Ngan Ha Hotel Can Tho

... to PhnomPenh ( Schedule 9 : 30 - 14 : 30 ). Arrive in PhnomPenh around 14h00pm at the Sisowath tourist dock. Pick up and transfer to hotel. Free at leisure. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Phnom Penh.<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Day 4 : Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (B/L/-)<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After breakfast, City Tour to visit National Museum of Khmer Art, Silver Pagoda, on the same ground of the Royal Palace and the ...

... and their knees point up to the sky.<br> They learn it young here &#8211; we've seen toddlers not yet 2 in the<br>position. Sometimes it makes my knees ache just looking at them &#8211;<br>but they can do it easily for hours &#8211; we've seen some taking naps<br>in the pose. Another position we like is the motorbike lean &#8211;<br>where the person literally lays on top of the motorbike like the seat<br>is a hammock. Both men and women do it but we have seen far more men<br ...

... it and her hands to guide the thread and control the shuttle. On another floating building we visited a fish farm - here the locals use nets under the building to hem the fish in. Our guide opened up the floorboards and threw in some feed so we could see the different varieties fight it out. It was now time to say goodbye to Ouilid as he was going back to HCMC on an 8hr bus ride - we instead had decided to carry on through the Delta by ourselves to a town called Rach Gia on ...

... power was off for a few hours but came back on in time for dinner. Their home is basic, with a wood stove in the kitchen. Had a yummy dinner &amp; then lay in the hammocks outside talking to their relatives who came over to practice their english &amp; watching the fireflies in the fruit trees beside us. <br><br ...

... office is down the road. We set off down the road looking for this bus station and find it eventually (spelt Mahlin) in a nice, plush aircon office (as opposed to the on the street one before) and they manage to organize a bus for us at 6. After a lift to the main bus station we get on a clean, air con minibus, for 55000VND - when the woman wanted to charge us 120,000VND for a rubbish local bus! Typical. <br><br>When we arrive in Can Tho 3 hours later ...

On Sunday morning I went to SinhBalo Travel (which specializes in adventure travel) to begin my four day bicycle tour of the Mekong Delta (http://sinhbalo.com/cgi-bin/app.cgi). Our group consisted of seven of us (Steve and Grace from Tazmania, Chris and Michelle from Australia, Fiona from Dublin/London and Laurie from New York). Our guide was Tao. We road the bus for a couple hours watching traffic and city life turn into rural life... the highlight ...

... from bad to worse when the bus finally shopwed up and we wereatthe hotel a few minutes later.We all spit up and decompressed however we saw fit. I had dinner and a beer then went to bed. Day two was an early wakeup in order to get to the floating market while it was in full swing. We hopped in long boats and and headed down river to where peole were selling ther fruits and vegatables from their boats. They advertised their wares ...

... boat that took me to few different islands (biked around one), few villages, and rest off then jumped on another boat and did the rest of the trip to Can Tho on the boat. Quiet interesting to see the way people adapted to live over here. Very crowded and poluted. Many people live in the real tiny houses on the rver banks and many families live on the boats (too poor to buy a ...

... we have not seen - ie anti USA - very interesting - brings some balance to what we have seen before. Loads of booby traps to see which clearly are lethal! The actual size of the tunnels was soooo tiny - a guide showed us how he could get down but there was no chance of any European doing so ! we were able to go down into the tunnel system - i got part way down but chickened out is was ...

... our Mekong / first Vietnamese way of life. . <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br> After the market our guide took us along the rural riverways fo the Mekong and I (Ads) even got to drive the boat! The river ways were beautiful and seeing the way in which the Vietnamese farmed was like going back in history, it was wonderful, a real ...