Nha Khach So 02 Can Tho

... Other services not mention above<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Private tour:<br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To do the tour privately. The tour is not fixed, it is possible to be customized for your group. All service is reserved for your group only. You do not have to share the bus, boat, tour guide with other tourists. One exception, if you stay at the boat in Mekong - it is like the hotel in Mekong - you still have to share the boat with other people.

... we weren&#8217;t too proud to take off our shoes and wade through it!<br><br>One thing that the Vietnamese are great at is just sitting and watching the world go by (you can&#8217;t walk down the road without seeing someone asleep or just sat doing nothing). It was in Can Tho that we really experienced this for ourselves. We&#8217;d go to our local café, get a coffee (for about 15p each) and just sit and watch the world go by. Heaven&#8230;

... exotic fruit trees and acres of rice paddies. Post lunch it was time to head back out on the boat to one of the other islands. Here we had honey tea with added lemon and flower pollen for flavour and ate some honey based snacks. To compliment this we also tried banana wine which as Cesca found out is not as sweet as it sounds! Afterwards we took a traditional smaller boat paddled by some local villagers up a small canal, they used short handled paddles and wore traditional ...

... bikes were used on them. We passed through villages and markets and on one street side saw a number of cages and stopped to have a look at them. We discovered snakes big and small, turtles, mice, rats and Egret type birds all which were waiting to be sold as somebody&#8217;s dinner!!! We went past brillant green ...

... 7 hours traveling we had, had enough and went to sleep.<br><br>22 August <br>Woke up 4.30am, it was still dark. Met the boat at 5.30am to watch the sunrise on the river in a narrow wooden boat with one 5 horsepower Honda engine. <br><br>The floating market is a massive collection of boats moored up in the middle of the river selling mainly fruit and veg. The ...

... vegetables or fruits. Some also were brewing coffee or making some kind of soup. We were offered both but kindly declined after seeing how the river water had splashed into boats and the cups looked wet. <br><br>You could tell what the boat was selling because they tied whatever it was to a long wooden stick and propped it up so people could see. Many people live on their boats. As we floated past one, a small boy, about 4 years old, pulled down his pants and was ...

... explanation about my fortune being mixed, there will be trouble between Paul and I (gasp) but only in the short run, in the long run we will find prosperity by moving to another country (excellent).<br><br>The third task was to pray to the mother of mothers for healthy children, most Vietnamese people pray here for either a boy or a girl - but I'm not really fussed so I prayed for both, on my knees touching my forehead to the ground. Paul was ...

... and the trip really nice - taking us through 2 floating markets, orchards, rice paper making factory... very relaxing. we then tried to organise our way to HCMC. Now for this, given our good experience we went with the hotel people. This was a mistake. The guy sold us the ticket saying the bus went right into the backpackers district 1 in HCMC. He actually repeated this again and again. An outright lie as none of the buses do this. The ...

... on the bed you could probably see in! Luckily our new neighbours weren't snorers! That night also turned into a bit of a chilly one and we had a blanket that if your feet were covered really only came to the bottom of your chest! I chose to have cold feet! The bungalows were actually raised up over a small pond, I presume to help with cooling but this caused a problem with mozzies! We had a net though so all was well and good. The house we stayed at was called Ba Tung. The ...