Chau Long Hotel

... for road trip to Hanoi. We will travel to Mai Chau for two nights home stay with overnight stops at Lai Chu, Moung Long and Dien Bien Phu. From Mai Chau we travel to Hanoi and if things go to plan we will visit our guides family on the way. Four nights ...

... into nine tributaries. These are split into 3 main areas; lower, middle and upper, we are currently residing in a very nice hotel, Victoria Chau Doc, near the Cambodian border on the upper delta. Early start tomorrow: 5.30am to do our James Bond (well in ...

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 ...

... the whole day walking with Phach round a few of the other villages. As well as Phach, we were accompanied by a porter from the hotel, a young lad who lived in one of the villages we were going to. He was along as the village tribes speak a local dialect ...

... late to have a look. The next day we got up, had some breakfast, walked to the bus station, opposite our hotel, and got on the Lai Chau bus, far easier than yesterday. Immediately after leaving Son La we were back on the winding roads and the driver was ...

... 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 ...

... trouver une solution. Il parlemente donc avec l'hotel, et apres encore pas mal de temps nous trouve une chambre. C'est le seul hotel alentour. On a une chambre appartenant a l'hotel de l'autre cote de la rue, dans une chambre un peu pourrie mais ...

... 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 ...

... for a 5 hour journey to Chau Doc, which is near the border with Cambodia. We arrived safely and checked into the Vinh Phouc Hotel. That evening we met a cyclo rider outside our GH and he took us to a restaurant along the river. The next day we went ...

... having tourists stay because lunch is brought in from the hotel via motorbike and they are able to  share some of the hotel food which includes fresh fruit.  In return, they provided rice, BBQ'd fish, and some other "interesting" cuisine.  ...

... . 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 ...

[blog by Laura] We booked a bus to take us to the Vietnam border and on to Chau Doc in Vietnam through our Kampot hotel, the Pepper Guesthouse. Usually, we try to make these arrangements by ourselves through the bus station directly, as the guest houses ...

... again. We drove along the river side so I could see the floating village in the river area. Then through town looking for a hotel that had been recommended to Mui. We took ages to find it but did eventually. I was then pressurised into getting my boat ...

... get our bearings.  Turning left, instead of right... we walked in the hot sun the wrong way for a very long time.  All the while, one of the hotel touts, and a bicycle rickshaw followed us (memories of Agra).  We figured out where we were, ...

... , goodness knows what's it's like at tits peak man!? sheesh....jeepers.. Anyways, finally got into the nice hotel effectively channelled off by water all around. Fawlty towers impressions.....managed to chill out in the evening and socialise with ...

... in traditional Vietnamese clothing.The final part of our day included travelling by boat,and ferry, and bus to Chau Doc.  Our hotel here was pretty basic and the long black hairs on the bed meant that we were glad it ...

... ', 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 ...

C'est reparti pour un long trajet vers Lai chau. Depuis le départ de Hanoï, nous faisons une boucle dans les hauts plateaux du nord-est vietnamien et nous attaquons tous les jours un peu plus la montagne. Les routes deviennent de plus en plus ...

... pair of squatting ladies buying freshly caught fish. Once everyone was off the boat we followed our guide through the town to a basic hotel.   Once we had dumped our stuff in our cramped, windowless room, we began to explore the town. It took about ...

... time pressure now, got to be in Singapore for the 17th of April! We pedalled round the hectic market filled town looking for a hotel and eventually found a cheap and nasty one on the river front. The pastel pink room was filled with more noisy geckos, ...

... room to photograph his student monks at their learning. We share tea and bananas with the head monk before departing to return to our hotel at Vinh Long, for quick shower in readiness for the next stage of our tour – by road to Vinh Long. It is the ...