Ninh Kieu Hotel Can Tho

... view from the mekong. Dinner and overnight eco-guesthouse on island. <br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Day 2: Vinh Long - Can Tho. (B,L,D) <br style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cycling 1/2 hour under natural green canopy to the ferry crossing for Vinh Long. Then we have much more ride to Can Tho. Depends on group cycling ability, our guide will tailor a special route for this day : passing villages of brick kiln, terracotta and pottery kiln or riding on ...

... road! So, off we set again. We finally got to the right place where a pushy Vietnamese woman offered to flag down the right bus for us. A minibus then pulled up and when I said Can Tho he nodded. The Vietnamese lady was furious! She said he wasn&#8217;t going to Can Tho and that she couldn&#8217;t understand why I didn&#8217;t trust her (errr&#8230; cos I&#8217;ve just met you, love). She eventually flagged down a minibus for us which ...

Thursday 1st October - Mekong Delta (My Tho &amp; Can Tho)<br><br>Getting out of Ho Chi Minh in the morning took ages due to all the traffic but we soon found ourselves out on the highway. This 'highway' was not up to our standards in the western world - it was a two lane road with large potholes and still is plagued by the numerous slow motorbikes buzzing around everywhere. At My Tho we hopped onto a long boat and headed across the channel and into the Delta to and visit some of ...

... en vietnamienne si sa devise des l'aube n'est pas : ' TOUT sauf le SOLEIL'.<br>Le soleil est une hantise, une phobie de tous les instants.<br>Les masques faciaux ne sont pas des masques anti pollution mais bien des masques anti soleil. Par 35 degres, les passantes, les cyclistes, les motocyclistes revetent un masque facial qui peut devenir passe-montagne pour cacher le cou et le decollete. Le bob a larges bords se ...

... a moto and more comfortable and I was pleased with my quick thinking and the boys were laughing at my obsessive use of the phrasebook although they were pleased when I had sorted it out. :)<br>We chose a hotel from the guide which was fairly cheap but as we walked to the room I walked past a tank of snakes with the lid off, which was not pleasant. When we ...

... drive past us or head straight towards us and come within a centimeter of our taxi. <br><br>This town apparently sees even fewer tourists than where we have been so that was yet another fun experience of meeting and saying hi to people and young children staring at us in awe and waving. <br><br>Today I saw a kitchen stove o nthe back of a motobike. Last night, I saw one with a small, wood framed high chair sitting on ...

... Vietnamese tea. We had a wander around the garden, saw pineapples growing and had a go posing with a Vietnamese pole. We were glad to not have to get back on the bikes after all that food, a short walk back to the sampan and a 3 hour cruise to Sa Dec. (Plus some tea and biscuits and a selection of fruit).<br> <br>Every vista on the cruise up to Sa Dec was a potential postcard and we snapped away from the front of the boat; kids waving and shouting ...

... the border where his friends on motos were waiting. Now we knew, we had to take motos to Ha Tien on the other side, but by dropping us off before the border, the disctance and the price for the motos was also higher. Annoying. Getting over the border was hassle free, although we had to pay a minimal Dong 2000 health stamp (???) at the Vietnames side. Now, this is not much but be warned, they do not have any change it seems so bring small ...

... That's progress I guess! We had a pizza lunch again before jumping back on the boat for our 4-hour trip back to Vihn Long - one of the guys had laughed at us as he said it was an hour by car! We did comment as we ate lunch how everyone wore a helmet, New Hampshire has a lot to learn! A law had been enacted about a year ago and we did find out that before this law people would deride the use of helmets here. What was funny and didn't seem enforced was only the driver had ...