Khach San Phong Nha Can Tho

... Arial">Day 6 : Siem Reap Angkor (B/L/-)<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Early morning, view sunrise at Angkor Wat. Transfer to hotel for breakfast. The same morning visit South Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon, Baphoun, Terrace of the Elephants, Terrace of the Leper King. Afternoon, visit Grand Circuit including Pre Rup, East Mebon, Ta Som, Neak Pean, Preah Khan, Baksei Chamkrong and South Gate of Angkor Thom. Dinner on guests account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Siem Reap.<br ...

... its something so distinct and makes<br>Vietnam so different.<br><br>#5: Last but not least, we love how women are involved in everything! We have<br>passed by many construction projects where we see women (in their<br>pajama garb) down in a trench shoveling dirt with her male<br>co-workers. No big deal. Women are the shopkeepers, the butchers,<br>the cooks, the fishermen, the rice laborers, the water buffalo<br>herders, the construction workers, the electricians &#8211; they ...

... start the inevitable happened and the lady in front of us got travel sick and vomited into a plastic bag before emptying the contents out of the open window and onto the road! Just when we wondered what else could happen an old lady got on with a bin liner that movved and made tweeting noises - yes... she had a bag full of chickens! As we left town further behind the crowds thinned out and we started to wonder about where we were going to be kicked off and how we were going to ...

... amp; it is very busy &amp; lively.<br>We went back to our homestay for breakfast &amp; then off cycling around more islands getting there by ferry. Again these paths were very narrow - just wide enough for 2 bikes to pass each other. People again were very friendly calling out as we rode past their homes beside ...

... To be honest, they're not what i expected. I had been expecting some buildings erected on poles selling things by the river (a la Venice, but not so swanky!) but it turns out that the floating market is, well, exactly that - people just turn up with wares to sell and just put up anchor. What each boat sells is put on a bamboo stick at the front and then they start haggling with each other. It's brilliant, especially when you think this is what wholesale ...

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 ...

... road, a few cars and many local people on bicycles. Local children would always stop and smile and say hello. We stopped at a 'monkey bridge' that a few people tried to cross (I did try but did not get very far at all!). And I finally saw a banana flower... it's hard to appreciate their beauty as they are most unusual but I have a very soft spot for them. We turned off the road and travelled down a narrow gravel path along a small canal. Often ...

I think it would rather better to 'do it yourself' round the Mekong Delta but the tour is certainly the only way to get a decent glimpse in a couple of days ... and the tours really are inexpensive. Over the two days it was based around the two centres of My Tho and Can Tho and was quite well organised with lots of time on the water, using a variety of boats (from ones carrying half the group right down to two persons ...

... over ice here in Asia but the incidence of food poisoning is on the rise in the Delta region. In genera, there seems to be little concern with kitchen and food delivery cleanliness. Hopefully the food is hot enough to kill everything but the local beers are very low in alcohol content. There is no chance of alcohol killing the germs. Like a frat boy at the end of a keg party, I think there is probably just enough alcohol to make ...

... bundle them and their belongings in poste haste. As we drove into CT he started to remove his trousers! Only to reveal dozens of cartons of cigarettes taped to his legs (actually another pair of trousers, thankfully}. Clearly smuggling, but why, since no border crossings were made? The arrival in CT was pretty dramatic as a crowd of Moto drivers surrounded us and they clamoured for customers. We stood our ground, haggled ...