Ninh Kieu Hotel Can Tho

... machetes. I'm not that keen on pineapple usually but even I had to admit that it was sweet and delicious. After chugging slowly between the other floating stalls (boats) we headed up a small side canal to a monkey bridge. This small bridge allows the locals to cross the water and is nicknamed 'monkey' due to the position you have to take to cross. As there is no handrail and just a single walking beam you need to walk bent over with all your limbs on the beam at the same time ...

... van never had we been so happy because we were so exhausted!!! We slept as we drove to the town of Sadec where our hotel was. We went out to dinner at a karaoke restaurant were the menu had no English but had pictures of snakes, cows, rats and pigs. We didn’t exactly get what we ordered but it was okay.
Sadec Mekong Delta, Ten Bai, Vietnam hilaryramsey

... up a little map. The guys at the Tourist Info say that a bus to Can Tho should cost 55,000VND! They also suggest we catch a Mai Line bus and write all this down for us. Hm, so we walk back and say yo the woman, 55000VND for a ticket please! She laughs and drops the price right away. Argh, typical - even when they're caught scamming us they think its hilarious to try and charge us nearly 2.5 times the price. We ask if its a Ma Line bus, but she says no ...

... di prodotti... pensavamo fossero dolci, invece erano sfoglie ripiene di carne e verdura... comunque molto gustosi. Non puo' mancare un colpo d'occhio al mercato centrale, uno dei luoghi da noi preferiti, e' spettacolare passare tra i banchi e vedere le varieta' di prodotti venduti. Oggi notiamo anche serpenti e tartarughe. Che giornata lunga... Domani mattina comincera' ancora prima perche' ci aspetta un'escursione in barca un po' particolare.

... A man in a small boat that sat about a foot above the water with a motor that looked like a weedwacker off the back came to the pier. We hopped in to the old wooden boat and were off down the brown river. It was about a 45 minute ride past a nonstop line of shacks where poeple were out brusing their teeth, washing their clothes with the riverwater, bathing or relieving themselves in it.

The floating market was a huge group of boats selling different kinds ...

... obviously irritated but in the Asian way remained polite and didn't say anything. At the first rest stop a couple came up complained that they couldn't hear the first talk. So when we got back to the bus, he was busily rearranging everyone's seats. Travel companions were split and good window seats hadto be given up. No explanation and the crowd grew irritated. He made a quick mention that some people couldn't hear because of the ...

... As it was rather hot, we were just happy to chill out in one of the many hammocks in a shady area. At 2.30 Hi Hi announces "x-queeze me everly-body get a bike" By this time most of our group had congregated together and we all stood looking at him vacantly. This time and with a more demanding voice "err everly-body get a bike" Now my blood was still simmering since the python episode so I chirps up "what if you can't ride a bike" to which his answer was 'I don belief you ...

... mountain, and a fantastic authentic Vietnamese dinner in a VERY local riverside restaurant. We were obviously not yet accustomed to Vietnamese culture as the throwing of scraps and used napkins on the floor, the cat-sized-rat (which they referred to as a mouse) eating those scraps off the restaurant floor... at our feet, and the hole/crack in between the boards dubbed the men's (Nam) restroom threw us off a bit. However ...

... was one of those genuinely happy, salt of the earth type of guys who always tried to make you feel welcome. He started our dinner with an aperitif shot of his homebrew banana wine and gave us an additional shot for when we finished our dinner! We got a whole spread of food that evening. Elephant ears fish to start with, along with some rice paper rolls, cucumber, mint, lettuce, noodles and a nice fish sauce for a make your own rice paper rolls! We got some smoked fish ...