Up and out on boat to go to a floating market.......no clothes thank goodness. Stopped at a boat and Thiep purchased some pineapples for us that a woman peeled and put on sticks like lollies....just as juicy as lollies as well. For some reason I have nothing else written in our diary for this day but I am sure that more happened or maybe it didn...

When we woke up in the morning we had yet another tour guide and joined with yet another group.  This made the second half of our trip quite disjointed, but we had fun.  Our new guide put us all on bicycle rickshaws and sent us to the pier, where the rest of the group was waiting.  The day began.  We clambered into a low, lon...

Direction le Nord du Delta, a Chau Doc, pres de la frontiere cambodgienne. Chau Doc est la ville ou mon grand-pere maternel a grandi. Alors je prends plein de photos pour lui. J'espere que ca lui fera plaisir, meme si je doute qu'il retrouve vraiment la ville de son enfance dans mes cliches... Il fait une chaleur a tomber dans cette partie du De...

I arrived after a very short night in the bus where the driver tried to get some money for my luggage. I gave him 30 $ cents as I was not sure that he would bring me to the destination otherwise... At 7AM I found my group and we went by boat to a floating market: people in boat coming from boat to boat to sell their product: there was the Pineap...

We wanted to see some more of the river region so we decided to move from Saigon to Cambodia via overland/overwater and took one of the river tours on offer. It was cool to see the floating markets near Vinh Long - the river is full of boats that sell generally only one kind of product (you know which product via the tall pole on the boat on whi...

Yay!!  We love Vietnam already.  We had a lovely boat trip down the Mekong with smooth, problem-free border crossings.  We paid a bit more for a fast boat but definitely worth it as there were no guesthouse touts, commission stops or scams.  We met a nice OZ couple and T boasted happily to them about all the cool stuff we're ...

We got up early and packed our bags for the river boat cruise down the Mekong River from Cambodia into Vietnam. We managed to hit the market in the morning to get some grub for the 5 hour boat ride. Thank you New Zealand Bakery for providing us with some tasty morsels for the boat ride. We boarded the vessel at around noon. At first, we thought ...

34 degrees in the shade, anyone? Another pimple of sweat rises on my arm as another border official takes our passports into another room to affix another stamp. We crossed into our 6th country today: Vietnam.  We managed to get here from quiet Kep in Cambodia in the end, although at times it seemed fate wanted to prove me wrong for no...

We took a 3 day trip to explore the Mekong Delta and little did we know that this would turn out to be the Mekong version of the Magical Mystery Tour. The itinery was nothing like we'd booked, our tour guide refused to tell us what was happening on any of the future days ('Look, if I tell you what's happening, you'll all just...

Another ground hog day experience when the team awoke ½ hr earlier than expected to discover that instead of the scheduled 110 km trip we would have to do 135 km. Still it could have been worse after Michael discovered late last night that the route the guides had planned would be 187 km after they changed the original planned due to roadwork's....