Chau Doc Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Leaving Ho Chi Minh City we moved on to Cambodia via a 2 day trip through the Mekong Delta crossing from@Vietnam to Cambodia at a place called Chau Doc. We had visions of the majority of our time being on baots going through a myriad of rivers though it wasn`t like this at all. There are hundrerds of rivers with over a million people living in ...

Our first stop in Vietnam. When my little cousin Denis heard we were coming here he wanted to know if we were going to bring a baby back. A little alarming maybe if you didn't know that his sister, Linh, was adopted from Vietnam! To get to Vietnam we had a pleasant boat journey from Phnom Pehn - anything to get off those buses! Chau Doc is one o...

While I am posting this from Phnom Phen, we are about to board a boat into Vietnam, so I moved my push pin on the map to our next location. I thought I would take a moment to describe the absolute chaos that is the traffic here. There are no rules. While there is occassionally a traffic light, few pay attention to them. Some cars do, few motorcy...

This was to be a mammoth day of travelling... We were to take a motorbike to the bus, a bus to the ferry,, a ferry to the mainland, a motorbike to the minibus, a mini bus to the bus, a bus to the mini bus and then a bike to the hotel!!! I'm not going to bore you with the details of each journey but we were happy we had cracked the bus ticket si...

When you cross the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, an invisible line is passed and the kramas disappear only to be replaced by conical hats, flowing ao dais and mono-print pyjamas. The river's banks become more industrious, and then, as we take a right to head south from the Mekong to the Bassac River somnolent Cambodia is left behind and b...

After seeing the beauty and horrors of Cambodia, John and Anita next move across yet another border to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A small bus ride takes them down a bumpy dirt road to a ferry... that transports them down the Mekong to the border. After passing through immigration... with no bribes needed I may add... another ferry whiske...

This journey usually takes three months. There are no roads. The sole entry point to our destination is along the Mekong. This immense waterway is amongst the largest in the world. It descends from Tibet and covers a distance of more than 4000 km. It sows rapids and is famous for its overflows too. The primary mode of transport is the slow pirog...

It was an early start today with Lisa & I having brekky @ 7am (omlette & vegemite roll). We were picked up by our welcoming air-con bus for the 7 or so hour drive to Chau Doc. We stopped for a few breaks along the way - the first one kind of a zoo - we saw some monkeys and pythons. The monkeys were classic - if you got too close they wou...

I booked a 3 day tour from Phnom Pehn to Vietnam via the Mekong Delta. The first day we caught a boat down the Mekong to the Vietnam border. The border crossing was a little unusual as they requested our passports on the boat and asked us to wait in the cafe for an hour and a half. We never actually saw any immigration officers. After our passpo...

I was slightly wrong about Cantho - all i had to do was catch a ferry (5 cents) across the river and a whole new world opened up. There were no cars at all; the street a narrow concrete way wide enough at best for two scooters to pass. Houses huddled together opening onto the street. Tiny shops, vendors with typical Vietnamese conical hats squat...