Chau Long

It has been over two years since my trip to New Zealand and a vacation is long overdue. This trip takes me to the North and South of Vietnam as well as the ancient temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Five of us are traveling together and from a bike ...

... at a huge hydroelectric power station and dam at Song Da. The dam was an impressive size (128m high and nearly a kilometre long - the largest hydroelectric dam in Vietnam and South East Asia!), dwarfing everything for miles around.  Our room at the ...

... 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 into ...

... Deep into the night could be heard, at full blare, the Vietnames pop music (doof, doof, doof) from a nearby wedding, along with the karaoke crooning of cassava imbibed guests. We eventually fell asleep exhausted from our long, long trek. Love to all Marty ...

Today we were driven the very long 3 1/2 hour journey to the village of Mai Chua.  Upon arrival we were taken on a 2 hour bicycle tour where we rode through villages and visited a toothpick and skewer factory.  The locals were very ...

28.6.09 Eigentlich wollten wir von Chau Doc nach Vinh Long mit dem Boot fahren, doch leider war dies nicht moeglich (ausser mit dem Victoria Hotel Speedboat fuer 100$). So haben wir uns auf einen Vietnamesen verlassen, der uns den einheimischen Weg ...

... km from Hanoi and many minorities, including the Thai ethnic group,(distant relatives of Thailand's mountain people) live in Mai Chau. Typically the living quarters are about six feet off the ground, to provide better ventilation and shelter for the ...

... everywhere and it was such a new visual experience for us. The treks end brought us to a hill tribe village near Mai Chau. Here several villages prosper from having foreign guests stay at their homes. The people were so beautiful, the village was ...

... . Son activité économique repose essentiellement sur la pisciculture. Une statue de poisson est même érigée pour symboliser Chau Doc. Plus marginalement, plusieurs foyers se consacrent encore au travail de la soie, en particulier dans le district ...

... get their first feelings for what it will be like in India... whoops, I mean Vietnam. HE SAID: Not much to say about Chau Doc as we didn't stay very long... however, it did give us a small taste for what was to come in the next day or so.  The ...

... to let us under it. We travelled along a wide canal at first and then down some narrower ones. People were rowing their long boats. They stand up to row with their ores crossed which seemed like hard work. Their were several motor boats but mostly ...

...  piti syoda 20minuutissa ja se alko jo arsyttaa meita kaikkia. Sit otettiin taas bussi ja ajettiin n.4tuntia Chau Dociin missa vietettiin yo hotellissa. Meian opas vaihtu siina matkalla ja saatiin kerrankin sellanen hauska tyyppi sille ...

... for a new dam being built along the river we were following. The nice, smooth, sealed road we were traveling on turned into a long, dusty, bumpy building site where we bounced along for a good two or three hours. By the end of the trip anyone would think ...

... bus station. We knew right away we had been had by someone.  The bus with the lamentable cardboard sign in the window indicating Chau Doc was a shabby old geezer of a thing with no a/c and stiff seats with dead springs. Either our guest house lied, ...

... picked us up from the travel agent and explained our day's activities...which consisted of the first part of our crossing - getting to Chau Doc - final resting place before Cambodia. First day of our tour started off quite nicely with a boat tour of a ...

... bus ride (since the Mekong is a river, we didn't understand why we had to take a bus??) to Long Xuyen, we boarded our sunset cruise up to Chau Doc (on the border).  Although storm clouds threatened, we got some amazing sunset pictures on the ...

... all the time!! Then it was for the one day tours to head bak off to Saigon and we were on our way to Chau Doc. It was a case af settle down for a LONG drive - we finally got there well after dark. Time to tidy up and go out for dinner - or to settle in ...

... ', sur l'île de Cat ba. Au sommet, une vue imprenable sur les plaines vietnamiennes et cambodgiennes. Finalement cette petite pause à Chau Doc fut bien appréciable, nous terminons sur une bonne note notre périple Vietnamien. Demain, en route vers le ...