Phan Trung Hotel Can Tho
9 D Le Thanh Ton Can Tho, Vietnam
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Floating Market and Cambodia
... of some street food and snacks for the boat. The sun was just rising over the streets as women in pointed straw hats rode on bicycles to work. One thing about southeast Asia is that there are very few cars. So many people ride busses, motorbikes, or bicycles, which is awesome. I found some awesome rice with chicken and vegetables for less than $1 and we headed back to the hotel and packed all our things onto a smaller speed boat. ...
Cruising down the Mekong Delta
... market which is only open for a few hours in the morning, just loads off wee boats loaded with every fruit and veg you can imagine....plus rice!!! All the tourists just float about in the midst of this chaos, but Im sure to the locals there was an art to banging into other boats, pulling themselves around trying to sell something!!! Really an amazing experience, way better than the boring supermarket!!! After that very different shopping experience we headed ...
The Longest Journey Begins with One Foolish Step
... onto which we are headed.
Okay, we've got it; there's a bus leaving at 5:00 PM for a place called Rach Gia. That should get us there in time to pick up the 8:30 PM to Ha Tien giving us a great head start. We'll find a place for the night there then negotiate travel to the Cambodian border and on to Sinhoukeville.
We make the 5:00 PM and pack into a van. You never know who'll you'll have sitting next to you in these things. My seatmate is ...
Floating markets
... the chick, it ran past me and someone else caught it. There were more farm animals there, pigs which were hoping to be fed, geese which were mean, and of course some dogs. We then moved further down the island to a fruit farm and walked through the orchards. There were signs all over saying you would be fined if you picked any of the fruit. It was interesting to try and decide which tree ...
The Floating Market
... told.
Ho Chi Minh City or as the locals still call it, Saigon, is a bustling, noisy, smoggy, chaotic haven of motorbikes, bicycles, pedestrians, narrow alleys, lively market stalls with merchandise spilling into the street and cries of "madam, you want to buy", curbside food vendors, modern high rise buildings next to dilapidated low rise structures, beautiful old buildings with a European ...


