Saigon Kim Lin Vinh Long
No 80 - Binh Minh St, Cua Lo town Vinh Long, Vietnam
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Organised Chaos: Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City
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None of them moves really fast but in a steady pace, overtaking is done with lots of honking to warn the other drivers (or to get them move out of the way), everything runs smoothly. We haven't seen a single incident of one driver shouting at another or giving hand gestures; the horn is your friend.
The ...
Coconut Candy
... press, which produces tasty coconut juice. Next up, the coconut juice is caramelised with sugar for about 30 minutes. This produces a rather gooey mass that is stretched by simple but efficient means on a wooden board and then let go hard. The result is chewy coconut candy with various flavours. Sticks between the teeth, as any decent candy should do. ...
4 villages and a rickshaw ride
... approach life. You are lucky and have good fortune or unlucky. There are many superstitions mixed with Buddhist religious thoughts, and our guides have been helpful in explaining all this. Another village makes rattan mats. We saw the long reeds in natural states and after being dyed. Then we saw workshops where the machines were being used to pull them through and make patterns according to the operator. Another town makes silk and we ...
Into the Mekong
... of the Mekong - thick with sediment and nutrients that had traveled thousands of miles downriver from China. It is because of this that the Mekong Delta is incredibly lush and thick with vegetation. The area has recently been called a "biological treasure trove".
Our first stop was on an island in the river where beekeeping is the main industry. We sampled honey and some delicious tea. It felt kind ...
Overnight in the Mekong
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Today we woke up early to head to the Cu Chi tunnels, used in the Vietnam war by the VietCong to avoid US capture. After viewing some of the ways that bullets were recovered from spent US shells and turned into deadly weapons, we were then able to go the firing range and test a variety of War era weapons, including the M60 and M16 (the one I used - firing capacity 600-700 rpm) It was ridicously loud and you ...



