hot climate, the Mekong Delta produces three crops of rice every year. Also, there are more varieties of tropical fruit. Many consider the fruit here to be the tastiest in the country. Common fruit like bananas, pineapples and mangos suddenly have more appeal. Then add mangosteen, longonberry, jackfruit ...