Golf Hotel Cantho Can Tho

... islands. All the boats on the Delta have eyes painted on the front of them - our guide explained that this was to scare the crocdiles away! First stop was at a Coconut Candy factory set inside the bush. Here we learnt all about the Vietnamese treat and saw each stage of production. In the mud just by the candy factory some fish/lizards were hopping about - when I asked the guide abut them she said they are fish with lungs and can live in both water and on the land. Once back ...

... de l'annee, aucune femme ne pourra se sentir un tant soit peu vietnamienne si elle n'a pas le souci constant et obsessionnel de se cacher des rayons du soleil.

Me transformer en vietnamienne ne sera probablement pas si facile, j'aime trop la douceur des rayons sur ma peau. Je leur laisserai donc volontiers cette phobie et me contenterai d'apprendre conscienceusement a fabriquer des nems !

Dan bi ett
Au revoir

... fruit but it was really sweet and you ate the massive segments like an orange and it was really nice. Along the river lots of people were washing and cleaning their teeth in the dirty brown water, there were also huge long boats really flat on the water carrying sand, I can't believe how they didn't sink since they were so low in the water. We did a loop of ...

Ore 6.30 am, anche oggi, la giornata inizia presto, anche se scesi per far colazione, ci rendiamo conto e questo conferma quanto ipotizzato che in Vietnam, la giornata inizia molto presto. La sala da pranzo, ieri sera deserta, questa mattina era piena di gente pronta a mangiare spaghettini e zuppetta. A piedi, (1,5km), ci va di camminare... con gli zaini al seguito, raggiungiamo la stazione dei bus. Ore 8.00 am si parte verso Can Tho che e' la ...

... drive past us or head straight towards us and come within a centimeter of our taxi.

This town apparently sees even fewer tourists than where we have been so that was yet another fun experience of meeting and saying hi to people and young children staring at us in awe and waving.

Today I saw a kitchen stove o nthe back of a motobike. Last night, I saw one with a small, wood framed high chair sitting on ...

... would get married and have kids Paul said, in a very reserved British way "People in Britain don't talk about things like that" ! I've been asked my age several times, but I think this is because in Vietnam the verbs change depending on how old you are, so people are used to asking each other so they know how to address them, I refuse to tell people my Vietnamese age, which puts me worryingly close to 30 ;)

Finally we wrote down all the ...

... to a landing stage where we were taken 10k out of town on a small waterway to stay in bungalows next to the water. We were immediately invited in to help make and cook some sweet potato and tofu spring rolls, and then were presented with a lovely spread of food. One thing we have never tried before was making our own fresh spring rolls - laying rice paper on the palm of the hand, adding lettuce, mint, rice vermicelli ...

... to the previous two and a half days it was like we were in another world. Whilst there a guy from another bus was tinkering with one of the back wheels when one of the bogey tyres blew, droppping the bus a few inches and trapping him between the body of the bus and the inflated tyre. I was one of the first on the scene with my little camera at the ready, as i thought the bus had caught fire, but didn't take a picture of his twistedd body as we all just got to the side ot ...

... it' and we would deal with the 'minor' discrepancy directly with the travel agent on our return to Saigon. About an hour into our road trip the bus stopped to re-fuel and we noticed our guide sitting by himself at the side of the petrol station. staring vacantly into space. We took the opportunity of inviting ourselves to sit next to him.......I (Caroline) just could not resist and then I hit him with the truth....... "X-queeze me Hi Hi" (oh no he's got me at it now!! ) "I have ...

... That's progress I guess! We had a pizza lunch again before jumping back on the boat for our 4-hour trip back to Vihn Long - one of the guys had laughed at us as he said it was an hour by car! We did comment as we ate lunch how everyone wore a helmet, New Hampshire has a lot to learn! A law had been enacted about a year ago and we did find out that before this law people would deride the use of helmets here. What was funny and didn't seem enforced was only the driver had ...