The Victoria Chau Doc Hotel
32 Le Loi St. Chau Doc, Vietnam
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Floating Markets to Cambodian Border
Breakfast at 0630 - thought this was a holiday!!! 0700 off to the floating markets - in point of fact we were late - most other people were on their way back!! We went by long tail boat - ace!!!! Poor girl on the boat was very timid - she got no sales - her husband really wanted her to try harder - bless! The market was amazing - totally local - …
Good Morning Vietnam
The journey to the Vietnam border took a couple of hours, along an unsurfaced, very bumpy, muddy road with all kinds of traffic. The road at the Cambodian border was very wet and muddy, and when we stopped at the barrier our guide said we would have to pay $5 to take the car through, otherwise we would have to carry the cases a few hundred yards …
Ciao to Vietnam from Chau Doc
Made our way to the pretty seaside resort of Chau Doc today by car, passing through the varied and interesting countryside and towns of Southern Vietnam, around the Mekong Delta, yet again, but it is a huge area called Cuu Long, meaning Nine Headed Dragrons, based on the topography of the delta which splits into nine tributaries. These are split …
Back to the main land
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We flew from Pho Quoc to Can Tho and traveled by van to Chau Doc. The Mekong River flows through this area and will be our "road" to get to Phnom Phen in Cambodia tomorrow.
The drive from Pho Quoc to Can Tho was uneventful taking about 3 hours. It was a great trip as we saw a lot of farm …
Sailing down the river
We started this leg of the trip early morning in saigon. Katie and I revisited a little bakery for breakfast, all fresh and very tasty. Our guide Mr Long, proudly demonstrated the route we would be taking over the next few days on his i-pad (he did this about every 2 hours for the next two days). It was obviously his new toy, but did help to …



