Hotel Tay Ho Can Tho

... Arial"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Day 5 : Siem Reap Angkor (B/L/-)<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After breakfast, tour to small Circuit including Prasat Ravan, Banteay Dei, Srah Srang, Ta Prohm, Takeo, Thommanon, Chau Say, Tevoda, to the World Seventh Wonder of the Magical temple city of Angkor Wat until view sunset at Pnom Bakheng. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Siem Reap.<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT ...

... br>The boys in their white shirts, dark pants and red ties are also<br>cute.<br><br>#4: We love how everyone wears comfortable clothing &#8211; especially the women<br>in their pajama -like outfits. Some of them are fancy and look silk &#8211;<br>others are some polyester blend. But the key is: it's loose and<br>lightweight for the climate. Some younger women walk around in<br>straight up no-doubt about it cotton pajamas. It's great. Topped<br>off with the conical hats ...

... informed me that our 'direct' bus was not going to be as direct as we thought and we needed to change somewhere along the way. Undeterred we hopped on the dirty, battered bus that looked like it had been used since and probably during the war with the locals. The second problem was the fact that the bus got busy and we squeezed as many people as we could into seats (there were 7 people on our 5 person bench seat) and onto the floor. As the road was so bumpy and the traffic so ...

... produce that isn't grown locally &amp; the smaller boats come to buy off them to sell in their local businesses. The bigger boats in this area have a stick with the produce they sell tied to it so the small boats know what they are selling.<br> <br><br>Other small boats that cook on board are going around selling ...

... t feed the rat'. I think this is superb, but Aly is less than impressed - especially by the massive box of snakes with no lid! While eating (Beef, no rat for me) we agree to go on a tour to see the floating markets early tomorrow morning. Very early...it leaves at 6. <br><br>We all follow the hotel owners friend out of the hotel in the morning and jump into this tiny boat at seems safe enough, if a bit wobbly and go down the river to see 2 floating ...

... boats were waiting to take us on a tour through the canals. At lunch we stopped at a restaurant where we enjoyed some beautiful fresh fish. Near the restaurant we saw some crocodiles and a coconut candy factory. We took the boat back to the bus at MyTho, drove for a while and then hopped on the bikes. We started on a small paved road surrounded with lush green rice fields. We passed cows, ducks, and many people walking. There were motorbikes on ...

... good except the beer was room temperature. Room temp being around 90 degrees. I rarely get a properly iced down beer over here. If you are lucky, it has been sitting in the shade. If you are really lucky, it has been in a cooler with ice for more than 15 minutes. Mostly though, it is just warm. And this is not a Nut Brown English Ale with flavor at warmer temps. Just an average Budweiser. They seem to think it is ok to drink ...

... were 21 passengers, the extras sitting on tiny stools and each other's laps! The driver was making no concessions to his load, by driving at breakneck speed the whole way - much of the time on the wrong side of the road, particularly when taking a right hand bend over a humpback bridge (of which there were many). The other highlight of this trip was the driver's mate, whose main tasks were to tout for passengers en route ...

... off for a walk whilst Nic and I chilled out - he went to a wedding ! We received free cocktails from the hotel - not the best! So reverted to g and t's! Much better! Nhad took us to his mates restaurant for tea as he was paying - excellent! Nambo quality 4/5 service 3.5/5 val 4 money 3/5 ambiance 3.5/5 total 14/20 Saigon Cantho ambiance 2.5/5 service 3.5/5 room 2/5 breakfast 3/5 total 11/20

... to get... then we came to a local bridge and almost lost the top of the boat! We had a really good trip seeing the lives of the Mekong people and were really looking forward to our second trip to that afternoon via another form of river transport - an express speedboat to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) through more of the beautiful Mekong Delta......